Why is old news footage and concert footage so addictive? I mean that seriously. There is something very therapeutic about this, an escape quality that is very difficult to pin point.

@toshiojohnston3732

9 ай бұрын

Because it happened in real time some pain remains but yah realize how silly alot of this stuff really was.

@jafll141

3 ай бұрын

I think it’s because of the unbiased reporting. I didn’t see any left or right news reporting but just reporters out and upfront getting the stories. Going right up to the looters and talking to them. Very addictive.

@3hooks781

Ай бұрын

​@@jafll141 Nailed it. Precisely that. We were given the news without any personal angle. If there were any specific views, there was a segment dedicated to just that (usually called EDITORIAL), separate from the reporting. It's a refreshing watch (re watch in may case since I grew up on this stuff). We were able to develop our own views once we had a chance to at least digest what we watched. I miss it so.

@nyla2408

2 күн бұрын

For me, it's because it's like time travel....kind of.

I'll never forget it. As soon as the lights went out I got so scared I went into labor and 13 hours later due to difficulties I had an emergency cesarean. Today July 14 my beautiful first born is 45 years old.

@omalone1169

Жыл бұрын

02:35 it sounds like the Purge

@marthagonzalez1357

Жыл бұрын

@@omalone1169 it was bad. Looting etc. I'll never forget it.

@barryjohnson409

Жыл бұрын

🕊️🙏🏾🕊️

@marcusgomez3307

Жыл бұрын

damn, the lights going out scares you that much? lol it's only darkness sugar😂

@marthagonzalez1357

Жыл бұрын

FYI it was pitch black outside, couldn't see my hand in front of my face.

I was at the movies in NYC watching Star Wars as a 16 year old when the movie house went dark, We got out on the street at 54th street and walked down 7th ave with the intent of walking home to Brooklyn. The looting along 7th Ave was scary. We got to the Waldorf Astoria at 34th street and decided to sleep in the lobby since it was late and scary outside. We got up as the sun came up and started on our trek back to Brooklyn when a friend came with a car and saw us and picked us up and we got home to Brooklyn. I'm 62 and will never forget that night.

@jeshkam

6 ай бұрын

I'm a Pole and have never been to the US, actually I wasn't born until 1979, but I'm fascinated with the American history. Tell me please, do you prefer the old NYC with buildings and subway trains covered in graffiti, pimps and prostitutes around the Times Square area, with more crime etc., but with people being friendlier and more natural or the modern one, wealthy, clean & tidy?

@shamelesshussy

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your first-hand experience! Oral histories (well, typed) are so important.

@koko40800

4 ай бұрын

I was 7 years old during that blackout, living in Tribeca...I remember the entire block cheered loudly when the Con Edison trucks came on the block to turn the lights back on

@user-rm3ui1di8x

2 ай бұрын

Watching Will get back to you

@FortyNineHudson

2 ай бұрын

Did you ever get to see the rest of the movie?

Thank you for posting this!!! All vintage news casrs are precious pieces of history and this was epic!!!!

Thank you for this great upload. Although it was a very bad night for NYC, it pretty awesome to see this vintage newscast with so many of the familiar names that I watched on CBS2 as a youth, Jim Jensen, Vic Miles, Chris Borgen, Marilyn Salenger, JJ Gonzalez, Arnold Diaz and others.

@wmbrown6

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget John Stossel and Joe Witte now . . . plus Jim's substitute co-anchor for this night, John Tesh.

@omalone1169

Жыл бұрын

@@wmbrown6 1:50 what happened 12 years ago?

@ericsamuelson5656

Жыл бұрын

Arnold Diaz just retired after 50 years on the tube

@johnnyballenatl

6 ай бұрын

@@ericsamuelson5656And he died just recently.

@chairlesnicol672

5 ай бұрын

​@@omalone1169Another blackour was what happened!

Yes, it's THAT John Tesh.

My mom was born in 1977 and I was born in 2003 it's crazy how there was a black out both years where me and my mom was born

@ndr523

7 ай бұрын

Okay?

