1970's New York City

[Radiohead]

This thread will feature pics of NYC in the 1970's. Please add pics if you have any.

First off are b/w's from the 1977 blackout. Anyone remember that? I was just a little kid. Many here probably weren't even born yet.

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[Radiohead]

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[Radiohead]

Here's some non-blackout pics

1971 (courtesy of Bridgeport Mike at Flickr)

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[Radiohead]

1971 cont.

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From the top of the WTC 1977
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[Radiohead]

Below 10 photos by Richard Friedman http://www.rchrd.com/photo/

Carnegie Hall 1971
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6th Ave at Waverly Place, October 1970
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55th Street & 8th Ave October 1970
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Twilight October 1970
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8th Ave and near 45th Street October 1970
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8th St @ 6th Ave in the Village, October 1970. Is this the precursor to the Naked Cowboy?
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Greenwich Village 6th Ave @ 4th St March 1971
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Central Park March 1971
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Greenwich Ave October 1970
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Sheridan Square in the Village October 1970
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[Radiohead]

East River Drive
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La Guardia
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West Side Highway 1
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[Radiohead]

Thumbs up
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Notice the Jersey City skyline (or lack of it)
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Sunday morning jog
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Lennon in Central Park
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Dave's Restaurant in Soho
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Dave's interior
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Soho at night; dark, deserted and neglected:

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Thanks to Brooklynparrott at Flickr for all the Soho pics.

[Radiohead]

North across Canal
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Back when 42nd St was grittier and seedier
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View from Washington Square Hotel
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1972
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[BrooklynRider]

Nice postings. As a kid back then, it all seemed very nexciting.

[Luca]

I keep thinkign "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets" but I'm sure there was a lot of fun and just ordinary life too, obviously. I'd love to have a time machine and visit New York over a week skipping a decade each day... Say start in 1925, then 1935, 1945 and so on... Maybe visit Times Square, Wall Street, some Mid-Town hotel and Central Park, just to get the zeitgeist

[Formula86]

Very cool pics. Thanks for sharing. :)

[Fabrizio]

Thanks for these pics and the effort in posting them (I also appreciated the video thread).

Easy to forget how scruffy NYC was back then. Fun, wonderful, creative.... but man was it broken down.

[AmeriKenArtist]

ThankYouThankYou ThankYou!

[The Benniest]

Wonderful pictures! A lot of history in these pictures. :)

Thanks for sharing,
Ben

[Radiohead]

From Allen Tannenbaum:
Tribeca-
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Man,God,Law (miscell)-
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Check out all the galleries for more. I remember Lofter posting some of the club pics a few years back.

[Fahzee]

^ yes! I've been looking for Lofters post all day (screw you, real job!)

I can't find it for the life of me.....

[Radiohead]

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A grittier (some would say seedier) Times Square
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[Radiohead]

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Some tall girls:rolleyes:
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[Fabrizio]

Kids, scroll up to the shot of TimesSquare. That's 46th looking up toward 47th. Note the garbage and the grimey, falling-down look of everthing... quite a different scene today.

( "I Love My Wife" and "Bubbling Brown Sugar" place the year to be 1977 )

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[Radiohead]

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Gotta love the old cabs
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[The Benniest]

Very nice (again). I like the Ferrara cafe/bakery picture from Little Italy.

Also, the old cabs in some of the pictures are really funny. :D

Thanks for sharing,
Ben

[Stern]

Radiohead I have the book where you took most of these pictures from. Picked it up for a dollar I think. Its in storage right now, what's the name again?

[Radiohead]

It's NY, A Picture Book To Remember Her By, from 1978. I too picked it up for a song years ago.

[Merry]

I wonder if this is the same book, but revised.

New York A Picture Book to Remember Her By (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEW-YORK-A-PICTURE-BOOK-TO-REMEMBER-HER-BY-1987_W0QQitemZ310046644852QQihZ021QQcategoryZ378QQ rdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638 Q2em118Q2el1247)

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Sorry if someone else pointed this out, but that guy in the middle has to be John Lennon. I'd notice him anywhere. He lived in NYC during the 70's, and loved it.

Great pictures, guys!

[alonzo-ny]

Who is John Lennon?

[ablarc]

Comedian.

[alonzo-ny]

Couldnt resist!

[ALAMOUDI]

thank you

[Radiohead]

I love this one, from 1977.

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[The Benniest]

Wow!:eek:

Thanks for posting that wonderful picture Radiohead.

[MidtownGuy]

When I lived in Brooklyn there was a nightclub in that handsome corner building and it was a great space inside. Thanks for bringing back some cool memories; I wonder if it's still a club.

[pianoman11686]

Couldnt resist!

(Slightly) related: Who Is the Walrus? (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/science/20walrus.html?scp=1&sq=walrus&st=nyt) :D

[Radiohead]

Here, you can see the bridge and those same buildings from a different angle.

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You can see this Watchtower building in the prior photo as well
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This is a '74 view from atop the new World Trade Center looking over the East river
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[pianoman11686]

Whenever I look at photos like these, it amazes me to think of how dense New York already was back then, and how it has only continued to get denser and denser.

[The Benniest]

More gorgeous photos. Thank you ManhattanKnight. The photos with the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges in them are wonderful.

And that World Trade Center view = :rolleyes:

Thank you again MK --
Ben

[Radiohead]

Most are from 1974

Grand Central subway passengers
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Brooklyn
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Near Lynch Park Brooklyn
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Lexington Ave Line graffiti
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42nd St Station bruger stand
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Boy Scout leader, Bud-Stuy Brooklyn
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Shutters Island at mouth of Arthur Kill
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[The Benniest]

Thanks for the update. :)

What a change the subway cars have gone through from being graffiti covered to clean like they are now (well, a lot of them anyway).

-ben

[Radiohead]

Yeah, the 70's & 80's were the heydey of NYC graffiti "artists" (though many would call them other less distinguished names).

[Radiohead]

Manhattan 1974

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Landfill near WTC
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Williamsburg Bridge
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Lower West Side harbor
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View from Jersey City
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[Radiohead]

Brooklyn view of Manhattan Bridge
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1973 WTC almost complete
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Illegal dumping off NJ Turnpike
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108th St and Lexington. Where are the garbage men??
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There they are...at 172nd St
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Where are the police?
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Lot at upper Lexington at 105th
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Cool 70's style
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[Radiohead]

Folk dancers at South Street seaport
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From Brooklyn
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Automobile Show at NY Coliseum 1973
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From Bayonne NJ
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East River Park
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East River
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[Radiohead]

Rotting old warehouses on the Hudson
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Queensboro Bridge at 59th St
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Midtown
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Drainage outflow from WTC
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Hudson police patrol
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Landfill site of proposed Liberty State Park
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108th & Lexington
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FDR Drive
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[Radiohead]

More from 1973....

