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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Feb 22 18:55:16 2005, in response to Re: The subway during the 1970's, how bad did it really get?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Feb 22 18:36:43 2005. All correct.It was the total opposite of today. The "no hope" one is so true. it's hard for people to understand what we mean by that, as they are so spoiled by "today's subway". I remember the first time I saw a red R30 on the M. It must have been in 1985. Remember, at this point, every elevated station was strewn from end to end with multiple layers of grafitti, and hadn't been painted for 20 years officially. All you saw was grafittied R30's, R16's, and of course the R42's were also grafittied. I was on the platform with my high school girlfriend waiting for the morning train to take us to school at my home station. All of a sudden my girlfriend says, "Ooooh, how pretty, a red train!", as the M pulled in the station. I wasn't even looking up when she said that, all of a sudden turned to the train, and yelled, "What the F is that!". We walked on, and I looked at how clean and unusual a non-grafittied train looked like. I then said, "Yeah, it's nice, but too bad you won't even be able to tell it was repainted in a week". Why was I so pessimistic, while, I was a product of my time. I saw too often them trying to repaint the trains, only to have them tagged up again within two days, and withing two weeks, you couldn't even tell they were repainted. Boy, was I thankfully proven wrong for the "red" train. |
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