FAMOUS PLACES THAT NO LONGER EXIST

FAMOUS PLACES THAT NO LONGER EXIST Jul 5, 2018 23:37:03 GMT amyghost likes this

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Post by deembastille on Jul 5, 2018 23:37:03 GMT

Jul 5, 2018 23:22:37 GMT snsurone said:

Jul 5, 2018 22:08:23 GMT amyghost said:

Good old grungy Times Square. I was going to mention that one; actually much of Manhattan no longer really exists, what with all the Gentrification/Disneyfication that's occurred over the past couple of decades. The NYC of my youth, and the popular image of the city that was stamped on the public consciousness from all those Seventies films and telly ranging from The French Connection to Barney Miller, and about ten gazillion other productions along the gamut is pretty much as gone as the woolly mammoth. Maybe for the better, although I for one am not completely convinced of that...

You may call it"grit", but I call it "shit"!
No, I'm glad that Times Square has been cleaned up.
I'm glad to see the end of the porn theaters, prostitution, drug-dealing, and the high crime rate that defined that area--and most of the city as well.
Although I'm not an admirer of Rudy Giuliani (especially nowadays!), I gotta give him credit for improving Times Square.
BTW, in an early scene in THE BAND WAGON, Fred Astaire complains that Times Square has devolved from a rialto neighborhood to a place of penny arcades.
Imagine if he could have seen the Times Square of the '70's and '80's!

but it kept the people away from it. that was a good area to use as 'DO NOT GO OUT AT NIGHT ALONE!' senarios. now we have to take pictures and pay ELMO and LUIGI for the privilege!