An old silent home-movie film of Times Square from 1966. The film was quite worn, but we did what we could and posted it here anyway. How much has it changed?
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@briangraham10245 күн бұрын
I was sixteen in 1969 and just got my drivers license. I drove with two other guys from Halifax, Nova Scotia down to New York City. We stayed at the Times Square Motor Inn. Spent four days in the Big Apple and saw all the sights (Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, United Nations Building, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall "The Rockettes!!!" etc.) We walked and walked all over the place. I was hoping to see the Yankees play but they were on the road. So we went out to Shea Stadium to see the Mets. It was a Saturday afternoon and Little League Day at Shea so all the kids that attended the game (around 30,000) were wearing their little league uniforms. The Mets played the Astros and won the game 4-0. Cleon Jones hit a two-run homer and Tom Seaver pitched a two-hitter gem. Of course that was the year the Mets went on to win the World Series. It was a wonderful trip with many great memories. 😊
@Brand732 күн бұрын
cool story
@holysmoke7043Күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing.
@iancroft1447Күн бұрын
The GOAT-Tom Seaver
@hughbyrne825012 күн бұрын
Look! No cellphones. One of the key elements to a non-cohesive society.
@sstills9515 күн бұрын
I can't look right now. I'm on my phone.
@roadforrunner5 күн бұрын
well put.
@tuberhubris41544 күн бұрын
Yeah, and we would be even more cohesive if we got rid of the cars and go back to the horse and buggy . . .
@hewitc4 күн бұрын
@@tuberhubris4154 change is inevitable.
@briteness12 күн бұрын
I was 5 weeks old when this was filmed. In some ways it is hard to believe that this was shot during my lifetime. Still, I would rather live in that lost world than the trashcan we live in now.
@Toyos-yk3ri11 күн бұрын
I would be born 5 months after this.
@jaminova_19699 күн бұрын
I would be born 2 years after this!
@cataginandtonic9 күн бұрын
@@jaminova_1969 Back when 4 out of 5 doctors recommended Lucky Strikes. Good times.
@laurieeno21189 күн бұрын
I was just over 4 weeks old at that point. 😊
@GenXLivingLife8 күн бұрын
I was born 3 weeks before this 🙂
@monaural2.98810 күн бұрын
What I wouldn’t have given to have visited the record stores and departments during this period.
@louiebee67455 күн бұрын
Downstairs Records...YES!✌✌
@jennifersman79905 күн бұрын
Colony Records was another hip place for records back then
@hewitc4 күн бұрын
@@jennifersman7990 It was at the ground floor of the famous Brill building where so many 60's hit were written. They had records but their sheet music selection was the best!!
@matrox22 сағат бұрын
Why...whats the big deal?
@louiebee674522 сағат бұрын
@@hewitc 1619 Broadway at 49th Street just north of Times Square.🎵🍎😎
@claudiocorleone785611 күн бұрын
Older population is the first thing I noticed. And let’s face it folks a slower paced world.
@jimvinespresents...846314 күн бұрын
I was quite young at that time, but I resided in Manhattan, so watching videos like this is always enjoyable for me. Many thanks for posting!
@jennifersman79905 күн бұрын
Love seeing the movie marquee’s back then
@johngranato26732 күн бұрын
We left NY in 1966, when I was 6. We arrived in Miami on 8-1-66--just outside of Coconut Grove and Biscayne Bay. What a paradise--swimming with fish and manatees, flying kites, riding bikes, climbing trees, playing ball, etc.
@robparadise6099 Жыл бұрын
I've been visiting NYC many times since 1967 and this is the Times Square I prefer vs. today with all the crowds, vaping, selfies and vendors. You can barely breathe walking through the crowd, especially in the summer.
@luislaplume8261 Жыл бұрын
I agree and I would rather see the traffic of then when it had real cars and buses instead of today when it looks like toys. I am a baby boomer who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era.
@kidkully Жыл бұрын
Did you ever go to the White House bar in Hell’s Kitchen?
@RDRussell2 Жыл бұрын
Agreed. I don't mind a crowd so long as it is moving along, but there are too many reasons to stand still in Times Square anymore. What I really, really dislike about Times Square these days is the fake Elmos, the super heroes, the fake Mickey Mouses, all vying to be photographed with you.
@GinaBrooklyn1-ux3px12 күн бұрын
I was born and raised in brooklyn,I feel your pain, peace
@jamesm.396712 күн бұрын
Yeah true, but the 70s Times Square was a shite hole.
