Why is old news footage and concert footage so addictive? I mean that seriously. There is something very therapeutic about this, an escape quality that is very difficult to pin point.
I think it’s because of the unbiased reporting. I didn’t see any left or right news reporting but just reporters out and upfront getting the stories. Going right up to the looters and talking to them. Very addictive.
@@jafll141 Nailed it. Precisely that. We were given the news without any personal angle. If there were any specific views, there was a segment dedicated to just that (usually called EDITORIAL), separate from the reporting. It's a refreshing watch (re watch in may case since I grew up on this stuff). We were able to develop our own views once we had a chance to at least digest what we watched. I miss it so.
I was at the movies in NYC watching Star Wars as a 16 year old when the movie house went dark, We got out on the street at 54th street and walked down 7th ave with the intent of walking home to Brooklyn. The looting along 7th Ave was scary. We got to the Waldorf Astoria at 34th street and decided to sleep in the lobby since it was late and scary outside. We got up as the sun came up and started on our trek back to Brooklyn when a friend came with a car and saw us and picked us up and we got home to Brooklyn. I'm 62 and will never forget that night.
I'm a Pole and have never been to the US, actually I wasn't born until 1979, but I'm fascinated with the American history. Tell me please, do you prefer the old NYC with buildings and subway trains covered in graffiti, pimps and prostitutes around the Times Square area, with more crime etc., but with people being friendlier and more natural or the modern one, wealthy, clean & tidy?
I was 7 years old during that blackout, living in Tribeca...I remember the entire block cheered loudly when the Con Edison trucks came on the block to turn the lights back on
My Grandfather died of a heart attack likely brought in by the stress of the heat in those little Bronx apartments. My mom and dad who lived in suburban Long Island were therefore forced to drive from the relative safety of a suburban neighborhood into the teeth of mayhem in the Bronx in the complete dark with all the looting going on and had to go the the darkened funeral home. Can you imagine? Geez.
I'll never forget it. As soon as the lights went out I got so scared I went into labor and 13 hours later due to difficulties I had an emergency cesarean. Today July 14 my beautiful first born is 45 years old.
I don't remember too much about the New York City blackout of 77 because I was only two years old at the time, but I clearly remember the blackout of 2003. My parents and I kept our apartment windows open, and we had hamburger helper for dinner, and we were very fortunate our gas stove still worked. Luckily, it was a comfortable night to sleep through, and by the time we woke up the next morning, the power was back on.
Thank you for this great upload. Although it was a very bad night for NYC, it pretty awesome to see this vintage newscast with so many of the familiar names that I watched on CBS2 as a youth, Jim Jensen, Vic Miles, Chris Borgen, Marilyn Salenger, JJ Gonzalez, Arnold Diaz and others.
I was two months old in Tennessee when this happened but I remember this being recollected by my mother and other elders when I was growing up. This obviously made a significant impact on a national level, and I can ultimately understand why. This must have been a terrible couple of days and nights for the affected residents!
I have wonderful memories of watching the news at 6pm with Jim Jensen and Roland Smith every night at dinnertime with my parents; now all of them are gone...😢😢😢
I was living in London when this happened but I had experienced the one on November 9, 1965 and again on August 14, 2003. I’m glad I missed the 1977 one. It makes me angry when looters and vandals take advantage of situations like this.
My mother used to tell me stories on how she lived through blackout. Many rolling blackouts and chaos in the streets. Then the August 2003 blackout, I was walking home, I got off the bus and I experienced seeing traffic being a stand still. People were listening to their transistor radios to 1010 WINS, WCBS News Radio 880, and other radio stations to know what was going on. It was a blackout and I got home, at the time when my mom was alive, I was worried if she would get home. I found out she walked home. Then I was happy she got home. It was one of the most unpredictable experiences that I ever seen.
I was in Litchfield CT in 1977 and in Philadelphia in 2003, where some PECO guy didn't like what he saw and pulled us off the grid, making us the only major city east of Detroit with power.
2003 was so tame compared to 1977. New Yorkers were way more patient as a whole and it made me proud to be a New Yorker. Today everything is more politically driven and it's sad
1977 was a crazy year in New York City. A contentious mayoral race, a massive blackout follwed by massive amounts of looting and chaos, FALN leaving bombs all over the city, a serial killer terrorizing the city, record high homicides, the Yankees won the World Series, Studio 54, disco, cocaine, hedonism....it was crazy.
This blackout is the reason Hip Hop grew. People couldn't afford expensive music equipment so when that blackout happened and people started looting they finally had access to what they needed. As crazy as this may sound it's a true story.
I was going into The City to see a band & we got stuck on the D train(when it was still the Brighton Line)just outside of Atlantic Ave. We could hear all the horns honking on the street. They were able to roll one half of one door to platform & we filed through the train…
Remember this very well... I was 5 years old about to turn 6 on the 24th of July 1977 and I was living in Newark NJ and I could see the new york city skyline from my window.... Memories 🌠
Brings back memories. The first time my grandfather ever hit me, when I told him him I wanted to go to Broadway to get some "free" stuff. Broadway has yet to recover to be the shopping mecca it once was.
