I know there were problems then----but compared to today, those days beat the hell out of these days. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, or at least not all stressed out. There was some peace, not all the anxiety of today. I really appreciate this nice long video of my city and all the memories from over 40 years ago.
People in our age group (me; born 1964) are have a TERRIBLE time now because we remember when life was Happy , normal, even blah and boring sometimes. But it all feels like a dream. In 2020 , the evils of the word were unleashed . This was all planned . And what's SCARY is- the same thing is going on in EVERY COUNTRY- not just the USA . We know why this is happening . I have NO IDEA how all this bad stuff will get fixed. Thank You God for allowing me to see lighter and more peaceful times and $10.00 concert tickets and $4.00 movie tickets And 69 cents a gallon GAS. ! @@OutOnTheTiles
OMG I might have been in one of these scenes! I was 17/18 at the time, I remember this New York and it was awesome in spite of all the financial problems, crime and dirt. There was charm to all the grittiness. That New York is long gone. Going to watch this again and see if I see anyone I know. Thank you so much for this.
Thank you so much for the upload. I am fascinated by NY in the 70's. I don't know why. I'm European, born in 75, I've never been to NY in my life. I can't explain why I feel this way but I feel homesick when I watch footage like this. I must be the only one.
I saw the "Magic Show", with Doug Henning on Broadway, in 1976. I was a kid then and my mom would take me into the City several times a month, to see Broadway plays and to events at MSG. My "uncle" owned a bar called, "Jilly's"- it was across the street from Roseland Ballroom. Wow, seeing the City like this gives me chills and all of those great memories come rushing back!
Brought back so many memories. In 76, I was a high school freshman. My school H.S. Performing Arts was on 46st between 6th and 7th. We were in the mix every day. Thank you for posting
you may think that, but information back then was very limited. today, with the internet, we have so much more access to information. i would say people back then were more zombies than people today.
+Blu: You might want to look up the difference between data and information. Further, what do we do with that so called information? And how important is that "information"? Are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat or any other social media, really social when users of these media seem to forget all about the other people in their immediate vicinity? How much do you know about really important issues? Yes, I would call people addicted to their mobile devices and specifically their "social" media, zombies. Just look around...
super cool film , what a treat! I went on holiday as a kid to New York in the early 80s and this reminds me very much of that visit (Blew my mind, I was from Northern England, they had ice in the coke, lots of ice! and the sandwiches were 6 inches high!) Everyone and everything looked so interesting back then , and the ladies , holy smokes, so beautiful!
Wow , What a time capsule ! My first trip to NYC was in 1991, i was 19 years old. Had'nt been back in over 25 years until just recent. The city vibe and its people has certainly shifted over time.
This is amazing to watch, as a 47 year old Australian who would love to take my family to New York and the US one day on holidays. I thought I'd click on this and only watch a minute or 2 but watched the whole thing. It was great to see New York as I'd always pictured it as a young kid, even down to the King Kong billboard. 1976 was a much simpler time, I hope NYC is still just a little bit like this when we come over on holidays in a couple of years.
wow. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this little gem. Thank you for posting and sharing this. So nice to see no one is looking down at at hand held devices cuz there wasn't any. Amazing really. There was life before hand held devices. How did we ever survive. golly. Love love love the scenes, the cars, the dress..everything.
Phenomenal footage. It all it's rawness and grittiness, that was New York City in the 70s. Times Square, in particular, is in stark contrast to the family friendly experience it is today (thank you Rudy). It was a dicey time there. The economy was on shaky ground and much uncertainty lay ahead.
ME TOO !! Funny thing is I was around the city in 1980 and 1981. In Times Square , OLD movies were playing - especially the GRINDHOUSE ones. In this clip you will see "House of Exorcism" on a marquee. That's a 1974 movie called "Lisa and the Devil" . So you'd pay to see a movie that you may have already seen under a different name!~ LOL. Those theaters were SCARY inside ! Really creepy weirdos in there. I remember going to see a movie called "Blood Drinkers" or something like that because it was a knock off of "Dawn of the Dead". This was 1980 , during THE DAY . And it was very scary sitting there all by yourself. LOL. But at least I experienced it at least 1 or 2 times. My favorite Times Square movie theatre scene is in "Midnight Cowboy". Joe Buck walks past a theatre showing the Japanese schlock classic "Frankenstein Conquers The World" !
Music For The People they probably thought we’d all be driving around in hover cars and the computers would be 10, 20, 30 or even 50 times bigger than they were back then...
