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Bucky

(54,094 posts) Tue Apr 2, 2024, 02:33 PM Apr 2

When I was a kid, I thought New York always sounded like this

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When I was a kid, I thought New York always sounded like this (Original Post) Bucky Apr 2 OP

Like Kool & the Gang, I grew up on the otherside of the Husdon SYFROYH Apr 2 #1

My grandpa grew up in Jersey City. Elessar Zappa Apr 3 #4

That's when my father was in Jersey City, too. SYFROYH Apr 3 #6

I still think it does. Iggo Apr 3 #2

What strikes me most about that video: the cops look like normal people. malthaussen Apr 3 #3

They were just as bad back then. Elessar Zappa Apr 3 #5

SYFROYH

(34,186 posts)

1. Like Kool & the Gang, I grew up on the otherside of the Husdon

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Tue Apr 2, 2024, 03:15 PM

Apr 2

And yes, NYC sounded just like that.

Kool & the Gang were formed in in Jersey City long before it went yuppie.

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Elessar Zappa

(14,143 posts)

4. My grandpa grew up in Jersey City.

Reply to SYFROYH (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 3, 2024, 02:10 PM

Apr 3

Oh, the tales he has told. Apparently it was a pretty rough place back then (30s, 40s and 50s).

SYFROYH

(34,186 posts)

6. That's when my father was in Jersey City, too.

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 3, 2024, 02:16 PM

Apr 3

He liked to regale us with stories of battling giant rats on the edge of the Hudson River.

He never like the Nutcracker as a result even though my mother wanted us to see it in The City every year.

Iggo

(47,597 posts)

2. I still think it does.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Wed Apr 3, 2024, 01:53 AM

Apr 3

malthaussen

(17,237 posts)

3. What strikes me most about that video: the cops look like normal people.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Wed Apr 3, 2024, 12:22 PM

Apr 3

Not the faceless, 'roid-bulked, armored hulks that are on the streets today. I can't help feeling the change has been for the worse.

-- Mal

Elessar Zappa

(14,143 posts)

5. They were just as bad back then.

Reply to malthaussen (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 3, 2024, 02:12 PM

Apr 3

Ask any minority that lived in a big city. The only difference is that it wasn’t caught on camera in those days.

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