@@dkeithtag Pretty sure at least some of that arson wasn't 'random acts of violence', it was motivated and initiated by long term 'urban renewal' interests...why certain people allowed NYC to descend into bankruptcy and chaos in the 1970s, and let the buildings go abandoned...So they could snatch them up cheap (some NYC abandoned buildings back then were literally selling for $1, if you were willing to pay to get them up to code)....and torch them if necessary (usually for the insurance money so they can 'rebuild' something newer and more expensive)...leading to the mad NYC rent hikes and real estate valuations in the 1980s
Was listening to the game at Shea Stadium on a vintage Panasonic AM radio in the kitchen in our apartment in Astoria. Still remember them describing the lights going out over the scoreboard throughout Flushing. The lights went out in blocks and sections. Great memories and wonderful video. Thanks for posting.
My grandmother lived on Manor Ave and I was hanging out at BX River Houses and my grandmother called for me out the window and we just was in her apartment until it was over. Will never forget at the age now of 57.
That night I was at a Richie Havens concert in Central Park; at one point the music hit a heavy beat and at exactly the same moment there was a loud a thunderclap... *and I somehow knew something incredibly weird was going to happen any minute* - then on the way out of the park after the concert...all the lights went out. Nothing similar ever happened to me before or since.
I remember this night I almost got killed when a nyc sanitation truck emergency brake didn't work. My dumb as was supposed to be home in the house. Crazy Eddie got hit hard. Dude owned a truck had brand new furniture for 3 family members.
I read a few years ago that the Crazy Eddie's in the Bronx had already shut down within an hour or less of the blackout, and the managers could see the gangs of looters running down the street to try to get to them, and they had to literally take out handguns or shotguns in case they tried to get in the store. That's just what I read, anyway. Not sure which store this was, Grand Concourse, Gun Hill Road? I dunno. I worked for Crazy Eddie's in LI for three years in the late 80s, but we never had any issues like that! P.S. I read that store was opened in 1976 or 77 on East Fordham Road, prob. off Grand Concourse or so.
I live on the Brooklyn Queens border only about 15 blocks away from Bushwick.. I would venture into that place once in awhile back in the 80's when I do was a teenager.. They had some cool stores on Knickerbocker ave that sold weapons like knives and Chinese stars.. But I do remember how destroyed Bushwick was.. A scary place for sure, much of it was burnt and you would just see drug addicts sleeping in the streets.. It was a place of despair..
I was at Jones Beach, but lived in Brooklyn NYC, with my mother and Aunt Harriet. We had no clue, what was going on until we got in the car to go home and the traffic lights were not working properly. I had just graduated High School. And the photos from my Graduation was at the Pharmacy to be developed. Needless to say during that night the Pharmacy was part of the looting that happened, so no photos got developed. I will never forget it.
My Dad was on the GW Bridge in his car, made it home via floodlights, my dog smelled him from our apartment and ran downstairs to find hime and bring him home. Meanwhile, I was at camp in Litchfield CT and slept through it as lights out was 9pm.
Never understood the need to loot & burn. Wonder how those gentlemen turned out that were interviewed by the reporter regarding looting & burning their own community. My admiration to the brave officers & firefighters confronting such wide scale social disorder. My heart goes out to law abiding citizens & business owners who were affected by the crimes committed by the hoards of criminals. Was that Rev Al arrested at 19:13?
Those whose businesses were looted and burned were not OF the community. They were from the outside ans were exploited those in the community. The looters often saw it as playback. Of course it was not always the case that the business owners were from outside the community or exploiting the community. Unfortunately those who did were seen as justification to loot.
When your from a race that was enslaved and spitted on for 400 years in a country claiming to be inalienabel rights you take what you can yo even the score. Most of the looters never had a nice thing they were ever given once in their hole life?
Wow blast from the past. I grew up in North Jersey with a perfect view of The Empire State Building from my bedroom window. I was looking out the window without a care in the world when everything beyond the Hudson went dark. Of course as a kid this all seemed exciting.
Almost 50 years still the same going on now how can they blame con ed in 2003 nobody looted so blame the people not the company I was 3 in 1977 my father was a NYPD police officer he was allowed to go home at night and guard his own home we were living on the boarder of bed sty at that time and many times during that night he had to point his gun out the windows to prevent people from breaking in etc he took us kids up to the top floor with him so he could stand watch he told me the whole city was burning down but now I can finally see what he ment thank u for this
Places that are looted are poor with overcrowding and minimal services. Any race perpetually under such conditions would lash out in the same irrational way.
5 years before I was born. My parents in New Jersey met 4 months earlier when this aired. Later that night, Jim Jensen anchored with Dave Marash (the guy with the beard) at 11:00. I noticed the 6:00 newscast was in the newsroom and the studio where they had individual desks with overhead lights was at 11:00. I assume it was Sept 1977 when they took the 6:00 report to the studio full time.
I was at a Boz Scaggs show at Avery Fisher Hall when the lights went out. The entire Upper West Side commenced to party. Restaurants bought tables on the sidewalk and kept serving. It was tough getting back to NJ; but a night to remember for sure!