@8avexp10 күн бұрын
April 8 was Good Friday in 1966. We were still living in South Bend at the time , but would move to New Jersey almost exactly one year later. Then I became immersed in the city's subway system. There used to be a Howard Johnson restaurant by Rockefeller Center that I remember.
@kevinmcpartland76399 күн бұрын
The last day of my Dad’s 40’s. He was born 108 years ago.
@sadietravels62132 жыл бұрын
@1:48- LOL - One juvenile digging in the crack of his pants and the other in the Beatles boots flipping off the camera man. Welcome to NYC 1966 style. Little did they know at the time, their antics are immortalized worldwide almost 60 years later.
@jenniferdjaslowskj993 Жыл бұрын
whata a little jerk...must have been going to the movies...he was just picking his seat!!!
@sc20708 ай бұрын
😂😂😂I'm looking like, man so much has changed and then the elite cam flip off came into play and I'm like maybe not so much haha
@user-qj4dx4fc3n13 күн бұрын
That gesture was so much more offensive back then than it is today.
@rebekahcuriel-alessi223913 күн бұрын
I liked them... cheeky lads.
@matrox22 сағат бұрын
Have you seen the pics of the college students on top of the roof at Geo. Wash. Univ. sunbathing in the 1930s and they are giving the finger to the cameraman?
@Tark75ifty Жыл бұрын
Great jazz music !👍
@BlindFocus111 күн бұрын
It amazes me how the New York (notably, Manhattan) of the sixties seemed so much more authentic and livable (economically) than today. As an aside, to those noting that “everyone in this video is long dead, etc.,” please realize that this was 1966. Many of the young folks seen in this video are Baby Boomers and Silent Generation-era people. Many are very much alive in 2024.
@hewitc4 күн бұрын
I am. I worked there summer of 1967 and went there for fun regularly from suburbia. Much more interesting than the burbs. You had to be careful and "smart" but it was worth it. Never mugged my whole life. FOX puts it down for political reasons. They have their headquarters there and the Murdochs love it.
@kevinsullivan1364 сағат бұрын
I am now 65 and grew up in Jersey City, NJ. Went into Manhattan & the other boroughs frequently then to see Mets, Rockefeller Center, Etc.
@donaldvisconti54837 ай бұрын
Great video! I graduated High School 2 1/2 months later, on 6/26/66.
@jamesmack331424 күн бұрын
Drafted?
@vanillaexplosion997 күн бұрын
@@jamesmack3314 He probably wasn't drafted. If the government sent you a draft notice you just ignored it if you did not want to go. There was nearly 500,000 draft avoiders during the Vietnam War era and few were ever prosecuted. Its like jury duty notices, never show up the first time and don't except registered mail. Had a number jury notices and I never show. They don't won't me on jury anyways because everybody gets an innocent vote from me.
@jamesmack33147 күн бұрын
@@vanillaexplosion99 I like the jury duty analogy, but I thought it was a little harder to just ignore a draft notice than a jury duty notice. I’ve definitely tossed a few of the notices away.
@donaldvisconti54836 күн бұрын
@@jamesmack3314 No! I attended college. When I graduated, my buck right knee got me a deferment.
@jamesmack33145 күн бұрын
@@donaldvisconti5483 how fortunate…..
@Whites0x4life9 ай бұрын
From about 1945 to 1965, I think Time Square was at its best; the flavor was just right. It was authentic, still somewhat nice, yet still had that seedy urban element. From the early 70s to mid 90s, the seedy element had gone too far. Now the commercial sterilization has gone too far. What happened to well-balanced authenticity? Bourgeois corporate money continues to kill the flavor.
@marcchevalier37507 ай бұрын
No. 1920-1953. @@UnitTrace
@jamesmack331414 күн бұрын
It was still great when I was a teenager in the mid late 70s had a nice element of sleaze but I never had any issues and I was around that area a lot now it’s just completely gentrified and overdeveloped
@billoconnor5036 күн бұрын
New York has a long history of constant renewal. Parts of the city that were terrible slums are now trendy. Notice how many of the buildings in this film are less than 10 stories tall. Most or all of them have been replaced by much larger, modern structures. If this kind of evolution doesn't happen, a city dies.
@XxowendanxX5 күн бұрын
Great comment. I'm fascinated by the arguments of times Square as a vile cesspool vs times Square as Disneyland, which is better and which is worse and why. I can see arguments on both sides
@hewitc4 күн бұрын
@@XxowendanxX As a resident in that period, it was exciting to live when Times Square was "dangerous". Hookers. strippers, drugs, pawn shops etc. Today it is sterile and too safe. FOX News demonizes it but it is their HQ. they are full of BS.
