tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post7786923026932110301..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: Tales of Times Square: The TapesJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-29906843960471567932017-10-28T12:50:50.582-04:002017-10-28T12:50:50.582-04:00Thank you for this interview. I am a huge fan of J...Thank you for this interview. I am a huge fan of Josh Alan Friedman. Interesting bit of trivia. Pee-wee, who he interviews, can be heard in US3's hip-hop hit from the 90s, Cantaloop. Gena Hymowechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275634594307390669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-5444592975303286512017-10-28T11:55:44.425-04:002017-10-28T11:55:44.425-04:00I played in Times Sq. My entire life. As a thirtee...I played in Times Sq. My entire life. As a thirteen year old Yonkers kid running around with my buddy's messing with the working girls after WHL game at the Garden. We would walk up 8 th ave to the deuce. walk to 7 th and pick up the 1 train at 51 st and Bway for the ride back to South Yonkers.Its was like exploring a foreign land. I became a cop in the early 80s working in the MTS pct. I watched it go from the tough and gritty and out right dangerous adult playground, Controlled by organize crime. To the restoration of the of the sq and the deuce. New York has become a world class tourist destination. And the new Times Sq is a driving force behind this renaissance. The old SQ had character that corporate America could never reproduce or would want to. But in the end,the more things change the more they stay the same. Now you get proposition by ELMO and Barney instead hookers and drug dealers. I liked the ladder better. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06525203562521584945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-23567088903558249012017-10-25T09:56:23.448-04:002017-10-25T09:56:23.448-04:00See an older Jeremiah post http://vanishingnewyork...See an older Jeremiah post http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2010/02/adult-bookstores.htmlMykola Dementiukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02267125930152870083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-9884484904957181312017-10-24T12:21:44.354-04:002017-10-24T12:21:44.354-04:00It's lovely to hear about private collections ...It's lovely to hear about private collections and archives coming alive. I know they exist. There are things that become lost to the stream of consciousness of the calendar (like, for instance the 1980's New York Experience about which little seems to have been saved even in video or audio). When quite young I came to New York with my parents at least twice, still in the age of double-breasted suits on children. My mother and I explored what would have to have been Playland (with the fortune teller, the mechanical baseball game, the broken record booth, and the submarine periscope game where you torpedoed enemy ships). I thought it was on Broadway, so the Eighth Avenue arcade may have been it or something different. I can still remember the age of the city, strangely - the layers of paint on everything, and the sense that adults still ran the world - very comfortably for the young person I was.<br /><br />To experience Times Square now is to know that it has been successfully pitched in favor of a Las Vegas strip - deeply commercial and priced to match. It's not particularly pleasant to walk through. In the 80's the Deuce could be scary, but Broadway always had that little Carvel store, a little Walden's Bookstore, the giant Nathan's - places that still left you feel anchored and safe, assured that some things would go on. Luckily, I saved my last ticket stub to the Loew's State. Wish I had saved the Loew's.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15565030682360603009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-78381861598584612512017-10-24T08:52:06.367-04:002017-10-24T08:52:06.367-04:00Old Times Square was always an adventure - sex, dr...Old Times Square was always an adventure - sex, drugs, violence, everything... fondest memory was seeing Pink Floyd The Wall and after leaving the theater and walking in the rain along 42d street. I remember the Show Palace peep shows, live sex acts - I was about 16. What a trip. Also a friend was mugged at the Playland in '77 (geez, who wasn't mugged there?)<br /><br />Over the decades since the 70s I've seen it change into a Disneyesque caricature of life in America not specific to NY at all but instead a tribute to the bland corporate masters at hand, with only a tribute of bright lights to the past.<br /><br />It's easy to reminisce, but it was pretty bad back then - still I wish for a little bit of that NY soul back.RMANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16341255066509366900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-9665656264249185422017-10-24T07:37:32.198-04:002017-10-24T07:37:32.198-04:00Having been a merchant sailor repatriating often t...Having been a merchant sailor repatriating often through ole New York, I can tell you how good for me was Slime Square ~ ah those were the daze. ~ <a href="http://www.LEJ.org" rel="nofollow">LEJ.org</a>LEJ's Louisiana https://www.blogger.com/profile/10733796940697624431noreply@blogger.com