Times Square - New York City Tour, Nov 19, 1987 - Part 2
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- 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.
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
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
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.
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.
Pretty amazing to see this old footage. It’s like a whole different world.
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.
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 was 18 yrs old in 87, and 42.st was my playground
I was 20
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.
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 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.
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...
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 loved old Times Square. At 18 those video shots and lives shows were an education
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
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!
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!
All those electronic devices in the front window display can all be done by your smart phone now.
Correct
Wow man I was 10 years old. I sure do miss the good times as a kid. I miss the 80s!
Thomas Me too! Nothing like growing up in the 80s. Good times
@@realtor778 With all this craziness going on in this world of 2020 I just want to go back in time and stay for a bit.
@@MrPortwinestain But what if Covid happened during those times.
Back in that day, we had good music from R.E.M., Aerosmith, KISS, Motley Crue, Guns N Roses, U2, George Michael, Fleetwood Mac, Whitesnake and The Cult.
GEORGE MICHAEL! cringeworthy back then but I am in awe at his talent now. Watch the Tribute Concert to Freddy Mercury, he sang 'Somebody to Love'. I had tears in my eyes for him and Freddy, Freddy's bandmates did, too. And I do NOW dammit! Let's see... Annie Lenox, Fine Young Cannibals, The Clash. Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Butthole Surfers, Black 47, Ramones. I'm exhausted.
So what song is that in the beginning I loved it
At the 8:25 mark I seen my old place of employment Nathan's . I worked there on the weekends from 7:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. on Friday and then on Saturday and Sunday it was from 7:00 P.M. till closing time. After cleaning I was out by 3:00A.M.
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.
So lost to time now........but so sadly familiar to my heart......this is like a time machine I could only wish to walk into and relish these moments all over again........that of course will never be, but after all....time waits for no one....
The last remnants of old Times Square were around when I was a kid in the late 80s. I remember vaguely the early 80s when I was 3-5 years old and there was still some of that edge to it but I was naive and it wasn't a place my family would keep me in for long (LOL). I live in Manhattan and can't say that I miss it being there but I would've loved to have been there in the 60s/70s as an adult to appreciate what it was like.
Yeah Manhattan started its descent in mid seventies w/Ford telling NYC to "...drop dead..." Porn & liquor stores took over 42nd & 8th. Took a while to get cleaned up. Nineties saw Disney move in. Guess after 9/11 it's better now. Wonder if NYC will return to its old self.
@@bernieudo4399Would say probably not. Too much corporate power to keep those areas Disney-like. I can't say I like the new Times Square either. I think there could've been something between the two extremes.
that mcdonadls is still there.
Thank you!! I love this video. I would have liked to go to New York at this time, but I was 3 years old.
"it is the year 2019. The running man is a game noone has ever survived." - Times square billboard.
I paused it to look at that as well! 🙂
All of that in the front window is in your smartphones now.
My hometown NYC. I was 10 years old in 1987 at PS 34 in Queens NY. I LOVE TIMES SQUARE W 42ND ST. 😄😜
Thank you so much for doing this in the 80s.
I was hoping you’d gone inside the Grand Central Terminal , it’s hard to find a good amount of footage on how this terminal used to look back then , today it’s a beautiful terminal , it has become a land mark building that’s visited by millions of tourists towards the end of year , almost 700 thousand commuters pass by this building every day ,so it was exactly one year after this was footage was taken that I immigrated to the U.S ,November 1988.
It brings back nice memories, I was just a 16 year old kid , on my day off from work I used to go down to Times Square and play electronic games lol,I’d say today it just is a lot better ,cleaner , safer ,and more expensive too! ,Can’t believe it’s been over 30 years already ,The city has come a long way ever since ,for sure .Thankyou 👍🏻👏🏻
was it really that dangerous in the '80s in New York?
When you see the changes and compare ,I’d say so ,I mean there is danger any time and any where you live though .
Thank you for this awesome footage ..💯.on this day i was home in diapers lol …going in your channel is literally a time machine to the past 😃..
The thing that surprised me was the 600-800$ cameras and 60$ home phones! Crazy. 40 years from now I wonder how people will view the Apple store, 1,000$ phones, and drones.
Camcorders were wildly overpriced because they were new, it was a huge deal to have your first one, like TV's 35 years earlier. Also remember the Reagan era was a HUGE booming economy, the city was awash with wall streeters making big bucks, most of it ill gotten gains as we later learned, but money was spent freely and wildly in 80's Manhattan.
