I love regular daily life snapshots like this. It’s so hard to get a feel for life in another time through photographs (which I also love), simple movies like this make another time and place feel more real and relatable.
@darth_smoothies Same, same. If you ever get a chance to watch a doc from about 10 years back called “NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell”, I highly recommend it.
@mashcan Exactly that. Happy to see copies are now floating around YT. It was pretty hard to find for years after it left VH-1 (of all channels!). I just posted it: https://mltshp.com/p/1JWEM.
That was the grimy, exciting, sketchy, bustling, smelly, fragrant, dangerous, wonderful NYC I knew as an 11-year-old weekends-only Manhattanite kid of recently-divorced suburban parents. (Also the year the Yankees won their first Series since '61, and I got to see Reggie hit his three Game 6 homers from first base-adjacent seats with my dad — my one big sports memory with him.) I don't wish the city now was still as decrepit as it was then, but I do feel fortunate to have experienced it (even if only as a young'n) before it became the so much the Oasis for the Wealthy it is now. I guess the positive flipside of some of that change is that vast parts of all five boroughs that were often too dodgy to roam around then are now as accessible as Midtown in the '70s.
Hey, I just re-read your caption, and you've got me wondering what it was about News From Home that put you in such an existential frame of mind?
That was the grimy, exciting, sketchy, bustling, smelly, fragrant, dangerous, wonderful NYC I knew as an 11-year-old weekends-only Manhattanite kid of recently-divorced suburban parents. (Also the year the Yankees won their first Series since '61, and I got to see Reggie hit his three Game 6 homers from first base-adjacent seats with my dad — my one big sports memory with him.) I don't wish the city now was still as decrepit as it was then, but I do feel fortunate to have experienced it (even if only as a young'n) before it became the so much the Oasis for the Wealthy it is now. I guess the positive flipside of some of that change is that vast parts of all five boroughs that were often too dodgy to roam around then are now as accessible as Midtown in the '70s.
Hey, I just re-read your caption, and you've got me wondering what it was about News From Home that put you in such an existential frame of mind?