@CarlosPerez-wd8zo28 күн бұрын
Perfect choice of music for this video make you feel like right there !
@LoneLee20228 күн бұрын
NYC is just incredible! The energy there is like no other place on Earth.
@floydmayo7904 ай бұрын
I remember "The Silencers" with Dean Martin. Good Movie!
@howardcohen484510 күн бұрын
Yes
@jimmycain866910 күн бұрын
NYC was fun back then.
@kevinmadden16457 күн бұрын
And safer!
@billoconnor5036 күн бұрын
@@kevinmadden1645 Not really. Lots of prostitutes keeping those seedy hotels in business. And drugs. And porn theaters. If you think life was better then, you probably weren't there.
@hewitc4 күн бұрын
@@kevinmadden1645 Actually it wasn't. The crime rate in NYC has dropped every year in the last 25 years except for a blip during the pandemic when people lost their jobs. Did you see "Taxi Driver"? That was the 70's. Not as safe as today.
@edwinrivera18799 ай бұрын
Omg, it’s amazing that we’re able to see this. I was only 2yrs old
@freespirit21newyork2 ай бұрын
I was 1 year old ☀️🪺🐦
@fmphotooffice551314 күн бұрын
Very nice film transfer! There are a lot of lost memories from sh**ty transfers where the master stock is thrown out.
@rak64372 жыл бұрын
I own a 68 Cadillac and it's very vintage, let alone it hasn't been even built when this was filmed. Quite amazing
@PRATEEKsirji8 ай бұрын
According to Wikipedia, on the day this video was shot i.e 8th April 1966, Leonid Brezhnev was elected unanimously as the party leader of communist party of Soviet Union. Time magazine released one of its most controversial cover "Is god dead?" and Two boys, aged 13 and 12, who ran away from their homes in North Carolina, sneaked on to a railroad box car and then found themselves locked inside for the next 13 days. The sealed car was carrying a cargo of nearly empty beer bottles to the Schlitz Brewing Company in Wisconsin, and for nearly two weeks, they survived by drinking small amounts of stale beer, until April 21, when they arrived in Milwaukee and workmen at the brewing company heard their cries for help
@johnfitzgerald23396 ай бұрын
LOL at the beer-story! Thanks for sharing...I too usually heat to Wikipedia when I see a dated-vid like this to see what was going on that day. Now off to research those poor beer-swillers.
@jamesmack331414 күн бұрын
That is a very cool story two weeks is a long time without food man wonder where they are today
@drpoundsign13 күн бұрын
What?!? I thought the "God is Dead" story was in 1969.
@rebekahcuriel-alessi223913 күн бұрын
Wow!!! What a story of those boys!!
@andydporter513613 күн бұрын
Even with the traffic,Times Square looks infinitely more appealing back in 1966 then the garish hell hole it is today.
@zoso7313 күн бұрын
It truly has become a snake pit. With smell of marijuana seemingly everwhere. Disgusting.
@ndogg2012 күн бұрын
Hell hole....today? Back in those good 'ol days it was a cesspool of porn, crime, and prostitution. Not that I'm too crazy of the Disneyland that it has now become, but get real.
@BlackDoveNYC9 күн бұрын
This is a bizarre comment. The people who (I guess) believe that New York is worse than this either have never visited or never lived in the city. This reads like someone who watches a lot of Fox “News” and believes all the incoherent nonsense that Trump spews. The funny thing is Fox “News” is headquartered in Manhattan and if I’m not mistaken it is the maybe second most visited place in the U.S. after probably Disney in Orlando. Didn’t realize so many people desire to visit a “garish hell hole”.
@sstills9515 күн бұрын
I won't say that crime wasn't bad back then. But there's no way I am going to that city again nowadays. I'd feel like I was in a third world country.
@wineotautollc73694 күн бұрын
NYC has 65 million visitors a year lately, we will Not miss You
@goonbelly584112 күн бұрын
Dean Martin as Matt Helm in "The Silencers" They don't make movies like that anymore.
@hellbooks30247 күн бұрын
They’re just as bad now, just more expensive.
@hellbooks30247 күн бұрын
Checker cabs. Miraculously, I survived many rides on those fold-up seats back in those days.
@RDRussell2 Жыл бұрын
Yes, it's Times Square, but not ONE Broadway show is in evidence! (The "My Fair Lady" seen here is the film version.) While it's true most Broadway theaters are on the side streets next to Times Square, you would think you'd see a billboard for a show or at least SOMEthing. Interesting from this film to see Times Square without the TKTS booth; it didn't come in to play until 1973.