I remember this night. I was about 8 yrs old, living in the filthy BRONX…. It was about 105 degrees with no AC, that night my mom let us all hang out at the park till about 1 am. Ppl were setting dumpsters on fire and shooting fireworks DIRECTLY at passing police cars and fire trucks. My mom told us ARMAGEDDON had started and the end of the world was here. I really thought Jesus was coming back THAT NIGHT, and I was AFRAID TO FALL ASLEEP. We spent the entire night praying by candlelight and reading the Bible. 😂
I knew about the 1977 blackout from The History Channel and from my Dad but I could share from my own experience from the 2003 blackout and I was scared to death because I thought that there'd be riots in the streets because of what I saw or what my Dad told me about the 1977 blackouts but thank goodness nothing like that happened in the 2003 blackouts.
That was only the beginning for me if you remember the Blizzard of 1978 I was walking in the middle of that blizzard for a 6 Hour post. I got to write a book. well guys enjoy History
Hello, beautiful story.I was 5 years old Brownsville.My father put us a mattress in the middle of the living room and my mother had to watch us and he went out for a little while and then came back in basically made sure nobody broke in the house or came up to fire escape
I was stationed in Jersey ,visiting Family in Brooklyn walking down Atlantic Ave on East all of a sudden the lights flickered and then right out. Pitch black I was with my 3 cousins I told just sit back out in the shadows and witnessed that craziness that erupted. We worked our way back to their home walking . Then I headed back to base.
@@ekop1778what guns the government want to get rid of them but not the police guns some police officers are good people but they are more killer cops than good ones
I remember being stuck in a Burger King during the 77 black out at 12 years old lots of looting in the South Bronx I didn’t see much on Fordham Road though
Damn it’s crazy to look at how people were living through this type of stuff, and it’s crazy my grandparents raised my mom and her siblings during the 60s-90s
If it wasn't for that blackout, there wouldn't be a whole lot of hip-hop groups coming out. Most kids couldn't afford DJ equipment. I consider the 77 Blackout was part of the evolution of Hip-Hop Groups!
i remember that night for about a minute the sky went from pitch black to daylight and back to a black sky it made people think a nuke went off... theres more conspiracy mystery to this
Im not sure but the 2003 blackout was alot less dangerous. I worked in Toronto and lived in Hamilton Ont. It was a 2 hour drive. We had about $20 and we needed gas to get out of the GTA to go up north to make sure my ex's grandmother was alone. I remember it was extremely hot, no relief from the heat, probably the same in NYC
Wow I'm 60 yrs old now and I Remember coming back from a Family Vacation down Florida and coming back to New Jersey and I Remember seeing my parents and older Siblings looking Over at the NY Skyline in disbelief and it Happened on my birthday No Less
I loved the 70's, but the City was a shithole. Broke, crime, Maypr Beame, Son of Sam, etc. It had alot of character, to say the least. AND as tawdry as it was, Time Square was erotically dangerous and fun...no Disney back then. Honestly, I miss the excitement of the porn shops and theatres.....
That's when New York city was the best in the 70s. All the movie theaters were all next to each other on the same block. All the Porno shops Hookers all over the place. Manhattan was so much fun back than the seedy side of it.
@@kevinclark8549 You nailed it, Kevin. Rather have that then the crime, homeless everywhere, Disney tourists, shelters of today. Yeah, the porn theatres were great, I went, the excitement was great. Enjoy your evening, Kevin.
@@jeffbengert2863 there is a great Documentary around that Era. It's called the Torso killer. Richard Cottingham he was a serial killer. He was killing girls in the Time's Square and NJ areas. It's on Netflix. It's in 4 part's excellent documentary checkout when you get a chance.
@@kevinclark8549 Thank you, Kevin. Yes, I am familiar with him. He's probably somewhere on these crazy social media platforms in alias.....Jeff not a fan of social media. I believe he is still alive, in Jersey, prison, and if I remember what I read, one of his victim's daughters is trying to "bond" with him in some way or forgive him or something odd..... I think he picked up prostitutes and murdered a couple in Times Square back then in a seedy hotel there back then. Hey, I made it to 59, and have found recollections of those 70s growing up in Jersey and the "danger" that lurked in the City back then. I'd rather have that then this WOKE progressive bs and Disney characters etal .....Be well Kevin, and try not to get shot these days...
I was 10 years old when this happened. I remember my mother sitting in the kitchen with a shotgun so she could see the front door and Fire escape so if anyone was trying to come in. She sat there until my father came back from work and took over. The looters were setting buildings on fire. So when the tenants ran out they would go in their apartments and take everything. My Father and other people from our building were protecting our building from the looters and checking on the elderly that lived in the building. It was really terrifying seeing hundreds of people just going insane running all over the place steeling beating people up setting businesses and buildings on fire and Police just standing there doing nothing.
Preppers, remember, this could easily happen again on an even wider scale. Remember the risk we face from things like another Carrington Event occurring.
Oh yeah, if you think this event is bad, just you wait until this does happen again but the entire country blacks out, not just for one day, but for an entire week. Now that would be something to watch and see what happens next, now that people's smartphone batteries may not even last long enough to withstand a week without power. But my dad's prepped for anything nowadays compared to Hurricane Sandy and the 2003 Blackout 10 to 20 years ago.