When freedom was exercised. When you could enjoy and freely express your self. The times they are a changing. So I appreciate a way to time travel back to glimpse the New York City of my youth.
moved into the city in 1977... lived at 118 w 81st....worked in bob moores tavern...80th and columbus....had a famous neighbor...Christopher Walken he lived at 118 west 80th....great days strange year in Manhattan !
We had a family vacation to New York City in 1976 when I was 10. Distinctly remember my kid brothers in the back of the station wagon and I making "Up yours" jokes to each other based on the TV hit "Welcome Back Kotter"...."Up your nose with a rubber hose!"
I was 11 years old in 1976 and my dad took us down there on July 4th, for the bicentennial, 100’s of ships on the Hudson River that day, great memories. NYC has changed a lot since then but then again, it’s kind of still the same.
When New York was different from all other American cities. No box stores hardly any fast food chains. Those were relegated to the suburbs. When New York was real and belonged to New Yorkers and not to the tourists and foreign investors.
In spring 1975, New York City faced a serious fiscal crisis. Under mayor Abraham Beame, the city had run out of money to pay for normal operating expenses, was unable to borrow more, and faced the prospect of defaulting on its obligations and declaring bankruptcy. Yeah NYC was great when it belonged to New Yorkers who couldn't pay their bills.
@@iGame3D nyc faced bankruptcy in the 1970's because most tax paying people had moved to the suburbs. Nothing to do with tourists. Tourists became a source of revenues in NYC in the late 80's early 90's.
@@iGame3D The most popular headline was...Ford to city....DROP DEAD! Lots of layoffs of police and firemen. And we call Abe Beame ...Mayor Bum ! 2nd popular headline... Brother, can you spare several billion dollars? Depicting the Mayor wearing a top hat and a formal 1890s suit. The Bicentennial and the New York Yankees won the World Series! Yes I am a New Yorker though not born there but grew up there. I was 20 years old, now 65 years and consider myself an old time. In the 1960s, the old timer talked about the Roaring 20s 1920....1929.
that was a great video. I loved it thank you. I was in NY for the millennium & the summer before but I wish I could have been there in 1976 it looked amazing. I love watching old 1970's new york movies anyone got an recommendations?
I was there, although I was only 9 years old. Little did those Times Square revelers know that 1977 would turn out to be the most hellish year in New York City history.
People didn't hurt no one. They just loot stuffs. It only lasted several days, but the rest of the year was just fine. 1977 was fine with the exceptions of few days. It was just fear that summer but Son of Sam was just a guy who was terrorized by mental illness, and the dog made it worse for this guy. He killed because the dog made him do it in his brain. Other than that and crime, the city was still fun.
@@TECHLOVER_91 his point was, movie theatres are going out if business because of these stupid useless devices, families go out to dinner and they are all looking down, no conversation. These things are so fused into our fabric there is no chance ever of recovery. And that is eternally pathetic.
New York City on a warm summer night. Maybe not the best city in the world, but definitely unique. With the exception of right now, New York has always been great if you were young.
i foolishly wandered those streets at 14 or 15 yrs of age...but my grandma lived on park ave by Gramercy Park, so it felt a little safer...tho i nearly got raped by a pedophile, and got robbed at gunpoint once.
I'm in the Midwest but I recognized the photo poster of magician Doug Henning, someone I haven't thought about in a long time. My dad and I saw one of his shows in the early '80s.
At 6:57 is a man I actually came across when I was a foot messenger in the summer of '78. Homeless, black with grime, scraggly hair and beard, drumming away on the asphalt off the street corner. Looks like around the same area I saw him, 6th Ave a bit north of Radio City or thereabouts.
A few years later, I would bike down Northern Blvd across the 59th Street Bridge to Central Park and take pictures for a couple of hours and then ride back to Queens. There was a pigeon lady who had what seemed like a 100 pigeons surrounding her as she fed them. It was so expensive to develop film back then. Too bad we didn't have today's technology so I could have had the memories documented.
The bicentennial year Memories of going down to Battery Park at 4:00 AM to wait for the Tall Ships to sail up the Hudson . Then playing tourist in my hometown and going up to the roof of the South Tower of the World Trade Center for the view . While we were up there we just happened meet Philippe Petite who had achieved fame by walking on a tightrope between the towers.
