America, Fuck Yeah

[Ed Anger]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/documerica-images-of-america-in-crisis-in-the-1970s/100190/

I can tell you handed down stories about the Brookside strike in pic #45. But I won't.

[Sheilbh]

Whatever happened to this:

[Ed Anger]

I think it was in Damnation Alley.

[CountDeMoney]

It currently runs every 8 minutes at Disney.

[Syt]

I like pictures of 1970s New York. It looks like such a dystopian hellhole.

[Razgovory]

I like pictures of 1970s New York. It looks like such a dystopian hellhole.

Yeah, the city really cleaned up in the 1990's.  Hell the US really cleaned up since then.  Rivers don't catch on fire anymore.  EPA really did do a good job increasing the quality of life.

[Sheilbh]

I like pictures of 1970s New York. It looks like such a dystopian hellhole.

I think it looks interesting and quite cool.  It's the sort of New York I imagine from the films.

[Razgovory]

You Brits are a very strange bunch.

[Syt]

I like pictures of 1970s New York. It looks like such a dystopian hellhole.

I think it looks interesting and quite cool.  It's the sort of New York I imagine from the films.

Yep. I remember, when I was a kid in the early to mid-80s, I didn't lke watching American drama or crime movies. Most "recent stuff" we got was from the 70s, and it always looked so dour and depressing.

[Ideologue]

It's the same, just now we stay indoors.

[jimmy olsen]

Whatever happened to this:

Klingon bullet trains?

[Capetan Mihali]

At least America in the 70s had Quaaludes to deal with the crises. 

[The Brain]

Nice pics. And we dodged the stories.

[Josquius]

On NY it brings to mind the Outcasts series (Bova I think?) and the bit where the main character is lost in New York after dark and frantically trying to get himself inside a fortress house lest he be killed by the gangs.... Sci-fi from the 70s is quite interesting, they really extrapolate these problems of the time- urban decay, the potential for food shortages, etc.... and take them to extremes....extremes that we know never came to pass because solutions were found.

Some interesting photos there.

[Jacob]

Those are some pretty cool picks. Fuck yeah.