Queens Boulevard
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Departing Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
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..and entering
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Schaefer Bandstand in Central Park
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7th Ave & 8th St
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More from the '73 auto show

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[Radiohead]

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1974 view from NJ
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Houston St
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Avenue D housing project
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Downtown
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Herald Square traffic jam
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Triple parked??
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[Radiohead]

FDR Underpass
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62nd Street
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The Village
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Hackensack River in foreground
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[Radiohead]

Outside Grand Central terminal
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Motorcycles near Battery Park
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Most of the color images from 1973-74 in the last 5-6 posts come from the National Archives. Let's finish with this...

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[brianac]

Wow what a marathon.

Thanks Radiohead.

[MidtownGuy]

Great photos.
Everything was orange, yellow and brown in the 70's. All those earth tones look so wacky now.

[MrSpice]

Amazing pictures. The city looked so dirty, poor and mismanaged. It's still pretty dirty, but I would not even think of living in New York of the 70s. Looks really depressing.

[Fabrizio]

Oh it was not depressing at all. It WAS friggin' scary.

BUT it was a happening place. Music... art... genuine movements and trends. It's a better city now, nice and pleasant, but not stimulating in the way it was back then.

[smuncky]

Thanks for that post. I love these old images.

[Luca]

Brooklyn view of Manhattan Bridge
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Wow. Just...wow. What an atomospheric picture.

[NYC4Life]

Thank god the 70's was only 1 decade. This was perhaps the worst period in the history of the city. With its economic deficit and soaring crime rates and extreme poverty, this was certainly a time where no one would come and visit. So much has changed since then.

[Fabrizio]

You know guys, you really have to rethink things a bit.

People came to NYC in the 70's. They came because they truly loved the theatre, art, music. NYC was very rarified... it had nothing to do with Viking kitchen appliances. Among all of that decay was genuine art movements and gosh, to think that B'way had Bob Fosse, Michael Bennet, there was Joe Papp downtown, Sondheim was still writing new musicals, we still had Warhol, Woody Allen was doing films about NYC, you had young artists making a mark on society like Haring, Basquit. The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass ...Max's Kansas City, CBGB's... Studio 54...Halston was a genuine force in fashion...you still had Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and Paul Taylor....Tama Janowitz, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian and on and on... a lot of this continued into the 1980's... but today?

Who and what compares?

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8017.html

ANOTHER way NYC was viewed and considered in the 1970's.... please watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6QKpNK9Cc

Besides decay and crime... NY was also portrayed this way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PLvQFoICok&feature=related

(BTW: I forgot what good actress Diane Keaton was... watch her dig into this)

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[MidtownGuy]

Thanks Fabrizio, I think it's important to keep a balanced perspective on the 1970's. It wasn't all bad by any means. I would give anything to time travel back there and experience it for myself.

[alonzo-ny]

I was about to say the same MTG, Id love to go back and see these periods in NY history that i wish i had witnessed and are a big basis for why i love the city in the first place.

[Fabrizio]

Immagine being in NewYork City in 1978... and having someone show you this vision of the future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3DarGd2yE4

[MidtownGuy]

That's pathetic and revealing. It should be the line for a crazy nightclub, not a cupcake!

[alonzo-ny]

Lord, thats shocking to me now never mind in '78.

[The Benniest]

I nearly laughed through this entire video.

That's p a t h e t i c. I'm definitely crossing Magnolia Bakery off of my "to-do" list. Lol.

[Fabrizio]

What is funny to me is that 30 years ago, those people would have been heckled. People would have thrown things at them. It looks like an old SaturdayNightLive parody. NYC.... the Village... did not attract the kind of people who would stand on line for a friggin' cupcake. Thank you very much. You went down there in search of other things...

Be that as it may, I will agree that NYC is a better city now. It could not have gone on as it was in the 1970's. And when murders are hovering at around 2,000 a year... well that speaks for itself.

BUT you can't deny that there was much more genuine creativity in the city back then. And that counts for a lot. Priorities were different. NYC still had a very special place on the cultural scene.

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[ZippyTheChimp]

You could describe the 70s as a lightbulb shining brightly just before it burns out. Luckily, someone changed the bulb.

Now we have one of those sensible fluorescent thingies.

[Fabrizio]

And how many New Yorkers did it take to change a lightbulb in the 1970's?

None of your gawd damn business!

[lofter1]

Luckily, someone changed the bulb.

When was that bulb changed?

And who should be the one to get the credit for that?

[ZippyTheChimp]

The bulb was perception.

It took a long time to screw in.

Everybody gets credit.

[Ed007Toronto]

Wow. Just...wow. What an atomospheric picture.

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[nycla3]

The iconic nadir of New York City in the 1970's...

[Radiohead]

The iconic nadir of New York City in the 1970's...

And this was a close second...
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Sorry Lofter, the red X door has been removed (for now)

[lofter1]

LINK (http://www.geocities.com/allbeautypics/Studio-54-NY-4.jpg) for the RED ^ X


(that's me , just inside the door :cool: )

[JC]

North across Canal
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Back when 42nd St was grittier and seedier
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View from Washington Square Hotel
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1972
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SHould give credit to Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' there...

[Fabrizio]

When the Empire Dinner opened, it was SUCH a big deal. Chelsea back then was deserted, but it was opened 24 hours a day... rare for the time. You could go there and hang out and the place would sometimes be empty but it was cosy and everyone knew everyone else.

[stache]

Plus you could always go inside if people were trying to bash you.

[The Benniest]

Great pictures above. http://wirednewyork.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

It still amazes me that the subways used to look that bad. From what I could tell in March, they have cleaned them up dramatically. Of course, we were only on the 2, 3 trains. Are they all cleaned up or do some still have graffiti like the picture above?

[lofter1]

All the subways are very cleaned up now -- especially considering what they were like in the 70s.

Understand that almost every subway station in Manhattan has been refurbished since back then: new platforms, new tiles, new lighting, new audio systems (not to mention the new electronic turnstiles + metrocards).

The subway was really ragged back then -- and so f*'ing noisy. None of this smooth and quiet stuff we have now.

Plus you could walk between the cars, which was handy -- and open the doors for ventilation in the summer when the heat was unbearable (no AC back then either).

All in all riding the subway back then was a great + nasty experience.

[NYC4Life]

The subways have been cleaned up from grafitti, but scratchitti (carving of windows with sharp objects) and acid etching (tagging windows with acid) have taken over where grafitti left off. The whole subway system in general however; are much more cleaner and modern compared to the 70's and 80's.

[londonlawyer]

Lord, thats shocking to me now never mind in '78.


I've got to tell you, amigo, that there are some cute birds on those lines, and it's very easy to chat them up!

[alonzo-ny]

Sounds like a plan!

[londonlawyer]

Sweet and creamy cupcake indeed!

