70s Graffiti footage New York City Subway trains March 5 1973

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  • Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
  • A rare insight of what tagged up trains looked like in the early half of 1973 on the inside and outside of NYC subways. Photographers like Keith Baugh have already given us an amazing view in the form of pictures, this video takes it a step further with various subway trains in transit.
    This footage from March 5, 1973, show an amazing piece by ‪@riff170.‬ & various pieces by Bambu 3. On the inside of the train it shows a number of nicely stylized tags by Sexy Sly among others.
    An amazing piece of NYC graffiti history.

Комментарии • 63

  • @RRDB92
    @RRDB92 9 месяцев назад +5

    oh thank you sooooo much for this! this was before my time but I looooove seeing stuff like this. I always wondered what it looked like during the disco days. this should be PRESERVED FOREVER 💖💖💖

  • @GeneralHawk505
    @GeneralHawk505 Год назад +10

    This audio and footage is crisp as dawn

  • @eles2147
    @eles2147 Год назад +2

    This just doesn't get any better than thus. Thanks this made my day

  • @muppetshowman1972
    @muppetshowman1972 Год назад +9

    absolutly early 70s fantastic footage ! ( superkool223 , coc144,el marko174 ...) thanks you for the upload !! late 60s and early70s pionners writers queens and kings !

  • @APOTwixx
    @APOTwixx 2 месяца назад

    Thank you so much for posting this!

  • @YoP-3194
    @YoP-3194 Год назад +3

    The lay up.. Crazy.. Writers paradise...

  • @tedvalis6071
    @tedvalis6071 Год назад +7

    You can see the construction of the Sheridan Expressway on the left at the Whitlock station of the Pelham Bay Line just before going into the tunnel at Hunt's Point

    • @robroy6374
      @robroy6374 Год назад

      The Sheridan Expressway was opened for traffic in 1963, so no, it was not "under construction" in this video. Just light traffic.

  • @troymartinbeats
    @troymartinbeats Год назад +1

    Thank you

  • @robroy6374
    @robroy6374 Год назад +3

    awesome footage!

  • @johnpastore7685
    @johnpastore7685 Год назад +2

    I remember these trains. I loved the door in the middle of the train cars.

  • @pbatommy
    @pbatommy Год назад +1

    The 6! My line growing up, and the motorman at the end broke me in on the 6! Great guy!

  • @Arsher123
    @Arsher123 Год назад +4

    Thank You for upload, I wasnt in NY even in USA but i like these trains 🙂

  • @kasteman1
    @kasteman1 11 месяцев назад +1

    Makes me think about the Gil-Scott Heron video "The Bottle"

  • @angelrivera318
    @angelrivera318 Год назад +5

    And that's the number 6 line because I live in Morrison and I'm right next to the six line! Jesus I wasn't even born in 73 and I born a year later.

  • @JoseGarcia-et2ep
    @JoseGarcia-et2ep Год назад +1

    This video is awesome ❤

  • @GeneralHawk505
    @GeneralHawk505 Год назад +2

    1:01 just realized, WH motors sounds like.

  • @sovereigncosmicwildman
    @sovereigncosmicwildman Год назад +1

    I really appreciate this

  • @jorgegaston5391
    @jorgegaston5391 10 месяцев назад

    There were (2) sets of layups if I recall back in the 70s: from Morrison-Soudview Aves to west of 177th St-Hugh Grant Circle, now Parkchester/177th St and from Middletown Rd to Buhre Ave

  • @johnpastore7685
    @johnpastore7685 Год назад +1

    Wow, I was 8 years old here.

  • @CR1Creative
    @CR1Creative Год назад +2

    Yes irt pelham line in the 70s

  • @matts1351
    @matts1351 Год назад +4

    Those MoMos in the red bandanas!

    • @JAB-bc9uv
      @JAB-bc9uv Год назад +1

      They are probably dead or in prison.

    • @jakgd
      @jakgd Год назад

      @Jose Ortiz I thought they used to have their gang name in their back.

    • @jakgd
      @jakgd Год назад

      @Jose Ortiz could be. The young men look kinda shy...

    • @absurd_patience
      @absurd_patience 9 дней назад

      @@JAB-bc9uvBased on their fashion sense?