@mikemike10718 ай бұрын
Love the cars.
@freespirit21newyork2 ай бұрын
Yeah me too they were built to last not like today's trash that keeps shrinking 🤢
@drpoundsign13 күн бұрын
@@freespirit21newyork BULL. They were made of steel, and since they weren't hot-dip Galvanized, they were rust buckets. They also didn't have three-point seatbelts, airbags, or modern crumple zones. Crash Deaths/year topped out at over 50,000, at some point in the 1960s/1970s. These days, it's down to about 30,000, and that's counting motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian Deaths, in a Nation with at least one third more population.
@paddyoak111 күн бұрын
@@drpoundsign. Jay Leno did an excellent editorial in Motor Trend magazine years ago about how modern cars are way superior.
@davehire14339 күн бұрын
The thing I notice here and in other films and photos of big cities at that time is the taxis. The stereotype is of the old Checker cabs, but you see almost none of them. Most of the cabs seem to be Chevies, Fords, and Plymouths.
@marcelodesa3474 Жыл бұрын
That's cool 2 months before I was born that video was made👶
@Qboro66 Жыл бұрын
This is 6 months before I was born, in East Harlem... Times Square was looking pretty good and as you can see, a hit with the youngsters playing hooky... Unless it was Easter recess...😆
@freespirit21newyork2 ай бұрын
I was almost a year old 10 months old to be exact
@larryro8872Ай бұрын
There was an arcade around there, I think it was next to a place called The Majestic Dance Hall. It is often confused with he arcade one 42nd, but the one I am remembering was on 45th or 46th.
@anthonyhutchings8239 Жыл бұрын
By the end of the summer we move from Queens over to Bergen County North Jersey...difference was like NIGHT and DAY 😁
@rebekahcuriel-alessi223913 күн бұрын
Can you say how?
@johna676710 күн бұрын
People waxing poetic about the Times Square of 1966 probably never went there during that era. You can't really tell from grainy videos like this how seedy it was. I used to walk through Manhattan a lot in the 70's and there were plenty of drug addicts, homeless, pimps and prostitutes, litter, gross smells and you name it back then. There were also plenty of slums in Manhattan back then, something which is rare in Manhattan nowadays. As garish and touristy Times Square is nowadays, it is infinitely preferable to the dump from back then. And yes, it was indeed a dump.
@KevinBalch-dt8ot5 күн бұрын
BIG difference between the mid-1960s and the 1970s.
@Goldenowl663 күн бұрын
Why I find interesting is the remnant of the 1950's with so many men wearing hats. I think that 1966 was the transition year between the old world and the new and 1967 was when the hippie era-pre 1970's kicked in.
@manhbx96 Жыл бұрын
I love the history of my city
@richardmiller12896 ай бұрын
It's cool seeing what NYC was like when I was 3.. not much has changed except the cars have different shapes and people have tiny televisions in their pockets but besides that not much has changed because we're too close to it it takes about 100 to 150 years to really see a difference. And humans then we'll have a different perspective than we do now.
@azzonie6 күн бұрын
I was three when that film was made.
@mkitty53337 ай бұрын
Ppl don’t work today …so many ppl of all ages in time square
@tomallen58378 күн бұрын
Pretty sure people are working really really hard in Manhattan right now.😂 How did you even get this preposterous idea? Rent was hella more controlled AND affordable in Manhattan in the 50s and 60s. It's quite the opposite now... in the extreme. Everyone is hustling in Manhattan including the tourists. Everyone's hustling to get the most out of their money these days. No one is 'ppl dont work today', trust me. Great video btw. Nice to see a window back in time to my former stomping grounds. Love those two kids just chillin' and then flipping off the camera.
@JohnRosado-ts1jp8 ай бұрын
I was born June, 12 1966 on a Sunday....at 450 pm.... fact's!! Currently holding at 57 year's as of this writing....and seconds and minute's hour's day's months LoL 😆 Hahahahaha 🤪
@LoneLee20228 күн бұрын
I was born on MAY DAY in the Great 58!
@beaudanner2 күн бұрын
and the 12 year old kid who gives a smile and middle finger. Perfect New York
@robertgeary75202 жыл бұрын
Great video thank's 👍
@sc20708 ай бұрын
@1:55 😂😂😂 I'm looking like, man so much has changed and then the elite cam flip off came into play and then I'm like well maybe not so much haha
@markjanfrancisco515611 ай бұрын
Wow that kid at 2:00 giving the Hawaiian salute would never expect that back then in the 60’s😮
@user-ne3yw2cu6cАй бұрын
Why is that so shocking? I was born in NYC and 12 years old in 1966... we even said the "F" word.
