Hopefully the video stays up though. The uploader could lose his account, taken down by outdated and ineffective copyright laws, and God knows what policies RUclips will have in the future. Or even something simple like the uploader setting it to private or losing the original file. There's so many videos in my classic 2005-2011 RUclips Playlist that are missing and aren't able to be found on other sites to be lost forever. It can unfortunately happen to important videos like this as well.
Its amazing. I grew up in NYC in the 80s. As a grad student in Manhattan, I remember being so annoyed at tourists who were blocking traffic to take photos and videos of the city streets. Now I am soooooo grateful to them because decades later, they are uploading them to RUclips and we all get to enjoy them. I am so sorry to anyone I snapped at or was mean too back then as i was rushing to class or work!!
Me 2 lol for me it was coming home from high school on the 49th St. crosstown bus. All the tourist would go there to see the tree and my trip would be about 25 minutes longer :) in December
I was living in Bay Ridge Brooklyn around that time. It was before 9 11, climate change... I remember there were talks about the holes in the ozone around that time. There were a few places selling hot dogs and papaya juices.
I grew up in the lower east side in NYC in the late 80s to early 90s, and never really went to the touristy areas of the city during that time until I met my husband in 2006 and now I'm living in Midtown where I'm always surrounded by tourist. It's like walking down memory lane when I go back to the lower east side now.
@Quirky Rainbow Rose Queen yeah I grew up then. I did enjoy the 80s TMNT show. Back then I was a bigger fan of the "Bionic Six" cartoon show. Sadly it ended after only two seasons. 😢😢
@Quirky Rainbow Rose Queen had a good ending. It's just that it ended way too soon. I uploaded all the episodes on RUclips many years ago and they were online for a long time. Till NBC decided to be jerks as always and remove all the episodes. Funny thing it was a different company back then that was bought by NBC later on lol.
It's the "world car" concept. Easier and cheaper to market vehicles globally if they all look pretty much alike. And if people everywhere are trained to prefer the same style. The reason corporations would love to homogenize everything, including you.
Ah... NY back when it was still a real city for real working class people. Nowadays feels more like a gigantic Monopoly board for billonaires to speculate. Also, how I miss the orange sodium-vapor lights, those eye-piercing white led streetlights kill the nocturnal mood of any place they get installed.
Lol the funny thing about your comment is the last time I visited NYC in 2016 I came home to find they had changed the street lights on my street from HPS to LED and I was legit sad.
Ugh, jerky blinking, blindingly bright LED lights have killed the mood a lot of places. Their brightness should be regulated, but doesn’t appear to be. And people thought fluorescent was bad.
@@TECHLOVER_91 r u calling the crap they r playing on the radio these days music? Well if you do, you clearly have no idea what we r talking about, what good music is, and what we r missing.
@@Andili76 I never said anything about Music and there is still some great music being made today it's people like you who just want the world to revolve around their generation and the music they grew up on forever as if that's how time works 😒
LOL it's only 1988... the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was filmed here the next year. Jurassic Park started preproduction in 1989. This is not freakin 1888 or something. Let me guess... you're from generation z who thinks the 1980s were eons ago.
Katarina G haha yeah i can imagine. but as far as just aesthetics go i think the 70's is when american cars really hit their peak. in the 80's they still stood out from cars from the rest of the world but by then they already were putting less thought into how they looked
My childhood! Thank you, warms my heart seeing these streets that I walked with my father so many times. He passed and this makes me feel him close. Thank you
Most of those kids that are ice skating are now 40y old parents. Thank you for these, it's so cool to see people at night with hairstyles of that time, talking, chilling with boom-box...
I grew up in NY at this time. It brought me back immediately when I saw the video. From the cars, the styles, the lights, everything about the video is a representation of New York's past. People of all ages, demographics and walks of life were courteous. Hopefully that aspect of life will return to all people, sooner than later.
1980s, were one of the worst times for crime and drugs in NYC - the city was dying. People fled to the suburbs and crack-fueled epidemic would continue to grow until the early 90s.
I've never been to New York. I was born in 1987 in Russia, and I live here to this day. I watch this video and I am overcome by an inexplicable feeling of nostalgia and something beautiful. Although I don't even know English, but everything in the video seems to somehow concern or concern me. It's amazing! P.S.The text that I am writing now is translated by a translator in the Yandex search engine, so I apologize if there are errors in it.
19:33 I was very surprised when the cameraman and his buddy left the car and start a conversation in Russian. They were talking about filming: - So... we are going this way? - Yeah, we'll go like that [shows the way by gesture] - It will be great to reshoot 42 street... - You know, we had drove past an enormous quantity of advertisements... - Look! [pointing on the police] - Let's place our camera rack here. - We should be careful about filming here... We shouldn't do that here. - Why? - It's a dangerous place... freaking many junkies, prostitutes...
@Jenny Lee should have seen it in the 1910s-20s-30s-40s-and wholesome advertising boards of the 50s...really an amazing building full of architecture mostly being Neo gothic revival with an absolutely amazing structure and foundation shape....such a shame it was vandalized by the 21st centurt
Back when a working class family could afford a home in a nice neighborhood to raise their family. NYC had many blue collar enclaves back then. Now it's a town for the Uber rich.
I wish they were still the same today like years ago. Squarish looking, carbureted, cap and rotor with distributor. Ah, I miss the old cars. Quick question, doesn't the new honda accord 2018 model to present look squash and polygonal?
And the 1999 Ford Crown Victoria was the last era of cool taxi cabs & cop cars. They dominated the streets by 2003 and nearly all retired by 2013. And now, most cop cars are bulky SUVs or pickup-trucks, and most American taxi cabs look European.
Too many past memories swirling in my head as I'm seeing these footage. I grew up and went to elementary school in the lower east side. Reminds me of my grandparents that used to help pick me up from school. Now all of my grandparents are passed. I wouldn't mind going back in time and reliving the golden years of the late 80s and 90s, it was just such a wonderful period in my life.
@Ed Rice It’s not 8 or 16mm film, there would be noticeable grain on 8mm at least. I would say uncompressed (apart from RUclips) HD analog video which was available then, definitely professional equipment.
Спасибо за документальные кадры Америки 80-х г. Смотрю, и поражаюсь по тем временам, что насколько жизнь в США была более устроенной, комфортной, с налаженной инфраструктурой. Американские возможности и технологии даже тогда ушли далеко вперед. Вообще, с ностальгией вспоминаю любые кадры 80-90-х г.г. 20 века. Ведь узнать, как жилось тогда на западе, можно было по видеофильмам, которые начали у нас массово завозить в СССР, а затем и в России по видеокассетам. P.S. Привет вам из России! Оператор русскоязычный, советский гражданин... Съемка того времени просто великолепна. Благодарю.
