I like seeing vintage photos and thought I'd share these with the forum.
Photos from a simpler time.
BabaMail -New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!
Photos from a simpler time.
BabaMail -New York Minus 100 Years - Amazing Photos!
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Amazing Vintage Photos of NYC
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To a former resident of NYC, a lot of memories. And yet, I do not at all regret leaving NYC forever in 2010. Fortunately, fan, you did not show photos from '65 and later, when the deterioration was rampant.
I only miss the good pizza and the subway. And my family, sadly passed on.
Kaaskop49
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I only miss the good pizza and the subway. And my family, sadly passed on.
Kaaskop49
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MOONDAWG
US Veteran
Very interesting; thanks for sharing!
I watched the movie Shaft (1971) on TCM a while back and it was like looking in a time capsule.
I have been in NYC only briefly, once in 1986 on a day trip and an overnight stay in 2006. In '86 one of the vivid memories (as a small-town Okie) was eating pizza with my buddies in a joint across the street from Madison Square Garden where there was a burned out car body on the curb, a bum stared through the window at us while we ate, a different guy came all the way into the restaurant to the back where we were sitting to ask us for 35¢ (?), and the guy running the place (an Italian with a scar on his face) ran outside to chase some guy away from his car and cheerfully told us when he came back in, "It's always like this."
In 2006 the city was overall much cleaner, but still filled with strange smells that would change half a dozen times over the course of a block.
Thank you for posting that and giving us a glimpse of the Big Apple of yesteryear.
Of course, I now have a sudden craving to go to Gray's Papaya for a Recession Special followed by a visit the Nat Sherman store for some MCDs or a cigar or two.
Of course, I now have a sudden craving to go to Gray's Papaya for a Recession Special followed by a visit the Nat Sherman store for some MCDs or a cigar or two.
What, no pics of Da Bronx? 
Rusty Shacklford
Member
Hello, I used to be a NY resident, father was in the FDNY from '55-'85, and the family only went to the city once when he retired. It's a city of extremes, love -hate, rich- poor, sacrifice-sloth. A city you could love and hate at the same time and in the same breath.
Since you asked about the Bronx, what used to be the busiest firehouse in the world with 25+ calls a day is now called the little house on the prairie. I drove out on the Cross-Bronx expressway, and you get a good look at the place. Make sure your vehicle is in good repair if you ever take the journey, saw several burned-graffitied-burned-graffitied vehicles on the side of the road. It looked like Berlin 1945. Enjoy
http://transplantednorth.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/bronxblight.jpg
http://jamesdunne.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/1010-rogers-place.jpg
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/gall...harlotte_street/images/01_seabury_1975.gi.jpg
http://www.moyma.co.uk/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-bronx-car.jpg
https://www.google.com/search?q=the...IDQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1457&bih=660&dpr=0.94
Since you asked about the Bronx, what used to be the busiest firehouse in the world with 25+ calls a day is now called the little house on the prairie. I drove out on the Cross-Bronx expressway, and you get a good look at the place. Make sure your vehicle is in good repair if you ever take the journey, saw several burned-graffitied-burned-graffitied vehicles on the side of the road. It looked like Berlin 1945. Enjoy
http://transplantednorth.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/bronxblight.jpg
http://jamesdunne.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/1010-rogers-place.jpg
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/gall...harlotte_street/images/01_seabury_1975.gi.jpg
http://www.moyma.co.uk/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-bronx-car.jpg
https://www.google.com/search?q=the...IDQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1457&bih=660&dpr=0.94
This is the Bronx I remember most, sad to admit. I also remember Brooklyn in the 1980s during the crack epidemic. It was impossible to walk two steps without treading on a crack phial. I also remember the young, 16-17 y.o. girls selling themselves under the IRT elevated tracks for $ to buy crack.
And people still have the nerve to ask me when am I going to come back to visit...
And people still have the nerve to ask me when am I going to come back to visit...
HAH, reminds me of back in the day.
The Cross Bronx Expressway(aka I95 parking lot) was an auto graveyard. Car strippers used to hang out on the overpasses waiting for the inevitable car breakdowns, it was the height of Detroit's ineptitude after all.
When the owners left the car there to go find a payphone(what cellphone?) the vultures would descend within minutes.
Cars would be stripped and on blocks in no time, the thieves were actually quite good at what they did. They were methodical, one in the interior and usually two or three guys working the outside.
The X Bronx looked like an auto graveyard. Of course the nearby junkyards in Hunts Point would be the beneficiaries of the stolen parts.
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
Wonderful pictures. Thanks for posting the link.