[Oehlenschläger]

You know guys, you really have to rethink things a bit.

People came to NYC in the 70's. They came because they truly loved the theatre, art, music. NYC was very rarified... it had nothing to do with Viking kitchen appliances. Among all of that decay was genuine art movements and gosh, to think that B'way had Bob Fosse, Michael Bennet, there was Joe Papp downtown, Sondheim was still writing new musicals, we still had Warhol, Woody Allen was doing films about NYC, you had young artists making a mark on society like Haring, Basquit. The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass ...Max's Kansas City, CBGB's... Studio 54...Halston was a genuine force in fashion...you still had Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and Paul Taylor....Tama Janowitz, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian and on and on... a lot of this continued into the 1980's... but today?

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I'd like to add Balanchine to that list - Suzanne Farrell, also. Balanchine made "Tzigane" and "Vienna Waltzes" in the 70s. If only I was born earlier, I could have seen his last muse dance in these late-in-life masterpieces...

[Oehlenschläger]

Immagine being in NewYork City in 1978... and having someone show you this vision of the future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3DarGd2yE4

Honestly, I really don't think these people are strange or sad or pathetic. My sister used to wait in long lines to get Duran Duran tickets. If she had instead queued for a cupcake, I would have understood.

[cusec]

Really nice photos!

[Oehlenschläger]

Thank you, Radiohead, for the wonderful pictures. I'm especially fascinated by the Ferrybank & Tavern picture.

Does anyone here know what happened to those buildings? I assume they aren't there anymore. I'd like to know some of the history but I haven't been able to find any info. The NYTimes only has two wedding announcements and a short food review from the 1980s mentioning the Ferrybank. :(

[MidtownGuy]

Hello friend. Those buildings are still there. The Ferrybank building is very nice inside. Last time I was inside, there was a nightclub/bar. Still true to its original use, happily.:)

[Oehlenschläger]

Hello MidtownGuy:

It's nice to know that those buildings still exist; but, for some reason, I'm disappointed that the Ferrybank is still a restaurant. I was hoping it would be a dusty bookstore or a luthier (violinmaker). That's just what I imagined (hoped) it would be when I looked at the photo. Does that make any sense? :o

I searched by the address to get current info. about Ferrybank - it goes by a different name now. I also found current photos & the exterior looks very cleaned-up. This also depressed me for some reason.

Unfortunately, I could not find any info. about Tavern under the Bridge. I guess it's probably also a trendy, pristine hangout as well (?)

But one day I'd like to visit those buildings and take my own photographs. (BTW, I'm using that photo as my screen backdrop. I hope that's not illegal!) ;)

[NewYorkDoc]

There were very ugly cars.

[brianac]

Terrorist’s Release Reopens Wound of Unsolved Bombing

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A BOMB’S AFTERMATH On Dec. 29, 1975, a bomb exploded at La Guardia Airport, killing 11. No arrest, or credible claim of responsibility, was ever made.

By AL BAKER (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/al_baker/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
Published: August 9, 2008

It was four days after Christmas in 1975 when the powerful bomb blew up at 6:33 p.m. in a baggage area in La Guardia Airport’s main terminal, which was jammed with holiday travelers. The bomb — equivalent to 25 sticks of dynamite — shattered plate glass windows 30 feet high, spraying glass shards like shrapnel, and hurled metal from shattered baggage carousels and coin-operated lockers.

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Zvonko Busic, left, in 1976, when he helped hijack a plane and plant a bomb.

Amid the smoke and debris, 11 people lay dead; 75 others were wounded.
It was the worst death toll from a bomb explosion in New York City since a bomb went off in a parked horse-drawn wagon on Wall Street in 1920, killing more than three dozen people and injuring hundreds. It drew condemnation from Pope Paul VI, local politicians and President Gerald R. Ford (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/gerald_rudolph_jr_ford/index.html?inline=nyt-per).

There were no credible claims of responsibility. No arrests were ever made. And though it remains one of the bloodiest, most puzzling chapters in the history of American terrorism, it has faded from public consciousness.

“It remains unsolved and almost forgotten — except by those whose loved ones were killed or maimed,” said Terence G. McTigue, a former supervisor in the Police Department’s bomb squad, who was among the first members of the force at the scene.

For those haunted victims, and for a cadre of investigators who were involved in some way in the La Guardia case, a kind of fresh pain and frustration has taken hold in recent weeks — a result of what might otherwise have seemed an unrelated event.

Late last month, Zvonko Busic, who had spent the last three decades in United States prisons, was quietly granted parole and — within days — flew back to his native Croatia, a free man.

It turns out that Mr. Busic, a self-proclaimed Croatian independence fighter who was imprisoned for his role in another 1970s terrorist attack, had been the object of suspicion of many of those who looked into the La Guardia bombing. They included Mr. McTigue and Edwin T. Dreher, who, as a deputy police chief at the time, was put in charge of solving the case as the city’s No. 1 police priority.

There was also Frank McDarby, a detective who interrogated Mr. Busic in an F.B.I. (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_bureau_of_investigation/index.html?inline=nyt-org) office 33 years ago; the crime writer Kevin F. McMurray, who spoke with Mr. Busic for three hours in 1997 in a visitors’ room at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa.; and Robert K. Tanenbaum, a former prosecutor from the Manhattan district attorney’s office who had nagging doubts about Mr. Busic.

Each, to some degree, had been intrigued — and even tormented — by the unsettled matter of whether Mr. Busic had played a role in the La Guardia bombing. Each, over the last two weeks, has peered back into history and wondered anew if Mr. Busic escaped punishment for one of the biggest unsolved terrorist acts in the nation.

“There is a lot of suspicion that he was involved,” Mr. Tanenbaum said.

“There was definitely conversation about that, at that time.”

He added: “It’s an unsolved case. It was a major atrocity. And I’ve always been concerned about this.”

Over the years, Mr. Busic, who is now 62, has maintained his innocence in the La Guardia bombing. He reiterated that in a statement read on Friday by his lawyer, Marc D. Blackman of Portland, Ore., in which he said he and his wife, Julienne, “to this day, have absolutely no knowledge about who did” it.

The couple, now living in a small town on the Croatian coast, was convicted of playing a role in the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines jet and, as part of the same operation, for planting a bomb in Grand Central Terminal in September 1976, 10 months after the La Guardia bombing.

That bomb killed a city police officer as he tried to defuse it at a Bronx demolition range.

“Rumors that Julie or I had something to do with the La Guardia bombing have haunted us for over 30 years,” Mr. Busic said in his statement. He added: “We would welcome a process that would allow us to put these unsupported and reckless rumors to rest once and for all. But we are only two people with no power to convene such a process. Should those with such power do so, we would fully cooperate, as I said long ago when contacted by law enforcement officials.”

