Lifelong New Yorkers Describe How The City Has Changed

[@SeanAyylmao]

My grandfather was one of the last hairmen in the country before retiring in 1994. He still gives out hair to local kids for free every other Sunday. An inspiring man and an inspiring profession.

[@prowlingmonkey]

@dogstriker11 A-hair-ica

[@idkjordash]

What flavors does he offer? Might have to check him out on my next trip

[@svrvphimprod]

Yeah too bad hair dispensers put that career to an end

[@zeehero7280]

its like the opposite of a barber. Barber cuts off hair, hairman gives it back!

[@GarboSweaty]

The way he says "Pittsburgh Pennsylvania" kills me.

[@TannuWannu]

we've all had a loved one vored by the power rangers

[@ghotiburger614]

Yeah, but everyone makes a huge deal out of it now. Why are people so damn sensitive these days?

[@coltoncurlee2423]

Ghotiburger fucking snowflakes

[@matthewtyler3726]

I read this halfway into the video and was confused. I get it now

[@archsteel7]

I was actually vored by the power rangers once. I was young, at the time, and didn't understand what was going on. But, I just wanted to say... Metoo.

[@Jsjeuducjejwjsif]

Why am i getting notifications for this I havent even made a comment. Not a bad thread tho

[@tomasroque3338]

"I was in the Ramones. Everyone was in the Ramones back then. That was a wild time"

[@tomasroque3338]

@@goopdoodle Thank you! XD

[@mold4425]

I miss the hair man, I used to always see him to get my hair on the way to gcdgmgygjfgfgkfgbg, but now I can’t do either really dissatisfied

[@sirsleeps-a-lot9376]

I never trusted that hair man, He always reminded me of rasputin

[@codygriffin299]

SirSleepsAlot Yeah he looked like a bum, but he must have been good-huge lineups of women calling him the greatest love machine. Oh how much he must have loved cutting their hair.

[@yourlocalcemetery]

But luckily we have agaghghghghghgygygyfhfhfhd now

[@unkn0wn3ntity86]

I heard the hair man went to russia and died somehow. Poor guy.

[@arandomzoomer4837]

Man, the hair guy survived some crazy stuff.

[@questioneverything6667]

The 9/11 Memorial looked way better in the 1990s than it does now. They had 2 big beautiful buildings. That was until 2 idiot pilots crashed into them, now it’s a goddamn fountain. I hope those pilots got fired.

[@XDwfoxface]

what! when did this happen??

[@mikeeaston4431]

@@XDwfoxface A couple weeks ago or so.

[@overty3720]

@@XDwfoxface last thursday

[@AVI-lh6rm]

Imru' Al-Qais im from the future it happens 2 days from now

[@ethan1297]

Have you ever thought maybe the towers flew into the plane?

[@melissao.6559]

We still got Problems with those damn Power Rangers.

[@GegoXaren]

Melissa O. At least it's gotten better since the 2007 insident...

[@lodomir5519]

But nowa days they only eat at krispy kreme

[@swiftfox3461]

Do they still emit screeching noises when disturbed? Asking for a friend.

[@harms5846]

Swift Fox yep. I tried to take my hamburger back from the red one and i am half deaf now.

[@swiftfox3461]

Harms Are you serious? Wow, that's really disappointing to hear. Back when I lived there, they would temporarily deafen only one or two people with the screeches, before the owner came in to spray them with a water bottle. Everything seems to have gone down the drain ever since I left.

[@CriticalofOnions]

I miss the old Statue of Liberty- it was a statue of a green John Goodman in mid-sneeze. Everyone used to say that when immigrating to America, get your tissues ready when you see the statue, it's the mucus of a new land

[@zodiac6703]

Anyone else miss the pre-9/11 9/11 memorial?

[@burntferidgerator6848]

No cause it wasn't as nice as the new 9/11 memorial

[@romusa10]

Its lot less quiter now,that place used to be more lively

[@reverendaero]

Honestly, it was a good thing they shut down GCDGMGYGJGFG. Otherwise, the rest of the world would never have gotten Television.

[@LaFlaneuse0]

Gee-whiz you're right.

[@deathhzrd]

It’s pretty messed up that they were hogging television all to themselves, like some kind of supervillain holding a marquee of moons

[@jfrfilms6697]

I remember when New York was just a ridiculously gigantic apple

[@carlosgalvez612]

The man who died under the Empire State Building was my father I still visit his grave every week and eat an ice cream cone in his memory right where he spent the last moments of his life truly a sad memory for me 😢😢😢

[@BakaTaco]

Good to see you're a nice guy!

