The 70’s were the best years of my life. Let’s just say, I would do almost anything to revisit the 70’s. One day would suffice. So sad! 🥂🍺Cheers and beers mates!
This was right around the first time I visited NYC and this is exactly the way I remember it..tough, nasty, beautiful, gritty, run down, perverse and packed full of amazingly diverse people. I was 7 years old and it was exciting as hell.
Yeah those were the fun days,every and anything was happening in the big apple ,moved from Harlem usa to brooklyn in the 70's.Studio 54 was still open ,check it out on youtube,miss the fun days of time square nyc.miss that nasty smell.
OMG! What a great year that was. Graduated from HS and went off to the Air Force. Some wonderful years of discovery and good times in Times Square. I miss that time.
1977 was the best year of my life living in NYC at the age of 21, Son of Sam was on the seen killing people, the NY Yankees won the World Series, we had the big Black Out that turn the city upside down, Star Wars was born, Saturday Night Fever was born, Evlis died, Freddie Prinze died, i brought my first car, boy what a year of excitement, i will never forget that year, THE SUMMER OF 1977.
randy brooks Lol Crazy Cause Now I Live Right Around The Corner Where He Got Caught PINE ST YONKERS NY Lol I Get The Crazy Chills Every time I Drive Through That Block
Hey randa randa haha ya didn't move here from Tennessee or something did ya, we didn't have to many names like that where I come from!!! I mean I'm breakin ya balls but serious Neva the less, An Elivis n Freddy weren't good things or that fuckin Berkowitz, Wuta ya gonna do!! The Snow storm of 77 was beautiful Too!!! SOUTHBROOKLYNBOY FAEVA!!!! When their was ONE!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐕🐬🐳🐅🐻🐖🐄
Arrived in NYC in the fall of 1979 to attend Columbia -- lived there until 1993 (with three years away) -- a wondrous place to experience one's 20s. These photos, however, really just scratch the surface that tourist might see on a long weekend visit.
lol nice and peaceful, you realize New York City in 1977 was seeing record highs in crime including homicides, rapes, and drug related crimes and heroin addiction was also at a record high and let's not forget this was also s couple years before the crack cocaine epidemic flooded the city, and can't forget 1977 was the summer son of Sam was terrorizing the city. Somehow no cell phones seems inconsequential when it comes to "peacefulness"
Four historical events happened back in 1977: 1. The opening of Studio 54 (then the hottest dance club in the Big Apple) 2. David "The Son of Sam" Berkowitz, who made famous with his killing spree throughout NYC 3. The New York Yankees winning their 21st World Series championship (their first one since 1962) at the original Yankee Stadium in the dilapidated-and-arson saturated South Bronx and, of course 4. The famous Blackout of '77 (which knocked out power throughout the city and caused widespread looting and arson on July 13-14, 1977)
1.My brother almost got in '54 but got snagged... 2. I actually lived in Bensonhurst only 4-5 blocks away from Sam's last victim, Stacy Moscuwietz (I'm sure the spelling is incorrect) 3. Home from basic training leave, in uniform to see Reggie knock 3 out of the park 4. Right before I left for basic training, I was at a friends house fortunately when the lights went out! Yep! I with you on those historical events, and what a heatwave it was that summer! Thanks for sharing that!
I will always remember my late Great grandmother & Grandmother taking my sister's and I to the city. We were from Staten Island, going to the city was always fascinating as a child. Riding the trains, walking city blocks, sights we saw. I can remember being out with her at a Bk or McD's, we were sitting down eating and the lady sitting next to us had her purse snatched from the back of her seat. Clear as yesterday, the perpetrator ran from the back of the restaurant....swooshed...and kept moving.
In just a few years 1977 will be 50 years ago. That's crazy! ..Goes to show ya how fast time goes by and we are all just here for a cup of coffee. We are all just passing through.
Susperia (the movie) is now going to be remade. This is when real estate in NYC was cheap. Everyone though NYC was a total dump. That's why you had movies like The Warriors, Escape from New York, and Taxi Driver.
