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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@briangraham102421 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. 😊
@Brand7318 күн бұрын
cool story
@holysmoke704317 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing.
@iancroft144717 күн бұрын
The GOAT-Tom Seaver
@9Ballr11 күн бұрын
The Amazin' Mets!
@Del-Canada11 күн бұрын
Haligonian here.
@johngranato267318 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.
@monaural2.98826 күн бұрын
What I wouldn’t have given to have visited the record stores and departments during this period.
@louiebee674521 күн бұрын
Downstairs Records...YES!✌✌
@jennifersman799020 күн бұрын
Colony Records was another hip place for records back then
@hewitc19 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!!
@matrox16 күн бұрын
Why...whats the big deal?
@louiebee674516 күн бұрын
@@hewitc 1619 Broadway at 49th Street just north of Times Square.🎵🍎😎
@briteness27 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-yk3ri26 күн бұрын
I would be born 5 months after this.
@jaminova_196925 күн бұрын
I would be born 2 years after this!
@cataginandtonic25 күн бұрын
@@jaminova_1969 Back when 4 out of 5 doctors recommended Lucky Strikes. Good times.
@laurieeno211824 күн бұрын
I was just over 4 weeks old at that point. 😊
@GenXLivingLife24 күн бұрын
I was born 3 weeks before this 🙂
@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-ux3px27 күн бұрын
I was born and raised in brooklyn,I feel your pain, peace
@jamesm.396727 күн бұрын
Yeah true, but the 70s Times Square was a shite hole.
@hughbyrne825027 күн бұрын
Look! No cellphones. One of the key elements to a non-cohesive society.
@sstills95121 күн бұрын
I can't look right now. I'm on my phone.
@roadforrunner21 күн бұрын
well put.
@tuberhubris415420 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 . . .
@hewitc19 күн бұрын
@@tuberhubris4154 change is inevitable.
@TheDmonetКүн бұрын
Oh I thought I had gotten in to at least one comment section where some excruciatingly boring imbecile didn't mention " look, no cell phones.". Like is it the same loser in every video of s live band from prior to 2000 whatever saying "look, no on holding up a phone." Doesn't it hurt people that they are this BORING and predictable?
@chrisod2214 күн бұрын
"Battle of the Bulge" premiered in December of 1965. Two months earlier, in October of 1965, Warren Spahn appeared in his last Major League Baseball game for the SF Giants. Warren Spahn fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
@jimvinespresents...8463Ай 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!
@8avexp26 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.
@kevinmcpartland763924 күн бұрын
The last day of my Dad’s 40’s. He was born 108 years ago.
@chrisn725914 күн бұрын
This was fun. I moved there a year later. I had no idea that Radio Shack went back that far.
@claudiocorleone785626 күн бұрын
Older population is the first thing I noticed. And let’s face it folks a slower paced world.
@blossom164313 күн бұрын
Older slower yes. Maybe because there wasn’t the rampant Greed we have today?
@easkeybikes196615 күн бұрын
I was 6 days old when this was filmed. Glad to see this is in color!
@CarlosPerez-wd8zoАй бұрын
Perfect choice of music for this video make you feel like right there !
@tominnc3158 күн бұрын
1950-90. That was this Country’s greatest era post WWIl. I was 13 in 66 Grewup in Miami
@Toots223 сағат бұрын
i'm thinking usa peaked about the time marilyn died & jfk shot, so already going downhill though no one realized
@Tark75ifty Жыл бұрын
Great jazz music !👍
@jennifersman799020 күн бұрын
Love seeing the movie marquee’s back then
@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!!!
@sc20709 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-qj4dx4fc3n29 күн бұрын
That gesture was so much more offensive back then than it is today.
@rebekahcuriel-alessi223929 күн бұрын
I liked them... cheeky lads.
@matrox16 күн 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?
@cdmorrissy36923 күн бұрын
I can't tell which I enjoyed more - the video footage or the jazzy music....
@donaldvisconti54838 ай бұрын
Great video! I graduated High School 2 1/2 months later, on 6/26/66.
@jamesmack3314Ай бұрын
Drafted?
@vanillaexplosion9923 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.
@jamesmack331423 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.
@donaldvisconti548321 күн бұрын
@@jamesmack3314 No! I attended college. When I graduated, my buck right knee got me a deferment.
@jamesmack331420 күн бұрын
@@donaldvisconti5483 how fortunate…..
