It's 3 days until Christmas in New York City in 1982
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- Video of people ice skating at Rockefeller Center as well shots around the city including the Pan AM building, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Radio City Music Hall and of course the Empire State Building.
Also, shots of some very busy foot traffic amidst a flood of yellow taxi cabs.
This grainy interesting footage from December 22, 1982, last around 10 minutes.
#nyc
#christmasinnewyork
#taxi
#panam
Different energy, different reality, different world..
When the Early 2000 ended the new generation starting coming in and it all down hill
@@ashantisamuels6602 now you just got old and cranky old people hate everything that’s new
I was 7 years old at the time. The 80s were the best times ever
Thanks for this. At that time, I was 9. Now I am 50. Cheers from northeast Ohio! :)
Happy Holidays and a happy New Year 👍🍀
Same, and grateful to have been there.
This definitely isn't the America I was expecting though.
@@Been.Here.Since.2007 , thank you. Yes, this definitely is not the same America.
@@Been.Here.Since.2007it's not the same world and that's how time works. don't be naive.
This was one day before I turned 9 too! I am fifty today. Crazy
3 fav things in one video!!! Christmas, New York, and the 80’s!
The world felt a lot less crowded back then.
It sure was. Global population in 1982: 4.6 billion. Global population in 2023: 8 billion.
Less crowded and more beautiful and civil.
You bet I wish it was like that this city too overcrowded overwhelming and overpriced
@@dominiceugenio3694 Do you think NYC has changed that much? Other than the influx of migrants due to a horrendous border policy, I submit to you that NYC has gained slightly in population since 1982, but it was overcrowded back then too.
@Betterthangoldandsilver no not like it is today and people had more of a chance it felt
6:32 Oh Come O Come Emmanuel being played from the bells of St. Patrick’s Cathedral😌 Lovely that this was captured!
Your channel is amazing, the footage you have is absolute gold
Yes, this is such a valuable treasure trove of memories and showing things of the past and the next best thing to a time machine.
I was only two years old running around an apartment in Queens when this was filmed. I still remember getting a fisher price airport with little people, cars, a plane and parking garage. Happy times.
Awe
really? I thought nobody remembers being 2. do you remember your 1st Christmas?
@@algorythym Some people can remember further back than others in their earlier childhood. Then there are pictures to help you remember where your memory drops off.
Skating hands free with no phones ❤
Just imagine if we could go back to those times all over again!?! In addition, be able to do without any social media!?!
When this was recorded it was my second Christmas in a world I did not know yet and now as a middle aged adult am so nostalgic for. I miss such simpler times and the magic of being a kid during the holiday season.
Its just nostalgia for you. I can assure you if most of us went back it would get old quick. Because I couldn't do without a streaming service like this when I can view the past and be nostagic. And although reading a magazine while on the loo or in the bath, nothing beats being able to watch and movie on a phone or tablet now while doing either :)
What I'd like is a time machine that lets you visit and observe only. That would be super interesting.
My older sister died that year in August. My heart was still hurting so much. 💔😥
Sorry to read that.
I am so sorry for your loss.
That's tough. I'm so sorry for your loss. ❤
Sorry for your loss
Thank you for your kindness and kind words ♥️. I still miss her especially at Christmas. She loved the holidays. Life and our country and world we're all much better back in the 70's and 80's IMHO . Thanks for sharing this. Good memories as well as bad ones. May we all have a happy, safe, healthy and peaceful New Year ♥️👍
all those children skating at Rockefeller Center are now in their late fifties. Somebody stop the clocks
😂
I was 10 at the time. I grew up on Long Island. I believe this was the year my grandfather took me to NYC to see the Ice Capades at Madison Square Garden.
This was mesmerizing! I was 2 years old at that time. I really love the 80s and love to find videos like this so thank you!!
I was 2 as well. 😀
Wonder if any of the young people in this video were asking for the E.T. video game for Atari that year, with no idea the disappointment that awaited…
E.T. The Movie came out in 1982 I think.
@@ZMAN_420It did, and the game was rushed to be released Christmas 82.
*LOL. Wasn't that voted the #1 worst video game of all time?*
*_I seem to remember watching a CZcams video several years ago that featured the story of the ET Atari cartridge being one of the worst games ever & that due to poor sales of the game, Atari took all of the remaining unsold ET Game cartridges & buried them in a landfill somewhere in New Jersey. LOL. Can anyone confirm that? 👍 Thx!_*
@@andyroid5028Yes except the landfill was in the southwest desert I think.
I was 10 in 1982, thank you, brings back memories of how Christmas use and should be!! 👍
everything in history reverberates to the present day. nothing in human history is new. all the people in this video are part of us
Thank you for this wisdom.
Great comment! Thank you 😃
Nice sentiment but I disagree. Many things throughout human history are new, down to the dna of the people.