@magneticstorm112 күн бұрын
I knew people that lived in the 1940s ( my late dad and uncle) and people did flip the finger but it was considered very obscene.
@rak64372 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading these. I love them all
@louiebee67455 күн бұрын
I was almost exactly a year away from being born. I still watch the old Batman TV series reruns and these are the kinda shots of "Gotham City" you'd see during the opening.
@PuntaPacifica5078 күн бұрын
The Brooklyn salute!!!!
@KevinBalch-dt8ot5 күн бұрын
I looked up the weather for that day. The high temperature was 50 degrees. I noticed the temperature displayed on one of the signs was 48 degrees which was the temperature just after noon.
@keithverdi92049 ай бұрын
I was 7 now 65..most of the adults are either passed away or very old.
@freespirit21newyork2 ай бұрын
I was 10 months old then
@anibalcesarnishizk22058 күн бұрын
I was two days shy to be one hundred days old😁😁
@eddiecharlie779 күн бұрын
Minimum Wage was $1.40/hr and the subway fare in NYC 20 cents. and the Top TV shows were Bonanza, Lucy show, Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, and Batman
@user-dw4kn9oi1m5 ай бұрын
Classic old film of Times Square in 1966
@howardcohen484510 күн бұрын
That was cool 😎
@icecreamforcrowhurst9 күн бұрын
Meanwhile only a few blocks south old Penn Station lay in ruins waiting to be unceremoniously carted off to a Jersey landfill.
@guyfaux39784 күн бұрын
Had those phony souvenir stores-- it was allowing that sort of thing that was the first signs of the decline of Times Square in that era.
@ref61224 күн бұрын
You get the sense your looking at a regular city with regular people living it,not some Disneyland for tourists and home for billionaires
@jackneidinger954411 күн бұрын
All those people are long dead. The cars are junked and the buildings have all crumbled slowly to the ground. Not a trace of '66 remains, just a fog of moldy memories.
@smallpicture6510 күн бұрын
Some of the young people are probably still alive?
@johnberry836710 күн бұрын
Are you from a small town where the average life expectancy is age 67....
@jaminova_19699 күн бұрын
And this film! BTW, my parents are still alive as am I! The subway still exists and many of the buildings are there, with anew facade!
@squidward662 күн бұрын
who wants to tell him? still here
@Biscuit1973 Жыл бұрын
This 8mm reel’s are very interesting to watch here even though I wasn’t even born yet since this footage was shot back in the 60’s because this was during the time when construction on The World Trade Center was in motion & today all of those businesses that were seen in this reel are no longer around since many of the structures which had them had long ago been demolished.
@Porsche996driver7 күн бұрын
4:09 Some Captain of Industry in a 1966 navy blue Cadillac limo! Classic. Also love the movie marquees of Paul Newman and Dean Martin. Nice technique to pan across both.
@Porsche996driver7 күн бұрын
Trivia - Times Square was formerly known as the British term “Longacre” until The NY Times moved their HQ here in 1904 - and advertising popped up all over the area.
@shootfirst209713 күн бұрын
I remember visiting NYC in the mid-'90s when the subways STILL weren't air-conditioned. Even with THAT, I continued to visit a friend in NYC 2-3 times a year from 1997-2011... and never could understand why ANYBODY would want to live in a crowded, obnoxiously loud, dirty, smelly, MOSTLY UGLY DUMP like that... where people would scramble down and out of subterranean subway stations like rodent filth... and THEN you could watch ACTUAL RATS infesting the rails of the station you were at.
@user-ez6bw4xf1g5 ай бұрын
Amazing NYC
@seand6711 күн бұрын
Nice
@Porsche996driver7 күн бұрын
Let’s also note this was just before Vietnam war threw us into chaos, around 1967-68 folks realized it was a quagmire. Within a couple years guys were coming back with a nasty drug habit and crime spiked. Unintended consequences indeed.
@millermark445 Жыл бұрын
The was three months after the city's crippling transit strike, and six month after the World's Fair closed (1964-1965).
@jamesmack331414 күн бұрын
And the great blackout of 1965 I remember that as a kid living in Brooklyn
@drpoundsign13 күн бұрын
@@jamesmack3314 The Obstetrics services of NYC Hospitals were completely Overwhelmed-Nine months later! The 1977 blackout, in contrast; spawned looting and riots. Future rappers got their boomboxes and turntables via the "five finger discount." They were making WAR-not LOVE-by then.