@@iliapopovichтебе откуда знать бомжара? только не пиши что ты 25 лет живёшь в США и здесь настолько хреново, что ты даже не думаешь возвращаться на родину😂
I turned 24 in September of 1988 I am going to be 56 in September. I still have to pinch myself how fast time goes by so beware. I can't believe my mother was only a few years older than I am now. She passed. So future is scary and I am living the future now. I can't believe how old I am and how it just speeds by. Especially when you get 30 it goes like a speed volt. I did some acting gigs so I would go into New York a lot then. young, had my dreams, full of dreams, moved to Los Angeles and actually did have some speaking acting gigs and a couple commercials but that was it. Not many make it big where they can just live on it. I finally lost interest cause I stopped chasing rainbows. After you get older all your fairytales and dreams seem to become reality. I am not saying don't dream, I did have some acting gigs but there's a point if you don't make it big by a certain age, it's just going to get harder and so I moved on. I am trying to tell this lady who started pursuing acting at 12, she is now going to be 30 in October. I look 35. Fillers, botox. Anyways I tried to tell her and she thinks I am being mean and spiteful and this and that. She's been taking acting classes since her teens and shooting to 30 this year and hasn't made it. Also in your 30s your body changes, you can weigh the same but look more bloated and not the same, loss of muscle mass, and aging, slower metabolism, your face begins a ugly aging prcoess, more so towards your mid to late 30's and her and her sister got mad at me for trying to wake her up to reality, that at this stage of her life, I hope she has other purpose besides acting and good looking shallow boy friends and just the type of people who always got by on their body image and looks is going to be in for some rude awakening soon so they need to find themselves and their purpose and they get all mad at me and tell me I am full of crap. I lived it. I go out now and i get called "ma'am" and like I don't exist. people like her who is living in a fantasy, it's fine when you're young but not turning 30, it's time to wake up. and she will not look the same in 6 years, she don't want to listen to somebody who has been there and done it. She works as a waitress and lives off her parents at her age, walks around with shades on in these little short dresses and leggings, and I tried to warn her, a rude awakening is about to kick her ass soon, she's getting pass this cute kitten and dream fantasy youth. she will end up broke if she don't do something instead of keep dreaming, the dreaming was fine but it didn't' happen and you're getting up there. she got so mad at me. she'll see. this is not just a year older for her, going into your 30\s is a big change from your 20s. She is living like she did when she was 19. putting herself on video with these scenes and begging casting directors to hire her on video, going around like she's still 20. time to wise up. she'll see and think back how right I was while she falls into depression. because she is not accepting it. when you're young that's shit is fine, and I would love to be 30 again but at that point is when I realized acting dreams were diminishing, my youth was diminishing, and your body and looks go down hill from there on. , but 30 and still pursuing acting like you're still 20, no, and just going around with hot people like you're in high school and Disney land when you're almost 30, wow, she is about to be in for a rude awakening , she had her fun in her 20s and her fantasies but still at it. she'll be 40 and trying to be cute and pursue acting. Her mother was like "dont worry honey, you'll still be rocking a thin body" like when she ages nobody is going to care about her thin body and nobody, is going to look the same thin or fat when they are 30's and than 40s like when they were teens and 20's, she is setting the girl up to wake up one day miserable. I was just trying to place REALITY on her. She only has a few more years before slowly she will see the changes. And she will have to stop eating so much and diet heavily and work out a lot and still not look as good. I have been there. anyone knows. She can keep rocking a thin body but do you see a thin 20 year old in shorts, and a thin 40 year old in shorts, both thin but a big difference, the mother is just as stupid. I was told i was being verbally abusive. what I said is only common sense. LMAO plus I have lived it and been through it. she also brags how she can eat anything and be thin, that's about to change in the near future. they tell me I am abusive. how? they'll see. at least I am living in my reality, not fiction, it's fine when you're super young but 12-30 and not much accomplished, and she thinks she is going to be cute and young forever, she already has the type of face that is not going to age well. thin long face and thin lips. and her friends in their late 20's are like "wtf the bitch" about me, and crap, but who here does not agree when you hit 30 things just go down hill for acting dreams, and living off your looks and body image and I've been there, they're the joke and will see. Even 35 is technically middle age. 35-65. she is close, getting close and she and her friends who did nothing but live fantasies and act like teenagers and getting off strictly on their looks have a big rude awakening soon. I was just trying to warn her and she is like "you don't bother me anymore" I wasn't trying to bother her, I was trying to wake her up at her age. she was like "I am perfectly content going into my 30's " than why are you still not have a real career job, why dress in teenage clothes showing off your body like you're still 20, why go to Disney Land every weekend and still after years and years and years just only concentrating only on acting, after years and years and years still taking acting classes? Like maybe you don't have the talent? For women it just gets twice as hard the older you get in this business unless your are established and character, do you think the acting roles are going to get easier with age? If you were so content why living the same life she did when she was 19? not one change. . One day after eating her French fries and Taco Bell and triple cheese burgers she will wake up with rounder thighs, a wide body structure, tiny lines on the side of her eyes, nasolabial folds worsening, lines and loss of cheek volume slowly and the hot guys that dated her will look the other way and she'll be standing there waiting tables in her 30s with nothing. Sure seems like you are ready to grow up. not
This was filmed in late Nov/early Dec 1988. I was out of the Marine Corps for 3 months and working in Manhattan at the time this was filmed. I lived through it and I can't believe how much I've forgotten about the cars/clothes/and how run down 42nd street was. Wow! What a time capsule! I guess I am too! Thanks for posting this....brings back some memories!
‘88 was an amazing time. I was only 12 living in Long Beach, Ca during that time. It’s amazing to see the fun we all has in those days, before 9/11. Amazing footage!
I was living in hawaii , turned 15 in '88 , started my freshman year in high school I just turned 50 ! Lol. this year. 🤙 time surely passed by fast man.
Back when crack was on the streets and the Mob ruled the city. Hip Hop was in it's purest form. Old school New York had it's own identity...💯I'm in love with everything from this time period despite how bad it was in retrospect. Life had different swagger back then.
Hell yeah, when New York City was New York City. Before gentrification, mafia hits in downtown Manhattan during Christmas time, crack being smoked in back alleys by homeless and wall street hedge fund guys, you had a worldly wealth , culture, arts, and entertainment intermingled with crime and danger, subway violence and upper east side extravagance, man what a time. I remember my dad went there on business in 1989 and he said there is no place like Manhattan when the sun is going down and reflects off of the sky scrapers as the city descended into a night of adventure. What a time , NYC 1985-93. I’m from Chicago and even I can recognize how cool that time was.
@@TheGr8one1022 You actually could get by pretty safe and unharmed only if you were one of the middle-upper class wealth at that time. You'd be able to afford your own car (or driver) and wouldn't be relying on the shady subway system or taxi services back then which were notorious in playing a part in a lot of crimes then. Plus be able to afford a comfy and safe apartment (like in the show Friends) on Manhattan instead of some shady building on the Bronx.
My first visit to NYC 1986. Last 2016. What a difference!!!! Back then it was a lot more diverse, a lot crazier, a lot cheaper but also dirtier, more dangerous. However today seems like NYC is only for the rich. No more "artsy", "original", "creepy" stuff. Where did all the normal to crazy people go??? Thanks for sharing this time travel :-) I enjoyed it a lot.
OK BOOMER 🙄😒 You all just love posting comments like these but use Smartphones daily smh just stop the Hypocrisy we have unlimited knowledge at our fingertips and y'all still complain humans are never pleased
Get rid of it, refuse this technology garbage. It serves to lead you into the total enslavement of the NWO, in connection with "health crisis" and all the irreal nonsense.
This is New York in 1988, the 80s were a time when people lived, had fun, of course they talked, etc. It was the best time for music, movies, series, etc.
Great footage! For those interested, those dreary, orange-looking street lights were called high pressure sodium. They were incredibly efficient and long-lasting but unfortunately, the quality of light was poor. Everything from red to blue to Brown looked dark navy blue under those lights. I have no idea how the filmmakers made this film stock looks so good, but it must have been quite a trick.
@@RealSamuelGibson Most of the NYC Metro and surrounding area has been retrofitted to LEDs, 5000K or 6000K in color temperature. Some complain they are too bright and/or too blue, and they resemble a prison yard. There is a push towards 3000K which is warmer (more yellow.) A good thing about the old. orange high pressure sodium lights is they help with sky glow. You might find a lot of them if there is an observatory nearby. The new LED lights also give a lot of glare, not so with orange high pressure sodium. In the industry, they are called HPS. Cheers,
@@BradThePitts My opinion is the sodium lights gave off a more natural and better light. I was born in 1965 so im old enough to also remember the mercury bulbs which were the turquoise, blueish street lights that came before the sodium. Those type of lights you found, not only on the streets but also in NYC's parks. Then the sodium lights followed first on the streets then in the parks. And most fellow old school New Yorkers like me also remember the orange fire alarm lights that were mounted on the side of the street lights as well as on top. Those lights usually came on at the same time with the street lights. However in late 2003 those fire alarm lights changed into the crappy red bulbs you see today. Those are one of the things that gave NYC its character along with the graffiti trains. Today NYC is bland and boring. Shitty stadium LED lights, ugly bland tech robot subways etc etc. Thanks to the millennials that have no taste they have ruined this once great city
@@alexmunch6118 You're kidding right? Those orangy lights made the streets look dull and depressing as if the city was in perpetual twilight. Not to mention, as OP said, they mess with the colors of anything standing within proximity of them. Nearly everything had the same color as their shadows: dark navy-blue black. And the subway platforms/trains with those lights were even more dim and depressing. I'm glad they were changed to more brighter, neutral white lights. It really helped a lot with illuminating the city at night. Plus even in the 80's, many car headlights were already white instead of orange because white light doesn't affect any colors it shines on which are important for cars in preventing any road accidents.
I was born in 03 but this is just incredible to watch to me. Seeing the things people reference when they were common, hearing the songs people wish were still made (Joe Walsh at the end!) and the difference in how people acted. Nobody glued to a device, just walking about their day. Amazing to see with such great quality
Your generation are literally a nightmare of dim-witted drones and a mix of autism. Creepy creepy My generation always notes how slow you guys are with humour and the lack of personality. Proud 80s boy here. The cellphone once it had merged into the internet caused all of your problems.
The better times... With beautiful cars, good music, good movies, fashion style, and style in general. I wish to go back there. Nowadays everything is boring.