Oh wow, how lovely to see this, it just popped up for me 👍🏼✔️. I was in NYC in the late 80's into the 90's - JUST in time to got a taste of how it USED TO BE. The West Village was still funky, so as the Lower East side and Soho. Lots of sex, gay men baths were just started to close. Love the cafés - back when it was funky and had good food and where one could spend hours on hours with friends on a Friday and Saturday night. The gay clubs and bars were the place to be - at least in my circle of friends. Left in the very last 90's to the country - roomy house, land, QUIET, peace, quiet streets, lake, woods, pets to roam the woods, guest house, cold winters 🥺 etc etc. I wouldn't want to go back to living in NYC. It was good when I was young.
Kinda wish some of that could be brought back, maybe not the crime and debauchery, but some of the grittiness, the old buildings, the small businesses. Even when I was last there in the mid 2000s it was a very boring place. Not the stress and chaos mind you, that was still there. But the color, personality, the excitement, that was all gone. There was no joy in NYC. It was all gray glass, chain restaurants, etc. It was as dirty as ever, and the people just as miserable, but everything that made NYC so unique was gone from Manhattan. It's happened and is happening in many areas though. We lose hundreds of small businesses every year, and probably thousands of old buildings. Whole neighborhoods are still pulled down by real estate developers across the country. Sad to see, but unless somebody steps in to do something there's no stopping it.
Some musings from this heartwarming and sometimes stark reality of NYC in the mid-70s: NYY vs A's (was it Mike Torrez pitching? although that would have been 1977, I guess so maybe Dock Ellis?; Was it Thurman at the plate before Nettles?); Carrie and Silver Streak, juxtaposed with Devil in Miss Jones and Deep Throat; an etching on the street "Godzilla for President"; Happy New Year 1977!; shots of my beloved Twin Towers.
Born in 1965 at the old Roosevelt Hospital on 59th Street. Still in my city, always and forever. No true New Yorkers anymore. Bunch of snotty youth, hipsters, 401k babies, the new NYC is a tourist playground. How I miss the way it all was. So much architecture gone, so many great stores and restaurants gone, Mama Leone's. Used to eat at that Nathan's with the family. Lots of record stores, book stores, mom and pops stores. I can close my eyes and feel that old NYC way of life. True grit of the city, an exciting time. Times Sq is so boring today.
@@picu2delhighenergy29 I used to buy some records at Colony in the 80’s then in the late 90’s until it closed I’d buy TV memorabilia. Colony was the last of its kind. How I miss it and RKO Video across the street in the 80’s and early 90s
Some onbservations: Pierre is still there on 5th Ave. Was there twice as early as this year. Many buildings seen in video still stand. Guy ran video camera until he ran out of tape. Looks like he tried to record again but tape was empty. Schwarzenegger may have been on one of the bodybuilding mags. Was alive and in kindergarten. I believe we had a major blizzard that year something like 3 feet of snow. Saw King Kong in the theater when released. Remember seeing it with scenes.
Left south Bronx as a kid 9 years old to Miami a better life of beaches and sasso pool a great neighborhood 2 blocks from the pool and my new Italian girlfriend at 12 years old Rosie at the end of the block and many other young girls especially on the swim team what a good life you had Johnny.
I went though elementary to middle school in the 1970s and sadly my parents didn't think of getting a Super 8 movie camera back then. I remember Times Square was the place to be if you wanted to catch a grade-B horror film. Interesting to see the porno movie theaters before the VHS VCRs put them out of business. I remember this was when "The Omen" came out and I wanted to see it but this was before my father had the desire to take me to R-rated films.
It was the Best of times, it was the Worst of times.... either, or...the days did seem longer and we ALL socialized with one another because we had no other choice. I know one thing for sure... fewer people stayed home
Notice almost no obese people? Why? There was plenty of junk food around in 1976! Somehow this gritty, edgier, more dangerous city was more real than what it's become today.
More people smoked then and also walk down any street in manhattan today and almost everyone is *not* obese, in fact truly obese people are very rare and a minority of people are overweight so i dont know what youre talking about. almost everyone i know exercises or is a member of a gym. if you do see large people they're usually tourists from the south and midwest
Several years ago, I got sick with Shingles -- which is like Chicken Pox Part 2. For one month, I was bed-ridden and I couldn't eat. I did no exercise. I could only eat fruit and vegetables. I lost 25 lbs doing nothing. And it wasn't my intention of losing weight -- it just happened. It makes a person wonder if its the sugar, fats, trans fats, salt and preservatives? I know all these packaged foods have tons of sodium in them which makes the "food" last longer on the shelves without going rotten. It makes the companies more profits, because they don't have to throw away so much.
