Times Square - New York City Tour, Nov 19, 1987 - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2015
- This is a tour of New York City in November 19th, 1987! You get to see how it really was on the bustling streets of Manhattan nearly 30 years ago. Look at the vintage cars, the way people dressed, the store fronts and what was in style during the amazing 1980's!
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In Part 1, The tour moves across each avenue, from Lexington, to Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, 5th Avenue, etc.
In Part 2, you will travel to Times Square. Back then, it was a bit seedy, coming off the near bankruptcy of NYC in the late 1970's.
You will see store fronts and marquises that were NOT very family friendly. All that changed in the 1990's during a period of revitalization.
You will see hints of Broadway and you'll even get a performance from what appears to be a very happy New Yorker. Performance indeed!
Later, you will see the New York Library, then Grand Central Station, the you travel down to Wall Street to see the iconic Trinity Church. 
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This was closer to 9/11 than 9/11 is to today. Wow, how time flies by.
Yep, 32 years. I was 28 then and the mind reels thinking about it,
Ah, you have come across what i call the "roller-coaster" principal. It works like this: From childhood to 21 takes "forever" kind of like being on the ride and slowly clanking up to that first "hill" after that you are moving like an express train until the "ride" is over. and until you have experienced it you can't believe how fast it goes. To younger people time stretches out before them like an eternity. You have to go through it to understand that is not the case,
@@ZnenTitan I'm going through it at the moment. Time just flies! They say it is because a lot of things are still new to the young ones, and as you get older, things are no longer a novelty. You still get this feeling when you go on vacation to somewhere you've never been and the come back home. The vacation seemed like it went on forever.
Yeah time really flies.
The world was much less crazy though. Lot of the crazy stuff that followed 9-11 still omnipresent.
I was 15 in 1987 and looking at this video, I cannot believe my mother allowed me to take the bus from the rural North Fork of Long Island to go into NYC by myself to attend soap opera fan club meetings!!!!
haha thats great, what a different world it was back then
In 1987 I was driving a city bus through Broadway and Times Square. Promoted 4 years later. Retired 16 months ago.
God Bless you Sir. That was when you could make it in NYC. You had to be tough though.
@@Keys7 It was hard then, and harder now. But all things are possible if we allow God's grace to lead according to His plan for our lives.
Clay Jones mr Jones I need to find a way into the MTA as a bus operator!
@@718ant5 It's not an easy job, but if one has the right temperament to handle the stress, the pay and benefits are pretty decent!
Clay Jones definitely a lot of respect to all of you. I just need to get in and take the exam.
Anybody else notices this: "It is the year 2019. "The Running Man" is a deadly game no one has ever survived." ?
Eva Malene 4:20 in the video
Thanks for detailing it, i was trying to make it out
They were off by a year
It may seem insignificant and trivial to video tape a scene of everyday life, but it's really a treasure when you look back at all the nostalgia within it, the cars, the fashion, and the music.
This is when New York looked like the Ghostbusters could come around the corner at any time.😂
I’ve been all over the world: London, Tokyo, Paris, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, but man, the only place that makes me want to live is New York. The vibe, the energy, the fast paced life, the lights, the modern and old architecture mixed into one, the diversity, the huge buildings. This place is massive. Americans should be proud to have a city like New York. It’s not perfect, neither the most beautiful, but by far, the most fucking amazing city I have visited.
Greetings from Greece.
Nobody on a phone, Amazing!!!
I was 22 years old in '87, serving in the Navy. Now 54, 1987 truly feels like a lifetime ago.
Indeed.....although i have vivid memories of that fantastic time
Tell me more!!
@@pslm23 tell me more😉
My senior year of high school..now im a grandmother..times sure flies
I was 13 and yes it was a lifetime ago. A much better, brighter, warmer, happier lifetime ago.
City was so raw. Now it's like a big shopping mall for tourists
This Native New Yorker remembers this so well.
NYC in the ‘70’s were scary,. The ‘80’s were such fun!
Now Manhattan doesn’t seem like New York. Too commercialized.
Great video. Thanks for posting. 🗽
too commercialised ? are you seeing anything but add banners and advertisements in this video?
this was clearly the entry years into NY becoming commercialised.
Isn’t that the point of Manhattan ?
I find it weird when boomers say nyc is too commercialized like this video isn’t showcasing how commercialized nyc was in the 80s
I’m not a boomer. I’m Gen X. And I don’t want people to criticize or challenge me.
That makes me very sad.