Was"nt Just Times Square, It Was Good OL New York In General !!!!... THE GOOD OL DAYS !!! HISTORY WILL NOT REPEAT ITSELF & WILL NEVER BE THE SAME !!!!
Pues ahora es mucho mejor , más sofisticada , más elegante el pasado ya se fue
In this video at minute 1.50 appears the same place where they recorded the Fame video of Irene Cara in 1982. Excellent video and song.
Seems like a happier time to be alive
100%
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@Stranded NYer It actually was WAY better... No Cell addiction, Families were intact, people had real relationships, no masks, no social distancing, a Better economy, real friends, businesses were open.... Yes everyone was way Happier 35 years ago
@Stranded NYer Racial tensions are worse today... you are a Dim bulb. NYC is dead forever... time to come into reality man
the big Apple has rotted
Did anyone notice not one police siren 🚨 in this video, in comparison to today that’s all you hear at Time Square today can’t go a few minutes without hearing a siren.
Well there really isn’t audio, it looks loud lol
We use to go over in high school. Back in1978 and 79 when it was really crazy. It seems quiet in this video. Things look different.
Excellent video quality
This store reminds me of the antique store where Marty bought the Almanac lol
I was thinking the same thing. Did you see where it said proudly "1988 technology" It was the latest!
what a fascinating place.
This brings back so many memories of moving to NYC a year later😪😯
U don't look that old...
i wish i could time travel to this place...i'd make a lot of money 😅😄
Классно как окунуться в ту атмосферу. Я родилась только спустя 3 года в 90.
the year I was born!
*_YEAH RIGHT, SHAUN._*
I was 5 years old good times!!
I bought chinese throwing stars from that store just south of Nathans and promtly got suspended from school for bringing them in!
I also played Tron, Ms.Pac Man and Donkey Kong in that Nathans.
AND, I learned I hated gambling bc I lost $38 playing Three Card Monty....again, right outside that Nathans.
Good video.
LOL! A great memory you'll never forget!
you know you can't "lose" 3 card monty, right? It's a scam, it's not winnable lol
@@ccp0406 If I had had my throwing stars, I'd have won. 🤣
@@MrRezRising hahahahahha i believe you
😅I watched but never played!@@ccp0406
Wow I was just weeks OLD back then 😄😃😀
LOL!
THIS is the NYC that I truly miss. Aside from the high crime, this city had charm flavor and uniqueness to it. Now the city is too gentrified and looks nothing more than a Disney and Starbucks hangout thanks to the annoying yuppy millennials that have no taste. They turned this once great city into shit
I agree. This is the REAL New York, not the corporate "Disney" version that we see today.
I know what you mean it's too manufactured.
@@ToddMcDurmont I wish Todd that I could of experienced the real New York City back in 1987 when this was the real New York, but pity I was too late in went in 2009. Also Todd I need your prayers that the Lord will send his Archangels to bring back me and my mother's belongings that we had back at our old apartment from the Donna's apartments in downtown Los Angeles, CA 90007 or where ever that stuff is.
The 90s everything....we didn't need much, fast food quality was much better, music made sense, it moved us, movies released paved the way for films we see today, we dressed however we wanted and nobody cared....I'd go back
Cool video. That's was on 12th birthday lol. I turned 47 last month.
i was 1, 1987, now turned to 36. beautiful ones
I was 3
New Yorkers born in this decade were mostly breastfed as babies unlike 4 decades earlier where they were not. That's why new Yorkers in their 30s still have smooth baby faces and features. They should say "thanks mom"!
I was 6 year old when this was recorded
Eugene those was the best days
I was 17
I was 6 too.
3:00 this guy truly enjoyed being unleashed in the streets ofcl NYC. truly had the best time of his life lol.
Doubt it. 80s was the time mental hospitals were closing. Now you see a lot of homeless in NYC. Sad stuff.
You can't get more of an 80's tune than 3:29
Yeah enjoyed that Miami Vice music.
@@smdvisionphotography what song is that?
@@RhythmsNconditions New york theme
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What about that song in the beginning!!?? I love that one
@@RhythmsNconditionsMiami vice new york
Bryant park didn’t change a bit wild! Literally insane .I live in Hell’s Kitchen currently. This is awesome footage! Great work!
This is the muggy NYC I miss
Damn. I was born 2 months before this was recorded.
This brings back some memories of when I lived in NYC way back when I was a young child around 1993-94 (although this was the late 80s, but it was only a few years earlier).