People eat way more fructose/sugars than back and as well as more chemicals in the food both of which increase weight gain and type 2 diabetes which go hand in hand. ALSO back then even junk foods including french fries etc. had health fats in them like beef tallow and coconut oil which promote a healthy weight.
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I know there were problems then----but compared to today, those days beat the hell out of these days. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, or at least not all stressed out. There was some peace, not all the anxiety of today. I really appreciate this nice long video of my city and all the memories from over 40 years ago.
Well said. Born in 66 and definitely the 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s were less stressful. Before the internet took off or cell phones were a thing.
@@OutOnTheTiles The internet is not to blame it's our leaders and this ridiculous Economy that has people working like slaves for barely any money
People in our age group (me; born 1964) are have a TERRIBLE time now because we remember when life was Happy , normal, even blah and boring sometimes. But it all feels like a dream. In 2020 , the evils of the word were unleashed . This was all planned . And what's SCARY is- the same thing is going on in EVERY COUNTRY- not just the USA . We know why this is happening . I have NO IDEA how all this bad stuff will get fixed. Thank You God for allowing me to see lighter and more peaceful times and $10.00 concert tickets and $4.00 movie tickets And 69 cents a gallon GAS. ! @@OutOnTheTiles
And you could eat like a PIG at any fast food for $5.00
@@OutOnTheTiles2000's and early 2010's was not as badd too
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end. We'd sing and dance forever and a day.
Thank you Fiddler. LOL
What happened to...the world we knew......(Steve Wonder)
OMG I might have been in one of these scenes! I was 17/18 at the time, I remember this New York and it was awesome in spite of all the financial problems, crime and dirt. There was charm to all the grittiness. That New York is long gone. Going to watch this again and see if I see anyone I know. Thank you so much for this.
I hear ya...I was 16 and it was awesome
Did you ever see/find anyone you knew in the film?
We may never know..
@@jamesmack3314 It was awesome BECAUSE you were 16, 17 and 18. (Though is truly was more exciting and interesting.)
Agreed...I didn't know any better
Thank you so much for the upload. I am fascinated by NY in the 70's. I don't know why. I'm European, born in 75, I've never been to NY in my life. I can't explain why I feel this way but I feel homesick when I watch footage like this. I must be the only one.
It was a cool place to be...very special but not all roses
No place like nyc
I think NYC represented the idea that we could all get along. It might be messy, but we could do it.
You'd be surprised. It's become a cult genre on TH-cam.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I was born in 1963, so I have fond memories of growing up in the 1970s. Such a wonderful time.
I saw the "Magic Show", with Doug Henning on Broadway, in 1976. I was a kid then and my mom would take me into the City several times a month, to see Broadway plays and to events at MSG. My "uncle" owned a bar called, "Jilly's"- it was across the street from Roseland Ballroom. Wow, seeing the City like this gives me chills and all of those great memories come rushing back!
i saw a quotes that said this best! these types of old films IS TIME TRAVEL!!!!
Brought back so many memories. In 76, I was a high school freshman. My school H.S. Performing Arts was on 46st between 6th and 7th. We were in the mix every day.
Thank you for posting
Look at that, nobody staring down and everyone paying attention to everything. Damn, I miss that time before the zombies invaded.
Same here mate you're absolutely right were now in the zombified phase
you may think that, but information back then was very limited. today, with the internet, we have so much more access to information. i would say people back then were more zombies than people today.
+Blu: You might want to look up the difference between data and information. Further, what do we do with that so called information? And how important is that "information"? Are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat or any other social media, really social when users of these media seem to forget all about the other people in their immediate vicinity? How much do you know about really important issues? Yes, I would call people addicted to their mobile devices and specifically their "social" media, zombies. Just look around...
Soda Pop some people use Internet to obtain valuable information. But then again, only few in comparison with all the zombies o_O
Blu "today, with the internet" everyone can live in their own little echo chamber while walking straight into the road.
This footage, so wonderful, so quiet. Such a lovingly assembled work of art.
Wow!!! Amazing footage, forty years ago!!! I feel like, I was there in 1976. or spirit of '76!
My big brother was born in 1976 lol
Nesha Mojanay
Interesting... I know a guy who's brother was born in 1976
tobagotb10 I thought 77 summer was the hottest
I love the gritty look of NYC in the 70s. ...great times as a kid for me. ...
I was 16 and the city was my playground. SO much fun and freedom.. I miss that New York so much.
super cool film , what a treat!
I went on holiday as a kid to New York in the early 80s and this reminds me very much of that visit (Blew my mind, I was from Northern England, they had ice in the coke, lots of ice! and the sandwiches were 6 inches high!)