[@schtuff.8207]

What I remember is the pizzas used to all come with little marionettes of your family that you could play with to keep you company while you at the pizza, so even if you were with your family, you wouldn't feel alone. It was the little things.

[@PlebeianGoth]

I remember the dinosaur meat

[@genesisguillen7008]

Yeah me too. Good times

[@deafkite638]

My father got to see the meat just before it all got eaten

[@OkOk-tu3gc]

"When I was a kid, the 9/11 memorial wasn't nearly as nice as it is now." Wow, that got dark quick.

[@Drpavel564]

I remember back in 1906, I met an Italian man named Pazanno, He used to serve us Ice cream cones with hints of sausage. It truly was a wondrous time.

[@FueledFromFiction]

I miss the old days where we could walk through the streets without getting tangled up in so many building-wide webs.

[@thememester1190]

Those were the days.

[@joeymcm04]

We really need to stop that menace.

[@courvoisibean]

I remember when NYC had a nasty chest cold. You couldn't walk down any street without a skyscraper sneezing on you.

[@BronzeBoy520]

I kind of disappointed in modern New York City. I miss when King Kong would transport people between buildings whenever he climbed one up. Another thing I kind of hate was how the Statue of Liberty has been replaced with a weeping angel. Sure it takes down payments in fixing it, but she eats 500 people a year! Plus ever since the alien invasion with the avengers, my favorite superhero team the Fantastic Four retired.

[@user-np2ui1yu9r]

Don't blink

[@max_the_mantis5173]

I like how your profile picture is cartoony scorpius

[@BronzeBoy520]

Joy Cowan I like how many people comment about that ^_^

[@Ottrond]

bazinga!

[@magik4353]

I thought that city was deserted weeks ago.

[@apinkrat7135]

Is this a Kennedy reference

[@baranxlr]

@@apinkrat7135 I'M BACK MOTHERFUCKERS

[@minerharry]

Ooooooh this did not age well

[@Demiglitch]

@@apinkrat7135 Yeah, "I thought that guy died weeks ago!"

[@apinkrat7135]

@@Demiglitch What about that gorilla with the sign?!

[@jamesgardner5149]

2:16 it's so stupid but it caught me off guard.

[@Jackuval]

What I love about the olden days of new york is the basketball craze I mean everybody was always playing basketball, it just never stopped, you'd sleep on the bench, when you wake up BOOM, it's game time

[@ReuniEnth]

I remember when the power rangers ate the owner's son... it was a shocking and hilarious event!

[@greaseballjones7705]

#neverforget

[@swiftfox3461]

Well, at least they got him back relatively intact. It's amazing how resilient the human body is against hydrofluoric acid that Power Rangers use to digest their food.

[@almostmedic3723]

i didnt know rasputin was a new yorker!

[@CodfishJoe]

And the Hair Man, at that!

[@plasmawolf7960]

Da

[@Demiglitch]

It's the city he grew up in, Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk Governoratre.

[@governmentspydrone7214]

*You got your milk from the milkman and your hair from the hair man* *proceeds to show an image of Rasputin.

[@lukedguy1253]

"it's crazy to think it's the exact same town I grew up in, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania!"

[@Lameashellcosplay]

As someone was born in NY but haven't lived there in years im shocked at how different it is now! Do they still put the pickles in the sewer every morning? Do the Lions still come to life and eat kids at the library?

[@Novet_C]

The power rangers prefer short kids, so now everyone wears high heels.

[@g2zmo874]

"when i was a kid, the 9/11 memorial wasn't nearly as good as it is now" oof

[@hansolofsson6403]

Nice guy

[@amranimations5974]

Took me way too long to realize this was a video by Click Hole despite seeing the logo. I actually almost searched the guy thats as stuck under a building Edit: that was*

[@VisionaryCompanion]

I remember "the Old Man of the C," who lived on Avenue C, sold surplus C rations, played the euphonium/tenor pump banjo, a musical instrument he invented himself (but he only played in the key of C), held court by gcdgmgygjfgfgkfgbg before it became CBGBs, when he joined the Ramones and then did a solo album (which got a "C" from a snarky music critic), and, not long after, he died of the big C (not cancer, but the giant letter C that fell on his head from the marquee for the musical "Cats," back when that musical was a new and exciting thing, before the toxoplasmosis set in.) Those were exciting and colorful times, and those times are gone forever.

[@jackcorncobb4103]

Ah yes, the good times. Me and my family always went to the Vatican to grab a quick drink of coffee and head home. It was very fun, I always did it every weekend as a kid.

