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I forgot about those pagodas on the Chinatown phone booths.
Great pics!
Those are so cool looking!
"Cooled by refrigeration!" We take AC for granted now. Imagine not having it in NYC in the summer.
My dad lived that way as a kid in the city in a small apartment. He would sleep sometimes on the tile floor of his little bedroom under his bed where it was cooler. It was also very common for people to sleep on their fire escapes during heatwaves.
As a kid in Jersey (70s/80s) we’d set up a box fan & sleep with damp sheets in the summer!
Remember that scene in Hitchcock's Rear Window when the neighbor couple were sleeping out on the fire escape? I remember people who actually did that! It was a lot cooler than trying to sleep in an apartment with no air conditioning.
No ac on trains in summer in suits
Got to work and you already needed a break, and a shower. Yeah the good old days.
Happened to me once in DC, the AC broke down along with the metro car. When I finally got out, the suit looked like it had been in a pool, and it definitely went right to the laundromat
Amazing photos! Felt like I was going back in time. I also really like the way the film from that era brings out the colors.
Very cool to see- thanks for sharing!
Man, I hurled at that Hojos after getting plastered next door. Great times
Rudy & Franks Pork Store - did this become Rudy’s Bar?
These are great photos! Thanks for posting
These are awesome!!! Thanks for posting OP. Just took a trip down memory lane 😌
Lmao at the Caveman movie sign!! That movie was so damn funny!!
Edit: You had to beat it to eat it
Hahahahahaha!!!
These pics are so great!
Great photos. Thank you!
Are there any more of these??
This makes me want to go back lol but at the age I am now. Friggin Howard Johnson’s in NYC? I had no idea they were allowed to do business without that classic orange roof! 😂
That Howard Johnson’s was famous … it closed in the 90’s, I think
Last I was there was in 2005 right before it closed.
Thank you for sharing
Wish I could go to those times
17 Mott
Downstairs
Love this so much. Wow..
Any of these Chinatown spots still open?
Wo Hops has been there forever & the food is awesome! Ask for the gold menu instead of the red one for traditional dishes
Oh that’s wo hop! I go next door to Shanghai 21
edit: is Wo Ping == Wo Hop? Also it looks like those numbers are building numbers and Wo Hop is on the odd side of the street not even.
you did ask “any”
Nom Wah Tea Parlor has been on Doyers Street for more than one hundred years.
... Yes, I totally recommend them.
Fantastic pictures
Please take me back 40 years & 100 pounds!
40 years and 50 pounds would work for me.
Scaffolding ruined the Manhattan experience.
Thanks for posting these. I can forget the way we were.
I miss it.
I hate now, I love then
Great photos!
Number 7 at least has to be in the late 60's...willing to be wrong
At least one of the Times Square photos is from 1982, specifically the one where Partners is playing in one theater, and Some Kind of Hero ( ... starring Richard Pryor and Margot Kidder) is playing in the theater slightly closer to the camera.
HoJo's!
My era(s)
Love these iconic locations and how much it's changed but also not like grand Central Terminal.
I wish I existed in the world as an adult when it were less populated. Places like this now are too much for me now.
... question for anyone: What park was that volleyball game being played in?
Specifically, I mean the park with the World Trade Center in the distance.
... addendum: If that's Central Park, why do the World Trade Center Towers look like they're so close?
That's not Central Park. The WTC isn't visible from there.
This is Battery Park just about where Broadway ends. See this Street View:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gBr4pHPuM1pFDKkn8
Picture 13. Was that Times Square? Wow, that area got a lot taller.
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing!9
I miss it.
Hey OP can I ask where you found these pictures I believe one of them is of my family home.
From a NY Facebook group..I can't remember the name unfortunately.
19 has Planes, Trains and Automobiles vibes
Superb
The good old days
My parents always spoke about NYC in the 30’s and 40’s being so much better than the 60’s/. 70’s. Now here we are …
Meet me at Howard Johnson's for cocktails.
Terrific, thanks for sharing
I loved Manhattan in the 70s-80s! I would take the Long Island Railroad in for .75 cents and let the good times roll!
How soon we forget!
Oh so it’s always been dirty
Times Square looked better then than now. Not sure about 42nd St tho.
Thanks for posting the great pics!
I miss those days, so damn much.
Money made NYC & money's what's gonna kill her too :'(
Glorious pics, makes me heartsick but still never get tired of seeing it how it was when I made it my home (the first of 3 times lol).
I’m so nostalgic for that place in time
No obesity
Not a cellphone in sight.