Regarding his release, Mr. Busic said, “It is inconceivable to me that I would have been granted parole if there was any evidence linking me to that horrible crime. There is no way to prove a negative, of course, but I believe that my release on parole comes as close to doing that as one can get.”

A Stone-Cold Mystery

The La Guardia case — known to law enforcement officials as Lagbomb — remains an “open homicide” investigation, a police official said. It has long been eclipsed by modern acts of terrorism, including the Sept. 11 attacks, whose masterminds are well known. Unofficially, it is a stone-cold whodunit for the F.B.I. and the Police Department.

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Zvonko Busic as a recent parolee.

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Ten months after the La Guardia bombing, Terence G. McTigue was injured by a bomb linked to Zvonko Busic, a Croatian separatist.

But 33 years ago, after the bomb went off in a baggage area used jointly by T.W.A. and Delta Air Lines, it was an intense inquiry for hundreds of law enforcement officers and other personnel.

Investigators scanned passenger manifests from flights preceding the blast. They analyzed bits of fabric, parts of timepieces and other forensic clues. They tracked down two men seen running from the blast, then questioned and cleared them. They looked at the Palestine Liberation Organization (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/palestine_liberation_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org) because Golda Meir, the former prime minister of Israel, had been in New York. They heard a Minneapolis police chief’s tip about a bomber in his state — but it was a dead end.

“When this happened, we got calls from all over the world,” said Mr. Dreher, the former deputy police chief. “It was just a madhouse in the beginning.”

The La Guardia bombing reinforced the notion that the city was a stage for groups seeking attention for international causes. For instance, on Jan. 24, 1975, a bomb went off at Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan, killing four people. It was one of 49 bombings attributed to the Armed Forces of National Liberation, a Puerto Rican nationalist group known as the F.A.L.N., between 1974 and 1977.

The Croatian nationalist movement linked émigrés from Croatia in several parts of the globe, all of them aiming to free their home from Communist Yugoslavia.

“They were involved in multiple bombings in New York,” said Neil Herman, a retired F.B.I. agent who was a supervisor in the local Joint Terrorism Task Force.

It was not until Mr. Busic was arrested for the 1976 hijacking and Grand Central bombing — and returned to New York after his capture in Paris — that he became someone of interest to investigators still stymied in the La Guardia case.

Questioning a Suspect

Once in New York, Mr. Busic began to meet the people who would come to be gripped for decades by their suspicions about him.

Mr. Tanenbaum was a prosecutor in Robert M. Morgenthau (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/robert_m_morgenthau/index.html?inline=nyt-per)’s office, a senior member of its homicide bureau. He prosecuted self-proclaimed members of the Black Liberation Army for the killing of two police officers, as well as members of the Colombo crime family.

Mr. McTigue, a sergeant assigned to the police bomb squad in 1976, was blinded in the left eye and lost two fingers of his left hand in the explosion of the bomb planted in Grand Central. When it detonated at the bomb squad demolition range hours later, Mr. McTigue recalled, “I got hit right in the face.”

He was 41 at the time, a police officer since 1956. He got the Medal of Honor. He said he spent three months in a hospital and a decade getting “patched up — I lost count of my operations at 17. Tracheotomy. Skin grafts. The whole deal.”

Mr. McDarby, an investigator who had kept his beard from his time working narcotics operations, went to the F.B.I.’s New York offices on the night Mr. Busic was flown back from Europe.

Recalling the interrogation, Mr. McDarby, 67, said that Mr. Busic drew a picture of the bomb planted in Grand Central, but said he “did not mean for anyone to get hurt or killed.” Calling himself “the commandant,” Mr. Busic recounted how he got the ingredients for the bomb, built it with dynamite and tested it with a “lamp switch in his apartment” in Manhattan.

“After all that was said and done, he had to go to the bathroom and we had a minute break,” Mr. McDarby said. “Eddie Dreher was there and he said, ‘Get back in there with him and talk to him. You know what I want.’ He was referring to La Guardia.”

As the interrogation continued, Mr. McDarby said “inconsistencies” arose. Mr. Busic began to sweat profusely. He first said he had heard about the bombing from someone at his apartment, then said he had learned of it from repeated radio news alerts during his taxi ride home.

“I said, ‘Wait a minute, you told me a half-hour ago that the neighbor told you,’ ” said Mr. McDarby. “He said, ‘Oh, I am tired, I have not slept in four or five days.’ His lips were quivering.”

The interview was interrupted by a federal agent, who claimed he had to rush to get Mr. Busic before a federal judge, and it was never finished, Mr. McDarby said. He said the agent threatened to arrest Mr. McDarby and others if they did not release Mr. Busic; Mr. McDarby said he believes the threat arose from a turf dispute.

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Investigators spent New Year’s Eve 1975 sifting through debris from the La Guardia explosion, the last of several bombings in New York that year.

Years later, Mr. McDarby met one night at Elaine’s (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/elaines/index.html?inline=nyt-org), an Upper East Side restaurant, with Charles E. Rose, a prosecutor with the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Rose wanted to take a fresh look at the case, Mr. McDarby said, but it never happened and Mr. Rose joined a private practice in 1994 and died four years later.

Mr. Tanenbaum, 65, interviewed Mr. Busic as part of his investigation of the hijacking and the subsequent Grand Central bombing. But he also believes that interference by the federal authorities — who ultimately charged and prosecuted Mr. Busic and others in the 1976 case — prevented any real chance to explore Mr. Busic’s possible role in the La Guardia bombing.

Today, he wishes that a state case against Mr. Busic and his comrades had been pushed.

“We know there’s a likelihood that some of Busic’s accomplices would have talked about the La Guardia bombing case, that we might have learned more about the La Guardia bombing case,” Mr. Tanenbaum said.

A Similar Pattern

Mr. McMurray, the crime writer who developed an interest in Mr. Busic, corresponded with Mr. Busic and his wife. And then he got a chance to interview him in 1997.

Mr. Busic again denied a role in the La Guardia bombing. He told Mr. McMurray, 58, that he would take a lie-detector test to prove his innocence because “he believed he was still in prison because they held him on suspicion of being the La Guardia bomber.” Mr. Busic served more than 31 years of a life term and was granted parole and deported on July 24.

Mr. McTigue, 73, who lives in Rockland County, followed Mr. Busic’s path through prison for three decades. And he was always struck by the similarities in the two bombings.

“Both bombs were in a public locker in a transportation facility, a few days after a holiday, and both were large and heavy,” Mr. McTigue said. He noted that both devices utilized dynamite and “a 9-volt battery, possibly for a lantern.”

Mr. McTigue testified several times before the United States Parole Commission in federal prisons where Mr. Busic was held, in California, Maryland, New York and three times in Lewisburg, Pa.

He did it, he said, “to make people aware of the crime he committed and also, on several occasions, to point out what I felt was his solid connection to the La Guardia incident.” Mr. McTigue said he hoped the La Guardia case would be solved.