@user-ql7eb6ln1n4 күн бұрын
Imagine spotting yourself or a family member in this footage.
@hewitc4 күн бұрын
I can
@peteradaniel Жыл бұрын
I don’t get it. People in the comments talk about how great it was back then, but when you look at reports, most people hated it. It was dangerous and violent and mafia ran a lot of stuff. Sounds pretty desperate to me.
@oochiewally278311 ай бұрын
mixed comments as usual if Giuliani was around in the 70's n 80's ..he would of shut shyt down ..all the bums that brag today how they got away with shit wouldn't say shit
@user-ne3yw2cu6cАй бұрын
The Past is always Romanticized... 50 years from today, people will glorify our tranquility, our love of each other and especially our peaceful co-existence.
@BlackDoveNYC9 күн бұрын
@@user-ne3yw2cu6c So true. I don’t know it’s annoying or just frustrating to read comments where “things were so great”. No they weren’t please stop lying to yourself.
@johnfitzgerald23396 ай бұрын
That gave me a good laugh, but I shan't dignify it with a timestamp. My Dad called that "The Fickle Finger of Fate".
@drpoundsign13 күн бұрын
The FLYING Fickle Finger of Fate...from "Laugh-In." That was a GREAT show! Goldie Hawn got her start as the Go-Go Dancer. Your Dad probably remembers The Flying Burrito Brothers.
@elviraguadalupe63255 ай бұрын
I was born 7 days after😊
@adm71211 күн бұрын
Where are Batman and Spider Man?
@jaminova_19699 күн бұрын
My parents were 18, 19 years old running around Manhattan! I spent a good portion of my youth in Times SQ commuting via Port Authority in the 70's & 80's and worked there for a couple of years. It was seedy & gritty. I didn't see any degenerates in the film, then again it was mid-day. TS was totally different after Mayor Guilianni brought in Disney / ABC/ ESPN and cleaned up the XXX movie shows and sex shops.
@ADAMSIXTIES12 күн бұрын
1:56 True New Yorker.
@user-uh1li4ni2nКүн бұрын
my old mans b day
@stephaniedixon83663 күн бұрын
I was 2 days old born in Boston
@seanberry19693 күн бұрын
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@siameseblue48246 күн бұрын
I miss Howard Johnsons!
@345mrse11 күн бұрын
So…Where’s Andy Warhol? Or Jack Smith?
@Synistercrayon15 сағат бұрын
6 months before my grand debut
@siddharthbrahma51327 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@user-vd8bu3sj2g10 ай бұрын
Wow how did they make a scrolling marquee back in those days
@LoneLee20228 күн бұрын
Very carefully.
@0159ralph Жыл бұрын
As a kid I lived in the Bronx until 1974. The city was safe, but during the mid 70s and through the 80s NYC was a war zone. MY parents had enough and we moved to the southwest part the U.S. During the 90s we went back when Giuliani was mayor and NYC was relatively safe. However the WOKE mayor's current and previous have ruined NYC. The city is now cesspool ILL never go back.
@georgeplagianos6487 Жыл бұрын
Don't worry triple tap you'll be back. Just listen to Liza Minnelli song "I happen to like New York"
@BlackDoveNYC9 күн бұрын
I think New York will somehow survive you not visiting. Giuliani was not that great as a mayor. I think a certain type of person has to tell themselves that New York is terrible. Just like they do with cities especially in the north and west because they have to reinforce their world view. What’s funny is that “cesspool” New York has a trillion dollar plus economy. Pretty good for a “cesspool”. I’m gonna leave the “WOKE” thing alone, from what I see very unsophisticated morons tend to use the term as shorthand for their prejudices. Hardly worth it.
@new2000car9 күн бұрын
@@BlackDoveNYCyou voted for biden
@nycfunk5 күн бұрын
@@BlackDoveNYC Beautiful reply. Could not said it better myself.
@khalel924411 ай бұрын
Now, if someone can make a spider-man movie based on this NYC wouldn't that be interesting?
@jaminova_19699 күн бұрын
basically, the Spiderman Marvel comics were in this era!
@georgeplagianos6487 Жыл бұрын
Cool video, l wonder where Bonds the hugh clothing store was.?
@westwoods4067 Жыл бұрын
East side of Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets.
@marine4lyfe858 ай бұрын
There's a Bond's sign at 2:02.
