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

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CountDeMoney

I think it's neat that shitty little alarm storefront on 387 Canal Street in the photo is still in business.  Good for you, Mom and Pop store.

Capetan Mihali

Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 23, 2013, 05:10:34 PM
I used to visit a college buddy in the East Village pretty regularly in the late 80s.  Avenue A was a pretty firm no go line at that time.  Now from what I understand Alphabet City is white boy slacker heaven.

I think the jingle from the mid-80s (when well-off people were starting to go down there, and subsequently develop the real estate) was "A, a-ok; B, bad; C, crime; D, death."  It was only maybe, what, the early 2000s when the East River projects (along Avenue D) stopped being a decent dope-slinging spot.
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DGuller

Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 23, 2013, 06:21:30 PM
Quote from: DGuller on 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?

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Note the lack of HFCS & Muslim immigrants.
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Syt

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CountDeMoney

Quote from: DGuller on July 23, 2013, 08:36:07 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 23, 2013, 06:21:30 PM
Quote from: DGuller on 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?

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Forgot about you, you can answer as well.  :hug:

Those cars are beautiful.  Dickhead.

garbon

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 23, 2013, 02:42:38 PM
The first picture is in the middle of DUMBO, a tiny district in Brooklyn that experienced massive gentifrication starting around the late 90s.  So that gives a rather extreme comparison.

That said, I still wouldn't really want to hang out just a few blocks east. Pretty desolate even during the day. Ugh and those remnant cobblestones.
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garbon

Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 23, 2013, 07:12:52 PM
I think it's neat that shitty little alarm storefront on 387 Canal Street in the photo is still in business.  Good for you, Mom and Pop store.

Waste of real estate.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Razgovory

Quote from: derspiess on July 23, 2013, 05:03:49 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 23, 2013, 02:51:10 PM
In the 70s I had never been to New York; my impressions of the city all came from its depictions in the media - both fictional and non-fictional (like the blackout riots of '77).  The overall impression was that NYC was a distopian, crime-ridden dump on the one hand, and a business and arts powerhouse on the other.

My family first visited NYC in 1981 when Escape from New York was in the theaters.  The city wasn't quite as bad as the movie trailer indicated :D

That's cause it was filmed in East St. Louis.  You don't go to East Louis.  Ever.

http://imgur.com/iKIA8tx

City looks like Stalingrad circa 1943.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: garbon on July 24, 2013, 08:36:09 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 23, 2013, 07:12:52 PM
I think it's neat that shitty little alarm storefront on 387 Canal Street in the photo is still in business.  Good for you, Mom and Pop store.

Waste of real estate.

I'm sure it would make an abfab hipster internet cafe and tapas expo, but aren't there enough of those places as it is?

derspiess

Quote from: Razgovory on July 24, 2013, 09:30:51 AM
That's cause it was filmed in East St. Louis.  You don't go to East Louis.  Ever.

Yep.  Watched National Lampoon's Vacation over the weekend and had to explain the East St. Louis thing to the wife.
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Syt

Quote from: derspiess on July 24, 2013, 09:37:21 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 24, 2013, 09:30:51 AM
That's cause it was filmed in East St. Louis.  You don't go to East Louis.  Ever.

Yep.  Watched National Lampoon's Vacation over the weekend and had to explain the East St. Louis thing to the wife.

Their website says:

QuoteEast St. Louis, Illinois
     A Great Place
..to Live
..to Work
..to Do Business
..to Raise a Family
..to Visit
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.

Razgovory

Quote from: Syt on July 24, 2013, 09:44:01 AM
Quote from: derspiess on July 24, 2013, 09:37:21 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 24, 2013, 09:30:51 AM
That's cause it was filmed in East St. Louis.  You don't go to East Louis.  Ever.

Yep.  Watched National Lampoon's Vacation over the weekend and had to explain the East St. Louis thing to the wife.

Their website says:

QuoteEast St. Louis, Illinois
     A Great Place
..to Live
..to Work
..to Do Business
..to Raise a Family
..to Visit

Mayor Joshua Chamberlain's electoral slogan in 1913 " "Make East St. Louis a little more like home and a little less like hell.""
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 24, 2013, 09:34:17 AM
Quote from: garbon on July 24, 2013, 08:36:09 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 23, 2013, 07:12:52 PM
I think it's neat that shitty little alarm storefront on 387 Canal Street in the photo is still in business.  Good for you, Mom and Pop store.

Waste of real estate.

I'm sure it would make an abfab hipster internet cafe and tapas expo, but aren't there enough of those places as it is?

Not really - in fact, I long ago gave up going to coffeshops as nearly all of them are always packed. Much worse than in SF where you were about guaranteed some space and likely an outlet. It'd also class it up as a lot of Canal street is the pits.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Syt

Blacks in Chicago:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/07/america-in-the-1970s-chicagos-african-american-community/100559/

















Yes, there were fat people:

QuoteWoman selling "Have A Nice Day" balloons on a Chicago South Side street corner at Sox Park Baseball Field, June 1973.

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.