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Re: The subway during the 1970's, how bad did it really get? |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Feb 23 22:01:52 2005, in response to Re: The subway during the 1970's, how bad did it really get?, posted by Richard Rabinowitz on Wed Feb 23 17:28:14 2005. Great photo from 1976!Actually though, that whole scene in 1976 looked "good" compared to what was coming in 1979 to 1984. At least the tiles are clean. I remember even the tiles being covered for a number of years too, although, that tiles were one of the first things they started to clean, probably around 1981 or so, although the columns remained graffitied. And the train! As bad as it seems, that was "good" compared to what was about to happen to the trains and the system. The photo in the above post is from the beginning of the graffiti era. The trains got way worse than the one in that photo. Anyway, here's a train that looks like they all did in 1979-1985, and that lasted until around 1989, but i would say they got many of the stainless steel trains under control by around 1986. Here's a photo from 1988, by this time, at least the underground stations had their columns grafitti free:  Compare that to a scene "today" in the exact same location, and tell me you guys aren't "spoiled":  (both photos from nycsubway.org) |
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