@drpoundsign13 күн бұрын
I thought that was a Bonds trading place-LOL
@jehudavis5422Күн бұрын
My dad was killed that month I was born 5 months later!
@peterhogan953716 күн бұрын
that kid giving the finger would be my age.
@stuartwray617514 күн бұрын
He would be? - If what?
@drpoundsign13 күн бұрын
@@stuartwray6175 You Know...I think HE was Mario from "The Bronx Tale"...in the wrong Borough.
@new2000car9 күн бұрын
It’s not too late for punishment. That was rude.
@timburr44533 ай бұрын
Battle of the Bulge was release in Dec 1965. Was still in theaters as late as April 1966?
@vincentbaretti3114Ай бұрын
Yes, that is possible. I don't know your age. If you're under the age of 35, you may not be aware that during the thriving age of cinemas and drive-in movies, many were what was called, "Second run" theaters. These were theaters that showed a previously popular movie at discount prices, and the movies that appeared were ones that were typically about 4-6 months after their initial release to theaters and when they showed up after their release date depended on the movie's overall appeal, however, even really popular and successful movies found their way to the second run theaters fairly quickly because movie studios have release date schedules they had to keep to, no matter how popular a movie may still be. It gets moved along to the second run theaters. Times have changed so much with streaming platforms and smaller studios. My question about this video is I wonder how many of these movie theaters ended up X-Rated theaters by the mid 70's due to the success of suburban multiple screen complexes starting off with the Showcase Theater chain, especially the theater in this video named, "Victoria" theater, that has the Dean Martin movie on the marquee, "The Silencers". With a name like, Victoria, tailor made to become a porn theater.
@drpoundsign13 күн бұрын
@@vincentbaretti3114 Yes. As recently as 1997, "Titanic" was in the theaters for an Entire Year.
@vincentbaretti311413 күн бұрын
@@drpoundsign Do you mean as recently as 2022? It was released to first run multiplex theaters that have multiple screens, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie itself. Theater chains gladly reserved a screen for a movie that millions had seen either in a theater when it was initially released, or younger audiences who watched it from the DVD. It was a chance for older audiences to repeat the experience of seeing it on the big screen with high quality sound again, and to give those that had only seen it via DVD at home on a large TV screen. Seeing it in the theaters is not the same as seeing it at home, even if it is on a large TV screen.
@azzonie6 күн бұрын
Back before multiplex theaters it was common for first run movies in New York to play at the same theater for a few months. Nowadays, films disappear after a week.
@elfulano58848 күн бұрын
Who noticed the kid flipping off the camera (2:00)?
@squidward662 күн бұрын
where did that world go?
@Demille405 күн бұрын
Between 1960 and 1970, NYC went from a relatively safe, clean place to a drug, crime infested pit. Could it have had something to do with all the social upheaval of the late 60’s?
@pepsiq11965 Жыл бұрын
How the hell did Times Sq fall into chaos, crime, porn, hookers, and pimps in less than 5 years?
@georgeplagianos6487 Жыл бұрын
Jett can you tell how in 5 years did it get that way?. I think it was a long process. Got it looks sleazy since the 50's. I remember it Still looking like that in the late 70s. It was an interesting exciting time if you were a kid
@pepsiq11965 Жыл бұрын
@@georgeplagianos6487 You are right it was a process and seemed to speed up in the late 60s and really spread through the 70s up until the mid 90s. I remember in the late 70s living in Queens particularly 1977 when i was 12. I was always told by my parents never to go into the city especially Times Sq. I would never listen and call up my friends and go straight to Times Sq and harass the hookers. The hookers used to wear platform shoes and we would push them so they can trip on their platform shoes their pimps would try and chase us with switch blades. We were too fast. lol, Crazy and fun times as a kid
@oochiewally278311 ай бұрын
i notice it goes in cycles as for today we got a pathetic mayor ADAMS and Gov Hochul and District attorney of Manhattan Alvin brag which let criminals run Free ..its called bail reform law. it was never done in this city & is why NYC is gonna be worse than the 70's n 80's ..i mean you can shoot up drugs on the street and they wont do anything, they have mobile syringe boxes to dump it out when your finished using ..that's was never done here plus marijuana is legal too ..All 3 bums destroyed this city in 3 yrs.. mayor Giuliani and gov Pataki cleaned up this place in the 90's along with bloomberg we have to wait till we get 3 common sense human instead of these psychos
@kidkully Жыл бұрын
You didn’t want to venture into Hell’s Kitchen during this time….there was a WAR waging
@Jerseyjoe69 Жыл бұрын
War lol try Vietnam!
