Thank you for posting this video. I grew up in Flushing in the late 70's, 80's and 90's...graduated from Flushing HS (attended P.S. 21 and JHS 189)...worked at STERNS on Roosevelt Ave. (which is now Macy's and used to be Gertz). I remember going to many movies at the RKO Keiths, buying school supplies from Peck's, and sporting goods from Hobby-Den... AND who can forget Jolly Joints! Indeed, there were some legendary mom & pop stores in this historic community. Thanks for sharing this great clip!
The Jolly Joint is where I bought my first two red Aerosmith t-shirts in 1976. I worked at Stern's on Roosevelt Ave in 1982 in the men's department on the 1st floor. I remember the UA Quartet and RKO Theater. The Quartet was closer to my house on 163rd St. I went to PS 32, IS 25, Francis Lewis, and QCC in Bayside. I miss the 1970s and early 1980s back in Queens.
I was born and raised in Flushing and lived their from 1972 (born) till I moved out (fled) in 1995. Early memories were great, stoop ball, Keiths RKO, etc. It's so sad what happened to Flushing. I hate going back, and how the current populas doesn't give a damn about it's history and their distruction of a once beautiful neighborhood.
This movie is mislabeled as Thanksgiving Day Parade. This parade was known as the Christmas Parade and was sponsored by the Flushing Chamber of Commerce. It was held on the first Saturday in December NEVER on Thanksgiving Day. Please notice that all the stores are open which they never were on Thanksgiving! The location was at Main St and 38th Ave. The photographer is standing on the West side of the street in front of Joyce Leslie. You can clearly see Grant's, Barnetts (ladies clothes), Bertrude's, Regal Shoes, Danbury Hat, Danbury Clothes (men's) Thom McCann, Ripley's, Queens County Savings Bank. The photographer then crossed Main St to take pictures that included the family in front of Joyce Leslie (you can't see the sign). Next to Joyce Leslie is a Snow White shop and the my father's jewelry store A.J. Gessner (you can only see the flashing Jeweler sign), Miles, Famous Fashion, John's Bargain Store, National Shoes and Masters. The band dressed in colonial costume were the 'Bethpage Colonials' a well known band from Long Island who performed in many parades and events. At the time there were approximately 15 shoe stores in the Main St shopping area. (Main St. from Northern Blvd to Kissena Blvd and on Roosevelt Ave.!
I lived in Flushing back then and I remember the parades. In 1969 I Was 7. I love the memories of Flushing from back in those days. I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting it and bringing us back to the "good old days" in Flushing.
We moved to Flushing in 1961, when there was only red and green light traffic signal. The 7 train had blue light gloves saying IRT Subway lines. It was par of the company that ran subway trains and El trains in the Bronx and Manhattan. The line also had a branch of the 2nd. Ave. El that went over the Queensboro Bridge.
You got that right! I was standing on the Flushing Main Street LIRR Station platform looking towards downtown Flushing and for a split instant through I was watching a PBS special on Hong Kong. The average person moving to New York today would never imagine a video like yours existed. It is common knowledge today that Flushing is North America's second largest Chinatown.
Great home video. It made me look through my old albums until I found pics of a parade from 1970 or 71. Didn't even know my dad took pictures of me watching.
Hi, and thank you for sharing this film and thanks to all the people who shared their stories and info! I was a baby (toddler) around this time and am thinking my mom brought me to the parade because it all seems so familiar! We lived in Woodside until the early 70's and then on Bowne St., near Cherry St till around '77.
Iteach I remember Jahns well. My brother worked there in the mid to late 60's with a bunch of his friends. Great memories in this Vid. Thanks to the guy or gal who posted it
I remember ALL the stores, this is a great trip down memory lane. I'm still looking for the clock on Roosevelt and Main, the gangs favorite meeting place.
I'm from Shaghai, China. I have lived in Flushing for almost 20 years. In China, only people from Tier one cities like Shanghai or Hong Kong are considered westernized Chinese, they speak English and live a very westernized lifestyle while the rest are just farmers and peasants came from rural or country regions of China, they are even looked down by Chinese from Shanghai and Hong Kong. A great deal of them were also from Fujian, a state in China where all of them smuggled here illegally with no education at all. It is sad white residents started to move out of flushing in the early 2000s. But now real estate developers built massive luxury condos like Skyview condominium and Flushing Common are amongst the most expensive condos in New York just to rob money from people because they knew Chinese got money and willing to pay big bucks for that. Flushing really has changed a lot. Unfortunately, it will probably never go back to the way it was. We can only hope the second and third generation Chinese who grew up here and educated here can make some significant changes to improve Chinese immigrants' manner and well being.