The 80s and 90s was the peak of Western civilization. We had the fruits of our ancestors labor, United States wasn't a police state yet. The petrodollar was still rising
Born in 1975 in nearby NJ. NYC was an exciting day trip In the 80s and 90s. Folks from outside the metro area don't realize that there is more in the mid-Atlantic region than Manhattan. Going into the city was just another way to kill time back then. On Saturday a trip to Peddler's Village in Bucks County, PA and on Sunday a trip to NYC was common. 2 completely different environments. I remember riding the NJ Transit NE Corridor line and feeling a sense of peace and safety upon coming out of the tunnel and seeing the NJ Turnpike and the bowling alleys. The stops in Newark and Elizabeth had an erie sense of quietness. The occasional person hallucinating, the girls with high hair and short skirts, the plethora of Z-28 Camaros. All normal. Life as usual. At the time I couldn't image how life could be any different. I thought it would always be that way.......
I honestly thought the same thing, everyday life back then was wonderful, I didn't think it would ever change. I didn't even believe that the kind of world we live in today would be possible (and not for the better)
I saw the 80’s, I was born in ‘78 so was just a boy. It was pretty cool. I got to fly from Indiana every year to see family outside Boston. Back then, the airlines still served meals on domestic flights, which were like TV dinners. I got to see the cockpit and talk to the pilots. The pop music on the radio was the greatest. Pop radio has never been so good. In New York City, the crime rate was probably through the roof, but that’s the big city right? It’s hard to experience an era in real-time in the same way you look back on it, but certain things do stand out in hindsight. Everyone was much more present. They had to be, as this was long before smartphones and internet as we know it, but of course nobody was missing what was not available. Mario Bros. on the old 8-bit Nintendo was a barrel of fun, lol. But we played outside a lot more. I was aware of political unrest in the world, and there was a lot of it then. But the world didn’t feel high strung and flaked out in the way it does today. And racial relations were a lot better too believe it or not. I think we’ve probably become too fast for our own good these days. The world was complex then, but felt far simpler than now.
@@johnp82y? Yo soy del 80 y soy plenamente consciente como se sentía el mundo mucho antes del inicio de los 90´s y el contexto del video es el 88. Quizá no leíste bien, puede que hoy en día un niño de 6-10 años no deje su celular y prefiera recluirse en la vivienda familiar. Desde luego no era el caso en esa época.
@Music-ys3cb Не тявкай кремлевская падаль... Уж в чем,а а в том что они помогают странам бывшего СССР защищаться от кремлёвской агрессии это правильно! К русским в сша относятся нормально.
something about watching footage from a different time when you were alive, when none of your problems existed yet, when the world was still filled with limitless opportunity, but which you know will never exist again is a little bit heartbreaking.
I owned a 72 Plymouth Fury, as big as a whale! I once got pulled over by the NYPD for speeding on 7th Ave. I explained to the policeman that I had to stay in-front of the Taxi cabs because they were so ruthless. He told me to slow down and let me off with a warning. They really liked my car, it reminded them of the 1970's Police Interceptors!
Born in 97 but I swear I had a past life that must have ended in 97 cause I feel like I have core memories from this era and place that I can’t explain 😂
Probably 'cause the 90's & 00's still kind of had lingering 80's vibes. A lot of vehicles, technology and so forth were still left over from the 80's for awhile. And the Emo fashion trend you might remember from school was very retro-80's, and Emo hair was a throwback to the 60's.
05-10 was still part of the golden era but yes. In 2010 facebook was just getting popular so it was the beginning of the downfall of humanity but social media hadn't made much of an impact on people socially at that point. That all happened post 2010 along with the internet changing and corpos taking it over.
As a kid growing up in a small upstate city outside of Albany, my first memorable trips to NYC were in high school at this exact time. Art Class would do a trip to the Met. History took us to the Cloisters and the Frick. My Italian class would take us to Little Italy and when we got time to wander I would scramble to Tower Records on West 4th and try to spend whatever money I was able to bring with me on records or tapes I couldn't get back home. I eventually went to undergrad at Columbia in '91 and moved to Brooklyn after graduation in '95 where I am today. So to say this vid brings back a lot of memories is an understatement for this long-time NewYorker. Thanks for sharing.
I always love these videos. It must be quite cool to spot yourself and suddenly remember where you were going and what you might have been thinking, all triggered from seeing yourself. I was in New York in the late 90's and, though I thought it was awesome, I think I'd still prefer to walk around in this video or even earlier.
80's NYC was more dangerous than it was during the late 90's. Especially at night like this video. Not to mention, a lot more dirtier and in disrepair. Only during the mid 90's that it started getting cleaned up then the 2000's fully gentrified it.
Интересно конечно мозг устроен. Испытал такое тёплое чувство ностальгии, при том что запись сделана за 7 лет до моего рождения, а в Нью-Йорке в первые побывал вообще в 2012 году... )
Funny how we’re all products of our environment. Looking at this video makes me glad I grew up in Southern California on the coast! Looks too confined and crowded to me. But I’m sure kids growing up there had a great time like you said. That being said I would rather be anywhere in the 80s than where I am now.
@12:50 you could see the CitiGroup building still under construction. It was completed in 1990. That building stood alone in Long Island City, a neighborhood in Queens, for 20 years before the construction boom began. Now that area looks like a mini Manhattan with the many new residential buildings that have sprung up.
There was just a lot to appreciate about the time. As many here have said, it was the best balance of tech and social interaction of any period in history. In essence, it was tech that was non intrusive. People were well dressed and fixed in public. Beautiful vapourwave neon lights compared to blinding institutional LED lights. Rents were affordable, plenty of jobs. And most of all people really did have a better head on their shoulders. Everyone's views are subjective based on what they value. For myself, these are things which I find made life a lot more enjoyable. I try to limit my technology usage as much as possible and have eradicated social media. I won't be able to go back in time, but I'm able to make the best out of today with the values of the past.
Footage like this makes it very easy to romanticize. Don't forget the rampant crime of the 80s, the fires in the Bronx, the crack epidemic. But yes, it was nice for some people.
As if there's no rampant crime in NYC today? They just manipulate the data now. How many people were pushed off the subway today? Funny I don't recall hearing that in the news everyday in the 80s.
As a kid born and raised in brooklyn in the 80’s watching this.. seeing how it was back then and blondie playing in the background feels like a warm blanket. My only regret was not being old enough during this time to fully enjoy the decade.
No doubt!! Whoever bought property back then made it. my my mum told my father but he never thought they would go as high as they have he still regrets and talks about it till this day.
Charley Hustle Was the Bronx already getting better by the 80s? Not sure how much you remember? At least from the 70s Bronx which apparently was always on fire due to arson.
My god, I can't express the atmoshpere I'm feeling here. Beautiful people and the whole vibe of the place, feels like christmas. Such warm and comfy feeling, just wow. As a non-american who grew up on american moovies I wish I could've experienced living there..One day
I love your comment but don’t come here now. It isn’t like this anymore sadly 😢 it wouldn’t have the same magic… but I do encourage you to visit one day just don’t think it’ll be anything like this video. ❤
1:18 "Чёрт, не дотяну, чуть-чуть. / damn, i`ll not finish... a little bit." low battery i guess. 3:21 "Давай щас еще на третьем попробуем взять / Okay, let`s try on the third shoot this" 6:30 "damn" 9:09 "Вот здесь он будет стоять / Here he will stand" From this moment 10:30 some replicas are repeated. I dont know why :D 19:26 "Я не могу понять только одного, почему у меня как-то не резко получается / I can`t understand only one thing, why do i get such a defocus" 19:47 "-Ну что идем в ту сторону да? / So we are going to the other side? -Так и так пойдем. Хорошо бы 42-ую снять. / Go there and there. It would be nice to shoot the 42st. - Огромное количество рекламы, давай поставим штатив здесь. / Huge amount of advertising, let's put a tripod here. -Здесь нужно снимать осторожно, лучше не надо со штатива. / Here we need to be careful, better not from a tripod. - Почему? / Why? - Потому что это место опасное, тут могут пизды дать, наркоманов дохера, проституток. / Because this place is dangerous, too many addicts, prostitutes, they can to beat shit out us."
In 1989 I was in my early 20's, living in Los Angeles with my Jamaican girlfriend who I met in England. Took her to the drive-in movie theater in Van Nuys to watch "Coming To America" with Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall - and filmed in Queens, New York. Good times.
As kids, would drive past McDowell's on Queen's Blvd and wonder when it was going to open. It had the letter M, but it was like a wicked take on McDonald's. lol
The 80s was a good time to be in, coming from a guy who wasn't around the 80s. Look phones aren't such a bad thing if we just use them less and when we do we use it the right way.
