Washington Square Park 1968 Greenwich Village. 8mm Home Movie. NYC. New York Hippies. Gay interest.
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- Washington Square Park Greenwich Village 1968 8mm Home Movie NYC. New York City N.Y. Hippies. I bought this can of film at a Buenos Aires flea market. it’s titled “NYC Hippies.” on 8mm film. It looks to be from 1968. Most likely an Argentine tourist visiting NYC.
Shot in and around Washington Square Park. The Doors "Light My Fire" is the quintessential sound that takes me back to that special place and time. Pure magic. In 1968 I was still in H.S.
Around 1963 my father made a home movie off the same area. Here's the clip I uploaded a few years ago. • Greenwich Village Wash...
"The Revolution will not be televised!" I was born in 1968 in NYC a few blocks from where this was filmed! My parents hang out in the Village and my Father taught Video 101 at NYU after his Air Force enlistment was over!
What revolution?? All these hippies grew up into the fascist ruling class we have today.
I like the Korvette's at the end. Funny thing about Korvette's. Everybody always called it Korvette's, like "I'm going to Korvette's", like the name of the owner was EJ Korvette and he was a real guy, but the actual name of the store was just "Korvette" without the "s".
I remember the one on Central Ave. in Scarsdale.
They look cooler/better than the blobs of today.
Best era and place to be. The Village was fantastic during those days!!! Washington Square Park is still an attractive place, but the mood of the times and a generation come of age is missing.
Its basically NYU's campus now.
@@juniorjames7076 I attended NYU during that time and I can’t believe how that school has expanded throughout the Village. Maybe a name change to Greenwich/NYU Village is appropriate?
So true makes my heart sad 😢❤❤❤
@juniorjames7076 yes they ruined the bohemian atmosphere of the village 😢❤❤
I was eight years old in the Third Grade.
Sat there many times in the 70's 80,s
This is the year that I came in and first saw it......
So different then now
Everyone now is so confrontational
Before the following 3 decades of hell in NY
Really great print, colors and sharpness have held up magnificently.
Yes the groovy generation so different😊❤❤❤
today in the Village there are fewer hippies and far more families and their pet dogs
Yes. So boring. Families everywhere. The Village. Families swarming Times Square. Families swarming Las Vegas. Message is clear: when families can go, there is no edge and no cool anymore. And just spending, spending, spending.
@@rossriver75yukon27
There are also elite high rise buildings that are very pricey which means working class and middle class get excluded due to higher pricing. What's to be done for them?
@@merccadoosis8847 Yeah. Well, in that way it’s the same as now all over North America. The rich condo owners, and then the struggling-but-making it people, and then the down on the street/ or tent city people
And the three groupings oblivious to the other groups..
I’m glad I was alive to see those old days.
@@rossriver75yukon27
All true.
Like you am glad to have seen it. Yet, I wish I could have been around just a little earlier when the Beatniks flourished. They had loads of full, too. But if I had seen them, I would be 80 years of age and probably gone by now. :)
@@merccadoosis8847 Yeah, 1950s Greenwich Village must have been great.
Awesome. Wish one day in an old clip someone posted, I’d get to see myself as a little hippie teen again. I have no photos from that era, would be fun to remember such an amazing time.
that's the beauty of CZcams. Like a flashback to an old commercial: "it's the closest thing to being there" (which I think was for A.T.T./long distance telephone service)
No one has commented, but it seemed obvious to me that the camera has pretty much only captured young men. That's pretty unusual for a lot of historical footage.
I didn't edit anything in or out of this film clip. I just selected this section on the Washington Square Park for its historical value. But you're right about the young men, I hadn't noticed that before. Thanks.
@@fantansam I didn't realise this was just a clip. I didn't think it was edited within itself.
Does the rest of the reel show a similar bias? Maybe it was the character of the location?
When people wore clothes other then sweat pants and hoodies
...and no skateboards, no e-scooters, no e-cigarettes, and no cellphones. Cellphones only existed in Star Trek episodes...czcams.com/video/wN-_VA5HFwM/video.html
@@fantansam there were skateboards in the '60s, sweatpants and hoodies were also thing but not incredibly in style
@@kelechi_77 Skateboards were an urban version of "surf" culture. And sweatpants & hoodies were only used as warm up/cool down clothes by high school athletes! 🤣
Ha! I remember my grandparents being critical of the way those Hippies dressed! Somethings never change!
When people were actually “ cool”
When it was safe, peaceful, and people would debate different views...
not a lot of fat people back then
Yes, I always notice that. And people ate a lot of food that is now criticized as “unhealthy”. There was no health food craze back then. Yet people were not fat.
So let’s think about that, shall we?
As a millenial I'm so glad the food situation has improved. Back then people ate trans fat like crisco and margarine thinking it was healthy. Now people are eating tallow and butter again. Also New York has much more natural organic food now.
@@rossriver75yukon27
People were more mobile back then. Walked much more, to and from the busses, trains. In and around the office, factory workers, contractors, they even had normal lunches; dinners were often prepared by mothers, eaten at a regular time. Small children had recess and played outdoors, running and getting exercise. Children/teenagers hadn't really discovered fast food (that was right around the corner). Once everything and anything became quick and easy, we got lazier. Not to say, some have made attempts to stay well and healthy, but the current generation isn't going "back". Because of technology, both good and bad, the nation has become a version of Jabba the Hut. Just a small function or movement of changing a channel, using a rotary phone, using a manual (even electric) typewriter, ...the list is endless. It's called evolution and it's life as we now know it. Hopefully it will get better and not worse. Bless ya'll
Is there a way to obtain this footage without the watermark?
I can't access the website displayed.
Yes,...contact me at: fantansam(at)gmail.com. I took the web site down because it was obsolete.
Unfortunately that song doesn't work with east coast senery.
Well that’s your opinion, but the song went platinum and it was # 1 across the country. Do you have any suggestions???
@@fantansam Sure..Bob Dylan's song "Queen Jane Approximately". A song about actual Greenwich Village entertainer.