@RealSergiob466

10 күн бұрын

Damn two different blackout incidents at the same city. But glad you’re both alright. I know it’s the past but damn that was scary

@jasonpalacios1363

2 күн бұрын

@@RealSergiob466 Well the 2003 blackout no one was doing any rioting in the streets like what see in these footages of the 1977 blackout.

With all the looting, that’s where the expression, “Christmas in July” came from 😂

@omalone1169

Жыл бұрын

I have yet to hear this and also what happened with the troops ?

@valjohnson1927

28 күн бұрын

No thar T expression was around before 1977

@samanthab1923

28 күн бұрын

@@valjohnson1927 I was joking. It started in 1933. Had nothing to do with looting though.

My mother used to tell me stories on how she lived through blackout. Many rolling blackouts and chaos in the streets. Then the August 2003 blackout, I was walking home, I got off the bus and I experienced seeing traffic being a stand still. People were listening to their transistor radios to 1010 WINS, WCBS News Radio 880, and other radio stations to know what was going on. It was a blackout and I got home, at the time when my mom was alive, I was worried if she would get home. I found out she walked home. Then I was happy she got home. It was one of the most unpredictable experiences that I ever seen.

@raygordonteacheschess5501

Жыл бұрын

I was in Litchfield CT in 1977 and in Philadelphia in 2003, where some PECO guy didn't like what he saw and pulled us off the grid, making us the only major city east of Detroit with power.

@xierraleone1905

9 ай бұрын

@@raygordonteacheschess5501damn how old are you?

@lindagurrera685

9 ай бұрын

True but 2003 was nothing like this

@ATCguy1973

7 ай бұрын

2003 was so tame compared to 1977. New Yorkers were way more patient as a whole and it made me proud to be a New Yorker. Today everything is more politically driven and it's sad

@TheCharlesJLee1000

7 ай бұрын

@@ATCguy1973 including handling a crisis.

"Thou shalt not steal." _that's what my family taught me_

@MrWolfTickets

2 ай бұрын

Me too. It makes me sick to see.

Was listening to the game at Shea Stadium on a vintage Panasonic AM radio in the kitchen in our apartment in Astoria. Still remember them describing the lights going out over the scoreboard throughout Flushing. The lights went out in blocks and sections. Great memories and wonderful video. Thanks for posting.

I was at Jones Beach in Brooklyn NYC, with my mother and Aunt Harriet. We had no clue, what was going on until we got in the car to go home and the traffic lights were not working properly. I had just graduated High School. And the film from my Graduation was at the Pharmacy to be developed. Needless to say during that night the Pharmacy was part of the looting that happened, so no photos got developed. I will never forget it.

Con Ed has never had a stellar reputation even now.

@NewYorkDoll_911

Жыл бұрын

You said it! They still are a crappy company.

@omalone1169

Жыл бұрын

@@NewYorkDoll_911 what brings you here ?

My Dad was on the GW Bridge in his car, made it home via floodlights, my dog smelled him from our apartment and ran downstairs to find hime and bring him home. Meanwhile, I was at camp in Litchfield CT and slept through it as lights out was 9pm.

Brings back memories. The first time my grandfather ever hit me, when I told him him I wanted to go to Broadway to get some "free" stuff. Broadway has yet to recover to be the shopping mecca it once was.

@dkeithtag

Жыл бұрын

Broadway is VERY different. Gentrified. Million-dollar properties there in former brownfields; ghetto still extant.

@isrj01

Жыл бұрын

Grandpa was so right.

@koko40800

4 ай бұрын

@@dkeithtag Pretty sure at least some of that arson wasn't 'random acts of violence', it was motivated and initiated by long term 'urban renewal' interests...why certain people allowed NYC to descend into bankruptcy and chaos in the 1970s, and let the buildings go abandoned...So they could snatch them up cheap (some NYC abandoned buildings back then were literally selling for $1, if you were willing to pay to get them up to code)....and torch them if necessary (usually for the insurance money so they can 'rebuild' something newer and more expensive)...leading to the mad NYC rent hikes and real estate valuations in the 1980s

@archiebunker7688

Ай бұрын

Oh yes, memories! But yoou notice not one EV car was stolen in the whole city. Why?😮

Warriors !!! Come out and play

My grandmother lived on Manor Ave and I was hanging out at BX River Houses and my grandmother called for me out the window and we just was in her apartment until it was over. Will never forget at the age now of 57.