Now, Mr. Busic is “wandering around Europe somewhere,” with his wife, according to his father-in-law, who spoke by telephone from his home in Portland but declined to provide his name. He said he was tired of the subject of his son-in-law’s suspicion in the La Guardia bombing.

“They like to dredge that up,” he said. “I don’t care what they think. If they think he did it, prove it.”

Mr. McTigue notes that a condition of Mr. Busic’s parole is that he not return to the United States.

“I’m sad that he’s out of our hands,” Mr. McTigue said. “Eleven people lost loved ones, and scores of people were injured, and no one has ever been brought to justice. That’s a terrible mark on our society and it should never be forgotten.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/nyregion/10laguardia.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=nyregion

Copyright 2008 (http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/copyright.html) The New York Times Company (http://www.nytco.com/)

[smellslikeabid]

IM loving this thread.
There are some awesome photos, i just cant imagine what it was like in the 70's, i guess that the song by the Philadelpia international all Stars " Clean it up" http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSW9RfeXHWs pretty much sums up the city at the time.

Its fascinating, and shows what a turnaround has happened, it only adds to the coolness of New York though imo!

[Triborough]

Then of course there is always the faked 70s.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2802212405_67d0f0376b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/2802212405/)

[stache]

That shirt color is not working for the '70's.

[Triborough]

That shirt color is not working for the '70's.

You want to be the one who tells Harvey Keitel that?

[stache]

Sure, why not? ;)

[scumonkey]

Dear Harvey, That shirt colour is NOT working...
neither is that little collar or that dull tie!

ps
the hair is the right length, but what about the product?!
Where are the gold chains?
You need to have a talk with someone in wardrobe;)

[stache]

Methinks the dark shirt and tie are there to hide the gut.

[Radiohead]

From Rocketcab
http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/5/photos/19/500x500/5/8af3re2.jpg?et=SkQxqiMo0bOEB%2Bw7iTz5HA&nmid=64315944

http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/4/photos/19/500x500/7/d557re2.jpg?et=VdBbLGOhSiEe97vmjG6v4A&nmid=64315944

http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/4/photos/17/500x500/2/b814re2.jpg?et=LustBV3beNvFyWaYdyRu%2Bw&nmid=64314945

http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/3/photos/18/500x500/3/5a7ere2.jpg?et=Y9%2BA4pODm8i6hCco5SCS%2Cw&nmid=64315455

http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/3/photos/18/500x500/4/6bcere2.jpg?et=Njc9j8rW1LNZ%2Bld5ppKcTQ&nmid=64315455

[Radiohead]

Scenes from the Bronx, Brooklyn & Queens. Mostly '70's, a few early 80's

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2832288638_0fbfb66fa3_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/2831452585_6a6565e2c0_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2832288428_9bb05ec3cf_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2831452421_31a79e13fb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/2832288508_8730c59a51_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2831452357_409b72b49c_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2831452217_70ed7e95a8_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/2832288050_bf11846ccc_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2831452031_5a364f1f9c_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/2832287932_8c0ddde148_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2832287890_1b082dc825_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2832287828_de3882be87_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2831451763_d9c947aaff_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2831451655_904b33a315_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2832287598_590b7b143b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/2831451481_29c6c56407_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2832287468_232a07d4b8_o.jpg

[Triborough]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2832287468_232a07d4b8_o.jpg

This one is not from the 1970s. The cars and white on green street signs are a dead give away. It would have to be from about 1987 onward given the vehicles and the white license plates. The vehicle in the lower right appears to be a Plymouth Sundance or Dodge Shadow, a model that did not appear until 1987.

[195Broadway]

Wow. These photos bring a flood of emotions.... good, bad, and just plain scary.
Does anyone have a photo of the burnt out cars that used to line the sides of the Cross Bronx Expressway? That is one childhood memory which will forever be seared into my brain.

Steven

[Merry]

This one is not from the 1970s. The cars and white on green street signs are a dead give away. It would have to be from about 1987 onward given the vehicles and the white license plates. The vehicle in the lower right appears to be a Plymouth Sundance or Dodge Shadow, a model that did not appear until 1987.

That photo was taken by Camilo Vergara (http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/browsers/camilo/camilo-browser.html) in 1989, No. 32 under Cyprus Avenue. (http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/browsers/camilo/NYDA93-F96.html)

[Don31]

Really great shots, thanks!

[NYC4Life]

Wow. These photos bring a flood of emotions.... good, bad, and just plain scary.
Does anyone have a photo of the burnt out cars that used to line the sides of the Cross Bronx Expressway? That is one childhood memory which will forever be seared into my brain.

Steven

East 176th Street and Boone Avenue


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk210/dtoronto2008/South%20Bronx/RobertRonan3-BooneAveandCBE.jpg

[smellslikeabid]

I love these pics, of how broken New York was, just makes it all the better now!

[Schadenfrau]

I'm familiar with the neighborhood, but I don't recognize the "Bronx Place" street sign. Does anyone know if and when that was changed? And if so, what to?

[stache]

Schad I don't see the street sign. Which photo?

[brianac]

Schade, could it have been BROWN PLACE?


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=138th+st+The+Bronx+NY&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.970501,39.375&ie=UTF8&ll=40.807386,-73.920468&spn=0.004052,0.009613&t=h&z=17

[195Broadway]

East 176th Street and Boone Avenue


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk210/dtoronto2008/South%20Bronx/RobertRonan3-BooneAveandCBE.jpg

Thanks, NYC..... That photo is like a time machine! Dead nuts on atmosphere of the Cross Bronx back then. Think of that scene multiplied many times along the sides of the highway. Sing it, everyone: "Over the BRIDGE, and through the BRONX to grandmother's HOUSE we'd GO"

[smellslikeabid]

Scenes from the Bronx, Brooklyn & Queens. Mostly '70's, a few early 80's









http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/2832288508_8730c59a51_o.jpg











My god it was such a mess! Testament to how amazing it looks now! I cannot get over these pictures of squalour and decay, and how the city is so clean and tidy now (well the bits i saw!)

[NYC4Life]

Still relatively dirty, but at least not graffiti filled.

[Schadenfrau]

Thanks- Brown Place is what I was talking about. Looking at the location, just east of Willis, I must have walked by a dozen times and never noticed.

[Radiohead]

All below are from 1974 (from the Nat'l Archives)

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/2/15-0176a.gif

Lexington Ave subway
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/11/15-1081a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/11/15-1080a.gif


http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/11/15-1093a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/12/15-1119a.gif


Penn Station
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/12/15-1131a.gif

Williamsburg Bridge
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/4/15-0361a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/3/15-0210a.gif

The below 2 are from 1973

Check out the taxi rates
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0788a.gif

Herald Square traffic
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0793a.gif

[Radiohead]

1973 cont

Garment district
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0760a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0761a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0762a.gif

Midtown
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/9/6/09-0581a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/9/6/09-0592a.gif

Greenwich Village
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2916684941_bc0a4ed61e_o.jpg

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/9/10-0812a.gif

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3176/2917573532_9554920d2a_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2917573296_55a385bf7b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/2916729841_39a4447e34_o.jpg

[smellslikeabid]

So cool, keep posting them!