I miss the Criterion! Other than 2 more modern multiplexes on 42nd St, the glorious Times Sq movie houses of old are gone. Even the modernntheaters that were part of the Virgin Megastore (which opened in 1996) are gone.
I were born in September 77. I always imagine that I were born 20 years earlier, cause I do believe that the 70s were the best times in this world and the 80s too.
Thinking about riding the subway with my late Grandmother, crossing from 1 car to another, what an experience as s young child. God was with us every step of the way, she would always say a prayer before we left home. I still remember the subway lights flickering off & on. Memories
That was an awesome year for me too I was 19 yrs old love dancing to this record at the discotexs in NYC the fashion was awesome too especially the platform shoes maybe tall lol thank you for the memories
This was the best era of my life, fortunately! I have loads of happy memories, and would do almost anything to relive a day in this era. So, so sad! Surprisingly, folks on the streets looks semi-modern. I was expecting to see more bell bottoms and platform shoes. Jolly well! 🥂🍺Cheers and beers mates!
I've never lived in NYC, but I'd still like to put in my two cents about what I've heard. It's true that NYC was dirtier and grittier then and there was a lot of economic and social depression going on and a lot of crime.......but there was a lot of beauty underneath it all if you knew where to look. It was a time of great creativity with new art and music forms bursting forward. When you got almost nothing you make something new out of the little you have. Nowadays everything is handed to you on a silver platter. Or on a smartphone or computer. No need to use creativity when it's so much easier just to "reimagine" or "sample" something that's already been created (back then we called it "ripping off" or "plagiarizing"!) which explains the complete bankruptcy of new ideas evident in today's movies, art and music.
This world really is garbage compared to in the late 1970 s. Sterile and boring, lifeless cities with zero creativity. Its not just NY. Sydney and London the same. Used to all be great. Those days are long gone.
Born slash raised Seattle. Never been to NY. I like the people I’ve met in my life who are from there. Good video, the music fits, thanks for the upload.
Mark Grayson you’re absolutely right and I was at one of those shows and it was fantastic!!!! I don’t remember the day but it was definitely June of 77. Times back then we’re just the best!
Thanks for the pictures I visited the city for the first time about the same time. I also love your pictures of San Francisco where I used to live back then. Thank you
steve b, You don’t have to be a jerk. There isn’t much of a difference between footage and photos. Motion images are really just a bunch of STILL FRAMES.
I got into Studio 54 3 times. It was Crazy! Went to Windows On the World 1978, Tavern on the Green in Central Park I was like 17-21 living there . Life was fun .Not the same ever again.
I had just turned 9 years old, Star Wars craze still going, Elvis Presley passed away, and, no, I would not have known that song by Kraftwerk nor am I from New York City. Thank you, Tadeusz.
TEE had the hottest song on the Airwaves in summer of 76!! NYers were real back then -- People actually would try to help if they saw someone being victimized by criminals. Folk were friendlier and more down to earth. They were nothing like these wierd, aloof, week cell-phone zombies you see rollin' around NYC today. Yeah, safety in NY(especially on the subways) was a serious concern but people make the city, and it was exciting and "alive" . . . and dirty and not so pretty and Dangerous -- but I cherish every day that I lived there in a strange and funky way :)
These were all native New Yorkers who walked everywhere and took public transit everywhere. Not like the fat transplants from Middle America of today that are plentiful in New York. Literally 95% of the NYC area is transplants or foreign people. Trust me, back then there were plenty of fatties in Wisconsin and Michigan.
1977 was the year I migrated to New York at the age of 4 from Venezuela, Ny will always be my home in my heart. I don't know anything about Venezuela and don't feel like I'm missing out anything. I'm now a U.S. citizen and consider Ny my home town even though I wasn't born there. I now live in West Palm Beach, Florida and this video made me very sad and home sick. I've traveled and live in many parts of America, and I can honestly say New Yorkers are my favorite people, they're the most realest and smartest unlike these zombies here in Florida.
I was 9 and my grandmother took me to see the Xmas show at Radio City, the Emprire State Building, and Statue of Liberty before she passed away. My mom volunteered at Covenent House in Times SQ, so this is all very familar to me. 77 was also the year my father brought me to the top of the World Trade Center. My heart skips a beat everytime I see a picture of the Twin Towers.