Everyone and everything looked so interesting back then , and the ladies , holy smokes, so beautiful!
Wow , What a time capsule ! My first trip to NYC was in 1991, i was 19 years old. Had'nt been back in over 25 years until just recent. The city vibe and its people has certainly shifted over time.
This is amazing to watch, as a 47 year old Australian who would love to take my family to New York and the US one day on holidays.
I thought I'd click on this and only watch a minute or 2 but watched the whole thing. It was great to see New York as I'd always pictured it as a young kid, even down to the King Kong billboard.
1976 was a much simpler time, I hope NYC is still just a little bit like this when we come over on holidays in a couple of years.
I fear your dreams will be shattered... you’ve seen hell of a lot in this video... no need to go there now 😂
The USA isn’t what it once was! It’s bad because of the hate
Well it's 4 years later and we still haven't been and I fear it still going to be a long while yet before we get there
I was 19 living on the edge in NYC in 1976. It was a very good year.
Explain "the edge"-- were you a teen hooker -- a druggie . I love hearing stories from back then ! do tell ?
Love this hugely. Time travel. I was born in 76 and am in NYC now. Thanks for posting
wow. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this little gem. Thank you for posting and sharing this. So nice to see no one is looking down at at hand held devices cuz there wasn't any. Amazing really. There was life before hand held devices. How did we ever survive. golly. Love love love the scenes, the cars, the dress..everything.
lol they had that back then too.
They had books, magazines, newspapers, transistor radios, etc.
I hope you realize an individual with a handheld device provided you this footage that was so amazing for you.
Golly
@@Qboro66 emp
I was there September 1976 !
😒😒
My kind of place NYC 1977 amazing Native Yorker is the song that pops into mind. And Saturday Night Fever.
76 friend...all hell broke loose the following year
Yea but Saturday night fever was Brooklyn.
Phenomenal footage. It all it's rawness and grittiness, that was New York City in the 70s. Times Square, in particular, is in stark contrast to the family friendly experience it is today (thank you Rudy). It was a dicey time there. The economy was on shaky ground and much uncertainty lay ahead.
Born in '65 and definitely a seventies boy. I can still remember the vibe spontaneously sometimes, or if I focus on the the memories I still have.
thank goodness this footage exists
I was listening to Exile on Main Street when I stumbled upon this... the album works great with the footage!
I love the cars. The scenery all of it from the 70,s. Thanks for sharing
Amazing footage! I'm obsessed with the Times Square and the films that played there of the 70's, wow!
ME TOO !! Funny thing is I was around the city in 1980 and 1981. In Times Square , OLD movies were playing - especially the GRINDHOUSE ones. In this clip you will see "House of Exorcism" on a marquee. That's a 1974 movie called "Lisa and the Devil" . So you'd pay to see a movie that you may have already seen under a different name!~ LOL. Those theaters were SCARY inside ! Really creepy weirdos in there. I remember going to see a movie called "Blood Drinkers" or something like that because it was a knock off of "Dawn of the Dead". This was 1980 , during THE DAY . And it was very scary sitting there all by yourself. LOL. But at least I experienced it at least 1 or 2 times. My favorite Times Square movie theatre scene is in "Midnight Cowboy". Joe Buck walks past a theatre showing the Japanese schlock classic "Frankenstein Conquers The World" !
5:15 "Get the rich off our backs." Love it. If they only knew what it would be like today..
they have been saying that we decades, long before we have.
Music For The People they probably thought we’d all be driving around in hover cars and the computers would be 10, 20, 30 or even 50 times bigger than they were back then...
You guys are poor?
When freedom was exercised. When you could enjoy and freely express your self. The times they are a changing. So I appreciate a way to time travel back to glimpse the New York City of my youth.
GR8 footage! As a native, I was able to narrate every little detail to my family. I'm glad that the footage went through several seasons.
moved into the city in 1977... lived at 118 w 81st....worked in bob moores tavern...80th and columbus....had a famous neighbor...Christopher Walken he lived at 118 west 80th....great days strange year in Manhattan !
Crazy ass summer for sure!!
Aws.. you lived in Upper Manhattan next to Central Park
I love footage like this....it's the closest thing to time travel we have
We had a family vacation to New York City in 1976 when I was 10. Distinctly remember my kid brothers in the back of the station wagon and I making "Up yours" jokes to each other based on the TV hit "Welcome Back Kotter"...."Up your nose with a rubber hose!"