@ref612220 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
@louiebee674521 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.
@BlindFocus126 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.
@hewitc19 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.
@kevinsullivan13615 күн 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.
@iseegoodandbad675810 күн бұрын
More livable? I doubt it. Back then new yorkers subsisted on processed junk like crisco, pop tarts, TV dinners, skimilk, margarine etc. Kudos to Millenials bringing back REAL foods 👏!!!
@slacktoryrecords41932 күн бұрын
@@iseegoodandbad6758you have GOT to be kidding. Millennials have ruined this once great city.
@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
@if6was92914 күн бұрын
1:27 The Horn and Hardart Automat, Yay! 2:28 The Allied Chemical building, my father worked for Allied. I was 15 in April of '66 and I while it wasn't in Manhattan, I went to the Murray the K's Easter Show at the Brooklyn Fox. It featured, Joe Tex, the Young Rascals, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Jay & the Americans, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Deon Jackson, the Shangri-Las, Patti LaBelle & the Bluebells, the Gentrys, the Royalettes. Was it better back then, it was to me! I'm 74, have a pretty good life and I'm in good health but I'd give up any years that I have left to go back and relive the 1960's!
@blossom164313 күн бұрын
Oh yeah it was my best time too! I’d go with you in a minute!!✌️
@andydporter513629 күн бұрын
Even with the traffic,Times Square looks infinitely more appealing back in 1966 then the garish hell hole it is today.
@zoso7329 күн бұрын
It truly has become a snake pit. With smell of marijuana seemingly everwhere. Disgusting.
@ndogg2027 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.
@BlackDoveNYC25 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”.
@sstills95121 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.
@wineotautollc736920 күн бұрын
NYC has 65 million visitors a year lately, we will Not miss You
@RichCarlson-xf1tv48 минут бұрын
The hustle and bustle of NYC in 1966. Love the jazz music and the video:)
@Whites0x4life10 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.
@marcchevalier37508 ай бұрын
No. 1920-1953. @UnitTrace
@jamesmack3314Ай 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
@billoconnor50321 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.
@XxowendanxX20 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
@hewitc19 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.
@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 ☀️🪺🐦
@jocelynjade4 күн бұрын
I wish I could teleport to this era and make my way to a beauty salon or wig shop. This is a hairdresser’s dream era! Can’t imagine the variety of styles they had.
@Jablome3332 күн бұрын
When I was a kid in 1966 the barber shops only had 3 different haircuts. 1] Short back and sides 2] burr 3] flat top
@jocelynjade2 күн бұрын
Oh yes, quite limited. Thankfully for women there were a huge variety of bouffants, beehives, pixie cuts; Sassoon cuts, all kinds. Love them.
@floydmayo7904 ай бұрын
I remember "The Silencers" with Dean Martin. Good Movie!
@howardcohen484526 күн бұрын
Yes
@jimmycain866926 күн бұрын
NYC was fun back then.
@kevinmadden164523 күн бұрын
And safer!
@billoconnor50321 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.
@hewitc19 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.
@1525boy12 күн бұрын
@@hewitcThis film was shot in 1966 NOT 1975. BIG DIFFERENCE!
@drpoundsign2 күн бұрын
@@hewitc The Crime Crackdown in the Nineties worked...but at Great Human Cost. Decriminalizing Narcotics would have been Better. The Economy, However, also improved during the Clinton Era. Computers and the Internet created a Lot of new jobs.
@Demille4021 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?
@eddiecharlie7724 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
@mohamad-ms2pb2 сағат бұрын
Comic books was 12 cents. Spider-Man issue #38 and Fantastic Four issue #52 was on sale April 1966.
@goonbelly584127 күн бұрын
Dean Martin as Matt Helm in "The Silencers" They don't make movies like that anymore.
@hellbooks302423 күн бұрын
They’re just as bad now, just more expensive.
@hellbooks302423 күн бұрын
Checker cabs. Miraculously, I survived many rides on those fold-up seats back in those days.
@davehire143324 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.
@larryro88722 ай 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.
@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
@johnfitzgerald23397 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.
@jamesmack3314Ай бұрын
That is a very cool story two weeks is a long time without food man wonder where they are today
@drpoundsign29 күн бұрын
What?!? I thought the "God is Dead" story was in 1969.
@rebekahcuriel-alessi223929 күн бұрын
Wow!!! What a story of those boys!!