I feel the late 80's to early 00's was a golden time. A good mix of technology without compromising human interaction.
Yes. That's what I've been trying to say. (Non-invasive electronics that had their place)
Nothing more succinctly perfect than this, could not be better said.
Well said
Also when people had an actual opinion and could openly engage in conversation rather than being so PC about every little thing.
bang on mate.
I always wished for a time machine, and we have it, it's called youtube.
This is the most beautiful comment i ever saw in my all life .Thank you for making me realised! ❤🙏
You see it but cant live it.
@@Horaciowild1 really.
I literally see this comment on every throwback video
Hopefully the video stays up though. The uploader could lose his account, taken down by outdated and ineffective copyright laws, and God knows what policies RUclips will have in the future. Or even something simple like the uploader setting it to private or losing the original file. There's so many videos in my classic 2005-2011 RUclips Playlist that are missing and aren't able to be found on other sites to be lost forever. It can unfortunately happen to important videos like this as well.
It's very nostalgic to see these boxy cars on the streets.
I know, they are a lot better than today’s crappy cars.
@@unitedcity_mc4421 Amen!
the boxy style is coming back
@@mounirsarhane8476 ?
@@mounirsarhane8476 it never will these car companys all making eletric futuristic cars now but more ppl buying used cars nowdays
Its amazing. I grew up in NYC in the 80s. As a grad student in Manhattan, I remember being so annoyed at tourists who were blocking traffic to take photos and videos of the city streets. Now I am soooooo grateful to them because decades later, they are uploading them to RUclips and we all get to enjoy them. I am so sorry to anyone I snapped at or was mean too back then as i was rushing to class or work!!
Me 2 lol for me it was coming home from high school on the 49th St. crosstown bus. All the tourist would go there to see the tree and my trip would be about 25 minutes longer :) in December
I appreciate that. I remember you throwing a hot dog at me. I hate mustard.
@@tommydenato8863 LOL!!! I miss the '80s!!
I was living in Bay Ridge Brooklyn around that time.
It was before 9 11, climate change...
I remember there were talks about the holes in the ozone around that time.
There were a few places selling hot dogs and papaya juices.
I grew up in the lower east side in NYC in the late 80s to early 90s, and never really went to the touristy areas of the city during that time until I met my husband in 2006 and now I'm living in Midtown where I'm always surrounded by tourist. It's like walking down memory lane when I go back to the lower east side now.
This was the time when the Ninja Turtles were most active in their crime-fighting career. There were many sightings reported.
🤣😂🤣😂
😂😂
@Quirky Rainbow Rose Queen wow you took this way seriously. 🤣😂🤣😂
@Quirky Rainbow Rose Queen yeah I grew up then. I did enjoy the 80s TMNT show. Back then I was a bigger fan of the "Bionic Six" cartoon show. Sadly it ended after only two seasons. 😢😢
@Quirky Rainbow Rose Queen had a good ending. It's just that it ended way too soon. I uploaded all the episodes on RUclips many years ago and they were online for a long time. Till NBC decided to be jerks as always and remove all the episodes. Funny thing it was a different company back then that was bought by NBC later on lol.
My dad had an 88 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham...that was true automotive luxury.
I am British. I loved it when American cars/vehicles were big, square/rectangular and looked American. Now they just look like every other nation's.
It's the "world car" concept. Easier and cheaper to market vehicles globally if they all look pretty much alike. And if people everywhere are trained to prefer the same style. The reason corporations would love to homogenize everything, including you.
Ah... NY back when it was still a real city for real working class people. Nowadays feels more like a gigantic Monopoly board for billonaires to speculate. Also, how I miss the orange sodium-vapor lights, those eye-piercing white led streetlights kill the nocturnal mood of any place they get installed.
Lol the funny thing about your comment is the last time I visited NYC in 2016 I came home to find they had changed the street lights on my street from HPS to LED and I was legit sad.
Fully agreed.
Ugh, jerky blinking, blindingly bright LED lights have killed the mood a lot of places. Their brightness should be regulated, but doesn’t appear to be. And people thought fluorescent was bad.
@@mr.butterworth I have photosensitive eyes and can no longer drive at nights cuz of how blindingly white headlights and street lights are now
notice the skies also look different nowadays, you cannot find those 5:24 lead-colored deep-gray dusks anymore
- Чёрт! недотянул, чуть-чуть.😀
This was filmed almost like you knew you were documenting the past.
Yeah it does have an eery vibe, like someone went back and filmed it
At 9:57 they notice the person recording, it does seem strange, this person must be from the future or something
@@notthesameman not really i was born in the 80s and hand held video cameras were very rare and if you had it you were probably rich
I do that sometimes. I record the present in a way for the future to be able to see and observe
‘Cause they were documenting the past...
Can i pls go back in time?? Listening to modern music these days makes me realize how awesome the 80s and 90s used to be..
Keep waiting for that 😂🤣
@@TECHLOVER_91 r u calling the crap they r playing on the radio these days music? Well if you do, you clearly have no idea what we r talking about, what good music is, and what we r missing.
@@Andili76 I never said anything about Music and there is still some great music being made today it's people like you who just want the world to revolve around their generation and the music they grew up on forever as if that's how time works 😒
As a driver of a 1986 Chevy Caprice classic it takes me back to that era glad to own one
This footage is incredible quality, my goodness...
480P
LOL it's only 1988... the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was filmed here the next year. Jurassic Park started preproduction in 1989. This is not freakin 1888 or something. Let me guess... you're from generation z who thinks the 1980s were eons ago.
@@meerkat1954 Shut da fuck up geezus
You should check this one out.. a few years later but same vibe.. Digital VHS.. like you are watching HD ruclips.net/video/fT4lDU-QLUY/видео.html
@@jefflukaszyk5970 really nice thanks!
I see a lot of cool old american cars
when cars were cars
Katarina G they looked cool but the quality and fuel economy was appalling. thats why Japanese cars beat them in the end
Classic music as well, real music! Not today's supposly music, I think thoses were the best times
6:04 for a sweet Peugeot 505 diesel!
Katarina G haha yeah i can imagine. but as far as just aesthetics go i think the 70's is when american cars really hit their peak.
in the 80's they still stood out from cars from the rest of the world but by then they already were putting less thought into how they looked
My childhood! Thank you, warms my heart seeing these streets that I walked with my father so many times. He passed and this makes me feel him close. Thank you
welcome ❤
It is fun to see how we used to live and socialized without the need of smartphones.
Ok Boomer 🙄😒
Is that an insult or what!? 🤣🤣🤣
I can't believe this was over 30 years ago, i mean to go back 30 years from 1988 you'd land in 1958
chikitabowow
Go back 30 years from 1958 you’d land in 1928
What are you talking about, Phelps? You're living in 1947. Maybe you should go thirty years forward!
Not that crazy to me. Seeing i was even born yet. I was born in 89. But yah alot changed from 58 to 88.
and in 30yrs 2050 😵 sounds like extreme future, but prolly we‘ll still have the same „flying cars“ memes 😅
I recommend the movie back to the future for the commentator
Imagine spotting yourself walking down the road in the 80s on this video.
I was there somewhere! An awesome time then...
So was I for 6 months in1988. Lived on lower east side.
Most of those kids that are ice skating are now 40y old parents.
Thank you for these, it's so cool to see people at night with hairstyles of that time, talking, chilling with boom-box...
L0vac the Boom vox was the Sony with four speakers, right?
"40y old parents." or single parents, or singles.
Ghetto Blaster
I grew up in NY at this time. It brought me back immediately when I saw the video. From the cars, the styles, the lights, everything about the video is a representation of New York's past. People of all ages, demographics and walks of life were courteous. Hopefully that aspect of life will return to all people, sooner than later.
I'd say it's still there amongst most people.
Kids are being raised by chaos-promoting social media algorithms, rather than by their communities
1980s, were one of the worst times for crime and drugs in NYC - the city was dying. People fled to the suburbs and crack-fueled epidemic would continue to grow until the early 90s.
Fear City
it wont. gen z ruined this world.
I've never been to New York. I was born in 1987 in Russia, and I live here to this day. I watch this video and I am overcome by an inexplicable feeling of nostalgia and something beautiful. Although I don't even know English, but everything in the video seems to somehow concern or concern me. It's amazing! P.S.The text that I am writing now is translated by a translator in the Yandex search engine, so I apologize if there are errors in it.
Maybe it was your dream. You saw movies.
Может потому что снимали наши?) 19:52
@@Andrey5433567 действительно!
@@Andrey5433567 yep, I heard Russian but maybe also was some Russian immigrants passing by
@@manjelos Операторы говорят на Русском, я же слышу о чём они говорят
19:33 I was very surprised when the cameraman and his buddy left the car and start a conversation in Russian. They were talking about filming:
- So... we are going this way?