Jesus what memories ..I was 26 then . Real pinball machines !
I was 11 years old in 1976 and my dad took us down there on July 4th, for the bicentennial, 100’s of ships on the Hudson River that day, great memories. NYC has changed a lot since then but then again, it’s kind of still the same.
They use to call me kid back in 76 now they call me pop's..
How time flies!
Me, too. And proud of it.
Love this comment. It is so simple, yet so deep.
Ryan Santos The same for me. I was a teen back in the 70’s.
When New York was different from all other American cities. No box stores hardly any fast food chains. Those were relegated to the suburbs. When New York was real and belonged to New Yorkers and not to the tourists and foreign investors.
no tourists no jobs for the locals a fact
In spring 1975, New York City faced a serious fiscal crisis. Under mayor Abraham Beame, the city had run out of money to pay for normal operating expenses, was unable to borrow more, and faced the prospect of defaulting on its obligations and declaring bankruptcy.
Yeah NYC was great when it belonged to New Yorkers who couldn't pay their bills.
@@iGame3D nyc faced bankruptcy in the 1970's because most tax paying people had moved to the suburbs. Nothing to do with tourists. Tourists became a source of revenues in NYC in the late 80's early 90's.
@@iGame3D The most popular headline was...Ford to city....DROP DEAD! Lots of layoffs of police and firemen. And we call Abe Beame ...Mayor Bum ! 2nd popular headline... Brother, can you spare several billion dollars? Depicting the Mayor wearing a top hat and a formal 1890s suit. The Bicentennial and the New York Yankees won the World Series!
Yes I am a New Yorker though not born there but grew up there. I was 20 years old, now 65 years and consider myself an old time. In the 1960s, the old timer talked about the Roaring 20s 1920....1929.
Bravo.
I love this.
Home video, more like a time machine. A+
that was a great video. I loved it thank you. I was in NY for the millennium & the summer before but I wish I could have been there in 1976 it looked amazing. I love watching old 1970's new york movies anyone got an recommendations?
I was there, although I was only 9 years old.
Little did those Times Square revelers know that 1977 would turn out to be the most hellish year in New York City history.
Just Son of Sam. That's all. 1977 was awesome with Studio 54 and hip hop in the hoods.
durf 1977 was also the year of the blackout and it's subsequent looting
People didn't hurt no one. They just loot stuffs. It only lasted several days, but the rest of the year was just fine. 1977 was fine with the exceptions of few days. It was just fear that summer but Son of Sam was just a guy who was terrorized by mental illness, and the dog made it worse for this guy. He killed because the dog made him do it in his brain. Other than that and crime, the city was still fun.
Unless you consider Sept 11 2001 a hellish year. I think it is.
Would it though? As bad as it was, and I lived through that being there, but I'd venture to say 2001.
so beautiful, without the disgrace of Androids or IPhone, I remember people used to talk to each other, have dinner or go to the movies or parties...
transneural yes you are absolutely right, you can't meet people anymore.
It almost feels ancient that there was a time when life went on just fine without these "devices"
@@michaelgenzale7537 They reject you even before you say hello these days.
Yeah but your on one posting this comment and on TH-cam so if you feel that way don't use it at all very simple
@@TECHLOVER_91 his point was, movie theatres are going out if business because of these stupid useless devices, families go out to dinner and they are all looking down, no conversation. These things are so fused into our fabric there is no chance ever of recovery. And that is eternally pathetic.
@8:50... "...The City of Night"..the reeeeal Times Square, before the "squares" zombified into a never ending Disneyworld...
l wish i could go back to those days and visit there
Ah yes, sleazy Times Square before it was Disney-tized.
Yes! It was great,wasn’t it? In 84, I slept once or twice on that rock in Central Park at night.lol. I would never do that now.
So sleazy and gritty lol...
@@drlock978 it probably be more safe to sleep on that rock now than it would back then. ...
My daughter was born in Manhattan, NYC on 1976 a bicentennial child.👌🏼🇺🇸🇵🇷
Doc Ellis was on the mound Munson and nettles as well
Thank you so much for the memories, really enjoyed this!
Great work -- so moving seeing the World Trade Center and "old" Times Square before it got (ahem) so-called improved.
I found a another film of New York in 1976 that showed Carrie, Rocky, King Kong, and Silver Streak on the same marquees in Times Square.
That was a blockbuster summer.
Taxi Driver(the quintessential 70s New York movie) came out the same year
@@iGame3D Actually all of the above-mentioned movies were in theaters December of 1976.
