Hippies change scene in east village

[@LannieLord]

7:03 In the early 1980s , we visited someone that had an apartment in this building....and it looked EXACTLY as you would imagine.

[@LannieLord]

TOTALLY AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to walk into the screen...................and party like it's 1967 .........

[@flashflame4952]

The West Village and the East Village are no longer filled with little one-off shops run by locals. There are super expensive apartments and stores that usually are found in malls. The Village as a whole has changed and not for the better. All the character is gone.

[@NotBen101]

All for the rich russian guy who visits nyc once a year

[@bustermot]

not true at all. there are ton's still. i hate all the chains but I also hate BS.

[@BizzeeB]

The best part about this is that any person in this video transplanted as-is to the same streets in 2020 wouldn't be given a second glance.

[@mythoughtsandactions6853]

Yeah I was honestly expecting a lot of difference when I clicked on this video. Doesn't look too different to me really. Cars look a bit older style and no cellphones are really the only difference as far as I'm concerned.

[@grahamsmith6210]

@@mythoughtsandactions6853 right, they look similar to modern NYC hipsters

[@michaelcraig9449]

So is there still great music and parties, hot chicks etc?

[@thecapricorn11]

@@mythoughtsandactions6853a bit older?’

[@softailspringer9915]

I lived in the village the summer of 67. Unforgettable

[@Jamestele1]

Must have been a wonderful period. I was a longhaired "Freak" a little later. I had a great summer with a small group of teenage friends. We had dropped out and played in a band, and got very skinny, but had the greatest year.

[@LannieLord]

What was the name of the band ?@@Jamestele1

[@springsummerwinterorfall]

When I lived in the village, I was paying $75 a month for two bedrooms, one bath, a large living room on Christopher Street

[@geneobrien8907]

"$30 pays your rent on Bleeker street" Bleeker Street by Simon & Garfunkel

[@fantansam]

I recognized the Electric Circus (Blue Building) on St. Marks Place. I was sort of a regular there.

[@meesalikeu]

yeah i was in there a lot too, albeit much later. a shame they tore that iconic building down, but the new version isnt too bad.no more clubs like the dom though.

[@liamcragin]

What’s amazing is the neighborhood doesn’t look that different 50+ years later.

[@michaelcraig9449]

Is it still the same with the music and all that?

[@meesalikeu]

@@michaelcraig9449 yeah it is, but the live music is mostly gone as are the bigger clubs.

[@jamesmack3314]

I was friends with a digger,he used to come to my wine shop in SF but sadly he passed…cool guy names Peter Berg

[@WH-um2gx]

Memories. Used to live at 11th and 2 Ave. Would like to re-do that time again and add in the missing memory blanks.

[@charlesoconnor2953]

124 2nd Ave here (St Mark's) 50's to 70's. You gotta memory??

[@markkelly3859]

Long time passing

[@barbaragottlock230]

For a great guide to East Village life 60s-80s try "Manhattan's East Village- Three Decades of Madness" by Wes Gottlock.

[@ollybishop247]

Just bought it 👍🏻

[@meesalikeu]

it actually lasted out the 90s too, but ok.

[@damianmcdonagh7908]

Fascinating footage.

[@howielisnoff]

Great footage! Great times! Wow! The East Village Other…

[@michaelcraig9449]

So how did they change it? Did they make it better or worse? What is it like now?

[@meesalikeu]

looks same, expensive now

[@elliotrather730]

I think I spotted my mom smoking a joint.

[@HelloooThere]

you too?!

[@Animalfarm6cats]

What year was this?

[@meesalikeu]

1967

[@acmeopinionfactory8018]

Kinda disappointed, didn't see a single sitar being carried down the street.

[@drpoundsign]

...and, the miniskirts weren't short yet.

[@HelloooThere]

that's because they all got mugged along the way

[@thecapricorn11]

new york died in the 90’s

[@dmarrocolla39]

Neighborhood was beautiful back then how it disgusting to even walk thought street today

[@BOOGLEMANN-m2j]

you just changed your idea of acceptable ! it was always a dump !!!

[@BOOGLEMANN-m2j]

YES

[@benefitsconsultingservices8718]

It was not beautiful! My family lived there since 1948. It was rough then. During the 1950s gangs ruled the streets . The Forsyth street gang . The sportsmen were always rumbling. Tompkins Square park was the stage for many bloody gang fights. In the 1970s it was the Spades, the Savage skulls, Nunchucks bros. Etc. Then the scorched earth policy where the tenements went up in smoke everyday. You could be on one street and see burned out shells of homes many of my friends lived in. I remember in 67 all hell broke Loose with the hippies as they were called then. Some of them would have grab ass sessions with each other in front of people’s kids which led to the violence against them. If you really want to know ask some of us who were born and raised there .

[@meesalikeu]

no it isnt ivan

[@jameskennedy721]

Yes , even slight informality was considered shocking back then .

[@jamiehalifax4954]

I forgot some hippies went barefoot !

[@meesalikeu]

nice to see not quite as much smoking as i would have guessed. same views and shops, different names today. nobody playing chess in tompkins square in suits either lol.

