SCREWBALL - 1973 views of 42nd Street and Times Square (with Peter Dizozza & Edward DiMaio)

[@IrvONeil-fn6cp]

Great, great footage! And perfect music to capture the sweet nostalgic melancholy of a lost world swept away by "redevelopment" that has drained all the fascinating quirkiness and personality out of the area. Thank you!

[@CinemaVII]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp3WmYZreKp8l7c

[@edreid7872]

When Times Square was magical..

[@CinemaVII]

geographically it is and will always be magical ... barring a major shift in polar magnetic fields

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

@@CinemaVII LOL. Its corporate now. The 70s and 80s was the true New York.

[@Godzillajeff]

I TOTALLY AGREE. Thank you. Such a rush goes through me remembering the excitement and nervousness entering a porn theater In my younger days....have a beautiful SEX FILLED life everyone ❤!!!!!!!!!! Jeff the Gringoman.

[@themachine798]

WOW!!! The good ole' old days. Loved them then and miss them now.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

The hope and optimism of America at the time was incredible. I don't feel that anymore.

[@peteradaniel]

This song is too much!! What a great song to accompany this fantastic footage!

[@CinemaVII]

We agree! It's by Irving Berlin, in a slower arrangement style that began, perhaps, with the Streisand Happy Days are Here Again

[@richardraso2746]

Like a different world when you watch old film from 1900 thru the 50s

[@thomasklugh4345]

The kid we see at the very beginning, and hanging around outside the red bldg, is seen again and again throughout the video, right?

[@CinemaVII]

well, yes, that is Edward DiMaio, see him in a frame by frame review of his prior film, The Ruins! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXS0Z3eni8-eqsk

[@JMGEntertainmentify]

@@CinemaVII Is Peter Dizozza a famous actor or something ?

[@CinemaVII]

@@JMGEntertainmentifyuh... he wrote the score for Teacher Teacher, touring the parks of NYC this summer theaterforthenewcity.net/shows-2/ kzbin.info

[@ofmay]

Great flashback. Great memories opening up.

[@patrickguitar8676]

Nostalgia...the boy was bouncing off the wall at the beginning. He was procrastinating about going in the theatre."should i?I? Shouldn't i?? Hmmm....what a place..imagine being the mop guy in those places?

[@CinemaVII]

Edward was acting...

[@ofmay]

I see a Mop Guy Tee in my future. I love it!

[@stevegallant3395]

The mop guy never got tips he usually got stiffed

[@BillLaBrie]

I expected to see Travis Bickle in the background

[@CinemaVII]

He was campaigning for Abe Beame

[@gary1961]

I love that sign at 0:28. I can't bring the wife, she thinks I'm visiting my sick mother.

[@zamiadams4343]

I would do anything to go back to the Time's Square of the 70's. I'm a complete film nut, every porno was shown in theatre's like The Avon and Rialto. Glory days.

[@mickyboymccoy7632]

The Hairy Bush Cinema ? By the way, That wasn't butter on your popcorn.

[@markwill3515]

@@mickyboymccoy7632 lmao😅😅😅

[@orlandeuce6567]

WE NEED AN UPDATE. WHERE'S Peter Dizozza & Edward DiMaio NOW??

[@CinemaVII]

we have some links... one from their 1970 movie, the ruins www.cinemavii.com/images/oldCVII/theruins/theruins.htm

[@CinemaVII]

www.imdb.com/name/nm5022230/

[@dizozza]

we're around

[@sboyd4723]

The real Deuce!

[@CinemaVII]

how is that show?

[@rogercesar7710]

back in 1973 my parents bought a two family brownstone in park slope Brooklyn for 70 thousand dollars....I was 7 years old, today the same brownstone is 6 million....I am good!...I wish I could Go back as a man not as a seven year old boy.....I would be super rich.

[@dizozza]

inflation?

[@Senna-xi1gr]

If I could go back to any year it would be 1972 👍🇬🇧

[@drpoundsign]

..."Back in '72..."

[@drpoundsign]

1978 was Great, too. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" and "Saturday Night Fever" had come out the year before. There was the Van Craze. Folks weren't spooked about AIDS yet. I was a Senior in High School. Was lucky enough to go on my class trip to the Bahamas. Four to a hotel room, two to a bed. Didn't score though...and, then, no time in premed. ))-; I could actually get it up back then!

[@Senna-xi1gr]

@@drpoundsign 😂👍

[@CinemaVII]

​@@drpoundsign I couldn't get through TCM's recent goodbar broadcast but at the time I loved Diane Keaton's acting. and I still remember a brief reflection scene of her in a car as another car headlight passes by.

[@stevegallant3395]

Why did we let the world change so much for the worse?

[@CinemaVII]

the skeletons of the past are still there...

[@thehypnoticdog6682]

Gee, after watching this, one gets reminiscent of the pimps, chicken hawks, prostitutes and druggies who lingered in every doorway on the great white way