Isn’t it just easier to be nice?
diane montuori sorry if I offended you I didn’t mean to come off like an asshole
Most of us are nostalgic for the ‘80s and ‘90s and I can see why!
Movies being released in the 90s paved the way for films we see today,fast food quality was to die for, blockbuster was the place to be to rent movies, music was powerful, it made us come together, it made us emotional, N64 and sleepovers...I'm sorry to say this but I hate today's time, it just doesn't fit well with me
Nothing better than being 20 years old in New York city in the 80's!
I agree! We lived it!
Between 1985 - 1997 was peak city life.
I was a 22 year old back then. Man those were good years '87/88
Big Valley guud gor you
cuz your young and full of energie old ppl back in 88-87 said 1950 were good years
@MaYeRsDz True, 50's-nostalgia was quite common in the Late 70's & 80's, after Elvis's death. Lots of white artists like Rick Astley & Daryl Hall even had a pompadour back then, and there were many retro-50's bands like The Stray Cats and Roman Holiday.
Uncle Jesse in Full House was even obsessed with Elvis, and Michael Jackson was pretty much Elvis's younger, black replacement.
The 80's was also when perms made a comeback. Then Ice Cube roasted Eazy's Jheri Curl in '92 and MJ's controversial case in '93 was the final nail in the coffin for men's perms.
Hair-Metal was dead at that point, 80's culture had fizzled out, and almost everyone eventually wanted shorter or flat-ironed hair by then, especially after Friends was released in '94, and the rest is history.
Wow, those were the days! It`s kind of sad how time passes by so quickly.. 1987 feels like such a long time ago, but at the same time it almost feels like yesterday!
Queens: Pinpoint and poetic.
It feels to me like maybe ten years, but in no way does it feel like over 30. (Yikes!)
wow this is a throwback
I miss the 90s
Yea before goulie screwed it up I lived in Hell’s Kitchen worked in queens I would always walk down 42 street on the way home was offered all kinds of stuff. One guy would offer me pot day after same guy. So one day I had to get him. I stopped to listen to I have the best stuff well he didn’t know I could always get good stuff. Reached in my pocket handed him a joint said enjoy I will come back tomorrow. Next day he sees me I walk to him he asked can u get me more lol my answer no that’s just so when u see me don’t bother me again lol
New York was actually interesting back then. The current city sucks.
There's nothing like that unmistakable nostalgic 1980's synth keyboard riff at 3:19. Man, kids.....these really were the good ol' days. I lived it....and I would give anything to go back.
My dad moved to NYC in 1987,to see this video and to see what he saw made me feel nostalgic for a era I wasnt even alive in.
I had my one visit in 1980 when I was 20. They say you can’t go back, but oh how I WISH I could! 🌹😢
You can always go back. Nothing is stopping you.
@@merfwriter I appreciate the thought but the cares, concerns and cost of living of a then 20 yr old are far different than a now 63 yr old with health issues. Nevertheless I remain hopeful! 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽
Growing up in NY in the 80's was the absolute best.... I was so lucky
Pretty amazing to see this old footage. It’s like a whole different world.
I was 18 then. Graduated h.s. running around with friends Downtown. Riding the subway all over. Working at Alexander's in Kings Plaza and selling Avon, jewelry and stockings in Flatbush. Also at Aqueduct flea market and street fairs Buying records and junk food and clothesline. Dodging rats and pervs. Crazy times. I wouldn't trade it for anything 😁
Woooow..i was 9 years old in 1987.Some of the best days, my childhood was absolutely fun. Growing up here in NYC (Brooklyn), I must say that Delmonté add revived an erased memory. The good ole days of NYC, shall never be forgotten!❤🍎
Same age, it was great to grow up in the 80's and i was around 9 in Nov 1987
The best times, I'm a Reagan 80s baby and a 90s teen lol, the days when there was no social media, no smartphones, very very few people had cell phones, they were like bricks, everything was old school, we're the last of the old generation before FB, social media, smartphones
@@dennismolina9033 agreed and everyone was focused in conversation. Not their brains glued to the phone
@@dennismolina9033 Word
@@HoneyPie1978 i know! Especially today's teens, we're the last generation before social media
The man dancing on the streets of NY. Man, those were great times. It was full of excitement.
There’s a lot more people dancing on the streets today
I would give anything to go back to that Era
It was the best. We'll never see anything like it again.
Same
For two or three days would be cool. Go and see the Twin Tower and just walk around the city for three days would be neat. I lived in Soho my whole life but I'd love to see it in the 80s.
