So Colourful & Carefree

[eleanor2]

[emmie]

coffee bars were in abundance, so where to meet your friends.

[jno]

fun times, Eleanor

[pastafreak]

Is anyone interested in seeing NYC at that time?

[eleanor2]

I would have loved to have been a teenager in 67! Yes pasta, it'll be interesting to compare the two x

[emmie]

go for it.

[jno]

the whole state, pasta!

[pastafreak]

Haha...I've got a few
The first is the East Village. It was a bit rough, and attracted hippies and anyone interested in an alternate lifestyle. I only ventured into the safer West Village...

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/turn-and-tune-video-east-village-1960s

[pastafreak]

This one is midtown...and looks mostly at skyscrapers. But look at how many cars...huge ones...there are!

[pastafreak]

Finally...you'll never complain about snow after seeing this. I remember that storm...

[emmie]

1962/63
This winter saw the ‘Big Freeze of 1963’ and is considered to have been the worst British winter of modern times. The coldest weather for 200 years was recorded – so cold in fact that the sea froze in some parts of the country. Seawater freezes at -2 degrees. The cold weather began on December 22, 1962 and lasted more or less until March 1963. Wales and south-west England was particularly affected. In December 1962 there was a 36-hour blizzard across England and Wales. Villages were cut off, roads, rails and phone lines cut. The mean maximum temperature in January 1963 was -2.1 degrees, making it the coldest month in southern Britain since the 1800s. The winter of 1947, however, was colder for the north of England.

[emmie]

i remember the 62/63 winter, brrrrr

[eleanor2]

Jno, those cadets looked ..... Very smart!! ;0)
pasta, your first link could have been London, the second link wow, everything on a grand scale want it ( loved the music too!) I love snow, may be not blizzard proportions as shown on your third link, that poor man x

[eleanor2]

I love hearing about these extreme weather conditions of the past, fascinates me. I have a large poster of the frozen London Thames.

[bhg481]

I have a photo of me standing on a frozen River Ribble with my mum in 1947. That was the year my wife was born; her dad had to walk 2 miles to the local village for the midwife and got back to find she had been delivered by the next-door neighbour.
The next time I was able to stand on the Ribble was 1963, that time with my girlfriend.

[douglas9401]

Cool. ;-)

[EdmundD]

Winter 62/63 couldn't get to school because of the snow.

[jno]

pasta, I was in NYC one very cold Christmas Day. Looking it up I see it was still the coldest ever, minus 1 (that'd be Fahrenheit). No snow that day but no clouds either so the wind came straight down from the North Pole. Had to hide in shops, in the cathedral on 5th and in the premiere of Altered States. But we did get dinner in the Rockefeller Center looking out on the skating rink, no reservations but only a 20-minute wait and the price the same as any other day..

[eleanor2]

Incredible memories! Thanks, night x