This music was so perfect for this video. This song was the song of the summer and you heard it everywhere. I almost forgot how dirty and nasty Times Square was. Wow it’s come along way. No one gives Mayor Dinkins credit for jumpstarting what made Times Square what it is today. I still look at it in awe. The transformation is amazing and beautiful.
Nyc 1977 the year I came into the world. I heard that there was no place in the USA besides California like NYC in the 1970's! The culture, the looks, the vibe, the realness, the diversity, the discotheques, the if I can make it here, I can make it anywhere motivation! NYC awesomeness!
I don't miss the crime and decay, but NYC was center of the known universe then. the people, the music, NYC gave birth to a cultural revolution in the 70's. Now it's starbucks and hipster/yuppies everywhere.
Wow, it looks as if NYC was a lot grittier and run down in the late 70s. Not like today. I just got back from a three day visit and it's a far different place. Kinder, more polite...
+Daniel Kelegian Lots of fun too. The thing that stands out for me were the concerts. From the Filmore, CBGBs, Central Park, Maxs Kansas City, MSG all the best played here.
I was 14 tin '77 and drinking at Grass Roots on St Marks and McSorleys, going to The Mudd Club, Max's and CB's. You are right it was simple and fun, not anymore.
As a major Godzilla fan, I definitely enjoyed seeing four views of the "Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster" marquee. It was the first Godzilla movie I saw in a theater (not that one though). Great pics.
An old timer once told me in the 90's about how life was in the 70's....he said" some people said the 70's were some great days in NYC...he also told me those were the days of the bad old times...one thing to remember when you get older youll see things for what it really is..im 40 yrs now and now I see what he meant...2016 and I cant wait to leave NYC ..its a sickening place to live now ..with fake ass people
Although NYC had major problems in the 70s, it was NYC at its realest. It was dirty, it was hectic, it was dangerous, it was shady, it was exciting, it was ugly and beautiful at the same time, it was the greatest city in the world. Me and my family stayed in New York for 2 months in the summer of 1977. I was there when the Son of Sam held the city in his grip, I was in my uncle's basement when the Blackout hit and we were suddenly engulfed in total darkness, I mean not a single light to be seen and I was there when news broke that Elvis had died. 1977 is an unforgettable year for me!
I was a young child in the 70's...every Sunday movies with family...I used to smell weed and cops will go about their business. As long as you were not puffy deliberately in the face of an officer. You just concealed your spliff. And keep on puffing when you pass an officer. It was less harsher crimes back on the news...now the news of today is flooded with evil acts....smh I'm leaving NYC....prefer to live in Barcelona.
I recall in 1987 I was there at night. Some black dude was asking me if I wanted to buy a VCR while standing in front of an electronics store with the burglar alarm going off.
Wow awesome throwback the movies of my 2 favorites Bruce Li as Bruce Lee The Man The Myth and Godzilla vs Cosmic Monster. I've saw them in theaters plus i saw in the movies Godzilla vs Megalon man oh man i've had a blast.
Tadeusz Slabczynski ? GOT DAM ! you taken us way back. These youngsters don't know nothing about this. No cell phones, cameras every where internet etc. Those subways looked real nasty back then.
Nothings changed, except for the types of cars, and no lights. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. It was the best of times. No cellphone or other major hand held devices.
The 70’s were the best years of my life. Let’s just say, I would do almost anything to revisit the 70’s. One day would suffice. So sad! 🥂🍺Cheers and beers mates!
Me to I wish life was still like these great times
I was in my first year of College, in NYC. I was there in the 80s also. The 80s were better.
@@NuNugirl '80s sucks dude. Long live the '70s.
This was right around the first time I visited NYC and this is exactly the way I remember it..tough, nasty, beautiful, gritty, run down, perverse and packed full of amazingly diverse people. I was 7 years old and it was exciting as hell.
Well said,i miss it.