Thank you to everyone in the comments who have shared their memories. This was before I was born. Contemporary reporting like this video are fascinating, but first hand recollections are so vital.

Nice to see Con Edison is consistent

@toshiojohnston3732

9 ай бұрын

Yes still no accountability.

I remember being stuck in a Burger King during the 77 black out at 12 years old lots of looting in the South Bronx I didn’t see much on Fordham Road though

Yes, I remember it as if it were yesterday.

ANIMALS THEN....ANIMALS NOW

Lived through this too. Not fun

so weird seeing John Tesh as an anchorman. His career exploded upward so far not long after this.

@robroy6374

2 ай бұрын

I mean all he really known for is hosting Entertainment Tonight

I remember this night I almost got killed when a nyc sanitation truck emergency brake didn't work. My dumb as was supposed to be home in the house. Crazy Eddie got hit hard. Dude owned a truck had brand new furniture for 3 family members.

@mariesmall688

Жыл бұрын

Daaaaaaang! You said Crazy Eddie!!! I remember those commercials!

@ekop1778

Жыл бұрын

RIP CRAZY EDDIE! YOU WERE THE DUMBEST SALESMAN IN TOWN

@thiscorrosion900

Жыл бұрын

I read a few years ago that the Crazy Eddie's in the Bronx had already shut down within an hour or less of the blackout, and the managers could see the gangs of looters running down the street to try to get to them, and they had to literally take out handguns or shotguns in case they tried to get in the store. That's just what I read, anyway. Not sure which store this was, Grand Concourse, Gun Hill Road? I dunno. I worked for Crazy Eddie's in LI for three years in the late 80s, but we never had any issues like that! P.S. I read that store was opened in 1976 or 77 on East Fordham Road, prob. off Grand Concourse or so.

It happened again in 2003 blackout

@RB01.10

9 ай бұрын

That was under different circumstances but yes

Almost 50 years still the same going on now how can they blame con ed in 2003 nobody looted so blame the people not the company I was 3 in 1977 my father was a NYPD police officer he was allowed to go home at night and guard his own home we were living on the boarder of bed sty at that time and many times during that night he had to point his gun out the windows to prevent people from breaking in etc he took us kids up to the top floor with him so he could stand watch he told me the whole city was burning down but now I can finally see what he ment thank u for this

@filmjunkie4034

5 ай бұрын

God bless your dad for his service & bravery to be a police officer in that city, especially during those times

Never understood the need to loot & burn. Wonder how those gentlemen turned out that were interviewed by the reporter regarding looting & burning their own community. My admiration to the brave officers & firefighters confronting such wide scale social disorder. My heart goes out to law abiding citizens & business owners who were affected by the crimes committed by the hoards of criminals. Was that Rev Al arrested at 19:13?

@valjohnson1927

28 күн бұрын

Those whose businesses were looted and burned were not OF the community. They were from the outside ans were exploited those in the community. The looters often saw it as playback. Of course it was not always the case that the business owners were from outside the community or exploiting the community. Unfortunately those who did were seen as justification to loot.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The stark difference of the reaction of the 1977 and 2003 New York City electricity blackout.

@michaelquinones-lx6ks

Жыл бұрын

And the '65 blackout too.

@nickcancelliere5638

9 ай бұрын

We were a civilized nation in 03 ..now were like 77 again.. Danm democrats

@toshiojohnston3732

9 ай бұрын

More white people in 1965 and 911 humbled new Yorkers so they were more reflective in 2003.

@kumikonaito7348

8 ай бұрын

@@nickcancelliere5638agree,…..the Dems turn EVERYTHING to shyt.