- Yeah, we'll go like that [shows the way by gesture]
- It will be great to reshoot 42 street...
- You know, we had drove past an enormous quantity of advertisements...
- Look! [pointing on the police]
- Let's place our camera rack here.
- We should be careful about filming here... We shouldn't do that here.
- Why?
- It's a dangerous place... freaking many junkies, prostitutes...
thnx for translation
Maybe they were from embassy and were ordered to film evil and corrupt capitalist way of life.
@@YPO6 haha, there like,
"All I can smell is drugs and hairspray"
Best comment award! I love that u did for us utubers! Xo
@Jenny Lee should have seen it in the 1910s-20s-30s-40s-and wholesome advertising boards of the 50s...really an amazing building full of architecture mostly being Neo gothic revival with an absolutely amazing structure and foundation shape....such a shame it was vandalized by the 21st centurt
I wonder how people imagined 2020 (nightmare) to be at that time
yeah they actually weren't very optimistic lol.. and here we are..
2020: A liberal, far-left shit hole.
I've got one word for you: Robocop.
All thanks to the DemoKKKrats and their endless temper tantrums.
JC Denton lol
What a delight to see those Caprice/Impala/Crown Victoria/Diplomat taxis so alive in their splendor!✨
Wish they made them today.. sad to see em gone 😢
@@اشيمشكلياصديق That's right... the feeling is mutual... But watching these videos is the best way to keep them alive!
I love these old boxy Chevys 💖💖💖
Times Square in the 80s was an AWESOME adventure!
if you liked porn
YUP !
1980’s TIME$ $CARE 🚓 / N⭕️W : TIME$ $QAURE 🖥
j4s2v1 lmao
Who remebers playland on 42nd
Back when a working class family could afford a home in a nice neighborhood to raise their family. NYC had many blue collar enclaves back then. Now it's a town for the Uber rich.
Giuliani: "I'm going to clean up the city"
Worling class people: "Good!"
The rich: "Not so fast. We'll take it from here. Enjoy Poughkeepsie."
Aw shucks, im only Lyft rich.
When cars where in the polygonal phase
I wish they were still the same today like years ago. Squarish looking, carbureted, cap and rotor with distributor. Ah, I miss the old cars. Quick question, doesn't the new honda accord 2018 model to present look squash and polygonal?
The polygonal phase was the best 👌 And, oh hi Canadian Prepper!
Their back at it with the cybertruck lol
It comes and goes.
god's graphics card was integrated back then
The old Chevy was SUCH a great cab !!! ;) THANKS !!!
And the 1999 Ford Crown Victoria was the last era of cool taxi cabs & cop cars. They dominated the streets by 2003 and nearly all retired by 2013.
And now, most cop cars are bulky SUVs or pickup-trucks, and most American taxi cabs look European.
Too many past memories swirling in my head as I'm seeing these footage. I grew up and went to elementary school in the lower east side. Reminds me of my grandparents that used to help pick me up from school. Now all of my grandparents are passed. I wouldn't mind going back in time and reliving the golden years of the late 80s and 90s, it was just such a wonderful period in my life.
This quality is off the chain... wow.
I'm guessing they used a film camera, maybe an 8- or 16mm, rather than VHS videotape.
@@edrice2621 whatever it was, its a special kind of New York Beautiful.
@Fibonacci If so, that'd make it just right for a video from 1988.
You should check this one out.. a few years later but same vibe.. Digital VHS.. like you are watching HD ruclips.net/video/fT4lDU-QLUY/видео.html
@Ed Rice It’s not 8 or 16mm film, there would be noticeable grain on 8mm at least. I would say uncompressed (apart from RUclips) HD analog video which was available then, definitely professional equipment.
30:18 it wouldn't be NYC in the late 80's without that damn boombox😂
He was jamming to Mantronics Boogaloo remix
Dirty then and even more dirty now.
30:33 lol
Nice catch! Word
@@flexmann2148 holy shit ...nice catch
Спасибо за документальные кадры Америки 80-х г. Смотрю, и поражаюсь по тем временам, что насколько жизнь в США была более устроенной, комфортной, с налаженной инфраструктурой. Американские возможности и технологии даже тогда ушли далеко вперед.
Вообще, с ностальгией вспоминаю любые кадры 80-90-х г.г. 20 века. Ведь узнать, как жилось тогда на западе, можно было по видеофильмам, которые начали у нас массово завозить в СССР, а затем и в России по видеокассетам.
P.S. Привет вам из России! Оператор русскоязычный, советский гражданин...
Съемка того времени просто великолепна. Благодарю.
толька так выгледела.
@@iliapopovichтебе откуда знать бомжара? только не пиши что ты 25 лет живёшь в США и здесь настолько хреново, что ты даже не думаешь возвращаться на родину😂
@@dionixtv6073 Эти русские никак без своей прапоганды о гнеющем западе
О запад .. цветёт и пахнет )@@DenisMuti
@@СтаниславФедин-и5т А Россия вообще пипец:)
My car is a 1988 Fifth Avenue, and as quirky as it feels to drive it today, I can imagine it felt pretty damn cool when it was brand new back then
I owned a Diplomat and a 5th Ave and both rode very well. The frontend was a bit of a pain, but the comfort is unlike most new cars of today!
I was born in 2003 but the 80s seemed like such an innocent and carefree time.
Rush the 80s in New York were incredibly violent.
But the music was definitely better.
@@maniacmasturbator2411 But less porn, less drug addicts, less homeless, etc.
I resonated so well with the children in the ice rink. I myself was a 10 year old as of 02/05/1988.
Crazy to think people in their late 20's here, are in their early 50s now
yup my parents are now 51 and i am 29 born in 1991 we will be at 50 in no time, life moves quick as soon as you get older
Yes but more like early 20's are in their mid-50's.
How is that "crazy"? It's just math.
I turned 24 in September of 1988 I am going to be 56 in September. I still have to pinch myself how fast time goes by so beware. I can't believe my mother was only a few years older than I am now. She passed. So future is scary and I am living the future now. I can't believe how old I am and how it just speeds by. Especially when you get 30 it goes like a speed volt. I did some acting gigs so I would go into New York a lot then. young, had my dreams, full of dreams, moved to Los Angeles and actually did have some speaking acting gigs and a couple commercials but that was it. Not many make it big where they can just live on it. I finally lost interest cause I stopped chasing rainbows. After you get older all your fairytales and dreams seem to become reality. I am not saying don't dream, I did have some acting gigs but there's a point if you don't make it big by a certain age, it's just going to get harder and so I moved on.
I am trying to tell this lady who started pursuing acting at 12, she is now going to be 30 in October. I look 35. Fillers, botox. Anyways I tried to tell her and she thinks I am being mean and spiteful and this and that. She's been taking acting classes since her teens and shooting to 30 this year and hasn't made it. Also in your 30s your body changes, you can weigh the same but look more bloated and not the same, loss of muscle mass, and aging, slower metabolism, your face begins a ugly aging prcoess, more so towards your mid to late 30's and her and her sister got mad at me for trying to wake her up to reality, that at this stage of her life, I hope she has other purpose besides acting and good looking shallow boy friends and just the type of people who always got by on their body image and looks is going to be in for some rude awakening soon so they need to find themselves and their purpose and they get all mad at me and tell me I am full of crap. I lived it. I go out now and i get called "ma'am" and like I don't exist. people like her who is living in a fantasy, it's fine when you're young but not turning 30, it's time to wake up. and she will not look the same in 6 years, she don't want to listen to somebody who has been there and done it. She works as a waitress and lives off her parents at her age, walks around with shades on in these little short dresses and leggings, and I tried to warn her, a rude awakening is about to kick her ass soon, she's getting pass this cute kitten and dream fantasy youth. she will end up broke if she don't do something instead of keep dreaming, the dreaming was fine but it didn't' happen and you're getting up there. she got so mad at me. she'll see. this is not just a year older for her, going into your 30\s is a big change from your 20s.
She is living like she did when she was 19. putting herself on video with these scenes and begging casting directors to hire her on video, going around like she's still 20. time to wise up. she'll see and think back how right I was while she falls into depression. because she is not accepting it. when you're young that's shit is fine, and I would love to be 30 again but at that point is when I realized acting dreams were diminishing, my youth was diminishing, and your body and looks go down hill from there on. , but 30 and still pursuing acting like you're still 20, no, and just going around with hot people like you're in high school and Disney land when you're almost 30, wow, she is about to be in for a rude awakening , she had her fun in her 20s and her fantasies but still at it. she'll be 40 and trying to be cute and pursue acting. Her mother was like "dont worry honey, you'll still be rocking a thin body" like when she ages nobody is going to care about her thin body and nobody, is going to look the same thin or fat when they are 30's and than 40s like when they were teens and 20's, she is setting the girl up to wake up one day miserable. I was just trying to place REALITY on her.