Omg John Tesh RIP Brotha you had a magnificent career I was nine years old when the lights went out 1977 like 9/11/01 & the year 2020 I will never forget
Why is old news footage and concert footage so addictive? I mean that seriously. There is something very therapeutic about this, an escape quality that is very difficult to pin point.
Because it happened in real time some pain remains but yah realize how silly alot of this stuff really was.
I think it’s because of the unbiased reporting. I didn’t see any left or right news reporting but just reporters out and upfront getting the stories. Going right up to the looters and talking to them. Very addictive.
@@jafll141 Nailed it. Precisely that. We were given the news without any personal angle. If there were any specific views, there was a segment dedicated to just that (usually called EDITORIAL), separate from the reporting. It's a refreshing watch (re watch in may case since I grew up on this stuff).
We were able to develop our own views once we had a chance to at least digest what we watched. I miss it so.
For me, it's because it's like time travel....kind of.
I agree. Old news footage used to be informative and not driven by agendas. Now we are in the fake news era.
I was at the movies in NYC watching Star Wars as a 16 year old when the movie house went dark, We got out on the street at 54th street and walked down 7th ave with the intent of walking home to Brooklyn. The looting along 7th Ave was scary. We got to the Waldorf Astoria at 34th street and decided to sleep in the lobby since it was late and scary outside. We got up as the sun came up and started on our trek back to Brooklyn when a friend came with a car and saw us and picked us up and we got home to Brooklyn. I'm 62 and will never forget that night.
I'm a Pole and have never been to the US, actually I wasn't born until 1979, but I'm fascinated with the American history. Tell me please, do you prefer the old NYC with buildings and subway trains covered in graffiti, pimps and prostitutes around the Times Square area, with more crime etc., but with people being friendlier and more natural or the modern one, wealthy, clean & tidy?
Thank you for sharing your first-hand experience! Oral histories (well, typed) are so important.
I was 7 years old during that blackout, living in Tribeca...I remember the entire block cheered loudly when the Con Edison trucks came on the block to turn the lights back on
Watching Will get back to you
Did you ever get to see the rest of the movie?
My Grandfather died of a heart attack likely brought in by the stress of the heat in those little Bronx apartments. My mom and dad who lived in suburban Long Island were therefore forced to drive from the relative safety of a suburban neighborhood into the teeth of mayhem in the Bronx in the complete dark with all the looting going on and had to go the the darkened funeral home. Can you imagine? Geez.
I'll never forget it. As soon as the lights went out I got so scared I went into labor and 13 hours later due to difficulties I had an emergency cesarean. Today July 14 my beautiful first born is 45 years old.
02:35 it sounds like the Purge
@@omalone1169 it was bad. Looting etc. I'll never forget it.
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damn, the lights going out scares you that much? lol it's only darkness sugar😂
FYI it was pitch black outside, couldn't see my hand in front of my face.
I don't remember too much about the New York City blackout of 77 because I was only two years old at the time, but I clearly remember the blackout of 2003. My parents and I kept our apartment windows open, and we had hamburger helper for dinner, and we were very fortunate our gas stove still worked. Luckily, it was a comfortable night to sleep through, and by the time we woke up the next morning, the power was back on.
Thank you for this great upload. Although it was a very bad night for NYC, it pretty awesome to see this vintage newscast with so many of the familiar names that I watched on CBS2 as a youth, Jim Jensen, Vic Miles, Chris Borgen, Marilyn Salenger, JJ Gonzalez, Arnold Diaz and others.
Don't forget John Stossel and Joe Witte now . . . plus Jim's substitute co-anchor for this night, John Tesh.
@@wmbrown6 1:50 what happened 12 years ago?
Arnold Diaz just retired after 50 years on the tube
@@ericsamuelson5656And he died just recently.
@@omalone1169Another blackour was what happened!
Wow, this brings back memories. I was a teenager in '77. My family spent most of the blackout looking out our windows at everything that was going on.
I was two months old in Tennessee when this happened but I remember this being recollected by my mother and other elders when I was growing up. This obviously made a significant impact on a national level, and I can ultimately understand why. This must have been a terrible couple of days and nights for the affected residents!
I have wonderful memories of watching the news at 6pm with Jim Jensen and Roland Smith every night at dinnertime with my parents; now all of them are gone...😢😢😢
I was living in London when this happened but I had experienced the one on November 9, 1965 and again on August 14, 2003. I’m glad I missed the 1977 one. It makes me angry when looters and vandals take advantage of situations like this.
They basically turned the blackout to a precursor of "The Purge"...
My mom was born in 1977 and I was born in 2003 it's crazy how there was a black out both years where me and my mom was born
Okay?
Damn two different blackout incidents at the same city. But glad you’re both alright. I know it’s the past but damn that was scary
@@RealSergiob466 Well the 2003 blackout no one was doing any rioting in the streets like what see in these footages of the 1977 blackout.
@@ndr523Okay what? She made an interesting fact about her and her mom being born on the years NYC had major a blackout 26 years apart.
