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New York Subway in the 1960s
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Very respectable. What happened ?
With a Princess Leia time-traveler!
Here’s another Subway photo…taken in the 1940s by a very young Stanley Kubrick when he aspired to be a Weegee-like documentarian-Artist still photographer:
https://www.mcny.org/sites/default/files/35mm_10292_030d.jpg
Were the cops there more for protection or more of a sense of security? Dude looks like he’s just chillin
but how about now?
There’s no one under 50 years old on that subway car and everyone’s dressed like they’re heading to the opera. Let’s not pretend this was normal. Must be some special occasion rather than some simplistic “things were better then” BS
Somehow I don’t think this particular train car accurately reflects the diverse demographics of NYC in the 1960s.
Very classy train
Everyone looks like they’re in the FBI
imagine the faces if a black guy walked in…
So the rule about taking off hats indoors doesn’t apply to the subway?
Just watched a movie called The Incident from 1967. Martin Sheen, Tony Musante, Brock Peters, Beau Bridges. Martin and Tony terrorizing the people on the ~~train~~ subway. Won’t let them get off at the stops. Finally the bad guys are overcome, the cops get on and immediately begin arresting Brock Peters (who is black) without even finding out what was going on. Looking at this, I don’t think they would have even allowed him in the car.
So if the NY subway looked like this in the 1960s and then in the 1980s it looked like the inside of a crackhead male prostitute’s ass. What happened?
People who annoy you
Fascinating that by the end of the next decade, graffiti and bombing started completely tearing through those clean metro cars.
what is robert california doing there?
They didn’t have young people back then. You went straight from school to being 40
Decay is a choice.
Everything in this picture is so clean.
It’s a shame how much of a shithole public transport has turned into these days.
No knobshit doing TikTok content? The actual…
I was thinking there’s no way in hell that’s the 60s- maybe the early 50s!! But the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Virginia Wolf poster pegs it as 66– the LATE 60s even!
Where is the hobo filming a dance video?
Things will never look this civilised again lol
Everybody thinking it but nobody saying it
That’s definitely bevor Batman’s parents got shot.
Were people better behaved then?
Show us late 70 or mid 80s.
If you find this cool, check out the New York Transit museum if you ever visit the city! It’s in an out of commission subway stop, and they have real subway/train cars from the past 100+ years! They also have turnstiles throughout the ages you can walk through. It’s the best museum I’ve ever been to! https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/
I blame Welch’s fruit snacks and Nature’s Valley granola for the current state of the subway
What in the world happened? And why don’t we have police on subways? Took one once while on vacation and was horrified.
Civility. How nice
Cazy to think that in just a decade this all goes to shit 😭
Strange to see no one dancing in the middle of the isle…
And yet by the 1970s…it was a toilet
I rode many subway cars in the 60’s and none of them looked like this. These folks are a group and dressed for an event. The presence of (at least) 2 officers in the car suggest an escort for wealthy elites.
Aren’t we supposed to be getting MORE civilized as time goes on?
I think we’re going backwards…
Wow, these people seem ‘unafraid’ of getting mugged or stabbed. Ahh… the good ‘ol days.
To me, that would be a perfect example of the “good old days.”
People look a lot classier here than they do in current NYC subway cars
I’m sure he was there to make sure none of the passengers decided to be untoward.
The woman in white, right side, looks very much like Barbara Bain (married to Martin Landau) who was on the original Mission Impossible cast.
I doubt this is just a normal day on a subway.
When humans were skinny