Yeah those were the fun days,every and anything was happening in the big apple ,moved from Harlem usa to brooklyn in the 70's.Studio 54 was still open ,check it out on youtube,miss the fun days of time square nyc.miss that nasty smell.
I love this so much. I’m from Brooklyn and was born in 1974. I remember the city like this fondly. And the Kraftwerk makes this even better. 👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️
OMG! What a great year that was. Graduated from HS and went off to the Air Force. Some wonderful years of discovery and good times in Times Square. I miss that time.
That's exactly how I remember New York as a child back then. I really miss it.
Kolin Dunn don't forget the 800 dollar broadway shows
I was 17 years old in 1977 and I remember this song very well.
1977 was the best year of my life living in NYC at the age of 21, Son of Sam was on the seen killing people, the NY Yankees won the World Series, we had the big Black Out that turn the city upside down, Star Wars was born, Saturday Night Fever was born, Evlis died, Freddie Prinze died, i brought my first car, boy what a year of excitement, i will never forget that year, THE SUMMER OF 1977.
*****
And that was on a good day!
randy brooks I wish I was there, I miss old NYC too even though I was born in 1978.
The stranger -Billy joel
randy brooks
Lol Crazy Cause Now I Live Right Around The Corner Where He Got Caught
PINE ST YONKERS NY Lol
I Get The Crazy Chills Every time I Drive Through That Block
Hey randa randa haha ya didn't move here from Tennessee or something did ya, we didn't have to many names like that where I come from!!! I mean I'm breakin ya balls but serious Neva the less, An Elivis n Freddy weren't good things or that fuckin Berkowitz, Wuta ya gonna do!! The Snow storm of 77 was beautiful Too!!! SOUTHBROOKLYNBOY FAEVA!!!! When their was ONE!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐕🐬🐳🐅🐻🐖🐄
I've always enjoyed viewing old New York footage as this was my father's and mother's New York City.
Arrived in NYC in the fall of 1979 to attend Columbia -- lived there until 1993 (with three years away) -- a wondrous place to experience one's 20s. These photos, however, really just scratch the surface that tourist might see on a long weekend visit.
42nd Street was a treat for young kid from New Jersey to go to New York and see all the type of wild things going on
Twin Towers were only 5 years old here. Great footage.
Nice and peaceful with no mobile phones... Thanks for the great photos!
rrrrr can you stop with mobile phone please ?
lol nice and peaceful, you realize New York City in 1977 was seeing record highs in crime including homicides, rapes, and drug related crimes and heroin addiction was also at a record high and let's not forget this was also s couple years before the crack cocaine epidemic flooded the city, and can't forget 1977 was the summer son of Sam was terrorizing the city. Somehow no cell phones seems inconsequential when it comes to "peacefulness"
Peaceful?? Are you kidding me? You can mugged and stripped to your underwear.
Lol Peaceful? Bro back then they’d steal your socks without even taking off your shoes
Agreed....now it's just bland and souless
Four historical events happened back in 1977:
1. The opening of Studio 54 (then the hottest dance club in the Big Apple)
2. David "The Son of Sam" Berkowitz, who made famous with his killing spree throughout NYC
3. The New York Yankees winning their 21st World Series championship (their first one since 1962) at the original Yankee Stadium in the dilapidated-and-arson saturated South Bronx
and, of course
4. The famous Blackout of '77 (which knocked out power throughout the city and caused widespread looting and arson on July 13-14, 1977)
1.My brother almost got in '54 but got snagged...
2. I actually lived in Bensonhurst only 4-5 blocks away from Sam's last victim, Stacy Moscuwietz (I'm sure the spelling is incorrect)
3. Home from basic training leave, in uniform to see Reggie knock 3 out of the park
4. Right before I left for basic training, I was at a friends house fortunately when the lights went out!
Yep! I with you on those historical events, and what a heatwave it was that summer! Thanks for sharing that!
NTC was broke!
Steven Gallanter and nearing bankruptcy at that point. New York City was on the very brink but the big apple persevered.
NYC
Yes, it did, in various neighborhoods all over the city.