@@jpla1886I agree. Some, like the person you wrote to, have nothing better, than to troll. I found the original poster's comment interesting.
My mother used to tell me stories on how she lived through blackout. Many rolling blackouts and chaos in the streets. Then the August 2003 blackout, I was walking home, I got off the bus and I experienced seeing traffic being a stand still. People were listening to their transistor radios to 1010 WINS, WCBS News Radio 880, and other radio stations to know what was going on. It was a blackout and I got home, at the time when my mom was alive, I was worried if she would get home. I found out she walked home. Then I was happy she got home. It was one of the most unpredictable experiences that I ever seen.
I was in Litchfield CT in 1977 and in Philadelphia in 2003, where some PECO guy didn't like what he saw and pulled us off the grid, making us the only major city east of Detroit with power.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501damn how old are you?
True but 2003 was nothing like this
2003 was so tame compared to 1977. New Yorkers were way more patient as a whole and it made me proud to be a New Yorker. Today everything is more politically driven and it's sad
@@ATCguy1973 including handling a crisis.
1977 was a crazy year in New York City. A contentious mayoral race, a massive blackout follwed by massive amounts of looting and chaos, FALN leaving bombs all over the city, a serial killer terrorizing the city, record high homicides, the Yankees won the World Series, Studio 54, disco, cocaine, hedonism....it was crazy.
Thank you for posting this!!! All vintage news casrs are precious pieces of history and this was epic!!!!
This blackout is the reason Hip Hop grew. People couldn't afford expensive music equipment so when that blackout happened and people started looting they finally had access to what they needed. As crazy as this may sound it's a true story.
I was going into The City to see a band & we got stuck on the D train(when it was still the Brighton Line)just outside of Atlantic Ave. We could hear all the horns honking on the street. They were able to roll one half of one door to platform & we filed through the train…
Remember this very well... I was 5 years old about to turn 6 on the 24th of July 1977 and I was living in Newark NJ and I could see the new york city skyline from my window.... Memories 🌠
I remember it well I was living in Brooklyn at the time on Flatbush avenue I was 17 I am 60 years old now and I still live in Brooklyn.
Brings back memories. The first time my grandfather ever hit me, when I told him him I wanted to go to Broadway to get some "free" stuff. Broadway has yet to recover to be the shopping mecca it once was.
Broadway is VERY different. Gentrified. Million-dollar properties there in former brownfields; ghetto still extant.
Grandpa was so right.
@@dkeithtag Pretty sure at least some of that arson wasn't 'random acts of violence', it was motivated and initiated by long term 'urban renewal' interests...why certain people allowed NYC to descend into bankruptcy and chaos in the 1970s, and let the buildings go abandoned...So they could snatch them up cheap (some NYC abandoned buildings back then were literally selling for $1, if you were willing to pay to get them up to code)....and torch them if necessary (usually for the insurance money so they can 'rebuild' something newer and more expensive)...leading to the mad NYC rent hikes and real estate valuations in the 1980s
Oh yes, memories! But yoou notice not one EV car was stolen in the whole city. Why?😮
Your grandpa probably saved your life. It was wild out there!
John Tesh of ET(Entertainment Tonight)fame as a news anchor. Wow !
Con Ed has never had a stellar reputation even now.
You said it! They still are a crappy company.
@@NewYorkDoll_911 what brings you here ?
Was listening to the game at Shea Stadium on a vintage Panasonic AM radio in the kitchen in our apartment in Astoria. Still remember them describing the lights going out over the scoreboard throughout Flushing. The lights went out in blocks and sections. Great memories and wonderful video. Thanks for posting.
Who were the Mets playing ?⚾️
My grandmother lived on Manor Ave and I was hanging out at BX River Houses and my grandmother called for me out the window and we just was in her apartment until it was over. Will never forget at the age now of 57.
47 years ago tonight...
RIP Chris Borgen one of the great reporters of all time. No BS just the story . Jim Jensen too.
Don’t forget Jimmy Breslin….
When civilization breaks down, certain peoples will quickly revert back to their respective heritable means..... 😐
Clearly happened in 2020 and the "summer of love".
I remember the 1977 Blackout well; I was 16 going on 17 at the time. I also remember the first one in 1965 and the last one in 2003.
That night I was at a Richie Havens concert in Central Park; at one point the music hit a heavy beat and at exactly the same moment there was a loud a thunderclap... *and I somehow knew something incredibly weird was going to happen any minute* - then on the way out of the park after the concert...all the lights went out. Nothing similar ever happened to me before or since.
I remember this night I almost got killed when a nyc sanitation truck emergency brake didn't work. My dumb as was supposed to be home in the house. Crazy Eddie got hit hard. Dude owned a truck had brand new furniture for 3 family members.
Daaaaaaang! You said Crazy Eddie!!! I remember those commercials!
RIP CRAZY EDDIE! YOU WERE THE DUMBEST SALESMAN IN TOWN
I read a few years ago that the Crazy Eddie's in the Bronx had already shut down within an hour or less of the blackout, and the managers could see the gangs
of looters running down the street to try to get to them, and they had to literally take out handguns or shotguns in case they tried to get in the store. That's just
what I read, anyway. Not sure which store this was, Grand Concourse, Gun Hill Road? I dunno. I worked for Crazy Eddie's in LI for three years in the late 80s,
but we never had any issues like that! P.S. I read that store was opened in 1976 or 77 on East Fordham Road, prob. off Grand Concourse or so.
