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the lights went out frequently in cars (sometimes you would spend your entire trip in the dark)
You're right. I remember that. Yeah, the lights would flicker on and off and sometimes stayed off for 2 or 3 stations. Remember being glad that my ride was elevated so I wasn't in the total dark. Can you imagine being stuck in the dark with some creep. Shudder.
You're right. I remember that. Yeah, the lights would flicker on and off and sometimes stayed off for 2 or 3 stations. Remember being glad that my ride was elevated so I wasn't in the total dark. Can you imagine being stuck in the dark with some creep. Shudder.
I think the trains were so filthy and dirty, everyone was afraid of touching each other for fear of catching cooties.
- public urination
- loud music any and everywhere
- dancing in train cars
Things they know we need more of.
Lowlifes taking full advantage of this repeal already. Trains & stations smell of p|ss, sidewalk urine is making a big comeback. Just last month by city hall some guy had his thing out of his pants facing pedestrians taking a whiz right there without a care in the world, in the shadow of the recently minted "David Dinkins Municipal Building", DeBlasio's idol.
No, that is definitely 1987. That's exactly how the trains looked when I started commuting to high school. Ankhs were also a thing back then for some reason (the Egyptian symbol on the necklace the woman in red is wearing); I had a pair of ankh earrings around this time.
Seriously? There were no giddy/flamboyant people in the 80s in NYC?
Also...did you even look out the window of the train? And see street after street of 80s Brooklyn?
If there were, they wouldnt be randomly acting like that while trying to take public transit. It is/was seen as immature. Nowadays though, you have these pretentious hipsters and LGBT walking around letting every passerby know that their are indeed just that kind of person. People back then did not see that as a cultural norm nor feel the need to send out the signal at all times.
If that is some homemade video from the 80s, I doubt you just so happened to run into that while filming. It seems like it is forced.
Kind of a silly post, it's a huge city and had/has all different kinds of people. What is the "NYC you know"?
And it proves my point that even pre-gentrification, most people did not have stereotypical NYC accents. Although, I don't know whether or not the people in the video are tourists.
Maybe not the thick accent you hear in movies, but most everyone sounded like they from here or can be pinpointed to this general region. The way they were talking in the vid sounds forced.
This is based on the myth that NYC during the 1970s and 1980s was nothing but this angry, belligerent place where everyone had a chip on their shoulder and you were a minute away from being stabbed. Ironically, NYC was the opposite; it was exactly the kind of wacky, free spirited place where you would see people like this all the time.
Not while randomly walking to and from public transit. Again, there was no cultural pressure back then to send out the signals all the time.
Maybe not the thick accent you hear in movies, but most everyone sounded like they from here or can be pinpointed to this general region. The way they were talking in the vid sounds forced.
I think you're overthinking it. Were you born in like 1988? How can you even remember?
Did they also fake Michael Musto, the guy with the dark hair and glasses, who's now in his 60s?
And hate to break it to you, but yes, there were people like this in NYC back in the day. Those people were a major part of that whole clubbing/gay scene back when NYC actually had cool and interesting scenes and characters like this walking around. NYC was a very interesting place back then; you would've seen people like this there, but mostly in the Village.
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