I will always remember my late Great grandmother & Grandmother taking my sister's and I to the city. We were from Staten Island, going to the city was always fascinating as a child. Riding the trains, walking city blocks, sights we saw. I can remember being out with her at a Bk or McD's, we were sitting down eating and the lady sitting next to us had her purse snatched from the back of her seat. Clear as yesterday, the perpetrator ran from the back of the restaurant....swooshed...and kept moving.
You learn not to snooz because you will loose not only your purse but your life,good old days.
jeffrey haynes - I wish that I was just a little older during those times so that I could understand life more.
In just a few years 1977 will be 50 years ago. That's crazy! ..Goes to show ya how fast time goes by and we are all just here for a cup of coffee. We are all just passing through.
The worst thing is that this time runs faster and faster
Is it just me or did New York look so much more fun back then? I wasn’t alive I’m just judging it by how it looks
Cripes, I soo remember this!! It's almost like it was yesterday :-) WOW! Talk about throw backs! Phew
Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express from 1977, one of the best & most sampled songs ever.. I wish I could have seen the 70s
I'll always love NYC. Home sweet home. Dirty, loud, noisy, overcrowded, rude people, cold it's New York.
Susperia (the movie) is now going to be remade. This is when real estate in NYC was cheap. Everyone though NYC was a total dump. That's why you had movies like The Warriors, Escape from New York, and Taxi Driver.
Oh my heavens Suspiria was playing at the Criterion on 45th and broadway.Those were good times.Thanks for such good footage.
I miss the Criterion! Other than 2 more modern multiplexes on 42nd St, the glorious Times Sq movie houses of old are gone. Even the modernntheaters that were part of the Virgin Megastore (which opened in 1996) are gone.
I were born in September 77. I always imagine that I were born 20 years earlier, cause I do believe that the 70s were the best times in this world and the 80s too.
DeAndre happy late 40th b day
steve b stfu
DeAndre me to
DeAndre Sept 12 1977 is me..
There was soooo much flavor then, it really was a fun time
Well said!
I was seven and this is the New York I remember. Great video!!!
When people were not looking down into their phones 24 hours a day. Actullaly looking out into the world
You had to pay attention to everything around you or get robbed daily.Bring back the pay phones on the street corner.
Clay Kraemer I noticed the same thing.
It was much more real then...or maybe unreal
reallife828 Yes. Yes my friend.
@The Kraemer You would have to take the shot with a wide angle lense.
Thinking about riding the subway with my late Grandmother, crossing from 1 car to another, what an experience as s young child. God was with us every step of the way, she would always say a prayer before we left home. I still remember the subway lights flickering off & on. Memories
THIS is the NY I love, and grew up in. Now, it's a shit hole and glad I live upstate. Those old days are sadly over.
That was an awesome year for me too I was 19 yrs old love dancing to this record at the discotexs in NYC the fashion was awesome too especially the platform shoes maybe tall lol thank you for the memories
For me it was also a good year, one of the better ones in my life, although maybe a bit for other reasons than yours
Taxi Driver... 70s and 80s, though dangerous, were the period that defines New York
Darwaxion now its gay uber
Yeah. Fun , but dangerous.
KISS was in its prime.
Darwaxion: I hope within the year that passed after having written this comment that you’re less of an idiot.
TG Nandi after 5 months you wrote that comment I see I got 47 likes and you got none. Pathetic weirdo. What in my comment is idiot, you dumbo?
I grew up in the 90’s it still had the grittiness from the 70’s and 80’s , I miss the old NYC
The greatest city on Earth: then and now.
MILO: Then yes
Now: I don"t thing so.59 years old Sorry brother but it"s true.Everything chance to worst sad but true Any way life goes on
It's certainly the most fiercely complicated city. Does that count as greatest?
This was the best era of my life, fortunately! I have loads of happy memories, and would do almost anything to relive a day in this era. So, so sad! Surprisingly, folks on the streets looks semi-modern. I was expecting to see more bell bottoms and platform shoes. Jolly well! 🥂🍺Cheers and beers mates!