An insightful and honest reaction to the video. It's painful to see the changes in Flushing where I was born and raised, and we, my family, "escaped" (in the 80s) as many people feel they had to as the neighborhood rapidly morphed into a culture that was no longer anything recognizable. I appreciate your share, it's taught me a lot.
Jack Val OMG! Under the bridge.... Barrone’s Pizza, on one side & across the street there was a florist, shoeshine stand, locksmith & down the block the Prospect Movie Theater! Great memories, so nostalgic! I moved back here to 41st Ave to take care of my 87 yr mom, she’s still in the same apartment going strong!
You can tell it's real Sixties because of the fashions and because of the pole-mounted signals. Thank you for sharing this view of Flushing, @27 November 1969!
Lived in Flushing from 1970-1995. Still drop by every two months or so. The "memory" of Flushing as once being "white" is pure fiction. It was for decades largely settled by 1st gen immigrants that eventually move elsewhere. My first grade class (1970) comprised more than 50% non-white students (Hispanic, Asian, Black, Indian). The so-called "white" students were in fact mostly Irish, Italian, and Polish. 70's Flushing was not Mayberry. 70's Flushing = drugs + roving gangs of thugs.
I gotta say people by nature hate to see changes to their home towns, which I completely understand. If I were Italian or Irish born and raised in Flushing, I would feel uncomfortable surrounded by non-whites while visiting the area that I used to know very well. But then again, that's the same kind of immigrant experience that other ethnic groups also have. For example, not a lot people know that the US immigration was making Italian language tests mandatory to Italian immigrants at the turn of the last century as part of the permanent residence requirements, primarily targeting Italian immigrants who at the time were mostly illiterate. So what I am trying to say is, it's easy to point fingers and lay blames on others, but it's not easy for people to look back and realize that their ancestors had also experienced the same thing, the only difference now is, it used to be waspy whites blaming Catholic Irish and Italians for changing their neighborhood demographics, and now it's the Italians and Irish who blamed the Asians for the same thing, what an irony.
The difference, Arthur, is that Italian immigrants were encouraged - quite strongly - to speak English. They didn't have their own banks, their own real estate agencies, and unchecked illegal immigration. I don't think anyone is "blaming" others for the changes in Flushing as much as they are expressing nostalgia for the way it was. I don't see anything wrong with that. In the 50s Main Street Flushing was quite classy. Have you taken a look at Main Street lately? Many of us are simply nostalgic for the way it used to be, and I think that's quite warranted more than it is ironic. I don't mean to be argumentative, but I just miss the old days. I think a lot of us do but are afraid to say so.
Thanks for the memories! I grew up in College Point. Use to march in a lot of parades ...mostly in CP but I did attend some of those Flushing parades as a child!
Chinese people love the main street flushing . This is their " the 5th ave. Of the manhattan" . The rent of stores are even higher . A very small booth selling Chinese food in the basement of the corner of main street building rented $30,000 a month . Because all businesses are HOT over there .
Flushing main street is mostly banks now interlaced with restaurants, asian supermarkets and herbalist stores. Even Pecks left last year... I guess having a Staples AND an office Depot nearby made the sale of that prime property irresistable.
They had to leave with everyone else coming in. I have been here for 30 years and it has the largest concentration of Asians in America, I read on Wikipedia. It's home to a new group of people now.
Guys 1969 I was 4 years old and I rember this. I am now 43 i rember when everything was in english. Now i am ashamed to still live near mainstreet. I can not read chineese or korean . But I love this video. and is that kid with the red hat and glasses still alive ? let me know .
oh my god... it's changed so much i dont even recognize it... THAT'S NORTHERN ND MAIN??? AT 50 SEC??? get outta here... i had a dream once that i woke up in the 60's and it looked almost exactly like this =\ no asians... trees all over... old vehicles from the 60s... i really wish i could have seen it
The FCVAC ambulance is briefly shown in this video. As for the cultural aspect, this is the circle of life in a neighborhood. Ethnic groups come and a few generations later, other groups want to share in the "better" neighborhood, so they move in and so it goes. Harlem use to be "uptown" in the 19th and early 20th centuries and slowly disintegrated as the wealthy fled Manhattan to go elsewhere.
