Vanished NYC - 1964

By mia_blaine
November 14th, 2007 @ 9:25 AM Uncategorized

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A classic shot from Times Square in 1964, when New York was still the real New York. Photo is from The New York Times archives.

7 Comments so far

  1. chris trent (unregistered) on November 14th, 2007 @ 12:52 pm

    weird… still feels pretty real to me…

  2. till (unregistered) on November 14th, 2007 @ 1:08 pm

    Wonder how that looked in colour!

  3. damog (unregistered) on November 15th, 2007 @ 3:09 pm

    Real NYC? What is it now then?

  4. Neil (unregistered) on November 15th, 2007 @ 6:03 pm

    Perhaps when Time Square was not full of multi national corporations. When smoking was cool and when no one even knew about trans fat.

  5. Blaine Zuver (unregistered) on November 16th, 2007 @ 10:55 am

    What is it now then?

    It is now a homogenized Disneyfied sanitized " New York Lite "

  6. Alice (unregistered) on November 16th, 2007 @ 3:03 pm

    You can still get your wallet ripped in Times Quare. Seems pretty effing real to me.

    Things change. If they didn’t, this blog wouldn’t be here, and neither would the internet. 20 years from now people will post pictures of some guy with an iPod and bemoan how the good old days have passed.

  7. till (unregistered) on November 16th, 2007 @ 3:10 pm

    Alice, you probably mean a Zune! The 28th generation of the iPod will be just released by then. ;)


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