@@KyleReeseCel2029Nothing in human history is new, just like OP stated. Everything that's done now has been done before, down to technology.
@@laurenchristianna2092 You can say that but there is no evidence for it.
That is awesome. Everyone worldwide needs to sit in front of that magnificent church and watch and listen to those bells🔔
It's currently a couple days until Christmas as well, in 2023.
I have yet to visit NY. I've always wanted to visit during Christmas and to see the Thanksgiving Day parade. I was 10 in 1982. Thank you for these videos.
I was born a few months before this. GREAT UPLOAD! 2024 SOON, TIME MOVES FASTER THE OLDER I GET IT SEEMS.👍🏻🇺🇲
I truly agree!
I love watching such videos especially when it gets overwhelming in this world. Thanks for this wonderful upload abd have a wonderful holiday. All the best for 2024
I’ve spent two Christmases in NYC in recent years. Christmas in NYC is still very magical and lively. ❤🎄💚
my high school I went to was North Monterey County High School in Castroville CA. Hopefully, we get some old 70s, 80s, 90s & even 2000's footage. It would be cool
Bring back the days!
I grew up in the 80s. Christmas was very spirited back then. Probably was even moreso in previous decades. The culture today is very different
So much different, the 🇺🇲 1980's where great! 👍🏻
@@diabolusvincit WHAT? HUGE DIFFERENCE? TECHNOLOGY, INTERNET, TECHNOLOGY ? PEOPLE TALKING TO PEOPLE A FEW CELL/CAR PHONES AND SOME PAGERS. WE USE TO MEMORIZE PHONE NUMBERS.
@@diabolusvincit I was also a teen in the 80's. To tell someone it's "all in your head" when they point out the glaring contrast between then and now, when you claim you lived during that time denotes that you're either not paying attention, you're living under a rock, you're a gaslighting troll, or maybe a combo of all three.
100 % agree.
@@ZMAN_420the 1990s were magical
As someone born in 1981, I had the chance to see New York only in 2014 (coming from abroad). Since childhood, this city has always been my favorite. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to see it in the 80s or 90s.
The Snowman was released on this date in 1982.
a few months before i was born. this video is just the coolest. thanks for the upload, and the bells.. wow
Little did they know about 2001...
"Everyone" was reading Nostradamus then.
*_I love this. Whomever filmed this gets an A+ for not yammering on & on in the background. Such a simpler time! Merry Christmas to 1982... from 2023. 🎄_*
Filmed at a time where people didn't feel the need to insert themselves into everything they photographed.
It's filmed for news footage so that's why they're not talking
@@octonoozlepeople did talk when filming back then, as proven by many of the personal recordings on CZcams. This footage is for a news channel, as stock footage to splice into news reports, so that's why no one is talking
@@octonoozle Not true pool noodle
@@user-lx5do4zc6n I'm aware that people talk in old videos. What I'm saying is that these days the social aspect of videos is more central to the reason people capture them. Back then it was more of curiosity or creativity, not "how many likes is this going to get"
Those were the days😢
When life was good… (and I wouldn’t even be born for another 10 years)
I was born a few months before this was filmed. The 1980s 🇺🇲 are great!!!!!👍🏻
@@ZMAN_420No I phones.... Social Media etc. Tweets!
oh brother@@thischannelisdeleted
Best Christmas ever
Is what I would say if I was actually alive then
Same 😂😂
For some odd reason, I love the look of those old Checker Taxis.
Wednesday, December 22nd, 1982. I just got out of Kmart, and as luck would have it I caught the Blue Light Special. A very successful Christmas shopping run. That'll probably just about do it for me this year.
I'm walking down 50th, and I pass Rockefeller Center. Each hand is full of heavy shopping bags, but I stop to admire the skating at the rink. And then? The bells of St. Patrick's. And I get this sense that we're all celebrating Christmas together. Every one person in this city is a different Christmas story. My mind starts imagining the people at St. Patrick's. Or the performers at Radio City. Wondering at the rich and complex lives they must all lead.
My first Xmas It’s crazy to see those old checker cabs
"Go back to Joisey, ya moron!!"
the last checker cab in NYC retired on July 26, 1999. i was surprised they were still in service into the '90s.
Awesome seeing this video here! I can tell weather was mild then to just Exactly as I remember Christmas 1982 at 10 years old here in NW PA! I remember Christmas Eve 1982 being very mild with a blend of sun and high clouds and Christmas Day of 1982 totally cloudy but Very mild and me flying a kite I got for Christmas of 1982 on that day on the farm I grew up at here in NW PA! Beautiful huge Christmas tree as well! Love the video here and Thank you for this! Though video is in NYC here, this video brings back memories of childhood here in NW PA exactly as I remember!