The stark difference of the reaction of the 1977 and 2003 New York City electricity blackout.
And the '65 blackout too.
We were a civilized nation in 03 ..now were like 77 again..
Danm democrats
More white people in 1965 and 911 humbled new Yorkers so they were more reflective in 2003.
@@nickcancelliere5638agree,…..the Dems turn EVERYTHING to shyt.
@@michaelquinones-lx6ksMy thoughts exactly lol.
Remember this as a kid. July 13, 1977 at 9:36PM
I remember how much looting destroyed Bushwick, especially along Broadway, it took 25 years before all thise stories were restored again
Bushwick was a mess. had friends there.I was in the Bronx during the blackout and it was mind boggling what i witnessed traveling...
I live on the Brooklyn Queens border only about 15 blocks away from Bushwick.. I would venture into that place once in awhile back in the 80's when I do was a teenager.. They had some cool stores on Knickerbocker ave that sold weapons like knives and Chinese stars.. But I do remember how destroyed Bushwick was.. A scary place for sure, much of it was burnt and you would just see drug addicts sleeping in the streets.. It was a place of despair..
I was at Jones Beach, but lived in Brooklyn NYC, with my mother and Aunt Harriet. We had no clue, what was going on until we got in the car to go home and the traffic lights were not working properly. I had just graduated High School. And the photos from my Graduation was at the Pharmacy to be developed. Needless to say during that night the Pharmacy was part of the looting that happened, so no photos got developed. I will never forget it.
Prayers for Harriet. Rest in peace.❤
🧢 Jones Beach is NOT in Brooklyn‼️😆😆😂😂😂 Good try though‼️💯🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭
@@bkallday2998maybe he meant coney Island 😂
My Dad was on the GW Bridge in his car, made it home via floodlights, my dog smelled him from our apartment and ran downstairs to find hime and bring him home. Meanwhile, I was at camp in Litchfield CT and slept through it as lights out was 9pm.
Did you smell him too?
I smelled him also.PU!
With all the looting, that’s where the expression, “Christmas in July” came from 😂
I have yet to hear this and also what happened with the troops ?
No thar
T expression was around before 1977
@@valjohnson1927 I was joking. It started in 1933. Had nothing to do with looting though.
@@samanthab1923 But that riots obviously changed the connotation! 😆😆😆
Never understood the need to loot & burn. Wonder how those gentlemen turned out that were interviewed by the reporter regarding looting & burning their own community. My admiration to the brave officers & firefighters confronting such wide scale social disorder. My heart goes out to law abiding citizens & business owners who were affected by the crimes committed by the hoards of criminals. Was that Rev Al arrested at 19:13?
Those whose businesses were looted and burned were not OF the community. They were from the outside ans were exploited those in the community. The looters often saw it as playback. Of course it was not always the case that the business owners were from outside the community or exploiting the community. Unfortunately those who did were seen as justification to loot.
It's a mentality borne of poverty and over crowding that's not present in more affluent areas.
When your from a race that was enslaved and spitted on for 400 years in a country claiming to be inalienabel rights you take what you can yo even the score. Most of the looters never had a nice thing they were ever given once in their hole life?
It happened again in 2003 blackout
That was under different circumstances but yes
I was there. It was insane!
I was there! I survived the "Summer of Sam"!
Yes, it's THAT John Tesh.
Dude is a legend!
Ageless, lol
Wow blast from the past. I grew up in North Jersey with a perfect view of The Empire State Building from my bedroom window. I was looking out the window without a care in the world when everything beyond the Hudson went dark. Of course as a kid this all seemed exciting.
I remember it well, very hot and humid, thank God i lived in Jackson Heights Queens far from the turbulence in Manhattan .
I was 14.
At the time and I remember this blackout real. Well, it was crazy.
Yes, I remember it as if it were yesterday.
Me too.
Same!!! The summer of '77 chased us to the suburbs the very next year lol.
Nice use of the subjunctive!👍
Love old news coverage
Almost 50 years still the same going on now how can they blame con ed in 2003 nobody looted so blame the people not the company I was 3 in 1977 my father was a NYPD police officer he was allowed to go home at night and guard his own home we were living on the boarder of bed sty at that time and many times during that night he had to point his gun out the windows to prevent people from breaking in etc he took us kids up to the top floor with him so he could stand watch he told me the whole city was burning down but now I can finally see what he ment thank u for this
God bless your dad for his service & bravery to be a police officer in that city, especially during those times
Places that are looted are poor with overcrowding and minimal services. Any race perpetually under such conditions would lash out in the same irrational way.
5 years before I was born. My parents in New Jersey met 4 months earlier when this aired. Later that night, Jim Jensen anchored with Dave Marash (the guy with the beard) at 11:00. I noticed the 6:00 newscast was in the newsroom and the studio where they had individual desks with overhead lights was at 11:00. I assume it was Sept 1977 when they took the 6:00 report to the studio full time.