  • @trainluvr
    @trainluvr 11 месяцев назад +1

    This film appears to have been shot on a rarely seen format - Super 8 sound. It was normal super 8 film with a thin strip of magnetic tape on the edge. This film verifies that some SMEEs actually had a very low hum coming from the motors on initial acceleration. I was in my 20s when the general overhaul cars came out (then acquiring the name redbirds) with a much more distinct propulsion sound. I would swear that I never heard such sounds coming from any pre GOH cars (R-42 and older) which I rode many hundreds of time doing nothing but noticing every detail about them that I could see and hear. But this film proves me wrong, there was a sound just much lower than post GOH. The red cars were painted or re-painted that way into the late 1960s so they were the last to get the MTA silver and blue and by 1975 virtually all were finally repainted silver and blue. It took from well after the MTA was created March 1968 to 1975 to get to all of them. A big reason it took so long for them to get a handle on graffiti was that there was not enough storage capacity in the yards and trains had to be parked on express tracks. And besides there was no money for the many miles of tall yard fencing (topped with ribbon wire) that would later have to be paid out of early 1980s capital budgets. I love the atmospherics of the graffiti of my youth, but it was a terrible drain on a;ready poor service quality and helped accelerate ridership decline. Graffiti is not really a victimless crime when you are the one stuck on a broken train in 90 to 105 degree for an hour or two and you are late getting home to your unsupervised kids.

  • @Autistic_EthanOfficial
    @Autistic_EthanOfficial 3 месяца назад

    Bank cameras barely catching a few pixels
    1970 pre goh subway car footage:

  • @SickspeedJ35
    @SickspeedJ35 Год назад +7

    No one’s gonna talk how long the train is on the express track💀

    • @11marsellus
      @11marsellus Год назад +1

      I said the same thing...lol

    • @robroy6374
      @robroy6374 Год назад +2

      are you serious? 🤦‍♂️ that was just a normal practice of train lay-ups/storage on the middle track.

    • @SickspeedJ35
      @SickspeedJ35 Год назад

      @@robroy6374 I was supposed to know that?

    • @robroy6374
      @robroy6374 Год назад

      @@SickspeedJ35 yes, if you had an functional brain.

    • @MichaelMitchRailfan2009
      @MichaelMitchRailfan2009 Год назад +2

      @@robroy6374 they used to have a layover tracks or storage until it was used by 6 express train during rush hour, which probably why this video takes place during middays (this was before January 13, 1980 that 6 express was expanded during midday hours)

  • @Mrg0ldeneye
    @Mrg0ldeneye Месяц назад

    Back when the Transit System had All American Made Cars that stood the test of time. Today’s it’s predominantly Kawasaki/Bombardier cars.

  • @KrekpekRecords
    @KrekpekRecords Год назад +2

    why are there at least 68 cars together in beginning? Can someone explain?

    • @santob700
      @santob700 Год назад +3

      Back in the days, many subway cars were parked in middle track overnight and weekends that’s why there were so many graffiti problems that ruined these cars.. Today u almost never see them park there except some winter times (underground) do to frigid weather… those days they even had 5 car trains running during evenings and overnight and 7 cars on weekends.. Yes I was around, ( born. 1970) so I know..

    • @karatekidfahim3
      @karatekidfahim3 Год назад +1

      wait did you count all that? 🏃🏼💀🗣🗣🔥🔥🤯

  • @sopaman1234
    @sopaman1234 Год назад +1

    I'm Efing glad those days are long gone..

  • @Moodboard39
    @Moodboard39 Год назад +1

    Alas liked the red train

  • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
    @Piggy-Oink-Oink Год назад +2

    7:40 Actual NYC gang members.

  • @Moodboard39
    @Moodboard39 Год назад +1

    First train Vlog lol

  • @gaffle-411
    @gaffle-411 Год назад +1

    7:27 ... Future b-boys!

    • @thefluiddruid
      @thefluiddruid  11 месяцев назад

      Would be dope to find out that it really is the case.

  • @8avexp
    @8avexp Год назад +2

    You don't suppose this is Pelham One Two Three, do you?")

  • @JoseMercado-xx3ct
    @JoseMercado-xx3ct Год назад

    Ha ha @c!d no