@jeshkam

6 ай бұрын

​@@michaelquinones-lx6ksMy thoughts exactly lol.

I remember this night. I was about 8 yrs old, living in the filthy BRONX…. It was about 105 degrees with no AC, that night my mom let us all hang out at the park till about 1 am. Ppl were setting dumpsters on fire and shooting fireworks DIRECTLY at passing police cars and fire trucks. My mom told us ARMAGEDDON had started and the end of the world was here. I really thought Jesus was coming back THAT NIGHT, and I was AFRAID TO FALL ASLEEP. We spent the entire night praying by candlelight and reading the Bible. 😂

@frenchonion4595

Жыл бұрын

LOL

@joedimaggio3687

4 ай бұрын

105 degrees? That's a Las Vegas temperature, not in New York.

I remember it well, very hot and humid, thank God i lived in Jackson Heights Queens far from the turbulence in Manhattan .

I would not eat anything from stores for at least a week

Remember this as a kid. July 13, 1977 at 9:36PM

July 13, 2022 23:31, 45 years ago. Cannot believe it.

@kateskeys

Жыл бұрын

Me to! I was 17.

@Terra967

Жыл бұрын

bro was born in 1960

I was 14. At the time and I remember this blackout real. Well, it was crazy.

I loved the 70's, but the City was a shithole. Broke, crime, Maypr Beame, Son of Sam, etc. It had alot of character, to say the least. AND as tawdry as it was, Time Square was erotically dangerous and fun...no Disney back then. Honestly, I miss the excitement of the porn shops and theatres.....

@kevinclark8549

Жыл бұрын

That's when New York city was the best in the 70s. All the movie theaters were all next to each other on the same block. All the Porno shops Hookers all over the place. Manhattan was so much fun back than the seedy side of it.

@jeffbengert2863

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinclark8549 You nailed it, Kevin. Rather have that then the crime, homeless everywhere, Disney tourists, shelters of today. Yeah, the porn theatres were great, I went, the excitement was great. Enjoy your evening, Kevin.

@kevinclark8549

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffbengert2863 you to Jeff thanks.

@kevinclark8549

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffbengert2863 there is a great Documentary around that Era. It's called the Torso killer. Richard Cottingham he was a serial killer. He was killing girls in the Time's Square and NJ areas. It's on Netflix. It's in 4 part's excellent documentary checkout when you get a chance.

@jeffbengert2863

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinclark8549 Thank you, Kevin. Yes, I am familiar with him. He's probably somewhere on these crazy social media platforms in alias.....Jeff not a fan of social media. I believe he is still alive, in Jersey, prison, and if I remember what I read, one of his victim's daughters is trying to "bond" with him in some way or forgive him or something odd..... I think he picked up prostitutes and murdered a couple in Times Square back then in a seedy hotel there back then. Hey, I made it to 59, and have found recollections of those 70s growing up in Jersey and the "danger" that lurked in the City back then. I'd rather have that then this WOKE progressive bs and Disney characters etal .....Be well Kevin, and try not to get shot these days...

I was 2 years old living in Brooklyn with my parents....I came here because I just wanted to know what happened that night....I don't remember....🤷‍♀️

If it wasn't for that blackout, there wouldn't be a whole lot of hip-hop groups coming out. Most kids couldn't afford DJ equipment. I consider the 77 Blackout was part of the evolution of Hip-Hop Groups!

@younglevese

20 күн бұрын

Facts

If you are a boomer or a gen x you will remember this.

I remember how much looting destroyed Bushwick, especially along Broadway, it took 25 years before all thise stories were restored again

5 years before I was born. My parents in New Jersey met 4 months earlier when this aired. Later that night, Jim Jensen anchored with Dave Marash (the guy with the beard) at 11:00. I noticed the 6:00 newscast was in the newsroom and the studio where they had individual desks with overhead lights was at 11:00. I assume it was Sept 1977 when they took the 6:00 report to the studio full time.

47 Years On July 13!

I'm surprised that there was a city left. BTW, I knew of some shopkeepers there who lost their businesses as a result of the chaos.