[@badkerproductions]

"they tore-down Bob Dylan," and put up a STARBUCKs - fair enoug

[@Godless_Punk]

Fact: Back in those days the buildings were much smaller than they are now. That was mainly due to the higher oxygen levels in the atmosphere making the people about 50 times larger than they are now. Everyone shrank over time because they practically ate, drank, and shat cigarettes since they were kids, thus making their oxygen intake much far lesser. Old people are only so wrinkled due to the rapid decrease in size.

[@queekheadtaker7327]

Little did that man know new Amsterdam was making a return

[@bensirach3586]

Wow, New York changed THAT FAST? I remember going there on a choir trip two years ago. The first thing we saw after stepping off the plane was this large, levitating statue of Eddie Murphy. It spoke to us in what I can only say was some form of ancient Akkadian and gave us a multi-tool spork. Sure, He summouned away 5 of our members to "The Dark Place", but we are forever grateful to Eddie for his gifts.

[@Demiglitch]

That was only there as a promotional event for the movie "Dave".

[@JustMe-lx4cc]

Why have I never see anything from ClickHole before? Officially my new favourite thing - love it!!

[@nahimgood8891]

It was Coney Island. They called Coney Island, "the playground of the world." There was no place like it, in the whole world, like Coney Island when I was a youngster. No place in the world like it, and it was so fabulous. Now it's shrunk down to almost nothing, you see. And, uh, I still remember in my mind how things used to be, and uh, you know, I feel very bad. But people from all over the world came here. From all over the world, it was the playground -- they called it the playground of the world, over here. Anyways, uh, I... uh... you know... I even got -- when I was very small, I even got lost at Coney Island, but they found me. On the, on the beach. And we used to sleep on the beach here, sleep overnight. They don't do that anymore. Things changed, you see. They don't sleep anymore on the beach...

[@zex5876]

Everyone was in the Ramones back then...

[@zenmestari]

I remember first moving in New York when the neandertalians took over Europe. Man, they had everything. The beatles, Cleopatra, coal flavoured ice-cream and slave trade. I wish it hadn't changed this much.

[@spelcheak]

If you get in the right taxi after dark, you can still experience the slave trade first hand.

[@yoderx1null983]

Oh this channel you never post but also never disappoint.

[@VeraEdelman]

I didn't want this video to end.

[@shadowambush711]

Your channel is absolutely underated. Damnnn

[@spacechimp3199]

Man I remember that one day Tony Stark gave birth to the marshmallow man on top of the Marianas Trench right next to the Rockefeller center.

[@a-goblin]

i feel like i've just vicariously experienced tripping on acid

[@rhianfigueiredo5232]

Incredible how this city keep changing

[@sukunagk]

I love the old classic music they had back then like the one they had in the video

[@pawneyreport7407]

An instant classic!

[@TheDerpyDog]

Such an underrated channel

[@Lunibruniful]

When I was a youngster I got lost in Coney Island, but they found me. We used to sleep on the beach, sleep overnight- they don't do it anymore.

[@greaseballjones7705]

I wonder how much they pay these actors

[@peggleenjoyer1309]

What Actors

[@peggleenjoyer1309]

I Don't Know What You're Talking About, These Are Real Stories And Real People

[@pokemaster123ism]

I like to imagine that they got people who actually lived through the events they talk about, but they have them talk about these random events instead of the real ones

[@greaseballjones7705]

Liam Thomas I'm pretty sure you're the one getting r/wooooshed here.

[@bingus9501]

Liam Thomas you have to go back

[@milanwoods702]

I predict it will be a basketball

[@SCPH7503]

I was there when the last bit of t-rex meat was removed, it's just like yesterday. It was snowing, there was some slime, and then there was that crazy pregnant lady. I'll never forget that Christmas.

[@steven8749]

Man I remember nibbling at the dinosaur meat whenever we went there, it's a taste you won't find anymore now

[@sanicthehoghedge8053]

My grandfather told me he was the first member of the Ramones

[@simonjones9195]

Seriously how does clickhole not have more than a million subscribers

[@Whosaskin]

"Evryone was in the Ramones"

[@BeanchiT]

R.I.P. clickhole

[@ArcaneStrain]

I used to love when the hair man came around. I’d wake up in the dark around 3 AM and there he’d be, standing still at the foot of my bed with a big smile on his hairy face! ☺️

[@Bilboswaggins2077]

I thought this was buzzfeed

[@peggleenjoyer1309]

How, This Was Funny

[@Bilboswaggins2077]

Christian Channel lol I meant before the jokes started coming

[@peggleenjoyer1309]

Oh

[@LlamaKing9000]

Bilbo Swaggins I would hope so. Clickhole was created specifically to parody BuzzFeed

[@swiftfox3461]

Doctor Freud You got that the wrong way round, it's BuzzFeed that parodies ClickHole. The only reason that ClickHole's videos appear to have been uploaded later is because of the Ivanov Polarity Conservation Principle. For those not versed in kineto-tachytronics: this is why the UN doesn't run The Prime Mainframe on negative electricity - localised space-time distortions, that's what.

