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wow, it looks so.. disgraceful lol. i dont know why i'm fascinated by New York in the late 80s early 90s. i guess because i was born in 86 so its the time of New York i knew about but never got to experience.
i believe Ms. Hot & Horny Nymph is now a McDonalds. am i thinking of the right street?
I think the words on the billboard in the second pic is just a bunch of obscenities and not an actual movie title. Tried to google those words and no movie came up.
It may not have been movie, it may have been a live show!!!!
When those photos were taken, I worked in an office overlooking Times Square. Even then, the neighborhood was rapidly morphing into a theme park for tourists.
Fortunately, I remember it from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Seedy and menacing? For sure. But it looked, felt, and smelled like New York, not Disney World. It was a scary but wonderful place.
Now that painfully cold LED lighting -- and glaring video displays -- have replaced the warmer, more traditional neon signs, entering Times Square is like walking into a gas station convenience store at 3 a.m.
Which makes it even more of a place to be avoided at all costs.
When those photos were taken, I worked in an office overlooking Times Square. Even then, the neighborhood was rapidly morphing into a theme park for tourists.
Fortunately, I remember it from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Seedy and menacing? For sure. But it looked, felt, and smelled like New York, not Disney World. It was a scary but wonderful place.
Now that painfully cold LED lighting -- and glaring video displays -- have replaced the warmer, more traditional neon signs, entering Times Square is like walking into a gas station convenience store at 3 a.m.
Which makes it even more of a place to be avoided at all costs.
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Ta-Dah!!! I tell people I miss the NY of the 70's and 80's and people just don't get it. I have fond memories of good times and seediness. NY was able to have both. Now everything has such "sameness" I miss the old NY.
Ta-Dah!!! I tell people I miss the NY of the 70's and 80's and people just don't get it. I have fond memories of good times and seediness. NY was able to have both. Now everything has such "sameness" I miss the old NY.
Wasn't the seediness of TQ already starting to subside by the late '80's/early '90's? Photos and videos from that period show a lot of the theaters along 42nd St. being shuttered for starters.
Wasn't the seediness of TQ already starting to subside by the late '80's/early '90's? Photos and videos from that period show a lot of the theaters along 42nd St. being shuttered for starters.
Yes, it started around that time period and got more wind beneath the wings when Dinkins entered office on January 1, 1990 and continued with the iron fist that was the Giuliani administration.
The days for the classic x rated theater were doomed when VHS players became more affordable for the general population.
although it looks like you'd become addicted to drugs just walking by it, i really do wish i could've seen the old Times Square in person
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