@kidkully Жыл бұрын
@@Jerseyjoe69 I’m talking about the Spillane-Coonan wars of 1966 a civil war amongst two factions of the westies nyc Irish mob
@Jerseyjoe69 Жыл бұрын
@@kidkully sorry lol and yes I’m aware of Mickey Spillane
@kidkully Жыл бұрын
@@Jerseyjoe69 how old are you? Did you ever meet him or go to his bar?
@TheOnePhillip2 күн бұрын
I was not born till 1967.
@argopunk11 күн бұрын
I recall seeing Times Square in the '80s, '90s and mixed years up until 2016. It was a shithole in the 80s but improved by the early 2000s. In 2016, it was still good, tacky but good. I'm hearing mixed reviews from today with the Leftist/Woke takeover of the city.
@BlackDoveNYC9 күн бұрын
Who’s issuing these “mixed reviews”? Places like Fox “News” MAGA morons? What Leftist/ Woke takeover are you talking about? The term makes no sense.
@billoconnor5036 күн бұрын
There is no leftist woke takeover of the city. 8 million people live there. They work, they have kids, they vote. Well, if you get all your information from Fox News...
@twistoffate47915 күн бұрын
This isn't a political discussion site. Move on.
@argopunk5 күн бұрын
@@twistoffate4791Politics is everywhere on this thread. And where's the part where I care what you want?
@XxowendanxX5 күн бұрын
@argopunk I keep getting videos in my newsfeed about how it's allegedly going to hell in a handbasket but I have friends who still live there and they seem to be doing just fine and so one thing I'm learning is that the media on the other side doesn't have a monopoly on distorting the truth. Some people on our side are just as hungry for clicks and views.
@Movingforward2000Күн бұрын
Is the US a 'thrive country'? I hint not. 'Dean Martin' on many sign boards there huh? 😀😆Completely forgotten today today's youth have no idea who he was!
@jonkaplan52433 күн бұрын
Forgot how poor the resolution was on Super8mm cameras. The film format was small and the lenses were cheap. Then, if you moved the camera too fast, you got mostly blur. And at only about 3mins of film, it all went by too fast. An expensive hobby that I'm happy is no more. Video is so infinitely better. On a different note, I much preferred that Times Square, even with it's sleaze, to the Disney-fied , souless, styrofoam plastic wasteland that it's become today.
@samsontowwers3773 күн бұрын
1:48 hahahahahaha hahahaha
@augustcanyon34389 күн бұрын
Ah, yes. The joy and safety of being a primarily white country. Those were the good days.
@BlackDoveNYC9 күн бұрын
Oh dear, someone hasn’t read the contemporary news accounts of that era. Just for the record you stable genius crime and safety is much lower than that time period perhaps that is because of the city being less white? Who’s to say.
@CyberPolice7674 күн бұрын
Why R U playing some 1940s music if its 1966??...Id rather just see the film without the annoying KZbin provided soundtrack.
@19king144 күн бұрын
If anything, turn down the volume.
@CyberPolice7674 күн бұрын
@@19king14 haha....funny.
@CyberPolice76711 сағат бұрын
@@19king14 if anything..repost this without the music...it is possible.
@jamesmack331424 күн бұрын
Kids giving the finger!😂👍
@stuartwray617514 күн бұрын
Kids?... Kid - The first to turn and face the camera waved nicely. The one in the white jacket is a delinquent. Lol
@jamesmack331414 күн бұрын
@@stuartwray6175 definitely became stoners party animals long-haired hippie freaks in just a few years after this
@jamesmack33145 күн бұрын
@@stuartwray6175 definitely future stoners and maybe worse
@themetalhead146310 күн бұрын
Big cities are cesspools. I’m so grateful I don’t live anywhere near one. I enjoy the quiet, low crime, neighbors looking out for each other and the demographics are fantastic which explains the low crime. Is dat racist?
@BlackDoveNYC9 күн бұрын
I’m pretty sure you know the answer to your question.
@siameseblue48246 күн бұрын
I feel the same.
@bessied.569414 күн бұрын
A different city with a conspicuous absence of porno houses and the scourge of 1619.
@rabidsminions207915 сағат бұрын
Not enough diversity...
@lalannej7 күн бұрын
Still a livable, hopeful America vs today's America committing govt-assisted suicide.
@drpoundsign13 күн бұрын
Before all the X-Rated stuff, and Way Before it got Disneyfied and Starbuckified. Kid giving the cameraman "the Finger." Typical New York Ayy Hole.