@valjohnson1927

28 күн бұрын

Insurab9is important. I wonder if their claims were denied because of the "insurrection " clause

@Marc816

28 күн бұрын

@@valjohnson1927 The claims were denied because of that.

I was sitting on the porch when it happened

Shameful that this was an American city in 1977

@childrensorg856

4 ай бұрын

Looks like it's in Africa.

@luisreyes1963

7 күн бұрын

Happens on a daily basis in Venezuela. 😅

I knew about the 1977 blackout from The History Channel and from my Dad but I could share from my own experience from the 2003 blackout and I was scared to death because I thought that there'd be riots in the streets because of what I saw or what my Dad told me about the 1977 blackouts but thank goodness nothing like that happened in the 2003 blackouts.

Love old news coverage

I'm surprised that John Tesh didn't just break out in playing some of his famous instrumental music.

45:24 Jimmy Carter's America.

I think they cut out the part where John Tesh wished Elizabeth Taylor a happy birthday

Damn it’s crazy to look at how people were living through this type of stuff, and it’s crazy my grandparents raised my mom and her siblings during the 60s-90s

@phyllissnook

10 ай бұрын

Loved your statement...I am one of those "people" who lived through this type of stuff, and thankfully have every single marble still left in my head!

@Steel_music2024

9 ай бұрын

@@phyllissnookI was born in 2006, I’m a history nerd so I love hearing stories like this

I was stationed in Jersey ,visiting Family in Brooklyn walking down Atlantic Ave on East all of a sudden the lights flickered and then right out. Pitch black I was with my 3 cousins I told just sit back out in the shadows and witnessed that craziness that erupted. We worked our way back to their home walking . Then I headed back to base.

@zeo5009

Жыл бұрын

Wow. Sounds like the premise of “The Warriors” but with your cousins in toe. Crazy!

That was only the beginning for me if you remember the Blizzard of 1978 I was walking in the middle of that blizzard for a 6 Hour post. I got to write a book. well guys enjoy History

oh wow!

It was a beautiful night in my neighborhood which was Bensonhurst Brooklyn. My friends & I played Ring-o-lario in the streets. Everyone was hanging out on the stoops. No problems whatsoever! We never locked the doors including that night. I wonder why?

i was hanging in my friends apt in her kitchen listening to the nyc black out we all were in

Was coming back from Great Adventure, hit the GW and the rest is history

En ese año el 1977 aprox., MDNA estaba pasando por momentos tristes😢

we were on e 233 st near neried ave my friends apt

19:12 Al Sharpton?😳

The same chaos would happen now

@ekop1778

Жыл бұрын

YOUD HAVE MILLIONS OF GUNS BLARING IN THE AIR NOW

@childrensorg856

4 ай бұрын

Nowadays they'd scream out BLM.

@Bill-yl2bc

2 ай бұрын

​@@ekop1778what guns the government want to get rid of them but not the police guns some police officers are good people but they are more killer cops than good ones

Wow 🔥

Did any of thease merchant have insurance did they get compensation

I wasn't born in NYC in the 1970s since that happened. : 0

Recuerdo ese dia como si fuera hoy

@powerplay4real174

Жыл бұрын

Was it fun and did you get any loot when out and about Tomas Louis ??

@jayden56858

Жыл бұрын

@@powerplay4real174 i hooked up with 3 prostitues and didnt pay it was wild

GOOD TIMES! THEN! SUMMER OF SAM AND FIRES TOO BURNING HOT NO AC ITS WAS HELL

@Mhel2023

Жыл бұрын

Us kids spent the entire summer on the lookout for Son of Sam and the yellow Volkswagen 🧐

Carry was a mess.

Omg John Tesh RIP Brotha you had a magnificent career I was nine years old when the lights went out 1977 like 9/11/01 & the year 2020 I will never forget

@Frankieefootballmundial

Жыл бұрын

I hope we don’t see nothing like that again but with crime is up is posible it could happen

@johnnyballenatl

Жыл бұрын

Um, John Tesh is still alive and well; you're probably thinking of Jim Jensen (who died in 1999).