I was at a Boz Scaggs show at Avery Fisher Hall when the lights went out. The entire Upper West Side commenced to party. Restaurants bought tables on the sidewalk and kept serving. It was tough getting back to NJ; but a night to remember for sure!
so weird seeing John Tesh as an anchorman. His career exploded upward so far not long after this.
I mean all he really known for is hosting Entertainment Tonight
19:12 Even Reverend Al Sharpton was in on it‼️😂😂😂😂
Just kidding that’s not him💯🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
July 13, 2022 23:31, 45 years ago. Cannot believe it.
Me to! I was 17.
bro was born in 1960
I remember this night. I was about 8 yrs old, living in the filthy BRONX…. It was about 105 degrees with no AC, that night my mom let us all hang out at the park till about 1 am. Ppl were setting dumpsters on fire and shooting fireworks DIRECTLY at passing police cars and fire trucks. My mom told us ARMAGEDDON had started and the end of the world was here. I really thought Jesus was coming back THAT NIGHT, and I was AFRAID TO FALL ASLEEP. We spent the entire night praying by candlelight and reading the Bible. 😂
LOL
105 degrees? That's a Las Vegas temperature, not in New York.
@@joedimaggio3687 Prolly he included the humidity as well...
I knew about the 1977 blackout from The History Channel and from my Dad but I could share from my own experience from the 2003 blackout and I was scared to death because I thought that there'd be riots in the streets because of what I saw or what my Dad told me about the 1977 blackouts but thank goodness nothing like that happened in the 2003 blackouts.
Warriors !!! Come out and play
Lived through this too. Not fun
Nice to see Con Edison is consistent
Yes still no accountability.
Just like 2020 and the "Summer Of Love".
I was wondering why Jerry Koosman was suddenly striking out so many batters:The lights were slowly dimming.
That was only the beginning for me if you remember the Blizzard of 1978 I was walking in the middle of that blizzard for a 6 Hour post. I got to write a book. well guys enjoy History
Hello, beautiful story.I was 5 years old Brownsville.My father put us a mattress in the middle of the living room and my mother had to watch us and he went out for a little while and then came back in basically made sure nobody broke in the house or came up to fire escape
I would not eat anything from stores for at least a week
I was stationed in Jersey ,visiting Family in Brooklyn walking down Atlantic Ave on East all of a sudden the lights flickered and then right out. Pitch black I was with my 3 cousins I told just sit back out in the shadows and witnessed that craziness that erupted. We worked our way back to their home walking . Then I headed back to base.
Wow. Sounds like the premise of “The Warriors” but with your cousins in toe. Crazy!
Playing coco leveo when the lights went out on Jefferson Ave.... then heard the words, let's hit Broadway. And hit it they did.
What about the one in 2003?? Is there footage of that?
I'm surprised that John Tesh didn't just break out in playing some of his famous instrumental music.
The same chaos would happen now
YOUD HAVE MILLIONS OF GUNS BLARING IN THE AIR NOW
Nowadays they'd scream out BLM.
@@ekop1778what guns the government want to get rid of them but not the police guns some police officers are good people but they are more killer cops than good ones
Another 43 years would pass before NYC had another major riot!
I'm surprised that there was a city left. BTW, I knew of some shopkeepers there who lost their businesses as a result of the chaos.
Insurab9is important. I wonder if their claims were denied because of the "insurrection " clause
@@valjohnson1927 The claims were denied because of that.
I was 2 years old living in Brooklyn with my parents....I came here because I just wanted to know what happened that night....I don't remember....🤷♀️
I remember being stuck in a Burger King during the 77 black out at 12 years old lots of looting in the South Bronx I didn’t see much on Fordham Road though
Some say the stereo stores were definitely being looted and that’s when a whole bunch of DJ’s were born.
Damn it’s crazy to look at how people were living through this type of stuff, and it’s crazy my grandparents raised my mom and her siblings during the 60s-90s
Loved your statement...I am one of those "people" who lived through this type of stuff, and thankfully have every single marble still left in my head!
@@phyllissnookI was born in 2006, I’m a history nerd so I love hearing stories like this
47 Years On July 13!
If it wasn't for that blackout, there wouldn't be a whole lot of hip-hop groups coming out. Most kids couldn't afford DJ equipment. I consider the 77 Blackout was part of the evolution of Hip-Hop Groups!
Facts
The 1977 NYC Blackout and Riots was like "The Cambrian Explosion" (to borrow a geological timeline term) for Hip Hop! 🤣🤣🤣
Was coming back from Great Adventure, hit the GW and the rest is history
I think they cut out the part where John Tesh wished Elizabeth Taylor a happy birthday
I was sitting on the porch when it happened
i was hanging in my friends apt in her kitchen listening to the nyc black out we all were in
i remember that night for about a minute the sky went from pitch black to daylight and back to a black sky it made people think a nuke went off... theres more conspiracy mystery to this
Im not sure but the 2003 blackout was alot less dangerous. I worked in Toronto and lived in Hamilton Ont. It was a 2 hour drive. We had about $20 and we needed gas to get out of the GTA to go up north to make sure my ex's grandmother was alone.
