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Started by Syt, July 22, 2013, 02:52:09 PM

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Syt

July 22, 2013, 02:52:09 PM
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/07/america-in-the-1970s-new-york-city/100557/

QuoteToday marks the start of Documerica Week on In Focus -- a new photo essay each day, featuring regions of the U.S. covered by the photographers of the Documerica Project in the early 1970s. The Documerica Project was put together by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971, with a primary goal of documenting adverse effects of modern life on the environment, but photographers were also encouraged to record the daily life of ordinary people, capturing a broad snapshot of America. Today's subject is New York City, an area covered by many photographers, showing some of the urban decay and congestion that helped prompt environmental legislation, as well as glimpses of New Yorkers at work and play. Stay tuned for part 2 of Documerica Week tomorrow, when we travel southwest.



Same spot in Streetview: https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.703115,-73.989589&spn=0.002408,0.005678&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.703011,-73.989595&panoid=J191IJNb4vyd2UiuiLdjVw&cbp=12,7.81,,0,2.47












(In Streetview: https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.72186,-74.005387&spn=0.010205,0.022713&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.721759,-74.005249&panoid=JH9rooki9mCaX6_-YrXRfA&cbp=12,118,,0,-1.62 )








I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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MadImmortalMan

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July 22, 2013, 02:54:18 PM
They're all so thin.   :Embarrass:
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DGuller

#2
July 22, 2013, 02:57:42 PM
KRonn or gumbler, did these cars really look cool back then, or did they always give off this "piece of sloppy shit" vibe?

The Brain

#3
July 22, 2013, 02:59:49 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on July 22, 2013, 02:54:18 PM
They're all so thin.   :Embarrass:

Yeah. Frank Cannon made up for that.
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Savonarola

#4
July 22, 2013, 03:00:41 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 22, 2013, 02:52:09 PM



Is that a young Daryl McDaniels? :unsure:

(I can't tell if those are Adidas sneakers, that would be the only way to be sure.)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Syt

#5
July 22, 2013, 03:00:48 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on July 22, 2013, 02:54:18 PM
They're all so thin.   :Embarrass:

It's because of the drugs everyone took at the time.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

sbr

#6
July 22, 2013, 03:20:26 PM
The public phone booth one is great, what a flashback.

derspiess

#7
July 22, 2013, 03:37:05 PM
NYC in the 70s  :x
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Ideologue

#8
July 22, 2013, 03:41:18 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on July 22, 2013, 02:54:18 PM
They're all so thin.   :Embarrass:

God, I know.

America's obesity epidemic is ruining my life. :(
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Darth Wagtaros

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July 22, 2013, 04:39:35 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on July 22, 2013, 02:54:18 PM
They're all so thin.   :Embarrass:
And the skirts so long.

NYC was a shit hole then and is a shit hole now.
PDH!

DGuller

#10
July 22, 2013, 04:48:13 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 22, 2013, 04:39:35 PM
NYC was a shit hole then and is a shit hole now.
:yes: It's a different kind of shit hole, but it's still a shit hole.  Very high cost of living for very low quality of life.

Neil

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July 22, 2013, 04:48:18 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on July 22, 2013, 02:54:18 PM
They're all so thin.   :Embarrass:
Somewhere along the line, a choice was made to make everyone well-off and comfortable.  That's the price that must be paid.
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Darth Wagtaros

#12
July 22, 2013, 04:49:45 PM
Quote from: DGuller on July 22, 2013, 04:48:13 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 22, 2013, 04:39:35 PM
NYC was a shit hole then and is a shit hole now.
:yes: It's a different kind of shit hole, but it's still a shit hole.  Very high cost of living for very low quality of life.
Good restaurants.  BUt that's about as far as it goes.
PDH!

Sheilbh

#13
July 22, 2013, 05:47:28 PM
:mmm:
Let's bomb Russia!

garbon

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July 22, 2013, 05:50:34 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 22, 2013, 04:39:35 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on July 22, 2013, 02:54:18 PM
They're all so thin.   :Embarrass:
And the skirts so long.

NYC was a shit hole then and is a shit hole now.

:rolleyes:

Okay, Masshole.
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