So sad to see what has happened to an all-American town...no more English signs and marching bands...I am old enough to remember the way it was. It was lovely then. Thanks for the memories from Canada.
I grew up on Main Street, and came home from foster care just a few months after this parade. I would have sure remembered it. I know the stores.. I was there recently. We do not live in the same world any more, but I hope we can return to a humane one fast. Thanks for this... dina
@steinb26: Thanks for your comment. At least one white person is willing to admit their parents' leaving New York City was the cause of the city's transformation.
No Thanksgiving parade on Main Street these days, though a very colorful dragon dances through the streets at the Asian Lunar New Year parade in either January or February.. But to all the old white people leaving comments about how great Flushing used to be, if you think Flushing has gone for the worse then you have no one but yourselves to blame. You decided to sell your homes to leave New York City, and then you get mad when Asians move into a neighborhood you selfishly abandoned?
excellent cinematography and film ...very speilbergian...i had to feature this video on my video book or vlog called bellerose television47 to expose awareness of this fine time capsule
Ditto. I like the clambar where the Q17 left me off for my trip to NY on the 7 train. How 'bout the Hurdy Gurdy, Woolworths and Gloria Pizza. All gone now. The Hurdy Gurdy was a joint on Roosevelt ave. like Nathan's.
dino- I used to grab a dog at that same corner Clam bar. Remember you could see them cooking in the window? How 'bout the "Hurdy Gurdy" on Roosevelt ave? Rember-- it was like Nathan's. Miss that old place.
Flushing Pros: 1. Major bus hub in North Queens 2. Extremely cheap products and groceriesfind in other ones. 3. A major center in NYC for its diversity. Flushing Cons: 1. Major traffic problems as well as pedestrian flow 2. Dirty streets, especially those big cracks on the side filled with smelly disgusting water. 3. Noise pollution, as one will never have a nap without hearing the honking and the chattering and the traffic coming and going, especially during peak times.
@Danny11354 Why not stop for a minute & consider why that happened before you attribute it to "selfishness". People get old, they want to stop working so hard to maintain properties that are too big for an old couple, with kids having moved away. The only people in a position to pay market prices for them are newly rich Asian immiigrants; some move in their own families, some rent out to other immigrants. This starts a domino effect - you have to jump on the sale bandwagon or lose land value.
I live in flushing now, cool video. Is lot of Asian people but is also mix with other race too. Most of the building is still there, just the sign change. subway sandwich just open ,burger king, 2 McDonalds restaurant, Joes burger 2 pizza restaurant, sbarro & that old church still there, Army recruiting macy models still there.
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No no, I didn't mean that there should be NO white people at all. Forgive me for my comment. I went through so many racist people on here I ended up thinking you were one because I didn't read it correctly or just misunderstood.
Thank you! Beautiful video bring back so many memories
Yep, I be him. 45 years old and still kick'n.
My dad shot this movie. He still lives in Flushing.
Man, I miss the old Main Street.
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Thank your dad for the movie and yes every one of us misses the old Main Street and the old Flushing
Real Americana. Its now gone forever. it was a special place and I'm glad i lived there from 1954 to 1982
Thank you for posting this video. I grew up in Flushing in the late 70's, 80's and 90's...graduated from Flushing HS (attended P.S. 21 and JHS 189)...worked at STERNS on Roosevelt Ave. (which is now Macy's and used to be Gertz). I remember going to many movies at the RKO Keiths, buying school supplies from Peck's, and sporting goods from Hobby-Den... AND who can forget Jolly Joints! Indeed, there were some legendary mom & pop stores in this historic community. Thanks for sharing this great clip!
I went to P.S.24 and JHS 189 moved away in 1970 I can't believe how much it's changed.
The Jolly Joint is where I bought my first two red Aerosmith t-shirts in 1976. I worked at Stern's on Roosevelt Ave in 1982 in the men's department on the 1st floor. I remember the UA Quartet and RKO Theater. The Quartet was closer to my house on 163rd St. I went to PS 32, IS 25, Francis Lewis, and QCC in Bayside. I miss the 1970s and early 1980s back in Queens.
I was born and raised in Flushing and lived their from 1972 (born) till I moved out (fled) in 1995. Early memories were great, stoop ball, Keiths RKO, etc. It's so sad what happened to Flushing. I hate going back, and how the current populas doesn't give a damn about it's history and their distruction of a once beautiful neighborhood.