6:47 Pan Am no longer exists
Love the throwback videos could you imagine looking at these videos in 2030?
the simple life ...healthy for mind body and soul.
Maaaan…I remember Christmas use to be so exciting as kid…well that’s to be expected for a child…nowadays I just hope my job chooses me to work Christmas so I can get holiday pay 😅😂❤ Merry Christmas everyone 😊
Thanks and happy holidays!
OMG has it really been 41 years since then? Wow this life is so fast and mysterious! How the world has changed so many numerous times since then
Just as old as I
@@caprissocialnetwork1261 Me too! October '82! What about you? Have a beautiful day and a lovely New Year!!!
@@laurenchristianna2092 January 5th & thank you! You as well!
Christmas 1982. Star Wars toys !!!
I was 19 when this was shot. So cool. I love New York and I find St. Patrick's to be absolutely amazing. I loved that scene of 4 buses side by side at 4:07. I have seen St. Patrick's, and gone inside, but I was never there at the right time to hear those bells. That was beautiful. Great video. Thanks.
41 years ago....on a Wednesday before Christmas....
have you made your santa list list yet?
Home Alone vibes even though this was in 1982
I live in NYC, though not in Manhattan,which is what New Yorkers really only consider to be the city.. I live in Western Queens probably only about 5 miles from Rockefeller Center and was only there once during Christmas as a very young child.. Awesome video!
Why do people want the pre 2014-present staring cell phone days to be forgotten?
Dude time travels.
Beautiful. I was 15 and over in Brooklyn. ❤
Did you know Vinny Baducci?
@@davidmitchell6873 🤣 No, sorry. There were plenty of Vinnys in Brooklyn tho. 👍 I grew up by Red Hook.
I was just kidding. I was just throwing out a stereotypical name associated with Brooklyn. Have a merry Christmas.
@@davidmitchell6873 🤣🤣🤣👍 MERRY CHRISTMAS Friend. 🎄
Fantastic 😊😊😊
Merry Christmas and Happy new year vampire robot!
Thank you, Andrew! Same to you 🎄🎄
@@vampirerobot you are welcome!
Thanks for posting!
Christmas Day '82 was one of the hottest ever in NYC, reaching 64 degrees. That record that would later be broken in 2015 with 66 degrees and that remains the record to this day. You could say that Santa came into town all dressed up for Coney Island.
It was so warm that year that we were riding in the back of my dad’s pick up and weren’t cold. He stopped for a while outside a church so we could listen to the bells.
I very well remember Christmas Day of 1982 as well and how hot it was for that time of year to. I was 10 years old living in NW Pennsylvania growing up on a farm at the time. I remember on that day in NW PA the weather being cloudy and overcast with high clouds and very warm that day up like in upper 60s for high temps. On that same day, I got a kite as one of my Christmas presents and used the very mild high cloud day weather to go out and fly this kite and had a great time doing this flying my kite most of that day here. I also remember the day before on December 24 1982 being very mild as well here in NW PA with a blend of high clouds and sun and going out running a long distance that day in neighborhood where farm I lived at was at to get exercise as a 10 year old child to take advantage of beautiful weather and to keep myself physically fit as a child.
On a note: I feel the weather patterns of 2015 and 1982 were very much alike in the eastern half of USA through out both of those years. I remember both 1982 and 2015 having a very wet first half of summer and then a very dry second half of summer here in NW PA.
Really cool post!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Back in 82 I would drink a dozen or so martinis and smoke two packs of Newport lights before I went Christmas shopping. Them was the days when you could introduce the old lady to the back of your hand if she started flapping her yap. Them was the days when us fellas had it made.
Boy, you sound like a hoot 🦉. Though I do agree women are entirely too hostile and righteous nowadays.
Did you record all the footage on your channel yourself??
It’s news footage
Looks great
I was 4yrs old. Life had no bills and free electricity. 😂😂😂😂
No cell phones. Everyone looked so happy. Blah blah blah.
When will that comeback since December 2013?
THIS VIDEO IS MOSTLY SHOTS OF TRAFFIC!!! What are you talking about???
@@thetoongrump9801 On this channel it's the most common comment that you will see. I'm just doing my part. Welcome to the channel!
No Zombies staring at their little electronic devices aka cell phones, is a good thing.
@@davidgoodman6924More so, tech zombies.😄
My younger sister had just been born 2 weeks earlier when this was filmed.
Awwe 💚💚💚
2½ year old me was chilling about 300 miles away in Lewiston, New York. Now I'm 43.
1982 was a unique time because it wasn't quite "the '80s" yet, and still had many 1970s influences (cars, clothes, hair, etc.) A lot of people were scared then about what the future would hold. Turns out they were (mostly) right. Studio 54 was dark. An unknown disease never seen before was killing thousands, and no one knew how it was spreading.