She only has a few more years before slowly she will see the changes. And she will have to stop eating so much and diet heavily and work out a lot and still not look as good. I have been there. anyone knows. She can keep rocking a thin body but do you see a thin 20 year old in shorts, and a thin 40 year old in shorts, both thin but a big difference, the mother is just as stupid. I was told i was being verbally abusive. what I said is only common sense. LMAO plus I have lived it and been through it. she also brags how she can eat anything and be thin, that's about to change in the near future. they tell me I am abusive. how? they'll see. at least I am living in my reality, not fiction, it's fine when you're super young but 12-30 and not much accomplished, and she thinks she is going to be cute and young forever, she already has the type of face that is not going to age well. thin long face and thin lips. and her friends in their late 20's are like "wtf the bitch" about me, and crap, but who here does not agree when you hit 30 things just go down hill for acting dreams, and living off your looks and body image and I've been there, they're the joke and will see. Even 35 is technically middle age. 35-65. she is close, getting close and she and her friends who did nothing but live fantasies and act like teenagers and getting off strictly on their looks have a big rude awakening soon. I was just trying to warn her and she is like "you don't bother me anymore" I wasn't trying to bother her, I was trying to wake her up at her age. she was like "I am perfectly content going into my 30's " than why are you still not have a real career job, why dress in teenage clothes showing off your body like you're still 20, why go to Disney Land every weekend and still after years and years and years just only concentrating only on acting, after years and years and years still taking acting classes? Like maybe you don't have the talent? For women it just gets twice as hard the older you get in this business unless your are established and character, do you think the acting roles are going to get easier with age? If you were so content why living the same life she did when she was 19? not one change. . One day after eating her French fries and Taco Bell and triple cheese burgers she will wake up with rounder thighs, a wide body structure, tiny lines on the side of her eyes, nasolabial folds worsening, lines and loss of cheek volume slowly and the hot guys that dated her will look the other way and she'll be standing there waiting tables in her 30s with nothing. Sure seems like you are ready to grow up. not
Why did you add a comma
This was filmed in late Nov/early Dec 1988. I was out of the Marine Corps for 3 months and working in Manhattan at the time this was filmed. I lived through it and I can't believe how much I've forgotten about the cars/clothes/and how run down 42nd street was. Wow! What a time capsule! I guess I am too! Thanks for posting this....brings back some memories!
In Nov 88 i was 10 months old LOL 🤣
Mcrl2000 You’re a child! 😉
RuleofFive a 32 year old Child 🤣
Mcrl2000 😂😂😂 I’ve been called a 57 year old child!
@@unknown_user404Another reason why it was a great month!
‘88 was an amazing time. I was only 12 living in Long Beach, Ca during that time. It’s amazing to see the fun we all has in those days, before 9/11. Amazing footage!
I was 13 living in East Hollywood ✌
I was living in hawaii , turned 15 in '88 , started my freshman year in high school I just turned 50 ! Lol. this year. 🤙 time surely passed by fast man.
Someone was smart enough to record back in 1988.😲
And, I think they used Betacam because of the quality! Quite possibly, this was used as 'B' roll for ENG.
Do you think everyone was stupid back then or something?? Recording shit existed ages ago my friend
Guy who recorders speak Russian ..maybe some kgb stuff
@@jaminova_1969 Or even super eight
@@dzonikg You are dumb as hell.
Back when crack was on the streets and the Mob ruled the city. Hip Hop was in it's purest form. Old school New York had it's own identity...💯I'm in love with everything from this time period despite how bad it was in retrospect. Life had different swagger back then.
Hell yeah, when New York City was New York City. Before gentrification, mafia hits in downtown Manhattan during Christmas time, crack being smoked in back alleys by homeless and wall street hedge fund guys, you had a worldly wealth , culture, arts, and entertainment intermingled with crime and danger, subway violence and upper east side extravagance, man what a time. I remember my dad went there on business in 1989 and he said there is no place like Manhattan when the sun is going down and reflects off of the sky scrapers as the city descended into a night of adventure. What a time , NYC 1985-93. I’m from Chicago and even I can recognize how cool that time was.
The Good thing.The Mob never bother anyone.
It was definitely a more interesting place, but I'd never want to live in that time period.
@@TheGr8one1022 You actually could get by pretty safe and unharmed only if you were one of the middle-upper class wealth at that time. You'd be able to afford your own car (or driver) and wouldn't be relying on the shady subway system or taxi services back then which were notorious in playing a part in a lot of crimes then. Plus be able to afford a comfy and safe apartment (like in the show Friends) on Manhattan instead of some shady building on the Bronx.
I'm sure many have a different take, but at least the Mafia kept the streets and neighborhoods safe!
I remember going to Mets games as an 8-year-old back in 1988. Darryl Strawberry was our man !
Len Dykstra said his hammer was so long he had to tape it to the side of his thigh lol.
My first visit to NYC 1986. Last 2016. What a difference!!!! Back then it was a lot more diverse, a lot crazier, a lot cheaper but also dirtier, more dangerous. However today seems like NYC is only for the rich. No more "artsy", "original", "creepy" stuff. Where did all the normal to crazy people go??? Thanks for sharing this time travel :-) I enjoyed it a lot.
I agree bro.
Gentrification.
I agree too
New york is still crazy today
It's actually more diverse today.
life without smartphones was beautiful
OK BOOMER 🙄😒 You all just love posting comments like these but use Smartphones daily smh just stop the Hypocrisy we have unlimited knowledge at our fingertips and y'all still complain humans are never pleased
Get rid of it, refuse this technology garbage. It serves to lead you into the total enslavement of the NWO, in connection with "health crisis" and all the irreal nonsense.
@@TECHLOVER_91 they could of used a desktop to post it.
@@TECHLOVER_91 hahahaha stop man, the life and the reality it was other no social midia or cell phone
I still dont own one and never will
This is New York in 1988, the 80s were a time when people lived, had fun, of course they talked, etc. It was the best time for music, movies, series, etc.
I grew up in the wrong era I wish I was around to experience the 80s and 90s in New York
I like the 80's better.
Today is crap compared to those times.
Besides every decade has it's bad times, so don't act like that.
Me too bro what I'd give to have seen this
Chris Barrett Me too smh
@Big Rig69 The fuck they weren't. There were gay bars back then too.
I grew up in the right era, and wrong place LOL
Watching listening to 80's music. Absolute vibes rn
And "Call Me" by Blondie played twice.
This nostalgic feeling. Dunno how to describe it. A mixed feeling, slowly stirring very very deep in your soul.
We may not have time machines, but photos, videos, and music are pretty close.
I was seven, man those wear some awesome years in the 80's, miss all that stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I was 17 in 1988. Born and raised on the upper east side. Moved out of the city in 2007. Brings back a lot of memories of my teen years.
Great footage! For those interested, those dreary, orange-looking street lights were called high pressure sodium. They were incredibly efficient and long-lasting but unfortunately, the quality of light was poor. Everything from red to blue to Brown looked dark navy blue under those lights. I have no idea how the filmmakers made this film stock looks so good, but it must have been quite a trick.
Does New York have white lights now? I haven't been there in almost 20 years but my town still has lots of orange sodium light. I love them.
@@RealSamuelGibson Most of the NYC Metro and surrounding area has been retrofitted to LEDs, 5000K or 6000K in color temperature. Some complain they are too bright and/or too blue, and they resemble a prison yard. There is a push towards 3000K which is warmer (more yellow.) A good thing about the old. orange high pressure sodium lights is they help with sky glow. You might find a lot of them if there is an observatory nearby. The new LED lights also give a lot of glare, not so with orange high pressure sodium. In the industry, they are called HPS. Cheers,
@@BradThePitts thank you!
@@BradThePitts My opinion is the sodium lights gave off a more natural and better light. I was born in 1965 so im old enough to also remember the mercury bulbs which were the turquoise, blueish street lights that came before the sodium. Those type of lights you found, not only on the streets but also in NYC's parks. Then the sodium lights followed first on the streets then in the parks. And most fellow old school New Yorkers like me also remember the orange fire alarm lights that were mounted on the side of the street lights as well as on top. Those lights usually came on at the same time with the street lights. However in late 2003 those fire alarm lights changed into the crappy red bulbs you see today. Those are one of the things that gave NYC its character along with the graffiti trains. Today NYC is bland and boring. Shitty stadium LED lights, ugly bland tech robot subways etc etc. Thanks to the millennials that have no taste they have ruined this once great city
@@alexmunch6118 You're kidding right? Those orangy lights made the streets look dull and depressing as if the city was in perpetual twilight.