They should dub in the Rolling Stones song"Shattered". Would go perfect with this video ;)
adm712 If it had a soundtrack, excellent choice. So glad it does not, so that I can hear it my way.
Yes!
This towns in tatters!!!
Fantastic footage, brings back great memories
Love the old corvette driving by
Those were the days!
New York City on a warm summer night. Maybe not the best city in the world, but definitely unique. With the exception of right now, New York has always been great if you were young.
I was a kid in 1976. It was a long hot summer here in England. I bet we got some of theirs
I miss those good times . Fuck today and tommarow!
A couple of clips of this film were used in Lenny Kravitz's video for his new song 'Low'.
I was only about a year old in 76...
Classic Classic Classic Those Days will Never be Back Again
It was a combination of awesome & dangerous...but i loved it
i foolishly wandered those streets at 14 or 15 yrs of age...but my grandma lived on park ave by Gramercy Park, so it felt a little safer...tho i nearly got raped by a pedophile, and got robbed at gunpoint once.
Amazing.... If only I had lived during this time...
I'm in the Midwest but I recognized the photo poster of magician Doug Henning, someone I haven't thought about in a long time. My dad and I saw one of his shows in the early '80s.
At 6:57 is a man I actually came across when I was a foot messenger in the summer of '78. Homeless, black with grime, scraggly hair and beard, drumming away on the asphalt off the street corner. Looks like around the same area I saw him, 6th Ave a bit north of Radio City or thereabouts.
Play Brick by Dazz while you watch this. That's how I remember NYC in the summer of '76!
A few years later, I would bike down Northern Blvd across the 59th Street Bridge to Central Park and take pictures for a couple of hours and then ride back to Queens. There was a pigeon lady who had what seemed like a 100 pigeons surrounding her as she fed them. It was so expensive to develop film back then. Too bad we didn't have today's technology so I could have had the memories documented.
The bicentennial year
Memories of going down to Battery Park at 4:00 AM to wait for the Tall Ships to sail up the Hudson .
Then playing tourist in my hometown and going up to the roof of the South Tower of the World Trade Center for the view .
While we were up there we just happened meet Philippe Petite who had achieved fame by walking on a tightrope between the towers.
Nice post. The Yankee game was July 22nd.
Oakland Athletics 6, New York Yankees 5. Thursday, July 22, 1976.
18 days after the big Bicentennial, right?
I would not be surprised if Travis Bickle showed up in this footage :)
I was one and in Madrid, Spain ,but I do miss it a lot !!!!!
Oh wow, how lovely to see this, it just popped up for me 👍🏼✔️. I was in NYC in the late 80's into the 90's - JUST in time to got a taste of how it USED TO BE. The West Village was still funky, so as the Lower East side and Soho. Lots of sex, gay men baths were just started to close. Love the cafés - back when it was funky and had good food and where one could spend hours on hours with friends on a Friday and Saturday night. The gay clubs and bars were the place to be - at least in my circle of friends. Left in the very last 90's to the country - roomy house, land, QUIET, peace, quiet streets, lake, woods, pets to roam the woods, guest house, cold winters 🥺 etc etc. I wouldn't want to go back to living in NYC. It was good when I was young.
A little bit before my time but plenty of fun to watch. Thanks!
Yup......the NY I remember......the city with soul......a dirty scary place when I was growing up.....but still loved her.....
Before Aids, before playstation, before internet, before cable tv, before cell phones, before the pandemic....I would love to go back in time!
And before corona virus.
Fascinating look back at times gone bye!!
I was living with my dad on E 70th and taking the subway to Wall st to work my summer mailroom job at my grandfather's company..
12:48 David Bowie Movie in the Cinema
Times were better back then,even with all the problems,people treated each other better!
Love my teens yrs in NY, músic was amazing!!!
A lot of those people are either old or gone by now...
No shit
"All we are is dust in the wind..."
@@iGame3D This isn't Kansas anymore
How I'd love to time travel to THIS New York.
A soundtrack of the music that summer would really help this video.
Great video, thank you!
It's changed and it hasn't at all. I Love Manhattan!
Seeing some of that old park footage makes me think of The Odd Couple tv show or old Sesame Street
Kinda wish some of that could be brought back, maybe not the crime and debauchery, but some of the grittiness, the old buildings, the small businesses. Even when I was last there in the mid 2000s it was a very boring place. Not the stress and chaos mind you, that was still there. But the color, personality, the excitement, that was all gone. There was no joy in NYC. It was all gray glass, chain restaurants, etc. It was as dirty as ever, and the people just as miserable, but everything that made NYC so unique was gone from Manhattan.