Reagan had been president for almost 2 years, and the economy was weak and unemployment high after the self-induced 1981 recession to stop inflation.
A new late night talk show with some young weatherman-cum-comedian from Indiana named David Letterman had recently started. Comedian John Belushi died of a drug overdose several months before this footage.
7:07 Legend has it this cameraman had the first case of COVID-19 during this filming.
Cringe
Studio 54 (disco nightclub) closed in 1980. 🤦♂
@@robroy6374 Read it again, jerk. Never said it closed in 1982.
I remember the yellow cabs when I visited NYC back in 1988. I live in Europe so for me they were exotic lol.
I love winter's in nyc. So cozy.
The footage is so clean
Your channel is a national treasure. It's a heavy contrast to see how much the population and world has lost its mind
Christmas of 1982 I would of asked for a Coleco Vision, and an IBM PC. Nice channel loving the videos.
How much footage do you have damn
Not sure what the immediate Emery family got for Christmas in 1982, but I'm pretty certain Cindy got a few books for herself, and a T-shirt saying that she is against "Sesame Street" because of its omnipresence.
I was 11 years old.
Well...another wonderful time capsule you brought to us. Never been to NYC but looks safer and where have all the cabs gone, do they still have cabs in NYC or have they been replaced by Uber and Lift rides?
Yes we still have yellow cabs in NY.
I think 1980s NYC is infamous for being kinda unsafe.
I was 6 at the time of this video. I miss the 80’s!
I could here some faint background talk on this video that sounded a bit like Casey Kasem of at40 of back then here. This, I feel, could of been Casey here doing the top 100 of 1982 here which is now playing on iHeartRadio at40 70s and 80s station that reruns Casey Kasem countdowns of 70s and 80s here exactly 41 years later. Just heard Melissa Manchester "you should here how she talks about you" and George Bensons "turn your love around" and now Air Supplies Sweet Dreams now playing on this AT40. All songs that were big hits when this video was recorded!
On a note: loved seeing the people ice skate enjoying the mild weather of then alongside the clear night it was then with a half moon. I was looking to see if I could see bright Venus in video to.
Life is full of fleeting moments.
Judging by the moon's phase that night (6:35), this would actually be December 21st of 82'; that would be *4* days until Xmas, and the Green River murderer was still doing his thing.
Amazing!
Odd to watch a video of people from nearly half a century ago, and to think that all of those people were having all sorts of anxieties and issues swirling (inside of their minds). Some were living in that exact moment without a worry, others may be plagued by life. So ponder that then look again at those small shadow-like and staticky moving figures skating (from below). Anyone notice how odd the two realities compare. They were looking at the world through two balls and now 42 years later look like ghostly shadows moving slowly..
It’s true and most of their anxieties and issues are probably now long forgotten. We really are just a speck on this planet for a brief, fleeting moment. We should live our lives to fullest instead of worry and hate each other.
Good vid😊🎉
I was probably 4 yrs old waiting for Christmas to come in excitement. Now being 45 it doesn't have that same magic as it did back then. Although still spend it with family and friends.
Where do you get these footage lol. Just watching from up high at the ice rink looked fascinating
The world will keep going after you're gone and it moves fast. You wont be here forever and you cant take anything with you when you go. The memories to your loved ones are all that will remain of you. Make them count.
I miss the 80's
Not to make this about me, but on that date I would've been five days from being born into this cockamamie world. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy early birthday Flute Basket.
Yes❄️
My daughter was born that year in September
It was her 1st Christmas
Those days were far from "innocent" with its share of crime, corruption, etc., but it was also most certainly a more sincere and genuine era overall. The overall general pop culture was much less obnoxious than now and there was just LESS overall. I just remember being able to process the choices we had. A much better overall zeitgeist in the 80's (and 70's, 60's, etc.). The downfall started in the 90's. 9/11 was the nail in the coffin.
This channel has such awsome retro video other than the phones comments. Yes we all know no phones but just enjoy and remember.
Is it just me or were those two buses fighting for the same lane?🚍🧐🤔🛣
I wonder how much of the US population that was around in 1982 has passed on. I know in my family I've lost a lot of loved ones since.
It was over 40 years ago I’m guessing around 40% have passed on
I'm still here.
I wish I could have seen 90s NYC
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TIME (new sub)
12/22/1982 was on a Wednesday (Christmas 1982 was on a Saturday).
Love how the photog gets so many different shots. Rack focuses on the lights and and goes in & out of focus. Wonder if this was for a reporter pkg.
I wonder where Madonna is.
Waiting for her breakthrough
I was 13. Memories
The energy, the world, and including the cultures are much more common than the rubbish of todays society.
Back when I was a "bun in the oven".
Holy crap. This was the day I was born lol
18 years old and home from boarding school.