Mock Necks, AJ's, Terry Cloth Shorts, British Walkers
I've never lived in NYC, but I'd still like to put in my two cents about what I've heard. It's true that NYC was dirtier and grittier then and there was a lot of economic and social depression going on and a lot of crime.......but there was a lot of beauty underneath it all if you knew where to look. It was a time of great creativity with new art and music forms bursting forward. When you got almost nothing you make something new out of the little you have. Nowadays everything is handed to you on a silver platter. Or on a smartphone or computer. No need to use creativity when it's so much easier just to "reimagine" or "sample" something that's already been created (back then we called it "ripping off" or "plagiarizing"!) which explains the complete bankruptcy of new ideas evident in today's movies, art and music.
Absolutely correct. It's tragic to witness this implosion of culture.
This world really is garbage compared to in the late 1970 s. Sterile and boring, lifeless cities with zero creativity. Its not just NY. Sydney and London the same. Used to all be great. Those days are long gone.
Man I miss those days.... love the music to the video 💕💕💕💕💕
Thank you, wow I still remember the exact moments of films that were shown ruby, orca, suspiria.. lol
Born slash raised Seattle. Never been to NY. I like the people I’ve met in my life who are from there. Good video, the music fits, thanks for the upload.
I would love to see photos of the little electronic stores all through the city this was the dawn of the boombox era. Great memories
Ok I noticed from the pictures that people in the 70s were a lot slimmer and thinner than today. What the hell happened?
Added sugar and bigger pockets.
They all smoked….
Led Zeppelin sells out 6 shows at Madison Square Garden - June 7, 8, 10, 11, 13 and 14, 1977.
Mark Grayson you’re absolutely right and I was at one of those shows and it was fantastic!!!! I don’t remember the day but it was definitely June of 77. Times back then we’re just the best!
The First Walkman Cassette Player came out two years later, the TPS-L2
Brought back memories. I was 14 years old in '77 living in N.Y.
NYC Was a filthy mess! But an exciting time to be there! I miss my home.
Thanks for the pictures I visited the city for the first time about the same time.
I also love your pictures of San Francisco where I used to live back then.
Thank you
Makes me so proud to be a bonafide new Yorker
Me Too, But when everything started to go FAKE in the early 90's I moved here to Monterey CA, But 60's 70's & 80's in NYC were the BEST!!!
We grew up in New York City and grew with Kraftwerk.
If I could time travel anywhere it would be this Era of new york
Miss all the artists that hung and painted and danced..
Amazing to see NYC the same summer I was born.
great footage! thanks for sharing!
steve b,
You don’t have to be a jerk.
There isn’t much of a difference between footage and photos.
Motion images are really just a bunch of STILL FRAMES.
I got into Studio 54 3 times. It was Crazy! Went to Windows On the World 1978, Tavern on the Green in Central Park I was like 17-21 living there . Life was fun .Not the same ever again.
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I had just turned 9 years old, Star Wars craze still going, Elvis Presley passed away, and, no, I would not have known that song by Kraftwerk nor am I from New York City. Thank you, Tadeusz.
You were born in '68?
Yes.
i was born in feb of this year boy the memories lol and that kraftwerk playing goes perfect with the vid
Let me tell... This was the best of the best year, because I was born 😊😋☺️
I like that the "Trans Europe Express" song was added to this 70s nostalgic video☺.
TEE had the hottest song on the Airwaves in summer of 76!! NYers were real back then -- People actually would try to help if they saw someone being victimized by criminals. Folk were friendlier and more down to earth. They were nothing like these wierd, aloof, week cell-phone zombies you see rollin' around NYC today. Yeah, safety in NY(especially on the subways) was a serious concern but people make the city, and it was exciting and "alive" . . . and dirty and not so pretty and Dangerous -- but I cherish every day that I lived there in a strange and funky way :)
i want to know new york city im argentinian and i was born in a poor neighbour here but i would like to know
John Doe Weak cell phone zombies rollin' around. Hahaha!!
Trans Europe Express by German Group Kraftwerk
Wow, they were so ahead of thier time. I never realized how much people later sampled from them!