The Chinese are not known for their cleanliness are they?
@@footerotica882 I'm sure the white druggies on Main Street agree with you...
I was 7 and was there with my Family. Went every year.
This movie is mislabeled as Thanksgiving Day Parade. This parade was known as the Christmas Parade and was sponsored by the Flushing Chamber of Commerce. It was held on the first Saturday in December NEVER on Thanksgiving Day. Please notice that all the stores are open which they never were on Thanksgiving! The location was at Main St and 38th Ave. The photographer is standing on the West side of the street in front of Joyce Leslie. You can clearly see Grant's, Barnetts (ladies clothes), Bertrude's, Regal Shoes, Danbury Hat, Danbury Clothes (men's) Thom McCann, Ripley's, Queens County Savings Bank. The photographer then crossed Main St to take pictures that included the family in front of Joyce Leslie (you can't see the sign). Next to Joyce Leslie is a Snow White shop and the my father's jewelry store A.J. Gessner (you can only see the flashing Jeweler sign), Miles, Famous Fashion, John's Bargain Store, National Shoes and Masters. The band dressed in colonial costume were the 'Bethpage Colonials' a well known band from Long Island who performed in many parades and events. At the time there were approximately 15 shoe stores in the Main St shopping area. (Main St. from Northern Blvd to Kissena Blvd and on Roosevelt Ave.!
MyTH-cam comments - wow.. thanks for the explanation.. amazing footage
MyTH-cam comments wow almost no Asians lmao
Great comment
Thanks for all the info. Seeing those stores again brought back a lot of memories. Did a lot of shopping in Flushing. You would not recognize it now‼️
I was wondering where Joyce Leslie went!
I lived in Flushing back then and I remember the parades. In 1969 I Was 7. I love the memories of Flushing from back in those days. I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting it and bringing us back to the "good old days" in Flushing.
Thanks so Much for Sharing. I lived in Flushing. What a beautiful Place back in those days. It's changed drastically.
We moved to Flushing in 1961, when there was only red and green light traffic signal. The 7 train had blue light gloves
saying IRT Subway lines. It was par of the company that ran subway trains and El trains in the Bronx and Manhattan.
The line also had a branch of the 2nd. Ave. El that went over the Queensboro Bridge.
Never knew Flushing, Queens had their own Thanksgiving Day parade. Btw, those stores are long gone. Thanks for posting ‼️
love the Schaefer beer float..."Schaefer,the one beer to have when you're having more than one!" Great memories!
i like that there was a store that was just called "WORK CLOTHES"
Wow those boys remind me of "The Christmas Story" I see someone who looks like Ralph, his father and brother...awesome
Yes he looks just like Ralphie. Cute kids. I was 2 then.
You got that right! I was standing on the Flushing Main Street LIRR Station platform looking towards downtown Flushing and for a split instant through I was watching a PBS special on Hong Kong. The average person moving to New York today would never imagine a video like yours existed. It is common knowledge today that Flushing is North America's second largest Chinatown.
i was there the other day what a dam pig stye flushing has turn into holy
fucking wonton soup..
Good! Less idiots like you makes the place better!
I agree. This is my home town. Pretty much the way when I grew up. Beautiful. Now is nothing like it used to be.
It’s all Chinese
Great home video. It made me look through my old albums until I found pics of a parade from 1970 or 71. Didn't even know my dad took pictures of me watching.
Hi, and thank you for sharing this film and thanks to all the people who shared their stories and info! I was a baby (toddler) around this time and am thinking my mom brought me to the parade because it all seems so familiar! We lived in Woodside until the early 70's and then on Bowne St., near Cherry St till around '77.
store signs with english letters.....WOW : D
i like flushing right now. it has that multi cultural vibe
I re-visited & it was so sad how it wasn't anything like it was when I grew up there...
LOL
It's all 80% Asians, 15% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 1% other.
Best thing to Flushing was getting rid of pagan Catholics like you
Remember going upstairs at Masters. Great diversed town to visit back then!! Now all Asian food etc.
really great, I grew up in Flushing as a kid, moved to Europe in 1970,
thanks for the video
I love the Schaeffer beer train. My dad drank Schaefer beer. Look at the giant beer can.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was a kid in upstate NY in the late 60s and this just brings back memories...the go-go dancers at the end are KILLER!
