Colin Quinn on New York City in the 70’s and 80’s
JRE #2145 w/Colin Quinn YouTube: https://youtu.be/P7xu0t9dTbI JRE on Spotify: …
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December 18, 2024
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Who's proud of being from a "tough neighborhood?" Drug dealers. Pimps. Corrupt cops. Junkies.
So you're proud of being a part of the big suck.
I knew a guy who escaped from Liberia during Taylor's push for power. He carried his mom on his back over the border. He was a teacher and they were randomly killing "intellectuals."
Who's proud of the failure of law and order?
Grew up right in the heart of Hell's Kitchen in that era. As gritty as it was, I still have fantastic memories!
He’s not lying. The idea of a movie theater not only showing porn but dudes going there to jerk it is wild. That is really degen shit.
Pollution and l litter were huge problems back in the 80s; I remember always having to sidestep dog feces as a kid. Maybe it's just me, but has anyone watched Taxi Driver and come away with "that's where I want to live, this is the ideal life." I mean, this nostalgia nonsense really needs to stop because frankly its become downright dangerous.
Watching The Deuce atm… such a good capture of the 70s and 80s in NYC.
I could go the rest of my life without hearing another New Yorker talk about how the neighborhood used to be.
First time I went to NYC was 1994 and Times Square was still nothing but Porn Shops and Peep Shows then
New York, ya know?
Thank trump for building Manhattan when nobody would touch it… just like Gilbert and illicih doing in Detroit
Ironically 🤦♂️ smh
If anyone likes those stories about New York in the 70s-80s, check out the show The Deuce. It was about that time and place.
Interesting he knew a guy mikey spilane from hells kitchen, wonder if hes related to the spilane who used to run HK that got hit by roy demeo
We visited family in NY in '84. I was about ten years old.
First night, in Queens, TV was stolen…in the room i was sleeping in.
One of many experiences there…
taking sex & drugs off the streets of NY only drove up prices. it's all still there, just not out in the open.
Just like Yonge Street in 70s Toronto.
in the 1930's adult males went to see Shirley Temple movies during the day….those movies weren't made for "family" entertainment. just sayin….🤔
Porn is 99% of the internet.
Everything in moderation. People are addicted to alot of things. Balance. Burt Reynolds got an Oscar nomination for Boogie Nights.
It was great the deuce in the early 80's. One guy owned most of them. His daughter has a movie coming out. They had the theaters, the peep show booths, live sex shows. I used to go when I was 12. It was alive. I still have coins from the peep show booths. Everything was taboo. Now you can find everything. I produce spanking fetish films. 3 time AVN winner. I didn't work I went to find magazines & watch porn.
I have never been to NYC, but I guess how much that city has changed especially, with the migrant crisis. On the other hand, I didn't know Colin, and I found him a fine guy, thank you Joe for inviting him on your podcast.
As someone who lived in NYC for over 30 years, I can definitely say that most of these comments are just people lying their ass off about living in NYC, including me
My first visit was Spring of 1979, my Aunt was a nanny for a family that had a PH on 5th Ave… many times since then. Nothing come close to the late 70’s thru the mid 90’s visits to Manhattan!
I lived in a drug & alcohol program on Hell’s Kitchen in 2015/2016
i miss hose days so much..
I was born at a time when they still ran a few trains with rattan seats and open bladed fans. 35 cents was the cost of the Subway. By the time I was about 7 or so, broken glass and graffiti was everywhere. The parks were in shambles. All the swings were broken.
Nobody except rich people had air conditioners. If your family had A car, it was 10 years old.
Mostly ALL of the city (boroughs) was "Crazy" from mid-late 50's till Guilliani.
Greatest era ever!!! It was the “60/40” Law. 60 % of your revenue had to come from something other than adult entertainment. Hence driving those places out of business.
VHS tapes came out in the late 70's early 80's, which was the biggest cultural change in America in a 100 years
No offense Joe, but what makes Colin a know all??? Seriously????
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