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My mother was never satisfied with the angle of it, and would fiddle with it constantly until my father would yell, "Leave the GD thing alone before you break it!"
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Back in the day how did you turn on the Brights lights in the car
Oh yea! Also, way back I believe the early R1 through R? the conductors had to stand between the cars to operate the side doors!! Fred, help me here, how far am I going back on this one?
I remember the conductors straddled between the cars and leaning out to check the platform in the Fifties, but it lasted at least into the Sixties.
My father who was born and grew up in the Bronx but no longer lives in NYC, when he visits NYC he refers to the subway lines as being either IND, IRT or BMT.
My god! Have they abandoned those names! Next they'll be turning the Statue of Liberty into condos.
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As for subway tokens they were still be used not that long ago. So I would think most adults remember having seen them at least when they were a child.
Good grief, I remember seeing them as an adult! I feel like Fred Flintstone.
I remember my grandfather liked Chock full o'nuts and vaguely remember my grandmother taking me to an Automat restaurant when visiting NYC as a small child.
Or the Prexies chain featuring the "hamburger with a college education."
Or Nedicks, one of the few places in Manhattan to get a hot dog that tasted like it might have been intended for human consumption.
And those joints on 42nd St. that sold two burgers for 25 cents.
lol...some youngsters here! I certainly remember tokens, paper transfers on buses (with those noisy coin machines), not having any kind of cable tv (roof antenna baby!), no cellphones/beepers/affordable computers..etc.
Growing up in the Bronx and getting awful shoes from Fayva and Buster Browns as a kid (thanks mom!) and going to big chain stores like Woolworths, Alexanders and later Caldors among others. I remember when my family got their first VCR in the early 80's from ....yes.. Crazy Eddie (where the prices were INNNSAAANE!).
This is a bit late (in my case, at least) for nostalgia, but does anyone now remember Alison Steele?
Alison Steele, the Night Bird, the only NYC woman DJ that I knew of at the time. She and the old WNEW FM gang have become objects again of public attention after the recent passing of Pete Fornatele.
Alison Steele, the Night Bird, the only NYC woman DJ that I knew of at the time. She and the old WNEW FM gang have become objects again of public attention after the recent passing of Pete Fornatele.
"The flutter of wings, the sounds of the night, the shadow across the moon,
as the Nightbird lifts her wings and soars above the earth into another level of comprehension,
where we exist only to feel.
Come fly with me, Alison Steele, the Nightbird..."
lol...some youngsters here! I certainly remember tokens, paper transfers on buses (with those noisy coin machines), not having any kind of cable tv (roof antenna baby!), no cellphones/beepers/affordable computers..etc.
Growing up in the Bronx and getting awful shoes from Fayva and Buster Browns as a kid (thanks mom!) and going to big chain stores like Woolworths, Alexanders and later Caldors among others. I remember when my family got their first VCR in the early 80's from ....yes.. Crazy Eddie (where the prices were INNNSAAANE!).
Woolworth, Alexanders & Caldors still existed in the early 1990s. So again most adults should remember them.
this topic right here, will only be answered by true nyers! notice how so many people already responded lol. Makes me wonder, CD is transplants trying to tell other transplants how to live a city life lol.
But this thread def takes me back and makes me realize my age lol
Less to do with how true of a NYer and more to do with how old of a NYer you are
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"The flutter of wings, the sounds of the night, the shadow across the moon, 