My cousins dressed like that!
i'll be waiting for the day when a time machine is built so i can go back.
im there all the time and it has changed a lot in 10 years. im only 26 but i miss the way it was 12 years ago
Iteach
I remember Jahns well. My brother worked there in the mid to late 60's with a bunch of his friends.
Great memories in this Vid. Thanks to the guy or gal who posted it
I remember ALL the stores, this is a great trip down memory lane. I'm still looking for the clock on Roosevelt and Main, the gangs favorite meeting place.
I'm from Shaghai, China. I have lived in Flushing for almost 20 years. In China, only people from Tier one cities like Shanghai or Hong Kong are considered westernized Chinese, they speak English and live a very westernized lifestyle while the rest are just farmers and peasants came from rural or country regions of China, they are even looked down by Chinese from Shanghai and Hong Kong. A great deal of them were also from Fujian, a state in China where all of them smuggled here illegally with no education at all. It is sad white residents started to move out of flushing in the early 2000s. But now real estate developers built massive luxury condos like Skyview condominium and Flushing Common are amongst the most expensive condos in New York just to rob money from people because they knew Chinese got money and willing to pay big bucks for that. Flushing really has changed a lot. Unfortunately, it will probably never go back to the way it was. We can only hope the second and third generation Chinese who grew up here and educated here can make some significant changes to improve Chinese immigrants' manner and well being.
An insightful and honest reaction to the video. It's painful to see the changes in Flushing where I was born and raised, and we, my family, "escaped" (in the 80s) as many people feel they had to as the neighborhood rapidly morphed into a culture that was no longer anything recognizable. I appreciate your share, it's taught me a lot.
describe it as you wish, nothing but a cesspool in 2023
I remember hanging out at the Plaza Drug store back in the 50's 60's,And was working under the bridge in the florist shop as a kid
Jack Val OMG! Under the bridge.... Barrone’s Pizza, on one side & across the street there was a florist, shoeshine stand, locksmith & down the block the Prospect Movie Theater! Great memories, so nostalgic! I moved back here to 41st Ave to take care of my 87 yr mom, she’s still in the same apartment going strong!
I pass this place everyday , it looks so clean in this video , and can't believe I can actually read the signs on the stores
You can tell it's real Sixties because of the fashions and because of the pole-mounted signals. Thank you for sharing this view of Flushing, @27 November 1969!
Lived in Flushing from 1970-1995. Still drop by every two months or so.
The "memory" of Flushing as once being "white" is pure fiction. It was for decades largely settled by 1st gen immigrants that eventually move elsewhere. My first grade class (1970) comprised more than 50% non-white students (Hispanic, Asian, Black, Indian). The so-called "white" students were in fact mostly Irish, Italian, and Polish.
70's Flushing was not Mayberry. 70's Flushing = drugs + roving gangs of thugs.
I tell friends now, when I talk about Flushing in the late 60s that going to school there was like going to school at the U.N. Very diversified.
Main Street is actually taking over by young white druggies lately. Most of them sit around with pets(dogs or cats) begging for money to buy drug...
graduated from Flushing HS lived there
The Bland was always there
miss Gloria Pizza
1975..it was slightly changing..
slightly?
There's the RKO Keith in the distance!! What a fabulous movie theatre in its day!
I gotta say people by nature hate to see changes to their home towns, which I completely understand. If I were Italian or Irish born and raised in Flushing, I would feel uncomfortable surrounded by non-whites while visiting the area that I used to know very well. But then again, that's the same kind of immigrant experience that other ethnic groups also have. For example, not a lot people know that the US immigration was making Italian language tests mandatory to Italian immigrants at the turn of the last century as part of the permanent residence requirements, primarily targeting Italian immigrants who at the time were mostly illiterate. So what I am trying to say is, it's easy to point fingers and lay blames on others, but it's not easy for people to look back and realize that their ancestors had also experienced the same thing, the only difference now is, it used to be waspy whites blaming Catholic Irish and Italians for changing their neighborhood demographics, and now it's the Italians and Irish who blamed the Asians for the same thing, what an irony.
Not everyone feels like this, some accept change and are able to move on to bigger and better things.
The difference, Arthur, is that Italian immigrants were encouraged - quite strongly - to speak English. They didn't have their own banks, their own real estate agencies, and unchecked illegal immigration. I don't think anyone is "blaming" others for the changes in Flushing as much as they are expressing nostalgia for the way it was. I don't see anything wrong with that. In the 50s Main Street Flushing was quite classy. Have you taken a look at Main Street lately? Many of us are simply nostalgic for the way it used to be, and I think that's quite warranted more than it is ironic. I don't mean to be argumentative, but I just miss the old days. I think a lot of us do but are afraid to say so.