Everyone is skinny!
dave john good eye missed that. Well most are skinny anyway
Yesssss!!! Am glad someone noticed how everyone was skinny back then
These were all native New Yorkers who walked everywhere and took public transit everywhere. Not like the fat transplants from Middle America of today that are plentiful in New York. Literally 95% of the NYC area is transplants or foreign people. Trust me, back then there were plenty of fatties in Wisconsin and Michigan.
@@coupleofbeers31 You mentioned how 95% of the people in the NYC area are transplants now. That's why the New York accent is dying out.
The seats at the old Yankee Stadium were definitely made for skinny torsos.
1977 was the year I migrated to New York at the age of 4 from Venezuela, Ny will always be my home in my heart. I don't know anything about Venezuela and don't feel like I'm missing out anything. I'm now a U.S. citizen and consider Ny my home town even though I wasn't born there. I now live in West Palm Beach, Florida and this video made me very sad and home sick. I've traveled and live in many parts of America, and I can honestly say New Yorkers are my favorite people, they're the most realest and smartest unlike these zombies here in Florida.
The beautiful World Trade towers were really emblematic of the Manhattan skyline 😐
Yes, they were. It seems like a lifetime ago now.
@@scottmoore1614 20 years
Very nice. I was 16 and started shooting slides that year.
I was 9 and my grandmother took me to see the Xmas show at Radio City, the Emprire State Building, and Statue of Liberty before she passed away. My mom volunteered at Covenent House in Times SQ, so this is all very familar to me. 77 was also the year my father brought me to the top of the World Trade Center. My heart skips a beat everytime I see a picture of the Twin Towers.
KRAFTWRECK - TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS A CLASSIC SONG ALONG WITH NYC IN ALL ITS BEAUTIFUL GLORY
I WAS 9 YRS OLD
I miss those huge hot city pretzels. They were so good.
This music was so perfect for this video. This song was the song of the summer and you heard it everywhere. I almost forgot how dirty and nasty Times Square was. Wow it’s come along way. No one gives Mayor Dinkins credit for jumpstarting what made Times Square what it is today. I still look at it in awe. The transformation is amazing and beautiful.
That's right. I heard this song all the time on the streets during my stay in New York at the time. That's why I added it to the video
Nyc 1977 the year I came into the world. I heard that there was no place in the USA besides California like NYC in the 1970's! The culture, the looks, the vibe, the realness, the diversity, the discotheques, the if I can make it here, I can make it anywhere motivation! NYC awesomeness!
I don't miss the crime and decay, but NYC was center of the known universe then. the people, the music, NYC gave birth to a cultural revolution in the 70's. Now it's starbucks and hipster/yuppies everywhere.
That was the New York I knew, fast, loud, colorful, dirty in some areas, now I don't recognize it.
That WTC scene is so Eerily serial, in that I was there at the top during that summer of '77 before I left for the Army!
Wow, it looks as if NYC was a lot grittier and run down in the late 70s. Not like today. I just got back from a three day visit and it's a far different place. Kinder, more polite...
+Scott Hayden You have no idea what NYC was like in the 70's and 80's. Today is heaven compared to that time period.
+Daniel Kelegian I'm from NYC & still live there. It was dirty & gritty in the 70s but I loved it and miss it.
+j flo It was a crazy era.
+Daniel Kelegian Lots of fun too. The thing that stands out for me were the concerts. From the Filmore, CBGBs, Central Park, Maxs Kansas City, MSG all the best played here.
+j flo Unfortunately I was a kid during the 70's but I had an older brother and I knew exactly what was going on. LOL!!
The year that a WHOLE NEW CINEMATIC UNIVERSE WAS BORN!
STAR WARS!!!
:-)
The pictures were among the best iv seen. I dont know why but they can brighten a day anytime.
I love the soundtrack to this video!
I loved the 70s when NYC was real
Wow I can Believe how NYC has change A lot in 40 Years
Rol Over higher taxes and a bunch of welfare
+Wile E Coyote a lot more immigrants
Koreatown Fooshing
New Delhi Domincians and Colombians
Now it is disney land in nyc.