I remember it was extremely hot, no relief from the heat, probably the same in NYC
Isn't it a coincidence that a blackout occurred decades later on the "13th of the month" in August 2003
Wow I'm 60 yrs old now and I Remember coming back from a Family Vacation down Florida and coming back to New Jersey and I Remember seeing my parents and older Siblings looking Over at the NY Skyline in disbelief and it Happened on my birthday No Less
The 2003 blackout was more iconic and much more civilized tbh.
How "iconic"?
Not sure if it is iconic, but it definitely was far more civilized! 🤣🤣🤣
Shameful that this was an American city in 1977
Looks like it's in Africa.
Happens on a daily basis in Venezuela. 😅
Most the businesses looted were family owned and privately owned. They never came back .
Broadway was in ruins until around the late 90s.
I loved the 70's, but the City was a shithole. Broke, crime, Maypr Beame, Son of Sam, etc. It had alot of character, to say the least. AND as tawdry as it was, Time Square was erotically dangerous and fun...no Disney back then. Honestly, I miss the excitement of the porn shops and theatres.....
That's when New York city was the best in the 70s. All the movie theaters were all next to each other on the same block. All the Porno shops Hookers all over the place. Manhattan was so much fun back than the seedy side of it.
@@kevinclark8549 You nailed it, Kevin. Rather have that then the crime, homeless everywhere, Disney tourists, shelters of today. Yeah, the porn theatres were great, I went, the excitement was great. Enjoy your evening, Kevin.
@@jeffbengert2863 you to Jeff thanks.
@@jeffbengert2863 there is a great Documentary around that Era. It's called the Torso killer. Richard Cottingham he was a serial killer. He was killing girls in the Time's Square and NJ areas. It's on Netflix. It's in 4 part's excellent documentary checkout when you get a chance.
@@kevinclark8549 Thank you, Kevin. Yes, I am familiar with him. He's probably somewhere on these crazy social media platforms in alias.....Jeff not a fan of social media. I believe he is still alive, in Jersey, prison, and if I remember what I read, one of his victim's daughters is trying to "bond" with him in some way or forgive him or something odd..... I think he picked up prostitutes and murdered a couple in Times Square back then in a seedy hotel there back then. Hey, I made it to 59, and have found recollections of those 70s growing up in Jersey and the "danger" that lurked in the City back then. I'd rather have that then this WOKE progressive bs and Disney characters etal .....Be well Kevin, and try not to get shot these days...
22:55 The Chicago Cubs were beating the NY Mets 2-1 when that dreaded blackout happened.
Funny that. 😅
Is that a young Al Sharpton at 19:13 getting arrested for looting?
New york had a history of blackouts 1965 then 1977 in the 90s
Lightning striking a sub station caused this much of a blackout ?
Lies.
@@lonniejolly5882 That’s what the report said
45 years ago. jesus...i was only 6 years old then?
ANIMALS THEN....ANIMALS NOW
Yep, the mayo ones... like the Son of Sam for example
hey your lazy greedy ancestor's brought us animals over here to build there stolen land I CALL IT KARMA LOL
And always will be it’s in their genes
He turned ny into a dump
don't know about the mayo but the hood was a mess..looting and robbing.. really pathetic..
I was 10 years old when this happened. I remember my mother sitting in the kitchen with a shotgun so she could see the front door and Fire escape so if anyone was trying to come in. She sat there until my father came back from work and took over. The looters were setting buildings on fire. So when the tenants ran out they would go in their apartments and take everything. My Father and other people from our building were protecting our building from the looters and checking on the elderly that lived in the building. It was really terrifying seeing hundreds of people just going insane running all over the place steeling beating people up setting businesses and buildings on fire and Police just standing there doing nothing.
Preppers, remember, this could easily happen again on an even wider scale. Remember the risk we face from things like another Carrington Event occurring.
4:24 is this Con Edison who Kool G Rap mentioned ?
@@omalone1169 Not that I know of. Have you heard of the Carrington Event, before?
Oh yeah, if you think this event is bad, just you wait until this does happen again but the entire country blacks out, not just for one day, but for an entire week. Now that would be something to watch and see what happens next, now that people's smartphone batteries may not even last long enough to withstand a week without power. But my dad's prepped for anything nowadays compared to Hurricane Sandy and the 2003 Blackout 10 to 20 years ago.
@@SuperFlashDrivergood thi g I have a solar charge power bank
I wonder what it was like in Rikers Island and the MHD.
Don’t be surprised if it happens again
Did any of thease merchant have insurance did they get compensation
I like to remember more "uplifting" things like when the guy climbed the World Trade Center a few weeks before.
En ese año el 1977 aprox., MDNA estaba pasando por momentos tristes😢
Omg John Tesh RIP Brotha you had a magnificent career I was nine years old when the lights went out 1977 like 9/11/01 & the year 2020 I will never forget
I hope we don’t see nothing like that again but with crime is up is posible it could happen
Um, John Tesh is still alive and well; you're probably thinking of Jim Jensen (who died in 1999).
We witnessed here the very last time a "journalist" ever truly confronted a wrong doer.