@slacktoryrecords41932 күн бұрын
@@drpoundsignNo, the “God Is Dead” cover was featured in Rosemary’s Baby, released in 1968, and that movie is set in 1966.
@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.
@theOnly_Gatsby5 сағат бұрын
thanks for sharing this, really nice.
@rak64372 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading these. I love them all
@manhbx96 Жыл бұрын
I love the history of my city
@1968-Camaro-SSКүн бұрын
The Flintstones were ending. 1961-66. Dark Shadows, Star Trek, Green Hornet were just beginning. As were many classic Saturday morning cartoons. Beatles, Byrds, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones and American muscle cars were in their prime.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤.
@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
@robertgeary75202 жыл бұрын
Great video thank's 👍
@mikemike10719 ай бұрын
Love the cars.
@freespirit21newyork2 ай бұрын
Yeah me too they were built to last not like today's trash that keeps shrinking 🤢
@drpoundsign29 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.
@paddyoak127 күн бұрын
@@drpoundsign. Jay Leno did an excellent editorial in Motor Trend magazine years ago about how modern cars are way superior.
@slacktoryrecords41932 күн бұрын
@@drpoundsignCars in the Sixties just looked way better than today’s blobs. Sorry. I don’t care how much worse they were in other ways.
@freespirit21newyork2 күн бұрын
@@drpoundsign yeah but these small cars are just totaled with 1 hit . They crumble, they cannot withstand, made cheap, seatbelts are death traps IMO The airbags are way better, too bad they didn't have them back in the 60s & 70s My Dad had a 225 Buick Electra and let me say I experienced it, I loved it. I was in a accident in it. And the damage was like a black & blue mark very minimal I respect your opinion and what you believe, but I believe differently and experienced differently.
@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-alessi223929 күн бұрын
Can you say how?
@mkitty53337 ай бұрын
Ppl don’t work today …so many ppl of all ages in time square
@tomallen583724 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.
@fmphotooffice551329 күн бұрын
Very nice film transfer! There are a lot of lost memories from sh**ty transfers where the master stock is thrown out.
@CalventiusКүн бұрын
Just arrived in the US on a boat in New York City from Germany in the summer of 1966 when i was 9.
@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
@markjanfrancisco515611 ай бұрын
Wow that kid at 2:00 giving the Hawaiian salute would never expect that back then in the 60’s😮
@user-ne3yw2cu6c2 ай бұрын
Why is that so shocking? I was born in NYC and 12 years old in 1966... we even said the "F" word.
@magneticstorm128 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.
@eddie05414 күн бұрын
That kid must be in his late 60s or early 70s now if he's still alive.
@Bigchet12232 күн бұрын
Those gestures and language are as old as time itself. You just didn't see it in movies etc until really the 1970s.
@felicecinque8 күн бұрын
This is fabulous - thank you for sharing. Would've been right before the smut moved in...
@Porsche996driver23 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.
@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.
@albertvangestal3696Күн бұрын
The future looked so bright....back then.
@superbrownbrown14 күн бұрын
*Beautiful wide-open avenues. No stupid planters or annoying concrete barriers blocking lanes or ridiculous bike lanes causing manufactured artificial congestion.*
@blossom164313 күн бұрын
😂 you’re very observant! I’ve never been to New York (didn’t want to) but you should see the Small towns from this era. Beautiful old homes large oak trees not too much traffic. I guess all that’s gone forever.😢✌️
@jamesh2711Күн бұрын
Not ridiculous for us cyclists
@superbrownbrownКүн бұрын
@@jamesh2711 *No one important cares.*
@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"
@BlackDoveNYC25 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.
@new2000car25 күн бұрын
@@BlackDoveNYCyou voted for biden
@nycfunk21 күн бұрын
@@BlackDoveNYC Beautiful reply. Could not said it better myself.
@louern1232 күн бұрын
i was one year old. and i was there last week
@user-dw4kn9oi1m6 ай бұрын
Classic old film of Times Square in 1966
@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 🤪
@LoneLee202224 күн бұрын
I was born on MAY DAY in the Great 58!
@johnwyoder3 күн бұрын
I was 3 months shy of 2 yrs old at this point. Pretty much everyone over the age of 20 in this video is gone by now.
@bbdc1977-sg8dcКүн бұрын
Nice to see what it was like 2 days after my 21st birthday ! I was living in L.A. Can't believe so much time has gone buy.
