New York City at night, 1946
Photo by:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Feininger
Imagine how many women there were getting knocked up by WW2 vets
No doubt even back then the people there would insist that it is the only place on the planet where you can buy a decent lunch.
I still believe that the most exciting era for that city was the 70s and 80s
>>224143411*sound of Billie Holiday intensifies*
>>224143745That was when New York peaked in cultural relevance. Been downhill ever since.
>>224143745https://youtu.be/JN4ATDfCYmo?si=CazCHxrNIlHocH7e
>>224143474They were making baby boomers. Dreadful.1
>>224143825? 70s new York was a shit show. There's a reason punk evolved out of that.New York was like the Detroit of the 70s.
>>224143411Not the best year as the transition back to a peacetime economy was rough and there was high inflation, major labor strikes, and shortages of stuff.
>>224143474>>224143420Neither of you had access to food in 1946.
>>224144005Kek, yeah. There were literally hookers on time square.
>>224144065Anon, I wasn't alive in 1946
>>224143411>>224143745its just a bunch of skyscrapersthe people in these cities live like rats in a laboratoryI dont know what people find so exciting about thatno wonder these shitholes produce so many mentally ill peoplelook at this shitholehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5E3FDZ6rY
>>224143745>70s and 80s>most excitingthat's one way to say most violent
>>224144077>>224144472>>224143745Also in the 80s, it was like the height of the aids epidemic. I watched like one episode of pose and the entire city just looked like a mess back then
>>224143411Aura
>>224144005Yes it was a decaying crime-ridden hellhole but it also birthed punk, post-punk, disco, post-disco, hip-hop, new wave, no wave, avant-funk, and iconic artists like Basquiat and Haring. It was also the setting for countless classic movies of the time.
>>224144585People also romanticize Dickensian Victorian London but that doesn't mean it wasn't hell for the average person back then.People only enjoy things when they forget how bad it all was.
>>224144585>it also birthed punk, post-punk, disco, post-disco, hip-hop, new wave, no wave, avant-funk, and iconic artists like Basquiat and Haringall worthless shit
>>224144682No, you just hate it because a lot of it is black
>>224143411in the 40s this shit must've looked like sci fi to anybody outside americaI can't fully believe it's not from like the 60s
>>224144515I mean Anon >>224144585 has a point, desperate times create either escapeism or conflict, which brings up creativity. Thats why my country is such a conservative creatively dull place, see this nigga >>224144682
>>224144742in 1946 the average Latvian was a slave worker in a Siberian labor camp for showing insufficient gratitude to greatest liberator, so yeah...
>>224144854bot?
>>224144899he's right. all those tall buildings and cars everywhere would have looked like science fiction especially in Eastern Europe at the time when most transportation was still animal powered.
>>224144472Winston Churchill said that nothing in life is more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
NYC was always a dangerous shithole outside 15 years in the 90s-00s.
>>224143745kino pic
>>224143420Another one of his famous photos: The Empire State Building seen from New Jersey
>>224144991This picture of New York is from 1933 and the skyline here still mogs most other cities today.