[NYC4Life]

The NYC of the past, so gritty.

[Radiohead]

1976 Gay Rights March
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2920931304_151378b134_o.jpg

Lexington & 103rd
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2920931400_50eb77781f_o.jpg

Brooklyn Chase Manhattan branch, 1975. A robbery at this branch in 1972 was the premise of the Pacino classic Dog Day Afternoon.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/2920931478_2f33ab1330_o.jpg

WTC in 1970 or 71
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2920931546_7c39160745_o.jpg

Mid 70's
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2920932260_cceb166d32_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/2920932396_43f4c84183_o.jpg

1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/2920088215_41f87d2626_o.jpg

I thought this was late 70's, but the Mr Sloan billboard dates Village shot to 1981.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/2920932836_10584e1ae1_o.jpg

Tishman billboard shows construction is still going on
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2920089209_8e4a36c507_o.jpg

1972 Vignelli subway map had it's fans and it's detractors
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/2920089273_1892716ebf_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1973 gas lines
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/2920933736_dafdccec82_o.jpg

Protest, promotion, or both
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2920933798_8da442a436_o.jpg

Pre Disney 42nd St 1974
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2920934006_4b42b86758_o.jpg

Manhattan doorway 1974
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2920089967_2810e29ef7_o.jpg

Manhattan eatery 1974
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/2920934528_820d27bca5_o.jpg

Taking a break 1974
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2920934854_9598c82201_o.jpg

1972
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2920934936_824e2f74f8_o.jpg

1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/2920090783_894230383b_o.jpg

Corbis pic of early work on the north tower
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/2920935134_394fc08bf9_o.jpg

[stache]

Fantastic photos!

[NYC4Life]

What a transformation over the decades.

[lofter1]

A great shot:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/2920090783_894230383b_o.jpg

[joe25]

^ It would've been nice to see the twin towers with ones own eyes when they where built. I think they should have rebuilt them the same way shape and size except to get rid of the peephole windows and replace them with modern glass ones.

[Radiohead]

Politicking, 1970's style (from this blog....http://grayson-for-congress.blogspot.com/2008/03/1970-teenage-new-york-politics-pics.html)

Bella Abzug
http://www.midgecostanzainstitute.com/Uploads/Bella-Campaign-Poster-1970.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2932359459_00d81bfe7b_o.jpg

Basil Patterson (current NY gov David's father) on the stump running for lieutenant governer for Arthur Goldberg.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2926680785_cc8f42de73_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3246/2926680539_f0816347f3_o.jpg


Gubernatorial candidate Goldberg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2932360071_f0ca3fb4c1_o.jpg

Another Dem candidate for governor Howard Samuels
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2932360213_ab06caa86a_o.jpg

NYC pol Paul O'Dwyer at 1970 peace rally
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/2933217340_bccd6755e4_o.jpg

1970 Senate candidate Dick Ottinger
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2932359711_36647d43ea_o.jpg

Elinor Guggenheimer with Betty Friedan behind her
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2932359851_6a9a96f25b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/2932359493_34d4195dd9_o.jpg

[smellslikeabid]

My favourite thread on here at the mo!
Keep posting!

[Shaun_nyc]

great thread !

[195Broadway]

Gotta love that box of Bazooka bubble gum. :p
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2926680785_cc8f42de73_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1973 collapse of Grand Central Hotel. Read more here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Hotel)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1183/1435163805_6d7a68b2ec_b.jpg

SF artists Rhodessa Jones & Jon & Keith Raskin cross Park Ave 1976 (MrFlikker/Flickr)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/2706378317_812232d642_b.jpg


1978
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2089/2533561490_ef34647312_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2533561806_2c7fe3b8b3_b.jpg

Below from 1978 (ro.man.tic/Flickr)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/2781421605_19b247690b_b.jpg

During filming of German TV movie "The Bank Robbery w/ Rutger Hauer
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2262/2777024475_db0cd94931_b.jpg

The Village
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2770376740_70bc42b9a7_b.jpg

Midtown
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2788899296_a2e9af84e7_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2788036847_b6a4c8ca83_b.jpg

From WTC
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2791883521_5a2e75050a_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

1978 continued (from ro.man.tic)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2791849731_4403a7dfda_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2792814308_8959e24076_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2791976751_9cf820fd93_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2795447805_0431f76c92_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2796320838_8f5cc22078_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2810529388_b1cf546428_o.jpg

Tribeca-Church & White St.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2809681353_ec386bb967_o.jpg

Downtown
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2820705944_c53e517910_o.jpg

From Rock Center
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2820687426_118f593310_b.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/2804749181_6d909b74e5_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1978 continued

Upper East side
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/2826346119_8dcefba885_b.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2839518877_916f65b21b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2848056116_f3edf1cb0f_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2848138312_ab89c4266a_o.jpg

7th Ave
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2862864442_1390de7131_o.jpg

5th Ave
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2862871992_6b62983f13_b.jpg

6th Ave. The street food was better back then
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2862892282_b1c72cd6c9_b.jpg

Leaving 47th St photo
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2862913646_afab0a9e40_b.jpg

From SI Ferry
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/2864410213_5dd0407f2c_o.jpg

Times Square
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2865196212_62e9c451b5_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

1978 continued

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2864366643_bb11a52858_b.jpg

Nassau St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2865216908_52a3bdcc63_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2871690031_9ac9c3b79b_o.jpg

West Village Thompson St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/2872536704_4cd28a5e04_b.jpg

Outside Guggenheim
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2877212196_35d3a148cb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3270/2876405197_5d1657c97c_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/2881233053_a7a4160eae_o.jpg

Alliance Bernstein Bldg -Ave of the Americas
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/2884743658_7689d0e3de_o.jpg

Another from Rock Center
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2893141478_b0c513de00_b.jpg

[lofter1]

Terrific shots ^

For a really squalid and somewhat depressing trip down NYC's memory lane
circa 1971 -- particularly the UWS back in the day -- don't miss this early
Al Pacino film (pre-"Godfather" stardom) coming to the Film Forum after
the first of the year:

Jerry Schatzberg’s THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (http://www.filmforum.org/films/panic.html)
Friday, January 30 - Thursday, February 5

http://www.filmforum.org/films/panic/panichead2_04.gif
http://www.filmforum.org/films/spacer.gifhttp://www.filmforum.org/films/panic/panichead2_09.gifhttp://www.filmforum.org/films/panic/panichead2_07.jpghttp://www.filmforum.org/films/panic/panichead2_08.gif

[NYC4Life]

Love those shots. The Village was certainly the place to be in that era.

