I lived in the village as a kid.... hung out at Manny's Cafe Wha? and the Cherry Lane Theatre.... used to swim in the fountain and go back and forth to listen to the diffenet singers. My mother played at many of the clubs as a folk singer.... I spent many an evening at the Bitter End....Izzy Young's music store was a favorite.... and Shel Silverstein's apartment was there..... lots and lots of memories...

@LeslieNY

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you have some fascinating stories! I'm writing a book about Cafe Wha? and if possible, would love to talk to you about some of your stories. If you're interested, my email is lesliefeffer (at) gmail (dot) com.

I remember as a young kid living in Belleville NJ during the 70s, listening to Jean Shepherd on WOR out of NYC. He was great! I think his last WOR show was around 77. Very fond childhood memories of listening to him.

The times reflect a different vibe, I may have been young to appreciate it. But I am forever thankful for the opportunity to enjoy the bygone era via tapes and recording(S).

Great! I grew up in the village in the mid 60's and it was a wonderful place then. WOnderful to hear Jean Shepeards voice again.

This is great to see. Although my folks are from San Francisco, they spent some time in the Village before I was born...they said it was great.

This is just as popular and open to everyone as it was then in 1960 or at any time.

By God's Grace my great uncle Maurice Van Felix (and his wife Rose) appear at 1:02 c/ his paintings. He was a member of The Salmagundi Club. Rose had been an opera singer in Europe.

@WDBDWK

2 жыл бұрын

That is amazing. That is a wonderful thing to happen.

While it lasted (until the real estate become so expensive that it chased away the people who made it what it was) it was a wonderful place and was the most unique place it could have possibly been. An island of difference in a sea of sameness. It was a wonderful time and I lived there from the time time I first came to New York in 1965 until I left about 25 years later. Great memories of a place that still exists but has been unalterably changed.

Nice time machine looking, at a time when the Village was affordable and laid back.

I love these time capsule type videos. Great history. Thanks.

Poetic little film. People being creative and free. Out of their heads and into their light. Great place and great community, this. Genuine diversity too, as opposed to what passes for the same these days. I'd have felt quite at home there and then.

Look at slowly and leisurely people walked, and all the old men wore suits, ties and hats.

@photo161

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, and the boys, a numerous group at that, were playing touch football in the street as my friends and I did every day in the autumn back in the Mid-'60s.

Thanks for the fond memories of hanging out in the mid sixties in the Village. The mish mash variety of people. I think the conglomeration of different kinds of people added to who I am.

I recall this very well in the early 60s. :)

@vladislovkyzinski3430

9 жыл бұрын

***** I like Shep's narration and the music.

@vladislovkyzinski3430

9 жыл бұрын

***** 4:50 looks like Louise Nettleton, who was married to narrator Jean Shepherd at one time.

I love this. It's refreshing.

Ahh. The way I wish it was now. I was born about 30 years too late.

Outstanding! Amazing this was filmed two years before I was born. Had a good chuckle @ 5:02 where the guy was checking out the woman's form bent over looking at the paintings.

Wow. I know who that poet is, but never realized that it was him. Excellent eye, and thanks for the comment.

Something special

The narrator, Jean Shepherd, was a brilliant radio raconteur (originally from Indiana) who I could listen to for hours in the early '60s.

@konatadraws285

8 жыл бұрын

I'm from Indiana yasssss

This is really an excellent slice of that era. I wonder if one was ever done on North Beach, in SF?

Imagine Greenwich Village 63 years before this was filmed in 1960 and you were filming this neighborhood back in 1897? It really looked like a village then but with streetcar tracks and the 6th Avenue El going thru the cenof it til th El structure ended at 59th Street and 6th Avenue.

Ted Joans ( 11:02 ) would say when asked to participate in a free reading "No bread no Ted!" Love it.

My Favorite place in the city many a musician i have met there and i have jammed with many. Well it hasn't changed at all. I hope NYU leaves it alone.

My (then) wife and I lived on Carmine Street from 1977 until about 1983 in a tiny apartment that only twenty-somethings could find romantic. At least we could afford it. I haven't any idea how young people today (2023) who want to live in the Village could swing the rents. They'd have to "come from money" to begin with or have a high-paying job in tech or the professions or finance. A couple today replicating the situation Kathy and I were in -- working low-wage jobs and having working class parents who simply couldn't contribute much to their bohemian offspring -- could NEVER afford to live there. Very sad. I guess I was at the every end of an era where kids with modest means could make a successful go of it in the Village. That time has totally evaporated.

The Village will go down as one of the hippest places in the universe at a certain time in the PAST. It was hip in 1960, but what was right around the corner as the real cultural revolution of the 60s kicked in, would be astonishing.

Yes we lost so much! But it is time for New Yorkers to take back what belongs to them. New Yorkers are moving out and we should just say no we will not go! Bring back the traditons that we have lost!

1:03 New York Italian Ices !!

What a gem thanks,gonna look up those musos from the credits. Anyone identify the poet/rapper at the end?

around 1966-67 don't know which, I saw Jose Felicianno sing/play at the Gaslight there and no one clapped until I DID? THEY HAD NO IDEA Of who was this young and magnificent man.......then on the way out, I saw Bob Dylan get out of a cab....wonderful.