[@markcorrao2062]

the summer of love.

[@collinleech5297]

Wow!

[@enthalpiaentropia7804]

Lot of repeat footage...

[@liamcragin]

This isn’t edited footage. It’s probably b-roll sold to tv stations to be used in news stories. It’s basically stock footage.

[@darks683]

1969. Needs a bit of editing, lots of repeat footage...veddy intalestink.

[@nycsongman9758]

Had to be pre-1967 (that's when NYC ordered all of the metered taxis to be painted yellow).

[@grahamsmith6210]

@@nycsongman9758 it can't be before 1967, there is clearly a hippie aesthetic here that didn't exist til that year (maybe 1 year earlier at most)

[@nycsongman9758]

@@grahamsmith6210 '67 is when the "hippie" aesthetic reached the mainstream/ Newsweek magazine, et al, (Monterey Pop, "Summer of Love", the Mamas and The Papas on "The Ed Sullivan Show", etc.); it was already a thing in coastal capitals like LA, SF, and NYC.

[@grahamsmith6210]

@@nycsongman9758 a lot of the hippie men here already have shoulder length hair, very few had that back in say, 1965. I would guess this is either 1966 or 1967, before the yellow cab thing you mentioned was passed or went into effect

[@liamcragin]

This is unedited b-roll. Never meant to be watched like this.

[@faithfamilyfriendsforever6777]

Nellson sillvan is the king of cam on the east side look him up

[@LannieLord]

Not back then tho.

[@meesalikeu]

this is before him he was the 80s

[@jamesmack3314]

True cigarettes were absolutely horrible

[@sunmoonstars0369]

Looks *exactly* today the same with updated shop fronts, much more multicultural now and lots of tattoos shops, artsy stores, hookah joints, bars and cafes, but the flavor still there despite what people say.

[@WH-um2gx]

And does anyone remember how good the napoleons at the Circus tasted?

[@michaelkoukos5396]

Now they are old liberal politicians.

[@benefitsconsultingservices8718]

I lived in the East village during this time. There were some tensions with the long time residents Of the neighborhood. The Lower East Side as it was called then was a powder keg of Drugs, poverty , and disillusionment. Most of my East European neighbors were leaving . Red lining forced black and Hispanic people in confinement. Vietnam was a major problem Because those same Black and Hispanic young men were doing the majority of the fighting and Dying. I lived on the FDR projects of Jacob Riis houses. My oldest brother went to war in 1966. So I was acutely aware of the foreign and domestic problems. It was no picnic!

[@meesalikeu]

sadly of course you are exactly true, and it got worse before it got better.

[@hirameberhardt8643]

I woild rather walk barefoot in Osaka, Japan than in NYC.

[@tiktokisanappforth0ttiesan995]

Earliest soyboys of America

[@nycbass78]

Anyone who uses the phrase “soyboy “is a pu$$ie.🤔

[@tiktokisanappforth0ttiesan995]

@@nycbass78 you sounds offended

[@grahamsmith6210]

they probably lived great lives though.

[@RapidCycling07]

@@grahamsmith6210 Nothing great about demoralization. Life was way better before all these leftists showed up and destroyed society. The lack of morals introduced back then have contributed to the current demise of the USA. Communism is taking over this country and the rest of the world. Peace!

[@meesalikeu]

very true, but they were from richer families than us slumming -- same as today basically

[@Charles-yq8vv]

Being a hippie in NYC must have been rough. It's not a very forgiving place. Go to LA dummies!

[@Person-mh6xq]

Charles foolish comment. Dummy.

[@marcchevalier3750]

That's because hippies were and still are scumbags. They are filthy, ugly, nasty, rotten as poop, etc... No body liked hippies back then. They should've never been born in the 1930s/1940s. They destroyed America. The president of the USA should've written a law banning oppressive culture like them and jailing them for 40 years.

[@poundlandbandit6124]

@@marcchevalier3750 good one. I’m not all into hippies but If you think American culture was something to be admired you’re wrong.

[@meesalikeu]

@@poundlandbandit6124 no they arent

[@josephpetrino1741]

I had forgotten how dirty and shabby everything was back then. NYC was a mess.

[@JohnSmith-kw9yc]

A lot less advertising, though.

[@norakat]

Are you kidding.. this is still nice. 70’s to early 80’s there were cars turned upside down burning on the street.

[@josephpetrino1741]

@@norakat The "burning cars everywhere" theory is not accurate. But it's something non New Yorkers cling to. We are talking about the Village not the South Bronx.

[@norakat]

@@josephpetrino1741 - This is not a theory. It is from my experience. To be more accurate it was inside and/or toward LES I am talking about.. perhaps also parts of E. Village. Not a lot of cars.. like a car here and there abandoned, burnt or turned upside down just sitting there. I'm talking mid to late 70's..

[@nycbass78]

Lol alphabet city had burned down and bricked up buildings in the 70’s just like the S Bronx,in a smaller scale.

[@richardspeziale]

hasn't changed a bit in 51years...

[@j0eX]

You're kidding I hope. There are doormen there now.

[@grahamsmith6210]

@@j0eX it actually looks pretty similar still