I've been to the city several times since then, including last year in Times Square, and while I always enjoy being there and enjoy the modern glamor of it, it doesn't quite feel the same as the New York of my childhood.
I have a question though, what's the name of the tune that starts at 3:18?
Actually, I had to look it up. It's been so many years since I edited it. It's from the Miami Vice soundtrack and it's called Jan Hammer - New York Theme - (Miami Vice). Look it up on TH-cam. It really fits, doesn't it? Of course I could have spared us all the "Green Acres" theme but I was young and stupid back them! Glad you enjoyed it and all the memories!
Whoa thanks! Looks like it came from 1988 so it really does fit perfectly with the clip.
Yeah, I was pretty hip and savvy back then! Hehe...
I just need to ask, where you live now? I mean where do you go to after New York....Specially if you grew up there...
I don't live in New York. Great to visit though.
Miss the old arcades where the first gamers were born..
What’s that Miami vice tune called? The beginning.. is that crockett’s theme? Or tubbs theme?
2:05 that small space was all Samsung could afford those days I guess !!
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
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 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
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 !
Nobody on a phone, Amazing!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is when New York looked like the Ghostbusters could come around the corner at any time.😂
Ah yes, I can smell the car exhaust, cigarette smoke, and urine from here. Some things change but Times Square doesn't.
When Michael Jackson ruled the world
Я о нем тоже думала, пока смотрела видео!
His Bad album was released that same year
Nah for some it was Prince, George Michael or Terence Trent D'Arby. Or Slayer ....
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
NO CELL PHONES!!!...You left your house and that was that all that was left was the answering machine.....DAMN I MISS the '80s
Everybody getting along just fine without Devilbook Instasham and Shitter
The big tech product back then was the original Nintendo or a Commodore Amiga.
Well said
yeah yeah phone bad
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!)
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.
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....
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 😁
RIP original Times Square
Yup...Disneyland now!!!
TH-cam 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.
hahaha...Mac Donalds still remains in the same place ! Gosh ! 30 years poisoning the tourists ! hahahahah
Family and I ate there during the Thanksgiving parade that year and watched the floats, while we were free of the cold weather! We just kept ordering food! LOL!
4:20 it's the year 2019 "The Running Man" is the deadly game and no one has ever survived.
Technology made people and things less interesting.
Look at the majority of the stores surrounding these people
Yeah ciz we can get gratification of of a plethora of things in our phones . instantly.
@@nitevibe9886 so? Stores around that area ripped off the stupidest mouth breathers who thought electronics were SO COOL. They catered to the lowest common denominator.
Everything is a mess do to the evolution of technology, seriously
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.
THE OLD NEW YORK CITY THAT GOT GENTRIFIED 😟😩👎
LIKING THE DAMNED IN THE BACKGROUND 😁😀👍
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
NYC before it got overly sanitized and gentrified, and before prices all went skyrocketing.
Yes. It still had a few years left.
Back then when almost all electronic devices such as videocameras tv sets handycams where made in Japan or Taiwan and lasted longer than today's Chinese crap
0.36 paradise!
I still have the Panasonic AG-160 video camera that took the footage you just watched. The camera still works. 👍
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.
You can't go home again, but its cool how you can still catch glimpses of it
Damn... deep.
1- 1:30 everything in that store window can be done with a smart phone today.
Thanks to the tourist that recorded this
How clueless we all were realizing the shit show headed our way in the future.
Boy, no kidding.
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!
Just think, none of those people walking around had a phone on them. People actually left the house with no phone! Nobody had an email. There was no internet. Remarkable when you think about how now we can’t live without that stuff and here everybody is fine without it living productive lives.
Keegan Thorpe BUT if it was available during those times best believe the same will happen as it’s happening now, so enough of the whining!
So true! Everyone read the paper to stay informed
You can't miss what you never had.
I had a adam computer in 1981. If you had free sprint or mci codes you could call anywhere free, so easy to make up. You had to call a seperate computer to read stuff, like jokes, etc. It was boring til a chat line got invented in California i called for years. I had the feeling then it would make the world boring and less social. For fun we would call phone booths around the world.. Called n.y. many times talked to wonderful strangers. Check out documentary on mojave phone booth! You can still call the old # its a party line now. :)
Computers existed in the 80s.... Literally just watched a 1984 movie with a desktop in it
i grow up watching American movies from 80s, 90s, promssed myself to visit America one day. Few month ago I visited LA dam too late, did not look anything like in movies, all the wide and big cars are gone all I saw was toyotas and hondas. Homeless people everywhere, it was shithole.