@RainbowZen999

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing that.

How much of Greenwich Village from this 1960 film remains today in 2020?

@johnmcmahon5225

3 жыл бұрын

Featured Washington Square Park, which had cars driving through it until 1959, is still there and is still quite lovely. The people are all different though, because that's what happens after sixty years pass.

@rudolphguarnacci197

2 жыл бұрын

A lot. Hope you get a chance to see it.

I dig!

very nice, nice, nice...avoid the guy selling the parsley in the tinfoil, though.

7:29 Jean Shepherd's pronunciation of "bocce" as "boat-chuh" adds a whole new layer of meaning to this famous scene: kzread.info/dash/bejne/noZmm9yxoryYfLA.html

@lindajgaeta8935

4 жыл бұрын

and followed about 6 or 7 more!

He WROTE the Christmas Story.

i've lived in the village since 1975. it's still pretty cool, but not nearly like it was. this was a dlightful film, and it even showed the block where i live! one note: the norther termini of san gennaro festival (along mulberry street) and festa st. anthony (along thompson street) is houston street, which is the southern border of the village. but festa our lady of pompeii runs along carmine street from 7th avenue to 6th avenue right here in the village.

@rudolphguarnacci197

2 жыл бұрын

St. Anthony's Feast is on Sullivan Street, one block west of Thompson Street.

Yup, i moved to Williamsburg and now its becoming the same....

@luislaplume8261

2 жыл бұрын

As a New Yorker I know what you mean.To all others he means Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Which once was it's own city in the mid to late 1800s. One of actress Barbara Eden ancestors was a horse car driver who worked for local streetcar company there.

He spelled his first name "LeRoi." Anyway, 75gasser's eye was not so excellent. The poet at the end was not Jones. Thanks, though, for this now nostalgic look back at a special era in the Village.

75 gasser is close but not corrrect. The beat poet was Ted Joans,who is actually mentioned in the credits. Google him. Bob Yellin can be seen playing banjo earlier. Dan

I kept looking around for Llewyn Davis but I didn't see him...

New York City is still good. Its going bad, but still good.

I thank you for posting this, but I have to say that, as a former resident of the Lower East Side, the Village stopped being too cool a long time ago. I'm sure those who live there currently see it differently, but bohemia in NYC has moved to Brooklyn, and even there it's largely populated by trust-fund kids with barely an idea to offer. Bohemia itself it largely a thing of the past. Paint-by-numbers hipsterism is another matter entirely.

Anyone know what the song is at 2:50, Leadbelly/Woody Guthrie type thing.

5:02 There people already had a fixation with that female part .... 🙂

waaw! hay uno q lleva una guitarra española xD buenisimo

Shep Lives

Anybody remember drummer Gil Rogers from those days? His son is desperately seeking info.

6:53 I wish they still had the gas lights

@luislaplume8261

3 жыл бұрын

I am glad that I witnessed the beatnik and hippie at least you could have a conversation then.Now don't talk you might offend someone's feelings.Cancel the cancel culture and political correctness!

@rudolphguarnacci197

2 жыл бұрын

There are still some left. Visit Commerce Street off Bedford Street before you hit Barrow Street. Right where it curves in front of the restaurant. There are others, too, i just can't remember exactly where.

I like the 1950's and early 60's, prior to Vietnam war escalation, hippies and counterculture. As we can see in this movie, even bohemians then were cultural, they were not raging maniacs like today. Beatniks were part of 50's. Of course I am for racial equality and gay rights, but WE NOW HAVE THAT, WHAT WE NEED NOW ARE SOCIAL ETIQUETTE OF 1950's. I feel nostalgia for this times. Beatniks were part of that mentality. They were not crazy as hippies.

@Lisa-sk8ni

6 ай бұрын

Incorrect. The beatniks were the precursors to the hippies. Allen Ginsburg was a hippie. Neal Cassidy was a hippie. All the older hippies of the late 60s started out as beatniks. Same ideas. Same politics. Same views of the world. Jack Kerouac was all about peace and love.

@user-ne3yw2cu6c

6 ай бұрын

LSD rewired American's brains in 1969... I was 15 years old, paid 50 cents for a Tab of "Orange Sunshine" in Junior High, I'm 69 today. The CIA plan was to make us into raving maniac which they succeeded by altering our genetics. Now those chemicals are being passed down through every generation.

Ironic sarcasm passes for "hip" these days..hipster kids seem to see the world purely as a frame of reference to goof on; example:they go to Burger King, but they make snide remarks about everyone else there. It's a pose, not an arguement or a true counter-culture.

Great video. America is so boring now and that's why we are falling behind the rest of the world. Travel and see how most of America is like a third world country.

@ironduke2000 Well, there are no more bohemians today for a reason. During North Beach-Greenwich Village most of these guys were poor, disgruntled and hated society's forced conformity because of what the conformity held. Since Haight Ashbury-East Village, Bohemians got welfare as well as lots of popularity. So it became cool. Honestly, the closest thing to bohemians (and still aren't) are disgruntled mental patients, Autistic kids and the depressed.

Someone please remove the recorder player.

zzzzzzz

Yes, but 'twas a fecund madness.