It's happened and is happening in many areas though. We lose hundreds of small businesses every year, and probably thousands of old buildings. Whole neighborhoods are still pulled down by real estate developers across the country. Sad to see, but unless somebody steps in to do something there's no stopping it.
Some musings from this heartwarming and sometimes stark reality of NYC in the mid-70s: NYY vs A's (was it Mike Torrez pitching? although that would have been 1977, I guess so maybe Dock Ellis?; Was it Thurman at the plate before Nettles?); Carrie and Silver Streak, juxtaposed with Devil in Miss Jones and Deep Throat; an etching on the street "Godzilla for President"; Happy New Year 1977!; shots of my beloved Twin Towers.
Born in 1965 at the old Roosevelt Hospital on 59th Street. Still in my city, always and forever. No true New Yorkers anymore. Bunch of snotty youth, hipsters, 401k babies, the new NYC is a tourist playground. How I miss the way it all was. So much architecture gone, so many great stores and restaurants gone, Mama Leone's. Used to eat at that Nathan's with the family. Lots of record stores, book stores, mom and pops stores. I can close my eyes and feel that old NYC way of life. True grit of the city, an exciting time. Times Sq is so boring today.
I miss Colony Records, I used to buy my music there I no longer live in NY but I sure miss the good old years....😢
@@picu2delhighenergy29 I used to buy some records at Colony in the 80’s then in the late 90’s until it closed I’d buy TV memorabilia. Colony was the last of its kind. How I miss it and RKO Video across the street in the 80’s and early 90s
The year I was born
Some onbservations: Pierre is still there on 5th Ave. Was there twice as early as this year. Many buildings seen in video still stand. Guy ran video camera until he ran out of tape. Looks like he tried to record again but tape was empty. Schwarzenegger may have been on one of the bodybuilding mags. Was alive and in kindergarten. I believe we had a major blizzard that year something like 3 feet of snow. Saw King Kong in the theater when released. Remember seeing it with scenes.
Left south Bronx as a kid 9 years old to Miami a better life of beaches and sasso pool a great neighborhood 2 blocks from the pool and my new Italian girlfriend at 12 years old Rosie at the end of the block and many other young girls especially on the swim team what a good life you had Johnny.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing
I went though elementary to middle school in the 1970s and sadly my parents didn't think of getting a Super 8 movie camera back then. I remember Times Square was the place to be if you wanted to catch a grade-B horror film. Interesting to see the porno movie theaters before the VHS VCRs put them out of business. I remember this was when "The Omen" came out and I wanted to see it but this was before my father had the desire to take me to R-rated films.
I remember this summer!
Seems like yesterday!
It was the Best of times, it was the Worst of times.... either, or...the days did seem longer and we ALL socialized with one another because we had no other choice. I know one thing for sure... fewer people stayed home
Notice almost no obese people? Why? There was plenty of junk food around in 1976! Somehow this gritty, edgier, more dangerous city was more real than what it's become today.
it was the beginning of the food industry taking control of what we ate.
More people smoked then and also walk down any street in manhattan today and almost everyone is *not* obese, in fact truly obese people are very rare and a minority of people are overweight so i dont know what youre talking about. almost everyone i know exercises or is a member of a gym. if you do see large people they're usually tourists from the south and midwest
Several years ago, I got sick with Shingles -- which is like Chicken Pox Part 2.
For one month, I was bed-ridden and I couldn't eat. I did no exercise. I could only eat fruit and vegetables. I lost 25 lbs doing nothing. And it wasn't my intention of losing weight -- it just happened.
It makes a person wonder if its the sugar, fats, trans fats, salt and preservatives? I know all these packaged foods have tons of sodium in them which makes the "food" last longer on the shelves without going rotten. It makes the companies more profits, because they don't have to throw away so much.
People eat way more fructose/sugars than back and as well as more chemicals in the food both of which increase weight gain and type 2 diabetes which go hand in hand. ALSO back then even junk foods including french fries etc. had health fats in them like beef tallow and coconut oil which promote a healthy weight.
Oh my fat shaming; don’t you know the female land whale is now considered beautiful .....lol
wow...THATS the NYC i remember. well, a lil before my time but close.
The year I was born .I am glad to be a bicentennial baby
Beautiful I was 5 yrs old
Mahogany! The Omen! Wow!
Both horror movies....ha
I miss this New York
So do I. Hated it then when I was 9 going on 10 back in '76 but miss it now.