[Radiohead]

Midtown 1973 (eralsoto-Flickr)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/2610857416_7810b32e7a_b.jpg

View from ESB 1971
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2610119943_cd1cc4b2bc_b.jpg

1973 aerial
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/2611642613_0287967694_b.jpg

1970 East River view
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2904828133_6b7b278043_b.jpg

1971
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/3006451034_2b5c16946f_b.jpg

1970 (from Marcelo Montecino)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/60/198831513_0af78c1fc3_b.jpg


2 from Cortlandt St 1970 (by straatis)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/2080908081_1ae1c98934_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/2080908155_79bc29935f_o.jpg

Mural at Houston St 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/2081695582_72ce487c20_o.jpg

Mid 70's
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/2080908929_8f1a992314_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1970, mostly in Times Square area (from dboo/Flickr)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/239034290_f2b5e06959_o.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/239034315_9ac2ef3287_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/239034554_f86d0a683a_o.jpg

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/239034263_b790358cee_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/196/491610079_0132b76c2d.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/491594564_f9b915d996.jpg

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/241087554_1ecd6433d1_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1970 (cont)

Greenwich Village & surrounding area
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/240796519_01d5ee4268_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/240796624_3b1da7585b_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/240797160_8cc8cdd140_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/240797205_914f5073bf_o.jpg

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/96/240796408_b8bb70b72e_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/240797112_378e0c13b0_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/241753137_f93d083be8_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/85/241753185_ac0c58d7ee_o.jpg

Central Park
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/93/241753373_5b671924c0_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

Conversation in a Manhattan diner, 1970
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/50892860_3b4cf0f7f0_o.jpg

Outside the Garden 1970
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/189602187_4ee3e78e1f_o.jpg

From Brooklyn docks 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/2904774211_b587f9dbc8_b.jpg

Night view from Rock Center 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2744154785_808dac2ac6_b.jpg

1970 (from 762 AK)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3126/2910824030_0397a53beb_o.jpg

Brooklyn 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3224/2932527952_87159fabd7_o.jpg

Broadway 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2928822499_bd5eb30b67_o.jpg

Yankee Stadium 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/2932517652_5970535e97_o.jpg

YS renovations 1974 (w/ Phil Rizzuto)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2771011421_6e1f2c2b49_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/2708963196_c7a6cabcd4_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

One of the last games at the pre-renovated stadium 1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/2771026011_f8ab31aed5_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/2460108249_503ce23c9c_o.jpg

1977 World Series
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2771872642_9d765561ab_o.jpg

Walking off with seats prior to renovations 1973. Such an action in 2008 would have been met with an arrest.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2708131237_933d23b647_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2703153178_ffd3748738_b.jpg

Knicks at the Garden 1971....pure magic. In 2008, this franchise is unwatchable.(pic by Jeffrey Gutterman)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2611949096_2eee7b0367_o.jpg

Shea Stadium around 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2949923027_f5faf98d65_b.jpg

Tom Seaver
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2949923925_03762d7a01_b.jpg

Memorial Day parade w/ the NY Skyliners 1971
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2907597398_808ba8e49f_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2315/2271510958_88e981f6f3_b.jpg

[NYC4Life]

Excellent photos. Who could ever forget the '77 World Series and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs in game 6.

[lofter1]

The film seen on the Selwyn marquis circa 1970 is being shown this weekend
as part of the ongoing "To Save and Project (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=10344)" film series at MoMA ...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/239034554_f86d0a683a_o.jpg

L'Uccello dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage).

Saturday, November 15, 2008, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Sunday, November 16, 2008, 1:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1

http://content3.rm04.net/ra/2008/11/14/2271160/bird.jpg.jpg (http://sdm3.rm04.net/ctt?kn=9&m=2271160&r=NzQ4MDMzODEwS0&b=0&j=NjEzNDQ0MzES1&mt=1&rt=0)http://content3.rm04.net/ra/2008/11/14/2271160/index_files_shim.gif.gifhttp://content3.rm04.net/ra/2008/11/14/2271160/index_files_shim.gif.gif
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
1970. Italy/West Germany.
Written and directed by Dario Argento

1970. Italy/West Germany. 97 min. Written and directed by Dario Argento.
With Tony Musante, Eva Renzi. Argento's directorial debut is a masterpiece
of suspense, as famous for its voluptuous and symbolic use of color
(unforgettable shades of red and yellow) and music (a brilliant score by
Ennio Morricone) as it is for its blend of surreal violence, mystery, and
eroticism. Set in a modernist Rome drawn entirely from Argento's uncanny
imagination, and evoking a sense of urban alienation through shadow and
reflections, the film centers on an American writer who witnesses a brutal
assault and must uncover the identity of the assailant to prove his own
innocence. Preserved by Cineteca Nazionale, Rome. In Italian; English subtitles.

[Radiohead]

Times Square & midtown

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/cotnordvuegnrale1975.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/cotnordvuegnralewa1974.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/Broadwaycorner46th-1974.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/Broadwayarondtimessquare1978.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/CotsudVueGnerale1976.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2825124937_8366a54d82_b.jpg

Bronx
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/97762191_a54bc4b4ef_o.jpg

WTC 5 1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2349267988_69e014c356_o.jpg

1975
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2867790673_b08e26181f_o.jpg

[lofter1]

Lots more sky in Times Square back then.

[NYC4Life]

Lots more porn shops also ;)

[Skylimitone]

Wow the city looked so scruffy then.

[lofter1]

It was -- rough around the edges and not nearly so corporately clean.

[stache]

Total freedom. :cool:

[Radiohead]

It was -- rough around the edges and not nearly so corporately clean.

The city had a different, exciting kind of charm back then...well into the 80's. That said, beneath the veneer, it was also a bit sleazy. I remember wandering into some of those Broadway dives with friends in the mid-late 80's back when we were curious and newly legal. There were some characters in there.

Hot mop to booth #6..........:eek:

[stache]

That said, beneath the veneer, it was also a bit sleazy.


Perish the thought! :D:D:D

[Radiohead]

^Well, not that there's anything wrong with that:p

Every now and then I'll come across some pics that I just love. These are from Tony Redhead/Flickr, though I adjusted the contrast & exposure to minimize haze. These are all from 1979.