Thanks for the memories! I grew up in College Point. Use to march in a lot of parades ...mostly in CP but I did attend some of those Flushing parades as a child!
back then we called it garbage point..because of the landfills, where those homes built in the 80's are?
the good old day's before FLUSHING BECAME I'M SO DUMB LAND..................
Thank you for sharing.
along with a friend we think we identified one of the marching bands . abt 1:39 St Pancras Glendale NY
2:28 is that the road that leads to skyview center? looks really weird without it there
All those kids are in thier 50s now and most adults are probably dead.
I was 2 when this footage was taken. Wow, where did we go wrong. It's not like that anymore.
phone cameras must not have had as many pixels back then
Chinese people love the main street flushing . This is their " the 5th ave. Of the manhattan" . The rent of stores are even higher . A very small booth selling Chinese food in the basement of the corner of main street building rented $30,000 a month . Because all businesses are HOT over there .
Joe Lee gtfo
Food is good ngl
I like the hats the young boys had on, don't see them today!! I bet that dog with the clown is now dead. Maybe the clown is too!
Flushing main street is mostly banks now interlaced with restaurants, asian supermarkets and herbalist stores.
Even Pecks left last year... I guess having a Staples AND an office Depot nearby made the sale of that prime property irresistable.
Good!!! Their food taste great!
They had to leave with everyone else coming in. I have been here for 30 years and it has the largest concentration of Asians in America, I read on Wikipedia. It's home to a new group of people now.
Guys 1969 I was 4 years old and I rember this. I am now 43 i rember when everything was in english. Now i am ashamed to still live near mainstreet. I can not read chineese or korean . But I love this video. and is that kid with the red hat and glasses still alive ? let me know .
Lots of neon signage on Main Street in Flushing. Really brought back great memories of my childhood. Any more home movies from back then? :-)
oh my god... it's changed so much i dont even recognize it...
THAT'S NORTHERN ND MAIN??? AT 50 SEC??? get outta here...
i had a dream once that i woke up in the 60's and it looked almost exactly like this =\ no asians... trees all over... old vehicles from the 60s... i really wish i could have seen it
omg....thats mainstreet?! lol this happened before i was born
Yes times change ya like quiet and whites ya move to port Jefferson long lsland I moved too Staten Island for 25 yrs oh my goodness
Its a foreign country now.
Cry more
@@guomondur9248Small penis man
Great camera work! Thanks for sharing.
I love the go-go girl at the end and the Schafer Beer train.
The FCVAC ambulance is briefly shown in this video. As for the cultural aspect, this is the circle of life in a neighborhood. Ethnic groups come and a few generations later, other groups want to share in the "better" neighborhood, so they move in and so it goes. Harlem use to be "uptown" in the 19th and early 20th centuries and slowly disintegrated as the wealthy fled Manhattan to go elsewhere.
Totally awseome vid!! Thanks.
the good old days, when drinking during lunch was fine, much simpler time
So sad to see what has happened to an all-American town...no more English signs and marching bands...I am old enough to remember the way it was. It was lovely then. Thanks for the memories from Canada.
Lmao there are plenty of english signs there...can't you read?!?
Bonnie blew bell, you were the easy girl we all knew from high school
@@bonniebluebell5940 oh wow thanks for the long unessesary rant!
Bonniebluebell, I could not agree with you more. Disregard the nasty remarks. It's a tragedy what happened to our once classy neighborhood.
I'm sure the white druggies on Main Street bring back a lot of memories for you...
I grew up on Main Street, and came home from foster care just a few months after this parade. I would have sure remembered it. I know the stores.. I was there recently. We do not live in the same world any more, but I hope we can return to a humane one fast. Thanks for this... dina
@steinb26: Thanks for your comment. At least one white person is willing to admit their parents' leaving New York City was the cause of the city's transformation.
No Thanksgiving parade on Main Street these days, though a very colorful dragon dances through the streets at the Asian Lunar New Year parade in either January or February..
But to all the old white people leaving comments about how great Flushing used to be, if you think Flushing has gone for the worse then you have no one but yourselves to blame. You decided to sell your homes to leave New York City, and then you get mad when Asians move into a neighborhood you selfishly abandoned?