[@TheMilitantHorse]

"When I was a kid, the 9/11 memorial wasn't as nice as it is today." Wait, can we back up a second? XD

[@vicentetemes5793]

Back in my day New Amsterdam was a sight to see.

[@lmao.3661]

How lovely

[@kenyonpapen2608]

I didn't know it was clickhole for a second and I was very confused

[@PositiveLastAction]

I was in the Ramones too

[@SamuraiPie8111]

everything changed after that godzilla attack

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

In my day it was still called New Amsterdam!

[@SoupEmperor]

I miss when you could still sleep on the beach. We don't sleep on the beach anymore.

[@tubwaiyan6776]

*sad violin starts playing*

[@wx7fm]

"New York has changed so much, it's hard to believe that it's the same city I grew up in, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania" 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣this is absolutely hilarious

[@JohnNovakovich]

"The power rangers used to hold court in the big booth at Graetzmans" I'm dead haha

[@beckybeckyB]

"one of the power rangers ate. His. Son." Old New York sounds like a better time than what we have now

[@free_siobhan]

Can confirm, I’m a New Yorker myself.

[@lordgrim1798]

1:53 It got deliberately worse over time good lord

[@wontoniotheninja4525]

It took me so long to notice it was clickhole

[@null_face]

Halfway through i was so confused until i realised it was this channel

[@IFYOUCOULDFLY]

1:13 From now on I'm exclusively referring to Rasputin as the "Hair Man".

[@mattwo7]

Also I'm from Californa and I can assure you the Power Rangers lived over here, not over there. I used to see them all the time at the Whataburger in San Fransico.

[@kirkkerman]

mattwo7 Oh come on, you Californians always act like you were the only ones who had the power rangers

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

Well they did eventually move over to New Zealand while pretending they still live over here.

[@fistoftheworldking3834]

I remember Ol' Icy.

[@drlou417]

i started watching this but wasnt aware the thisis Clockhole xD

[@daytonglitch]

Wierd! I always thought New York would become a ball of string, or some sort of nutcracker.

[@fennikk5810]

This is like a YTP without the editing

[@GordonSlamsay]

I remember; on a family vacation, getting to see the dinosaur meat before they removed it in 86'

[@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708]

Did you taste it?

[@GordonSlamsay]

@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 yeah It was gamey

[@AdrianVanOyan]

I really do miss GCDGMGYGJGFG KFGBG nothing like it since

[@petroll.02]

The Pittsburgh line got me

[@Dr0dd]

I miss when you were able to buy your klavkalash on the WT plaza and wash it down with some crab juice.

[@zacharywilson9596]

DrOdd, yeah. But after drinking that crab juice the only bathrooms were in the WTC Towers themselves; and one of them was always out of order. D’oh!

[@strawbebbiejam]

"your hair from the hair man" i died

[@venomkiler1]

I'm gonna tell my kids this is what New York was like growing up

[@jacksonlarson6099]

I cannot count how many times I passed this thumbnail without realizing it is a clickhole video. I'm still not entirely sure if it is.

[@kohymnLegacy]

Oh my god, I remember the Ramones, I loved being a part of the Ramones!!

[@tommyobrien8757]

1:11 Rasputin was the Manhattan hair man.

[@marcusturner27]

“The 9/11 memorial wasn’t nearly as nice as it is now” OMG I’m dying

[@trustnugget280]

I remember when before I was born hot dogs were given out to everyone who glued their hands together on Times Square

[@qrower]

pittsburgh squad

[@zachn]

lets go baby

[@siukong]

That disorienting moment when you're subscribed to both Big Think and Clickhole and confuse the two.

[@xera5196]

I feel like basically everything is going over my head FeelsBadMan

[@TheAverageChannelx]

My favorite thing about new york is the eiffel tower and the Taj Mahal and the london bridge

[@mattwo7]

1:47 Should have used the Goranger costumes tbh.

[@genesisguillen7008]

I remember the man under the building. I would give him food. Good times

[@mrdabss]

It was a wild time.

[@cmkasemichael]

My dad used to be in the ramones