@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-ne3yw2cu6c2 ай 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.
@BlackDoveNYC25 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.
@richardmorris7063Күн бұрын
Sure,if man is still around
@mgrella63Күн бұрын
In 1971 or 72 my parents took us to NYC! Talk about culture shock coming from a small town in CT. I remember eating at that Howard Johnsons when we were there, We went to Ellis island that day too. I prefer that NYC to todays NYC. I wont ever go visit there in this lifetime again Too Crazy Now!
@PuntaPacifica50723 күн бұрын
The Brooklyn salute!!!!
@clemfarley72577 сағат бұрын
I was born 6 days later right across the river.
@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).
@jamesmack3314Ай бұрын
And the great blackout of 1965 I remember that as a kid living in Brooklyn
@drpoundsign29 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.
@icecreamforcrowhurst25 күн бұрын
Meanwhile only a few blocks south old Penn Station lay in ruins waiting to be unceremoniously carted off to a Jersey landfill.
@jackneidinger954427 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.
@smallpicture6526 күн бұрын
Some of the young people are probably still alive?
@johnberry836725 күн бұрын
Are you from a small town where the average life expectancy is age 67....
@jaminova_196925 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!
@squidward6618 күн бұрын
who wants to tell him? still here
@howardcohen484526 күн бұрын
That was cool 😎
@user-ql7eb6ln1n20 күн бұрын
Imagine spotting yourself or a family member in this footage.
@hewitc19 күн бұрын
I can
@seanberry196918 күн бұрын
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@seand6726 күн бұрын
Nice
@anibalcesarnishizk220523 күн бұрын
I was two days shy to be one hundred days old😁😁
@Soule611 күн бұрын
It's a trip how different Father Duffy Square looks now. I personally think Times Sq. is better now with Broadway blocked off as a walk-street.
@elviraguadalupe63255 ай бұрын
I was born 7 days after😊
@dwade6322Күн бұрын
The kid at the 2:00 mark flicked-off the camera person ! 🤣
@Porsche996driver23 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.
@Porsche996driver23 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.
@jdm15054 күн бұрын
I noticed that too. Also an Imperial at about 2:04.
@LoneLee202224 күн бұрын
NYC is just incredible! The energy there is like no other place on Earth.
@slacktoryrecords41932 күн бұрын
Yes but it’s too annoying and expensive now, and it’s not worth all the hassle. So much of its culture and appeal is now gone. I would much rather have lived here in 1966, or 1976, or 1996… I’ve been here 17 years now and there’s very little keeping me here.
@robertpanarella832710 күн бұрын
The last really great year of city life. Clean and safe. Downhill ever since.
@johnfitzgerald23397 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".
@drpoundsign29 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.
@KevinBalch-dt8ot21 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.
@azzonie21 күн бұрын
I was three when that film was made.
@guyfaux397819 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.
@robinlanier68863 сағат бұрын
I was just 3 1/2 and living in Calif.
@Synistercrayon16 күн бұрын
6 months before my grand debut
@siameseblue482422 күн бұрын
I miss Howard Johnsons!
@jackeppington648819 сағат бұрын
I miss the Automat.
@1525boy12 күн бұрын
This was shot right before Times Square and much of New York began to rapidly decline.
@tbmayberry34263 күн бұрын
How did you like the 12 year old give the Video guy a Big Smile and a High FINGER in the air !!!!
@khalel924411 ай бұрын
Now, if someone can make a spider-man movie based on this NYC wouldn't that be interesting?
@jaminova_196925 күн бұрын
basically, the Spiderman Marvel comics were in this era!
@johngreen678312 күн бұрын
Allied Chemical tower before it was covered with billboards - it’s still there today you just can’t see it anymore
@peterdaniel664 күн бұрын
I was still in the oven for another 20 days lol
@jaminova_196925 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.
@grudgerun5 күн бұрын
1:58 "Welcome to New York, stranger."
@ADAMSIXTIES27 күн бұрын
1:56 True New Yorker.
@beaudanner18 күн бұрын
and the 12 year old kid who gives a smile and middle finger. Perfect New York
@TimLangland5 күн бұрын
No scaffolding!
@user-uh1li4ni2n17 күн бұрын
my old mans b day
@elfulano588424 күн бұрын
Who noticed the kid flipping off the camera (2:00)?
@robertbruce1307Сағат бұрын
I think I saw Don Draper and Roger Sterling walking down Broadway