I grew up in Flushing in the 80's. It was great very diverse. Sad too see it just one culture. P.S. 24 IS 237 FTW!!
I see all the fathers taking their kids. I guess the moms are at home cooking. Such a simpler time.
Look, the signs are all in English!
i hear they used the rko theater for dumping oil in the basement for awhile and now theyre seeing how long it takes water and gravity to take it down
Honestly I’m just trying figure out which stores are the current stores now :/
excellent cinematography and film ...very speilbergian...i had to feature this video on my video book or vlog called bellerose television47 to expose awareness of this fine time capsule
I use to shine shoes under the LIR Bridge in Flushing...Tony Avena was the owner..
depressing...that Flushing no longer exists.....
angrybob yes it does 😂😂
I live in flushing
Ditto. I like the clambar where the Q17 left me off for my trip to NY on the 7 train. How 'bout
the Hurdy Gurdy, Woolworths and Gloria Pizza. All gone now.
The Hurdy Gurdy was a joint on Roosevelt ave. like Nathan's.
dino- I used to grab a dog at that same corner Clam bar. Remember you could see them cooking in the window?
How 'bout the "Hurdy Gurdy" on Roosevelt ave?
Rember-- it was like Nathan's. Miss that old place.
Flushing? Just call it Fooshing, and I should know.......
No that's just you being dumb
Cant we all just get along?
notice all the live cats roaming around this video.....without a care in the world??? hmmmm.........
How many SHOE STORES did Flushing need? I saw: Thom McAn, Hardy, Adler, Miles, Regal... All on the same block - And ALL OF THEM are no longer....
At least they made shoes in the USA in those days now it seems that all of them are made in China.
The only thing still left is the clock ☮️
Flushing Pros:
1. Major bus hub in North Queens
2. Extremely cheap products and groceriesfind in other ones.
3. A major center in NYC for its diversity.
Flushing Cons:
1. Major traffic problems as well as pedestrian flow
2. Dirty streets, especially those big cracks on the side filled with smelly disgusting water.
3. Noise pollution, as one will never have a nap without hearing the honking and the chattering and the traffic coming and going, especially during peak times.
How ironic that they would play the "Monty Python " theme in the same year that the show premiered?
All those little kids in the video are in their late forties now! :D
ok im speachless
Just look at the reply video and you can see what Main Street looks like now.
When did they stop having this parade? This is just before I was born.
Prospect Theater.. ahh yes. When I was 10 my parents would take me to Kahns Ice Cream Parlor a few doors down.. Memba that?
I think you mean Jahns. I used to go there for chocolate ice cream sodas.
I lived in Brooklyn myself.
Yeah it was all pretty awful how it happened at all.
@Danny11354 Why not stop for a minute & consider why that happened before you attribute it to "selfishness". People get old, they want to stop working so hard to maintain properties that are too big for an old couple, with kids having moved away. The only people in a position to pay market prices for them are newly rich Asian immiigrants; some move in their own families, some rent out to other immigrants. This starts a domino effect - you have to jump on the sale bandwagon or lose land value.
Great footage it makes me sad to see it today and the development that has taken place.
I live in flushing now, cool video. Is lot of Asian people but is also mix with other race too. Most of the building is still there, just the sign change.
subway sandwich just open ,burger king, 2 McDonalds restaurant, Joes burger 2 pizza restaurant, sbarro & that old church still there, Army recruiting macy models still there.
lol now its just chinese supermarkets and tiny restaurants/food stands
Opening the clip with what became the MONTY PYTHON theme? Inspired!
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Wow I lice near flushinf and that parade today would look alot different.
No one in this video is under 40 years old.
we need white people in Flushing
marines aint proud
We need racists out of Flushing
Douglas MacArthur what’s wrong with having white people moving to Flushing? Your comment is the prime example of racism.
No no, I didn't mean that there should be NO white people at all. Forgive me for my comment. I went through so many racist people on here I ended up thinking you were one because I didn't read it correctly or just misunderstood.
Douglas MacArthur your still a liberal turd.
omg i attended P.S.21 too
:( not only is Peck's gone, the building is gone too. I think its just a hole in the ground at this time.
When it was Flushing not Flooshing....so sad how it has changed
So much nicer now without the wops
+Segmented Tropics You're shameful
Segmented Tropics flushing no longer smell of garlic and oil
smell like sushi now
@@ras124 smells like ass just like it did many years ago... Welcome to NYC!!!