GET OVER YOURSELF LOL IT'S GONE
Terry Henderson Jr FUCK OFF !!!
Came across this after watching video of my Lower East Side neighborhood after 20+ years. Left in 1996. Dad used to take me to the movies in T Square mid 80s. This meant the world to me, thanks Todd.
I love to hear responses like this. I only took the videos for family back home to show over Thanksgiving and Christmas of 1987, but instead, the footage offers memories for many to relive. For you, those memories are drawn into sharper focus of you and your dad. That's priceless. 👍
Wow, watching 80s movies at the theaters. Great times.
You can't go home again, but its cool how you can still catch glimpses of it
Damn... deep.
Thanks to the tourist that recorded this
That McDs in Times Sq has been there forever
Omg yesss I’m now 33 I was a few months when this was shot! I can’t believe not much has changed lol
I've watched the youtuber Q Park do a bunch of videos there lol.
McDonald's was the best seat in the house during the Thanksgiving parade. Just load on food, so they wouldn't run you off, then go upstairs and sit at the windows. It was brilliant!
To have an amateur video going as far back as 1987 is a gem
"Wireless telephones" i love it
Those people are so lucky to experience what it was like living in 87 in NYC.
Most of those people probably old or dead by now
I wish my mom could of took me to New York City in 1987 when I was six years old.
NO CELL PHONES!!!...You left your house and that was that all that was left was the answering machine.....DAMN I MISS the '80s
this video feels like it's from another lifetime
Wow 1987, A few years before,. At 17 it was a thrill for me to go to 42 street to see the Topless Bars, Peek shows, electronic stores and the crazy people on streets.
"1988 Technology!" when he was looking at the videocameras. LOL.
RIP original Times Square
Yup...Disneyland now!!!
Today there seems to be a heck of a lot more tourists on the streets in relation to business people compared to 1987, especially tourists from other countries.
Probably less tourists in the 80's since NYC had a bad reputation back then. The 80's was also the peak of Wall Street.
As a child I use to love looking at the electronic shop windows of camcorders and cordless phones
1987, the year I first visited N.Y.
Coming from old Europe, I was dazzled from the airport.
So big, so high, so exciting!
The 80's were to N.Y. what the 60's were to London.
I was in the right place at the right time.
I remeber coming to times square with my dad for fun in 1987 on july, it was a great expericence seeing everybody and how different times square was to where i used to live. I will never forget my days there.
I was there 2018 as a tourist from Europe. Also will never forget this place truly breathtaking city.
I wish I could go back in time to the 1980s and go back to New York City
The 80,s the greatest decade for movies, music, sports, TV shows,fashion and awesome toys and video games. I was so lucky to be a teenager in the greatest decade of all time.
You're absolutely right! No other decade can compare!
The 90s too
Sports and pro wrestling were epic in the 80s!
The stuff you could buy in the 80's was so much fun. Now, we get a $1,000 cell phone. meh....
Fake I.D.s, I remember that.
The OG Nintendo Entertainment System was $89 in 1987.
Commodore 64 and Amiga. Also Apple II.
Yeah, so you can watch videos of people in the 1980s buying fun stuff. It’s not ironic, it’s not. Is it? Lol 😂
Boom box !
First time I visited New York was November 1987, aged 19. This is exactly how I remembered it! Thanks Todd!
This is exactly how I remember it. I was born in 80'. NYC was Toys Galore Central. All different types of gadgets. So much fun!
4:20 it's the year 2019 "The Running Man" is the deadly game and no one has ever survived.
Thank you Todd for your vid. You did a great work, You showed how was America in the 80's. Very different from now. At this time America was at it best. Now this country is just the shadow of what it was....
80's New York had that awesome vibe
I was 26 when this was made. At the time I felt I was born about 15 years too late to enjoy the great times of the late 60s, while recognizing that as such I avoided the threat of being drafted into the military or worse. On the other hand the spectre of contracting AIDS with zero treatment available was a major killjoy of the times. By 1987 the subways and commuter railroads were about halfway restored, so there was plenty of nostalgia to be mined for us train buffs.
Back when each decade had a personality and the 80's definitely had one. I noticed everything post 2000 it's like everything feels the same.
Yo creo que la del 2010 a 2020 si hubo una gran avance en lo que son los teléfonos inteligentes y medios de entretenimiento
Nah this decade definitely has a personality of its own you must not step outside much fashion has changed drastically in the past 10 years
I had the same thought, then came to the (possible) conclusion that it is just because we did not actually live those years but are instead used to the most distinguishing characteristics of those decades, as much as there are now but we are unable to fully grasp them because for us it's just a continuous stream.