Not to mention, as OP said, they mess with the colors of anything standing within proximity of them. Nearly everything had the same color as their shadows: dark navy-blue black.
And the subway platforms/trains with those lights were even more dim and depressing.
I'm glad they were changed to more brighter, neutral white lights. It really helped a lot with illuminating the city at night.
Plus even in the 80's, many car headlights were already white instead of orange because white light doesn't affect any colors it shines on which are important for cars in preventing any road accidents.
Eventhough I was 6 in '88 I miss the good times. I remember TV shows were good and life was fun. My parents even talk about the good times in the 80s.
To the person who filmed this, city great film thanks .
I was born in 03 but this is just incredible to watch to me. Seeing the things people reference when they were common, hearing the songs people wish were still made (Joe Walsh at the end!) and the difference in how people acted. Nobody glued to a device, just walking about their day. Amazing to see with such great quality
I was born in 1993 and it is also interesting for me to watch.
5 years before my birth🙂
Well said and I admire your generation even though they're younger 😂
@@sunshine8495 🙃
@@micosstar no really
Your generation are literally a nightmare of dim-witted drones and a mix of autism. Creepy creepy My generation always notes how slow you guys are with humour and the lack of personality. Proud 80s boy here. The cellphone once it had merged into the internet caused all of your problems.
A moment of silence for anyone who didn’t make it to 2020❤️🙏🏿. Rest In Peace ❤️🕊
Rest in Peace
@@diegoidkk imagine those who had to make it to 2020 would have want to imagine that world went into chaos
a moment of silence for anyone who made it past 2020, we wont live in peace
@@djillusii7333 i meant to say those who never made to 2020 like those who died in 2019 or before
@@Frankieefootballmundial I know
The better times... With beautiful cars, good music, good movies, fashion style, and style in general. I wish to go back there. Nowadays everything is boring.
What's worse nowadays is that if you complain about boredom, you get problems and stuff to keep you busy instead of engagement and fun.
I love how people didn't care to be filmed back then. Also did people look more happy in general?
People were very well dressed and fixed. Nowadays you see people with their jeans going down and all sorts of crazy things.
@@juanpablocastano2192 Very true.. It was a simple life back then
Rent was under 900dollars kids was well home trained it was more life now we in 2020 and everything all backwards
Well dressed I don't think so I really didn't like the way they dressed in that era
The 80s and 90s was the peak of Western civilization. We had the fruits of our ancestors labor, United States wasn't a police state yet. The petrodollar was still rising
3:54 Call me by blondie playing in the background.
what's 5:07 i may have heard it in a store idk the name but it sounds nostalgic af
think in the subway system video as well
@Frenkli Great song from a great era!
TheRoyal TriadVevo I’ll always love you by Taylor Dayne
And again at 13:34.
In case you were wondering the movies in the theaters would indicate this footage was taken late November/early December
Somewhere out there Metallica is thrashing around on Damaged Justice tour...
Yup😂my mom and aunty loved metallica. The music vid enter sandman gave me nightmares as a child.
Saw them on that tour. The Cult opened up. Best show ever
Born in 1975 in nearby NJ. NYC was an exciting day trip In the 80s and 90s. Folks from outside the metro area don't realize that there is more in the mid-Atlantic region than Manhattan. Going into the city was just another way to kill time back then. On Saturday a trip to Peddler's Village in Bucks County, PA and on Sunday a trip to NYC was common. 2 completely different environments. I remember riding the NJ Transit NE Corridor line and feeling a sense of peace and safety upon coming out of the tunnel and seeing the NJ Turnpike and the bowling alleys. The stops in Newark and Elizabeth had an erie sense of quietness. The occasional person hallucinating, the girls with high hair and short skirts, the plethora of Z-28 Camaros. All normal. Life as usual. At the time I couldn't image how life could be any different. I thought it would always be that way.......
I honestly thought the same thing, everyday life back then was wonderful, I didn't think it would ever change. I didn't even believe that the kind of world we live in today would be possible (and not for the better)
My first trip to NYC was in sept 1988. A day went by so quickly. So much good music everywhere. Plenty of grit. Loved it.
I saw the 80’s, I was born in ‘78 so was just a boy. It was pretty cool. I got to fly from Indiana every year to see family outside Boston. Back then, the airlines still served meals on domestic flights, which were like TV dinners. I got to see the cockpit and talk to the pilots. The pop music on the radio was the greatest. Pop radio has never been so good.
In New York City, the crime rate was probably through the roof, but that’s the big city right? It’s hard to experience an era in real-time in the same way you look back on it, but certain things do stand out in hindsight.
Everyone was much more present. They had to be, as this was long before smartphones and internet as we know it, but of course nobody was missing what was not available. Mario Bros. on the old 8-bit Nintendo was a barrel of fun, lol. But we played outside a lot more.
I was aware of political unrest in the world, and there was a lot of it then. But the world didn’t feel high strung and flaked out in the way it does today. And racial relations were a lot better too believe it or not. I think we’ve probably become too fast for our own good these days. The world was complex then, but felt far simpler than now.
and you said that 3 years ago, even before Covid, now 2019 feels nostalgic😢
lol, why do you have a picture of Ron Jeremy as your DP
You were 10 in 1988 and you're trying to tell us what the 80s were like 😂
@@johnp82y? Yo soy del 80 y soy plenamente consciente como se sentía el mundo mucho antes del inicio de los 90´s y el contexto del video es el 88. Quizá no leíste bien, puede que hoy en día un niño de 6-10 años no deje su celular y prefiera recluirse en la vivienda familiar. Desde luego no era el caso en esa época.
красивый город особенно тех лет...люди без всяких телефоном...просто жизнь
@@don_makaveli_536опасно там, могут пизды дать 😂🤣🤣
Город мерзкий был всегда, просто сейчас совсем опустился.
Русская речь за кадром потому что снимают наши.
@Music-ys3cb согласен! И не только про камеру согласен)
@Music-ys3cb Не тявкай кремлевская падаль... Уж в чем,а а в том что они помогают странам бывшего СССР защищаться от кремлёвской агрессии это правильно! К русским в сша относятся нормально.
@@nazargavrilov873 Я тоже согласен,что ты такая же кремоевская падаль,как и он! Научитесь сначала уважать своих соседей,долбаебы!
something about watching footage from a different time when you were alive, when none of your problems existed yet, when the world was still filled with limitless opportunity, but which you know will never exist again is a little bit heartbreaking.
17:25 the ticker dates the video exactly to November 11, 1988.
Where do you exactly see it. I couldn't see the date anywhere. I see a ticker saying Dow Jones falling.
that was one month before I was born. december 8th 1988, damn
Two days after I was born, crazy.
As an Irishman, who is used to small/midsize cars, I absolutely love those American tanks! Fantastic cars
Yup
@ Absolutely
I owned a 72 Plymouth Fury, as big as a whale! I once got pulled over by the NYPD for speeding on 7th Ave. I explained to the policeman that I had to stay in-front of the Taxi cabs because they were so ruthless. He told me to slow down and let me off with a warning. They really liked my car, it reminded them of the 1970's Police Interceptors!
@@jaminova_1969 They're just awesome cars
Those were giant, splendid land tanks. A lot better than today’s cars.
Watching this every now and then is so relaxing
Peering through time. This is awesome. I wish I could really go back in time.
dunno why but this makes me tear up
Born in 97 but I swear I had a past life that must have ended in 97 cause I feel like I have core memories from this era and place that I can’t explain 😂
Probably 'cause the 90's & 00's still kind of had lingering 80's vibes. A lot of vehicles, technology and so forth were still left over from the 80's for awhile. And the Emo fashion trend you might remember from school was very retro-80's, and Emo hair was a throwback to the 60's.
From what ive heard, late 80s to around 2005 was the time to be alive
I can confirm.
You heard right !
You must be a baby if you were not around in 2005 that's crazy you must been born 2007 or something
Very true
05-10 was still part of the golden era but yes. In 2010 facebook was just getting popular so it was the beginning of the downfall of humanity but social media hadn't made much of an impact on people socially at that point. That all happened post 2010 along with the internet changing and corpos taking it over.
Time machine in my hands
Ну да. Хорошее видео. Видимо снимали документальное видео о Нью-Йорке журналисты из России. ТК за кадром слышна русская речь
this is so relaxing
I know right. Like the sound of being inside an old taxi 🚕 with the radio going. Miss that.
