Here are American Teens just a few years later - kzread.info/dash/bejne/aIyjvLqHkpmYpNY.html

@chuckufarlie8215

Жыл бұрын

Earlier. Three years prior.

@Google_Does_Evil_Now

Жыл бұрын

5:58 "what do you want to do? "I just wanna have a good time" Is that from that famous song? Did it inspire the line in the movie? kzread.info/dash/bejne/nGZtmZmRmKixiNo.html

@pkd.81

Жыл бұрын

1967 > 1964. Guess you dropped too much acid back then, rabbi.

@adamallison2028

Жыл бұрын

Do you know if he ever became a social worker?

@CobCeo

Жыл бұрын

I love everything you do David. Or have done I should say. I had no idea how cool you were until this latest few you've been letting out. You were on the cusp of things. It's funny how when we get older nobody knows how cool we were when we were younger. I'm saying this from experience of course.

I think people have been looking for the same thing for a long time now. The sentiments these kids express may not sound at first like the youth of today, but I believe we all want a place to congregate and just exist and play. Loneliness and misunderstanding is multi generational

@AFfidel

Жыл бұрын

depends on the society you live in.

@Mo-yd8xc

Жыл бұрын

Today it's called the mall.

@JWF99

Жыл бұрын

I would guess these days a lot of runaways & homelessness is due to extreme & powerful addictions?

@prouddegenerates9056

Жыл бұрын

@@Mo-yd8xc gross

@highstrangeness1824

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. That's what mankind yearns for anyways. A lot of the demonic dark energies here today.

I wish there was a place for youth to mingle today. So many of us are trapped in our parents' isolated suburban homes, with no option to connect unless its online. I truly believe we would leave our rooms/houses more if it was truly practical and if the spaces existed. Now you get kicked out for loitering and kids are simply untrained to be social. "Remember kids, school isn't for making friends, its for working your a55 off to get into a good uni." Then school disappears and we have no where to meet anyone but online. And it works. So we don't feel the desire to leave our bedrooms. There's never "nothing to do" these days with the weight of the world's information on your shoulders. Thank you ❤

@lauriesolis1074

Жыл бұрын

That is so true. I remember in the 90s when coffee houses were a thing we had bands play ( mostly alternative mellow rock) and the cops where I live started shutting them down. Mind, there was never a problem. We sat and drank coffee for god's sake. But they just didn't want youth congregating.

@Vic-we7ep

Жыл бұрын

I can confirm, feels like my generation is not social

@ofangelsflipz

Жыл бұрын

​@@lauriesolis1074 same here, when I was in school, there was 100 things we go do and have fun just walking to from school. Now?? Now? Shiiiet. I don't even see people doing anything anymore.

@charlotteb6898

Жыл бұрын

Works completely different to home life and University as well. They're not prepared for it they used to do two weeks work experience which gave employers a chance to meet them I don't know what they do now.

@chrisc7265

Жыл бұрын

I feel this, but it's on us to make the effort --- join or start in person clubs, bands, sports, churches, projects, whatever the system wants us atomized, alone, communicating via social media that makes sure we think and act in the correct manner. If we wait for a global change it's not going to happen, but we have control of our lives locally.

4:11 the person with the guitar in the background is playing Alice's Restaurant, which came out on record two months prior to this interview. I grew up with that song during the 2000s, and it's so cool to hear someone playing it contemporaneously

@theproblemmustbeinyourpant5910

Жыл бұрын

Not exactly the easiest song for a teenager to transcribe two months after its release either, particually with their limited resources compared to today.

