PS: I visited NYC in 1973 and 1974. I was a garbageman in New Jersey working for Joey Filiberto Sanitation. I'd take the train into NYC on the weekends to see football and hockey games.
NYC was pretty rough back then. I remember walking up the spiral ramp from the trains at Penn Station. A huge black man wearing a rain coat was on the ramp. He opened his raincoat.
On the inside of the coat were 100 watches or more.
"Hey kid! You wanna buy a watch?"
I told him I had no sense of time and went on my way.
Growing up 30 miles from the GWB, Gotham was a big part of 'coming of age' in the 60's. Broadway plays, restaurants, Greenwich Village and the "Hippies", porn and pawn 42nd St & Times Square. It really wasn't as rough as it was rumored. Now it's worse than the rumors. Too bad. It was "the greatest city in the world" - my WABC colleague Ron Lundy would start his show with that every day...
BW: Oh, I agree. I also saw plays ("Hair", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "No,No, Nanette". Robert Goulet starred in NNN. The play had started. Goulet was onstage and a matronly lady came down the aisle to her seat.
"You're late!" Said Goulet with that big grin on his face.
I also saw Rudolph Nureyev in the ballet. He jumped six feet up and ten feet across the stage. I'd never seen anything like it.
PS: I visited NYC in 1973 and 1974. I was a garbageman in New Jersey working for Joey Filiberto Sanitation. I'd take the train into NYC on the weekends to see football and hockey games.
NYC was pretty rough back then. I remember walking up the spiral ramp from the trains at Penn Station. A huge black man wearing a rain coat was on the ramp. He opened his raincoat.
On the inside of the coat were 100 watches or more.
"Hey kid! You wanna buy a watch?"
I told him I had no sense of time and went on my way.
Growing up 30 miles from the GWB, Gotham was a big part of 'coming of age' in the 60's. Broadway plays, restaurants, Greenwich Village and the "Hippies", porn and pawn 42nd St & Times Square. It really wasn't as rough as it was rumored. Now it's worse than the rumors. Too bad. It was "the greatest city in the world" - my WABC colleague Ron Lundy would start his show with that every day...
BW: Oh, I agree. I also saw plays ("Hair", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "No,No, Nanette". Robert Goulet starred in NNN. The play had started. Goulet was onstage and a matronly lady came down the aisle to her seat.
"You're late!" Said Goulet with that big grin on his face.
I also saw Rudolph Nureyev in the ballet. He jumped six feet up and ten feet across the stage. I'd never seen anything like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Committee_of_Vigilance
The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance cleaned up San Francisco back in the 1800s.
The city could use another cleaning.
HAH! Like Hercules and the Augean stables?? https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html
BW: Hahaha! So, Hercules wasn't paid for cleaning the Augean stables nor did it count as one of his labors because he was "paid".
Typical.
What would the EPA say about this stable cleaning today?
Hahahaha.