Familiar yet distant.
Preserving the past is a good thing.
Great video, thanks for sharing.
As a kid growing up in a small upstate city outside of Albany, my first memorable trips to NYC were in high school at this exact time. Art Class would do a trip to the Met. History took us to the Cloisters and the Frick. My Italian class would take us to Little Italy and when we got time to wander I would scramble to Tower Records on West 4th and try to spend whatever money I was able to bring with me on records or tapes I couldn't get back home. I eventually went to undergrad at Columbia in '91 and moved to Brooklyn after graduation in '95 where I am today. So to say this vid brings back a lot of memories is an understatement for this long-time NewYorker. Thanks for sharing.
Did you like the cloisters
@@crishnaholmes7730 Very much. It is a hidden gem of a museum and a great place to visit on a sunny day because of its gardens.
@@babygerald4645 ok
Cheers from Russia, Gerald!)
I always love these videos. It must be quite cool to spot yourself and suddenly remember where you were going and what you might have been thinking, all triggered from seeing yourself. I was in New York in the late 90's and, though I thought it was awesome, I think I'd still prefer to walk around in this video or even earlier.
80's NYC was more dangerous than it was during the late 90's. Especially at night like this video. Not to mention, a lot more dirtier and in disrepair. Only during the mid 90's that it started getting cleaned up then the 2000's fully gentrified it.
@@_Just_Another_Guy what do you mean by dangerous?
@@xyz3702 You must not be familiar with the crack epidemic and the general crime wave that plagued New York during the 70s and 80s.
@@_Just_Another_Guy But way less drug addicts and homeless, certainly.
Damn! Can we rewind the time? I would definitely go back to the 80’s. Even if I have to relive Reagan and Bush era.
Интересно конечно мозг устроен. Испытал такое тёплое чувство ностальгии, при том что запись сделана за 7 лет до моего рождения, а в Нью-Йорке в первые побывал вообще в 2012 году... )
Это все американские фильмы.)
31:51 - 32:25 these shots are so aesthetically pleasing 🤩 even the dude standing among the citrus
Ah my era. I was 11 in NYC at the time. A great place to grow up as a kid, yes a little dangerous but also fun.
I m 77' class too :)
Funny how we’re all products of our environment. Looking at this video makes me glad I grew up in Southern California on the coast! Looks too confined and crowded to me. But I’m sure kids growing up there had a great time like you said. That being said I would rather be anywhere in the 80s than where I am now.
I’m sure both NYC and California had it’s charm in the 80’s. Different lifestyles probably, but both equally fun I’m sure, just different.
So, was I.
I was born this year in July ❤ ! Thank you for sharing this 😊
@12:50 you could see the CitiGroup building still under construction. It was completed in 1990. That building stood alone in Long Island City, a neighborhood in Queens, for 20 years before the construction boom began. Now that area looks like a mini Manhattan with the many new residential buildings that have sprung up.
Yes, I remember that. Driving by on the fdr seeing how out of place it looked.
There was just a lot to appreciate about the time. As many here have said, it was the best balance of tech and social interaction of any period in history. In essence, it was tech that was non intrusive.
People were well dressed and fixed in public. Beautiful vapourwave neon lights compared to blinding institutional LED lights. Rents were affordable, plenty of jobs. And most of all people really did have a better head on their shoulders.
Everyone's views are subjective based on what they value. For myself, these are things which I find made life a lot more enjoyable.
I try to limit my technology usage as much as possible and have eradicated social media. I won't be able to go back in time, but I'm able to make the best out of today with the values of the past.
Footage like this makes it very easy to romanticize. Don't forget the rampant crime of the 80s, the fires in the Bronx, the crack epidemic. But yes, it was nice for some people.
As if there's no rampant crime in NYC today? They just manipulate the data now. How many people were pushed off the subway today? Funny I don't recall hearing that in the news everyday in the 80s.
As a kid born and raised in brooklyn in the 80’s watching this.. seeing how it was back then and blondie playing in the background feels like a warm blanket. My only regret was not being old enough during this time to fully enjoy the decade.
BTW, my dad was a taxi driver in NYC.
Mine too. 25 years.
This was surprisingly calming. Just random shots of streets, shops and people in NYC
Reminds me of the intro to the TV series "Night Court". I loved that show.
Lol it really does.
When the city was racked with crime. However, if you bought cheap properties then they would be worth a fortune now.
Yup. My dad bought a house less than 5k on highland and he sold if for 1.5 million
@@jronok
No way
No doubt!! Whoever bought property back then made it. my my mum told my father but he never thought they would go as high as they have he still regrets and talks about it till this day.
I was an 8 year old boy in the bronx at this time. How I wish I could go back 😔
Charley Hustle Was the Bronx already getting better by the 80s? Not sure how much you remember? At least from the 70s Bronx which apparently was always on fire due to arson.
Oliver Solorzano he JUST said he was only 8 bruh......
Damn.
Well i was born on the last year of the 80s atleast you got to experience the whole decade.
Lucky you survived it
My god, I can't express the atmoshpere I'm feeling here. Beautiful people and the whole vibe of the place, feels like christmas. Such warm and comfy feeling, just wow. As a non-american who grew up on american moovies I wish I could've experienced living there..One day
You want to live in NYC? It's a shithole.
I love your comment but don’t come here now. It isn’t like this anymore sadly 😢 it wouldn’t have the same magic… but I do encourage you to visit one day just don’t think it’ll be anything like this video. ❤
28:00 I love how calculators were in a display case LOL
Those things were probably $75 back then. In 1993 maybe $40. Now in 2020 about $15.
@@VanillaLimeCoke made in China now
You see watches too.
@@VanillaLimeCoke back then, everything was cheap, not expensive like it is now.
@@hectorlopez1069Not everything was cheap. Early tech like camcorders and CD players cost a small fortune.
1:18 "Чёрт, не дотяну, чуть-чуть. / damn, i`ll not finish... a little bit."
low battery i guess.
3:21 "Давай щас еще на третьем попробуем взять / Okay, let`s try on the third shoot this"
6:30 "damn"
9:09 "Вот здесь он будет стоять / Here he will stand"
From this moment 10:30 some replicas are repeated. I dont know why :D
19:26 "Я не могу понять только одного, почему у меня как-то не резко получается / I can`t understand only one thing, why do i get such a defocus"
19:47 "-Ну что идем в ту сторону да? / So we are going to the other side?
-Так и так пойдем. Хорошо бы 42-ую снять. / Go there and there. It would be nice to shoot the 42st.
- Огромное количество рекламы, давай поставим штатив здесь. / Huge amount of advertising, let's put a tripod here.
-Здесь нужно снимать осторожно, лучше не надо со штатива. / Here we need to be careful, better not from a tripod.
- Почему? / Why?
- Потому что это место опасное, тут могут пизды дать, наркоманов дохера, проституток. / Because this place is dangerous, too many addicts, prostitutes, they can to beat shit out us."
Интересно, это советские приезжие репортеры снимали, или местные эмигранты
What language?
@@cyber_pirate russian.
@@alexeisheldon6323 thanks sometimes I’m not sure if I’m listening to russian or ukrainian
Шпионы КГБ ! 🧐 😎 🤣 😈
I was born February of 1988. Life was definitely a journey, that's for sure. I cant believe I'm 35 now.
Tell me about it! I'm from March 1988!
In 1989 I was in my early 20's, living in Los Angeles with my Jamaican girlfriend who I met in England. Took her to the drive-in movie theater in Van Nuys to watch "Coming To America" with Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall - and filmed in Queens, New York. Good times.
Thats so fucking cool man. I'm jealous
yeah i hope in my late 40s ill have more interesting shit to say about the current decade than this dry ass shit^
the last few minutes of this video was shot in queens boulevard in sunnyside and woodside.
There was a drive in movie theater in Van Nuys?
As kids, would drive past McDowell's on Queen's Blvd and wonder when it was going to open. It had the letter M, but it was like a wicked take on McDonald's. lol
Take me back please
this reminds me of those videos from the 1900s or 1800s, thanks for not adding music, I love it
Beautiful.... I wish I was not born in 91 but 71 so I could have experienced this myself
Like my comment sub for channel I was born in 70 and the 80s were the best decade of my life! It was truly a great time to be alive.
@@PumaPete I envy you
Like my comment sub for channel well I’m 49 years old and I’d rather be in my late 20s again so we can say I envy you in a way as well my friend.
Then people from 2089 will be like, damn i was i lived in 2020
The 80s was a good time to be in, coming from a guy who wasn't around the 80s. Look phones aren't such a bad thing if we just use them less and when we do we use it the right way.