I'm from the 80's - there was nothing amazing about the 80s, there was AIDS, Crack cocain, gang violence and women where nothing more than sex trophies...it wasn't that great.
@@gorillaump5869 AIDS was just in your mind.
I was 18 yrs old in 87, and 42.st was my playground
I was 20
I worked on Wall Street at this time it was a amazing time to be in the City......its all gone now.
You must have done a ton of coke
The 80s was such a great time
Enjoy the past. This times never will come back
@El Sucio Federali ha ha ha ha....USA is writing the final page of its supremacy.
The world of today isn't the one of that time......
......."lo sporco federale"
Unless you invent a time machine
1987 was my first trip to NY City from Phila and It was love at first sight. I am proud to born and raised in Phila but new york city is my second home .
Wooaa. People on the street. That's so 80's...
My parents must've shopped at that electronics store for Christmas in 1987!😂
I got a Sony "Walkman" that year with Michael Jackson's
"Thriller" album! Oh yah baby...
I was 1 years old in 87. I was born in 86. You can see phones that were not cellphones, but wireless and landline phones. There's calculators, cameras, and other classic things from the 80s.
One of the best times in my life living in NYC 1985-1989. Thanks.
Man, I love these. Original vloggers and a moment captured in time.
I guess you're right! I was a vlogger before the word was invented!
Wow the real Times Square I haven’t seen you in a long time.
2:30 yup thats NYC for ya!
Cameras that were used to take pictures and selfies in that era. I miss that era very much.
That dude in the red sweater was killing it back in 87 with moves like that lol
He was either high or mentally ill or both. And obviously a lot happier than the people around him. But hey, he owned it! He had the moves!
Todd McDurmont high on life, man
My parents used to drive me and my sister to W42nd Times Square at night to see the buildings lit up. It was so pretty 😄
I remember seeing all the electronic brands like Nikon, Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, etc back in the days.
People believed Japan was going to take over the world.
Man, I loved window shopping all those electronics. It was like Christmas everyday!
I was born a little bit after this video was shot in November MAN!!! Life was so much simpler then. Old fashioned by today's standards but waaaaay more enjoyable times from what I can remember growing up during these times. I miss them and would trade them back for what we are living in now smh It seems to only get worse out here.
To this day, the moment you step off the subway, you could hear the sirens of emergency vehicles rushing by, cars honking and the smell of vendor cart pretzels and hotdogs.😊
That's the way it really was! Not the sterilized Disney version of today.
And phone booths were in every corner.
1- 1:30 everything in that store window can be done with a smart phone today.
I worked in midtown Manhattan as an art director/ illustrator from 1980 to 1990...this was my world.. the first 2 years was in Time Square when it was like Sodom and Gomorrah....we would go to lunch in groups of three to be less of a target....it was nuts. this video blasts right back into that reality, for 10 years I walked everywhere i could, exploring cool places .after a while I learned the art of street walking....
What’s funny is seeing how BIG everything was back then. Huge compared to now. All the tech. Answering machines! OMG!
😂
You'll notice that I zoomed in on a Sony answering machine. THAT was my answering machine back then! LOL!
In an era when real men stalked the Earth and not metrosexuals and woke types demanding dainty gadgets that fit into small & pretty handbags. 🥲
that mcdonadls is still there.
I was there. I am from Da Bronx and worked from 1980 to 2000 in lower Manhattan until 1997, then Brooklyn until 2000. Every pay day I would go to Times Square and all around the city. There are times I really miss it.
Another Bronxite here! I worked in lower Manhattan from 1986 till 2000, then worked in Brooklyn too! Yes in the 1980s and 90s loved going to Times Sq on Saturdays! Arcades, shopping for records, movies @ Lowes Astor Plaza's giant screen - what memories!
Perfect background music
Exactly what I picture when I think of gritty nyc in this time period.
Some of the music is from the television show, Miami Vice.
@@ToddMcDurmont10:50 Notice how the cameraman is looking right at “Grand Central Terminal” while saying Grand Central Station. Mandela Effect.
I went to New York to visit in late September of 87, and stayed at a hotel on Times Square. This is how i pretty much remember it.
Al X I went to New York yesterday stayed for several hours and then went home. Times Square is full of Asian tourist that stop in the middle of a busy crosswalk and hustlers that try to scam you into giving them money for a blank cd.
