NYC What Are You Waiting For

[Spupilup]

 

[rd2rk]

Since I was born after 1964, post-bridge is all I know. I feel for the people of Richmond County. The outcasts of New York and New Jersey.

I left there in 1970 when I was 20. Before that it was like rural NJ, woods and fields (South Shore, the North shore was always kinda funky). People who lived there were either born there (many on farms) or, like my family, moved there from places like Hell's Kitchen when we'd EARNED enough money to afford a house and a business. By 1975 when I went back for a visit, urban renewal in Manhattan had dumped thousands of welfare families into giant apartment complexes built with taxpayer money on swamps by mob owned construction companies with mob controlled Union "labor". The foundations were cracking before they were even finished. By 1980 when I went back again there was garbage and graffiti everywhere, the woods and fields were replaced by ticki-tacki housing developments and crime was at Manhattan levels. The air smelled like the dumps on the Kill van Kull. Still, when my family moved to Michigan in 2001 and sold the house they paid $50k for in 1955, it went for $500k. The buyers tore down our beautiful 100+ year old house and built two duplexes on the lot.

And then there was the hurricane that wiped out most of the South Shore beaches that had been nice resorts in the early 1900s.

So sad.

 

[Spupilup]

I left there in 1970 when I was 20. Before that it was like rural NJ, woods and fields (South Shore, the North shore was always kinda funky). People who lived there were either born there (many on farms) or, like my family, moved there from places like Hell's Kitchen when we'd EARNED enough money to afford a house and a business. By 1975 when I went back for a visit, urban renewal in Manhattan had dumped thousands of welfare families into giant apartment complexes built with taxpayer money on swamps by mob owned construction companies with mob controlled Union "labor". The foundations were cracking before they were even finished. By 1980 when I went back again there was garbage and graffiti everywhere, the woods and fields were replaced by ticki-tacki housing developments and crime was at Manhattan levels. The air smelled like the dumps on the Kill van Kull. Still, when my family moved to Michigan in 2001 and sold the house they paid $50k for in 1955, it went for $500k. The buyers tore down our beautiful 100+ year old house and built two duplexes on the lot.

And then there was the hurricane that wiped out most of the South Shore beaches that had been nice resorts in the early 1900s.

So sad.

Progress???

 

[rd2rk]

Progress???

Indeed.

 

[HelpImaRock]

I left there in 1970 when I was 20. Before that it was like rural NJ, woods and fields (South Shore, the North shore was always kinda funky). People who lived there were either born there (many on farms) or, like my family, moved there from places like Hell's Kitchen when we'd EARNED enough money to afford a house and a business. By 1975 when I went back for a visit, urban renewal in Manhattan had dumped thousands of welfare families into giant apartment complexes built with taxpayer money on swamps by mob owned construction companies with mob controlled Union "labor". The foundations were cracking before they were even finished. By 1980 when I went back again there was garbage and graffiti everywhere, the woods and fields were replaced by ticki-tacki housing developments and crime was at Manhattan levels. The air smelled like the dumps on the Kill van Kull. Still, when my family moved to Michigan in 2001 and sold the house they paid $50k for in 1955, it went for $500k. The buyers tore down our beautiful 100+ year old house and built two duplexes on the lot.

And then there was the hurricane that wiped out most of the South Shore beaches that had been nice resorts in the early 1900s.

So sad.

I left NYC in 2018. My experience was the city rising from decades of neglect, to record a new era of growth and progress. I was part of that growth both in my music and my work. These days, economic development has made its way to the South Bronx, Jamaica, Queens, and East New York. It's a changed city, and a changing city. Unfortunately, Staten Island has not seen the same kind of renewal as the rest of the city. The cab in the OP is right at home.

 

[Mugre]

Back when a powerful amp was 100 watts, these things made sense. It's no longer 1975, however...

And speakers had a throw of 3/8ths of an inch and burned up if you gave them more than said 100watt.

Then Thiele/Small, Crown and EV happened.

 

[red_rhino]

It's no longer 1975, however...

Wha......? When did that happen?

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Back in the late 70s I bought a monster called the " Hohner Pro-Bass".
It was a Cerwin Vega 18 folded horn 100 watt COMBO amp......
All solid state, weighed just about 5 pounds less than a 47 Hudson.
We called it " The Pig".
The guy at Gutchers music told me the CV speaker had been developed to use for the movie " Earthquake ". It was rumblishis......
I went through 3 sets of casters and 2 sets of handles schlepping it to gigs.

 

[micguy]

Wha......? When did that happen?

While you were listening to classis rock, the world moved on without you. Welcome back.