You can thank the aliens
Yea. It’s crazy. I like how modernized it looks now. It’s cool in my opinion
I wish I was a teenager in the 70's it seemed so simple and fun being in that era
Most people in Harlem were poor and happy.Take me back to that simple life in nyc,good old dirty time square.
I was 14 tin '77 and drinking at Grass Roots on St Marks and McSorleys, going to The Mudd Club, Max's and CB's. You are right it was simple and fun, not anymore.
Thanks for sharing.
As a major Godzilla fan, I definitely enjoyed seeing four views of the "Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster" marquee. It was the first Godzilla movie I saw in a theater (not that one though). Great pics.
I was 12, Wish i could go back time and experience it as an adult..
Oh the fun I would have
I liked seeing Central Park not overrun with throngs of tourists like it is today. Just way too many tourists today in the city.
Strange to see wtc intact
You can thank Israel for that
Great footage! Awesome video
I can't think of NYC and the 70's without thinking of the movie "Dog Day Afternoon". Everyone in these pics look like they're living in that movie.
An old timer once told me in the 90's about how life was in the 70's....he said" some people said the 70's were some great days in NYC...he also told me those were the days of the bad old times...one thing to remember when you get older youll see things for what it really is..im 40 yrs now and now I see what he meant...2016 and I cant wait to leave NYC ..its a sickening place to live now ..with fake ass people
Although NYC had major problems in the 70s, it was NYC at its realest. It was dirty, it was hectic, it was dangerous, it was shady, it was exciting, it was ugly and beautiful at the same time, it was the greatest city in the world. Me and my family stayed in New York for 2 months in the summer of 1977. I was there when the Son of Sam held the city in his grip, I was in my uncle's basement when the Blackout hit and we were suddenly engulfed in total darkness, I mean not a single light to be seen and I was there when news broke that Elvis had died. 1977 is an unforgettable year for me!
I went every year since I moved in 1997 to Massachusetts smh I haven't been back since November 2015 ....you're so right
I still love NYC, even if it’s not as perfect as it was in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.....
I was a young child in the 70's...every Sunday movies with family...I used to smell weed and cops will go about their business. As long as you were not puffy deliberately in the face of an officer. You just concealed your spliff. And keep on puffing when you pass an officer. It was less harsher crimes back on the news...now the news of today is flooded with evil acts....smh
I'm leaving NYC....prefer to live in Barcelona.
I recall in 1987 I was there at night. Some black dude was asking me if I wanted to buy a VCR while standing in front of an electronics store with the burglar alarm going off.
Wow awesome throwback the movies of my 2 favorites Bruce Li as Bruce Lee The Man The Myth and Godzilla vs Cosmic Monster. I've saw them in theaters plus i saw in the movies Godzilla vs Megalon man oh man i've had a blast.
Tadeusz Slabczynski ? GOT DAM ! you taken us way back. These youngsters don't know nothing about this. No cell phones, cameras every where internet etc. Those subways looked real nasty back then.
Świetny film Tadeuszu, pozdrawiam.
I was 14 and remember this well full of life and ready for anything
It’s crazy how so much stuff has changed since then
Caffey Boy Not really crazy when you realize it was 41 years ago, that's a long time ago!
E B yeah u right 💯
Ooh Kraftwerk and my beloved city in my teen years.
This is a great vid💯😊
Place had soul back then, it's a soulless place now
I was 17 and started working.
Nothings changed, except for the types of cars, and no lights. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. It was the best of times. No cellphone or other major hand held devices.
1977 NYC I was 10 years old. ;-)
super blue same here. 1967🍺😎👍
Haha you're old
1:00 so they lived in an alternate reality where the landscape is covered in ads and pop-ups?
Great place worked there for 25 yrs miss it
NYC in the seventies ;Bawdy, sexy, cool, I loved it.
must of been an exciting place back then and dangerous my favourite band were from NYC the ramones 😊
Look kids. You can actually walk without looking at a cell phone . Amazing .
lol omg fuck that! People are so rude in this city. I'd rather look down on my phone.
Maddona was working in Dunkin Donuts, and Jlo living in the Bronx