From Houston St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/3049161362_fc9878649a_o.jpg

Soho
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/3049161356_0c433b9dd3_o.jpg

Mulberry & Houston
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/3049161354_917a6ac037_o.jpg

Lafayette & Great Jones St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/3049161352_4fcb4fbf1a_o.jpg

Houston & Lafayette
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/3049161348_31b5c0490a_o.jpg

Near Bowery & Great Jones St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3048316323_b2ee179946_o.jpg

Bleeker & Lafayette
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/3048316321_e11432929f_o.jpg

Bedford St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/3048316317_3c3ea176d8_o.jpg

E 4th Ave
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3048316311_387302a944_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

Cooper Square. Check out the gas prices; almost 30 years later we're nearing those prices again. I paid $1.67 in Virginia a few days ago.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/3046645637_f6b9b3c86f_o.jpg

A few others, not sure of the exact location.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/3048316309_4c63a0b598_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/3046645909_a15afc0371_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/3048316313_80c285c0bb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/3049161358_53af852eb0_o.jpg

[lofter1]

A few others, not sure of the exact location.


Sixth Avenue, where Houston becomes Bedford Street, looking east (SoHo on the right, Greenwich Village on the left) ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/3048316309_4c63a0b598_o.jpg

Lafayette Street at Great Jones ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/3046645909_a15afc0371_o.jpg

Maybe Stanton or Rivington Street near Chrystie looking east towards Allen Street ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/3048316313_80c285c0bb_o.jpg

The north edge of SoHo, where Wooster meets Houston, looking south -- with the AT&T Building at 32 Sixth Avenue looming across Canal Street beyond the end of Wooster (where the new Kaufman Sheraton Hotel is now rising) and, of course, the two twins ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/3049161358_53af852eb0_o.jpg

[Bronxbombers]

Thanks,thanks and thanks for all of the pictures New York City.

[Merry]

Those photos are fantastic, thanks Radiohead. I know they're from Flickr but could you please tell us who posted them. I can't seem to find them :confused:. Thanks in advance.

And thanks too, Lofter, for the locations :).

[Radiohead]

Those photos are fantastic, thanks Radiohead. I know they're from Flickr but could you please tell us who posted them. I can't seem to find them :confused:. Thanks in advance.

And thanks too, Lofter, for the locations :).

I think I did mention the Flickr poster, but you can find the originals HERE (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56277154@N00/sets/72157607846002831/). I adjusted the contrast for this board and hosted them privately, so you would not find those posted here with a search.

[Merry]

I think I did mention the Flickr poster, but you can find the originals HERE (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56277154@N00/sets/72157607846002831/). I adjusted the contrast for this board and hosted them privately, so you would not find those posted here with a search.

Ah, indeed you did, sorry, I only looked at the last page of the thread :rolleyes:.

Your obvious interest in NYC in past times is a boon to this forum and I for one really appreciate your efforts, thanks Radiohead.

[NYC4Life]

Love to see the city in the 1970's. So gritty and dirty yet, full of character.

[Radiohead]

I came across these about a year ago, then forgot about them. Fortunately I saved the page. From whiskeygonebad/Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/badwsky/sets/72157594184181611/)

Brooklyn in the 1970's. Most from the Boro Park section.

1976 New Utrecht Ave
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/27028040_883717523c_b.jpg

Winter 1977-78 Same street as above
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/111830006_2dd8fc04af_b.jpg

...same store in 2006
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/190660161_34ecb35ba2_o.jpg

13th Ave & New Utrecht @ 54/55th Sts) 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2170/1513337866_67b0963fe0_b.jpg

Same intersection
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/1513337880_672356ee6d_b.jpg

NYCTA bus 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2110/1548005222_8ebd63450b_b.jpg

50th St El 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2099/2139852912_3a865134a8_o.jpg

13th Ave 1976
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2139851900_2ae84708a9_o.jpg

Just hanging out on 57th St 1978. Gotta love that old Sabbath shirt
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2302/2151534079_303d742a57_b.jpg

Culver Line El 36th St 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2224/2227058946_7d8c0b8c15_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

55th St 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2062/2226269685_e53243af83_b.jpg

West End El over New Utrecht 1977
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2939967591_ba3f4122fc_o.jpg

December 1977 snow
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2701404472_db7dafae75_o.jpg

Culver Line El @ 36th St (since torn down)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/2227059364_8c48fbabc1_b.jpg

From the LOC
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ny/ny1200/ny1234/photos/120561pv.jpg

[lofter1]

I love New York in black & white :cool:

[NYC4Life]

1970's New York in black & white is even better.

[195Broadway]

It was good to listen to back then...

http://www.flicklives.com/Mass_Back/index.asp (http://www.flicklives.com/Mass_Back/index.asp)

On WOR, Jean Shepherd often kept me awake with tales of his childhood. (The Real player option is not working for me???, Rt click the MP3 option and save it to your desk top).... & Enjoy the memories. :) YA GOTTA LISTEN TO: " It's the anniversary of the "Great crash of 29" and Shep sings "The Bear Missed the Train" From 10/29/1974 ..... It is SO relevant to this thread and our current times.

^ Complete with commercials!!!!

It's the anniversary of the "Great Crash Of '29" and Shep sings, "The Bear Missed The Train"
Also, WABC with Ron lundy & others..... It was great stuff.

http://musicradio77.com/bignote.gif

[nycla3]

It was good to listen to...
On WOR, Jean Shepherd often kept me awake with tales of his childhood. (The Real player option is not working for me???, Rt click the MP3 option and save it to your desk top).... & Enjoy the memories. :)




Better yet, subscribe to Shep podcasts like I do:

http://shepcast.blogspot.com/

Brings me right back to the early seventies with one ear to my Viscount Transistor Radio...one slight move down the dial and I was picking up Cleveland Indians broadcasts from my suburban NJ bedroom.

[195Broadway]

Thanks, nycla!
EXCELSIOR!, YOU FATHEAD

[nycla3]

back atcha' 195...awesome, ain't it? They can't possibly know that I'm transported back to those days while I'm podcasting on the Seventh Ave. Express.

Caught Shep live, musta been 1974 or so when he did an annual show at Princeton. None of my friends at the time could appreciate Shep like I did. Make sure you listen to his Kerouac tribute show from when he died in 1969.

I'm sure you have, but if you haven't....

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=9781557836007&ourl=Excelsior-You-Fathead%2FEugene-B-Bergmann

Paints a slightly unholier picture then we wish, but, oh well...

Meet you on Cedar Lake with a case of Blatz...

[195Broadway]

^
:cool:
Copy on the Kerouac. I'll do that tonight at work.

I met Shep when he was on his book tour for "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories".
It was at a small book store, I think in Chatham. It was summertime, hot as hell, the place had no air conditioning. Poor Shep was sweating like a pig. I walk up to meet him and he stands up from his seat, leans over the table, and rubs his sweaty head on my sweaty head!
I was speechless! I had just rubbed sweaty heads with Shep!!!! What more could a 7 year old kid want! :D

PS I was not aware of Bergmann's book. Up to now, my memories of Shep are mostly from my childhood. His radio and PBS shows being the main venues.
The book is now on my list.