The next couple of days hip hop scene explode with some many Dj crews bc they looted store that had Dj equipment

@crystal25288

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

Content Approved 👍

I remember hearing about this blackout in my own town on a newsbulletin on a FM radio station.

@ 19:15 Al Sharpton

The 2003 blackout was more iconic and much more civilized tbh.

@valjohnson1927

28 күн бұрын

How "iconic"?

If we loose energy now, it will be far worse since mandate caused termination of cops, reserves, firefighters and service people 😵‍💫

@raineyj560

Жыл бұрын

Relax a ton of police cadets just graduated two weeks ago 🥴

@teresaareces4995

Жыл бұрын

Thats right, all those that demanded police defunded will be screaming “ OLICE HELP “

@valjohnson1927

28 күн бұрын

After seeing how the rethugs beat them in DC when the Jan 6ers stormed the capital... I guess a lot of would be cops chose different professions

i remember that night for about a minute the sky went from pitch black to daylight and back to a black sky it made people think a nuke went off... theres more conspiracy mystery to this

I wonder what it was like in Rikers Island and the MHD.

This is a warning

Preppers, remember, this could easily happen again on an even wider scale. Remember the risk we face from things like another Carrington Event occurring.

@omalone1169

Жыл бұрын

4:24 is this Con Edison who Kool G Rap mentioned ?

@BridgetKF

Жыл бұрын

@@omalone1169 Not that I know of. Have you heard of the Carrington Event, before?

@SuperFlashDriver

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, if you think this event is bad, just you wait until this does happen again but the entire country blacks out, not just for one day, but for an entire week. Now that would be something to watch and see what happens next, now that people's smartphone batteries may not even last long enough to withstand a week without power. But my dad's prepped for anything nowadays compared to Hurricane Sandy and the 2003 Blackout 10 to 20 years ago.

@valjohnson1927

28 күн бұрын

​@@SuperFlashDrivergood thi g I have a solar charge power bank

Now I know good and d@mn well that was NOT the honorable Alfred C. Sharpton at 19:13 🤔🤦🏽‍♀️. Somebody say it ain't so...

I Luv 🤍🖤 NYC🗽!

22:55 The Chicago Cubs were beating the NY Mets 2-1 when that dreaded blackout happened. Funny that. 😅

Lightning striking a sub station caused this much of a blackout ?

@lonniejolly5882

9 ай бұрын

Lies.

@RB01.10

9 ай бұрын

@@lonniejolly5882 That’s what the report said

I guess some things never change in the case of Con Edison lmao

Imagine this happening today

@Steel_music2024

10 ай бұрын

Americans overall have become so dependent on technology, many would be in trouble

Don’t be surprised if it happens again

4 years before I was born.

Some similarities to Durban, South Africa in 2022, LA in 1992, LA in 1965, ...

Home of summer of sam

What good is a newscast in a blackout?

@NewYorkDoll_911

Жыл бұрын

NJ and Connecticut were able to see the broadcast.Upstate NY was able to see it.

@michaelharris9203

7 ай бұрын

I had a little portable battery powered TV radio in the mid 80s. People might have had equipment like that in the 70s and therefore could watch it

Was that Al shaprton back then before National Activist days 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 in the Red tight asf Sweatsuit.

45 years later, ConEd is STILL causing blackouts!

I like to remember more "uplifting" things like when the guy climbed the World Trade Center a few weeks before.

18:18 shots during interview

@valjohnson1927

28 күн бұрын

We're they shots or firework?

😎 wow

1:02

3:36 - 3:38 "That this must never happen again"..Well sadly this did happen again 26 years later. Oof.

@ekop1778

Жыл бұрын

YEP THEY WERE WRONG AGAIN IT WAS BAD BOOOOOOOOOOOOM

It was a disaster.

@tyrese3745

Жыл бұрын

It paled comparison to the 1965 blackout, which was a lot less worse.

I never knew that there were police barracks inside the world trade center towers.

Sounds like it was done deliberately, for a realestate grab.