RUN DMC AND IRON MAIDEN 😊 1987, I was 10 and had visited NYC with my grandmother bc my family was from there. We moved to Los Angeles when I was 2. Wish I could go back in time!
These were the last of the gritty years
If you’ve been recently the gritty years are making a comeback
what a time time to be alive
Yeah old school
And most of us who lived it didn't pay attention and just took it for granted, now we want to go back.
4:21 Peep the 2019 reference. When this video was uploaded, that was roughly 3 years away and this very comment was posted roughly three years after that. How time flies!
High 80's in Big Town ... the best years of my pre-40 y o life. 🤠
Mee too, by far.
RUclips is like a time machine just type in the year and it will take you there
Well, that is not at all, the time changed and we can't go to the real past by a video. A video just show you a image, not the complexity of that decade.
Somewhere theres a 7 year old me with my dad running back to my great grandma's apartment because we forgot to bring her favorite coffee
How sweet!
this is how I remember Times Square.. miss the 80's
This era of NY is so iconic... The NYC of Ghostbusters. I went once or twice as a kid, it was amazing to me.
I like watching videos like this because they bring back memories of the time. I was looking at the electronics in the windows and thinking about how different everything is now.
So glad I got to see it back then... Was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ in 1987 and visited NYC at least four times. Got to see the dirty magazine stores, stacked to the ceiling with my favorite stuff from England! LOL
It was dangerous, it wasn't that clean, there were a lot of crazy people, there wasn't any of the flashiest led advertisements... however I liked this version of TS better. Now is the mother of all tourist traps.
ABSOLUTELY! The city was so dirty! Yeccch. But this Times Square was real.
[Now] , you'll just be mugged by a 6'6" tall guy in a super hero costume, or attacked by a hammer wielding crazed lunatic. 🤪
@@mariebernier3076 nah. I love the 2012 Times Square better.. when the One Times Square had the separate billboards and not just one big single one for one advertiser! Lol. I miss that
“But the music was nice!”
I agree the old version was better but it’s still decent today in my opinion of course……especially compared to other cities in America. A lot of cities have turned into ghost towns in their main districts. I visited St. Louis and the city is basically empty and almost abandoned. So at least there’s still foot traffic in Times Square
1989 I got to go to NYC it was amazing I got to tour the roof of the World trade center on a guided tour for our 8th grade class trip and here is the kicker I tossed a Starburst off the roof true story.
That was you?
@@joericci4094 lol
I loved old Times Square. At 18 those video shots and lives shows were an education
Thank you so much for this video! This is the New York I loved and remember and growing up. My mother was a token clerk at the train station. Times Square was scary and fun at the sane time. I miss those days.
I love these videos to be able to transport yourself to the past
7:19 - When this video was made, Michael Jackson had the #1 album on Billboard, "Bad". The label his record was on, Epic, along with Columbia, is just sold to SONY, as the electronic news flash says.
Thank you for presenting this time capsule of the 1987 year, including much of 1987 Time Square.
Notice back in the 1980's and some time thereafter the area around here included a " red light district" of XXX Theatre's and so on. Thankfully that was cleaned up and today Time Square is much more family friendly.
I think the 80ties was a good Time !
November 1987!! I thought we were gonna see Steve Martin and Kevin Bacon both racing for the same cab
I used to walk through Times Square after work just because. I remember working at Alexander's on Lexington & 59th around that time.
I saw Beefsteak Charlies, Nathan's, Martinque Jewelry, the 46th St arcade, the Steel Dawn and The Running Man movies, and Howard Johnson's. And look how Panasonic ruled in the electronics dept!!!
Antertainment531 as well as massive signs for Toshiba and Sony. Those were the Apple/Google and amazon of the time.
02:58 the best part, dancing like nobody is watching you, until it's uploaded to youtube years later!
It’s called mentally ill
I paid $1500 for my VHS-C palmcorder back in 1987....I made around $600.00/month...That was a fortune back then..
That's very true and VHS-C was the big new thing! Actually, I think there is a JVC billboard in Times Square, in the video, showing VHS-C. It was really expensive. The Panasonic AG-160 cost roughly the same, given that it was considered a professional camera, albeit, an entry level camera.
@@ToddMcDurmont Yes,Radio Shack also sold them at a crazy price,I think was $1,700...
@@neilcharles2520 And just think, in today's money, $1500 translates to $4000! That's a lot of Benjamins!