What a transformation over the decades.
Fantastic photos!
What a transformation over the decades.
^ 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.
Politicking, 1970's style (from this blog....http://grayson-for-congress.blogspot...tics-pics.html)
Bella Abzug
Basil Patterson (current NY gov David's father) on the stump running for lieutenant governer for Arthur Goldberg.
Gubernatorial candidate Goldberg
Another Dem candidate for governor Howard Samuels
NYC pol Paul O'Dwyer at 1970 peace rally
1970 Senate candidate Dick Ottinger
Elinor Guggenheimer with Betty Friedan behind her
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My favourite thread on here at the mo!
Keep posting!
great thread !
Gotta love that box of Bazooka bubble gum.
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1973 collapse of Grand Central Hotel. Read more here
SF artists Rhodessa Jones & Jon & Keith Raskin cross Park Ave 1976 (MrFlikker/Flickr)
1978
Below from 1978 (ro.man.tic/Flickr)
During filming of German TV movie "The Bank Robbery w/ Rutger Hauer
The Village
Midtown
From WTC
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1978 continued (from ro.man.tic)
Tribeca-Church & White St.
Downtown
From Rock Center
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1978 continued
Upper East side
7th Ave
5th Ave
6th Ave. The street food was better back then
Leaving 47th St photo
From SI Ferry
Times Square
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1978 continued
Nassau St
West Village Thompson St
Outside Guggenheim
Alliance Bernstein Bldg -Ave of the Americas
Another from Rock Center
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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
Friday, January 30 - Thursday, February 5
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Love those shots. The Village was certainly the place to be in that era.
Midtown 1973 (eralsoto-Flickr)
View from ESB 1971
1973 aerial
1970 East River view
1971
1970 (from Marcelo Montecino)
2 from Cortlandt St 1970 (by straatis)
Mural at Houston St 1977
Mid 70's
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