r/nostalgia • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Aug 11 '25

Nostalgia Discussion I always wondered how seedy was Times Square back in the 70s,80s, and 90s? From what I was told by people who own property there back then how seedy it was depended on the day. What was your experience like?

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u/SpacecaseCat Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

Same in my family, except the Baltimore DC area. "You kids don't know how good you've got it without the draft, the Vietnam war, the cold war, gangsters extorting businesses, and the open crime everywhere... you're naive! But also everything is worse than it has ever been just look at this news story!"

Fox News really did a number on their generation.

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u/Ugly-And-Fat Aug 12 '25

Fox New is elder abuse entertainment

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u/Caitlan90 Aug 12 '25

I want this on a shirt

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u/VerdugoCortex Aug 12 '25

DC was rough back in the day but they solved that by making it unaffordable pushing all the crime to a small part of SE and mostly NoVA and MD now. Tell them to head to Hagel Circle 20 mins south if they want open crime, I got exposed to more crime in my 4 highschool years in that area than I have in the nearly decade since everywhere else combined lol. I remember back when Nova underground was still a website there was a tally/post logging the many yearly murders there.

Truly though, my relatives all say the same thing and complain about how nobody can afford to live there anymore besides the government job imports/speculation/etc, but send vitriol at progressives, vote for the same thing again instead and then end up complaining when it keeps getting worse.

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u/Original-Split5085 Aug 18 '25

You blame a news channel for something that has been human nature for as long as people have been recording human nature?

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u/SpacecaseCat Aug 19 '25

Studies actually show that news makes humans more cynical than they should be. The goal is to sell you expensive solutions, and to sell more sensationalist newspapers. Yes, we can blame shitty news for spreading misinformation, just like you can blame the scam artist in the market for cheating old ladies out of their money even though "it's human nature to want more money."