My first visit was for a week in May of '77. I left the Haight-Ashbury in Nov. to live in New York, just in time for the blizzards. It was a pretty amazing time. The influence of the after-hours clubs and avant-garde jazz lofts were SERIOUSLY important to the emerging graffiti/skateboard cultures merged with the museum/university market. Kind of a exoticization of the LES that linked to the West Coast Black Arts scene of Oakland and LA.
I lived there around then. Manhattan was a cesspool. Filthy, dangerous, "girlie" shows all over Times Square, very dangerous and crime-ridden. Urine-smelling subways. People doing heroin in public. I was really happy to hear when Guiliani cleaned it up.
I lived there then. It was a cesspool, filthy, crime infested, dangerous for everyone, but especially women. You were smart to visit recently, after it had been cleaned up.
“Different communities came together through music.” How many times have you heard something like this? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 SIMPLY NOT TRUE!! most people in 1970s New York did not leave their specific neighborhoods often if ever attempting to avoid conflict with other groups. Plenty of no no zones and invisible dividing lines. Why do rich people and “artists” always get along?? They share the delusion of living in a different reality from the rest of us and both somehow control the culture anyways. Anytime the poor and working class are suffering is a “great period for art”.
This was specifically in the 1977, true different classes did not co mimgle, Allthough the film specifically talks about punk, disco and hip hop checking out the other scenes going on.
Folks like Blondie were collaborating with anybody from Andy Warhol to Fab Five Freddy to Richard Hell. That's only one massive pop culture example, disregarding all the micro/macro collaboration in between. Weird take to claim people weren't dipping their toes into different neighborhoods and communities during that time period. Literally scores of literature and first-person perspectives to prove otherwise, but go off I guess.
My first visit was for a week in May of '77. I left the Haight-Ashbury in Nov. to live in New York, just in time for the blizzards. It was a pretty amazing time. The influence of the after-hours clubs and avant-garde jazz lofts were SERIOUSLY important to the emerging graffiti/skateboard cultures merged with the museum/university market. Kind of a exoticization of the LES that linked to the West Coast Black Arts scene of Oakland and LA.
I lived there around then. Manhattan was a cesspool. Filthy, dangerous, "girlie" shows all over Times Square, very dangerous and crime-ridden. Urine-smelling subways. People doing heroin in public. I was really happy to hear when Guiliani cleaned it up.
Nice. Been to NY first time just last April. I still maintain, 1970s NY was the era to visit. Wish to have a Time Machine.
I lived there then. It was a cesspool, filthy, crime infested, dangerous for everyone, but especially women. You were smart to visit recently, after it had been cleaned up.
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“Different communities came together through music.”
How many times have you heard something like this?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
SIMPLY NOT TRUE!! most people in 1970s New York did not leave their specific neighborhoods often if ever attempting to avoid conflict with other groups. Plenty of no no zones and invisible dividing lines.
Why do rich people and “artists” always get along?? They share the delusion of living in a different reality from the rest of us and both somehow control the culture anyways.
Anytime the poor and working class are suffering is a “great period for art”.
This was specifically in the 1977, true different classes did not co mimgle, Allthough the film specifically talks about punk, disco and hip hop checking out the other scenes going on.
Folks like Blondie were collaborating with anybody from Andy Warhol to Fab Five Freddy to Richard Hell. That's only one massive pop culture example, disregarding all the micro/macro collaboration in between. Weird take to claim people weren't dipping their toes into different neighborhoods and communities during that time period. Literally scores of literature and first-person perspectives to prove otherwise, but go off I guess.
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