I was a teenage runaway in the mid 80’s… while the lingo/vernacular/60’s teen-patois might’ve been different, we were also pondering the same kinds of themes such as self-discovery, family dysfunction, miscommunication or familial impasses, survival, cops (lol). So wishing we knew what the future looked like for the group portrayed in your video! Your channel is an absolute treasure trove of Americana history, especially when it comes to counter culture, socioeconomics, race, religion… I could go on and on. Thanks so much for sharing such fascinating content!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment… And the support. David Hoffman filmmaker

@juliana.x0x0

Жыл бұрын

Wow I wanted to comment but you really said it better than I ever could. I was a runaway/vagrant for years in the 2010's but the same issues have remained, bringing all the street kids together with a shared sort of turmoil, or unrest.

@Biface

Жыл бұрын

Figuring out your surroundings is not limited to an era in time. As long as we have the same problems we will have the same reactions over generations, regardless if we perceive them as "new".

I was homeless in my teens, including in NYC. We had a pretty decent community of streetkids/youth that would meet up in the mornings in Thomson Square Park, go out to our respective panning spots, and then recongregate at the end of the day before heading out to wherever we hid ourselves away to sleep (for me and a few others, it was on the courtyard grass of a church not too far from Stuyvesant park, behind a gate we would climb over). While most of them were a little closed off to outsiders, they were smart, resourceful, kind and looked out for each other.

@FlukeTog

Жыл бұрын

Tompkins Class of 95-01 hope you’re well.

@lorenfulghum2393

Жыл бұрын

Was everyone on Heroin? Because that's how it was in Tompkins in 2009-2010 when I was homeless there.

@FlukeTog

Жыл бұрын

@@lorenfulghum2393 Jim, Frenchie, slug, Susan, hotdog, swamie. Backpack Steve, so many nicknames so many stories. Dawn was nice hope she made it out.

@sophiophile

Жыл бұрын

@@lorenfulghum2393 Yeah. Basically everyone. And a lot of needle sharing, unsterile water, etc. I came from a city where harm reduction outreach and supply access was incredibly strong (Toronto), so it was a bit of a surprise to see when I first got there (not all the down, but the unsafe approaches).

@lorenfulghum2393

Жыл бұрын

@@sophiophile by 2010 the harm reduction had gotten a little better. There were several reliable places to get free works, but honestly a lot of the tompkins crowd just didnt seem to care, they seemed fine with the puddle water, sadly.

you have one of the coolest youtube channels man

@JWF99

Жыл бұрын

Hell yea! He does! ✌

@musicjeffyoung

Жыл бұрын

It is great🍻

@jmoya2001

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 👍 I give it ten thumbs up

@jeffreyfeinstein5525

Жыл бұрын

"...ditto! AMEN"

@HavendaleBlvd80

Жыл бұрын

100%.

I love the attitude of the young man at the end who came to the coffeehouse with a goal in life to be a social worker I hope he had fulfilled his dreams and not let the system and red tape get him down in life.

@cocoaorange1

Жыл бұрын

I do too, if he is still living, hope he is a happy grandpa today.

“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” I was hugging my little boy earlier tonight and that line went through my head. I don’t even know how I ended up watching this clip tonight but it was cool to hear the young poet say it.

@robertraymond762

Жыл бұрын

Is that "I am the Walrus?"

@robertraymond762

Жыл бұрын

Ope, nevermind. Hadn't watched the entire video yet, haha.

@richiecuna5781

Жыл бұрын

its a form of collective thinking but thats nuts cause of the time diffrence so idk but idk

@elizabethhawkins2415

Жыл бұрын

@@richiecuna5781 you mean the quote is a form of collective thinking (like “we are all one?”) or did you mean something else? It is crazy/awesome to me because my parents are about his age so I listened to all of their Beatles records growing up. And so I was hugging him thinking about how it’s sad someday we won’t be together, and that’s what made the line come into my head. Maybe it doesn’t apply exactly as it was intended to. But yeah, like 56 years, to hear not only the line (because that wouldn’t be a big coincidence) but this kid finding it meaningful and sharing it- wow.

@richiecuna5781

Жыл бұрын

@@elizabethhawkins2415 like as in it was seen and thought of and somehow got to you yeah im nuts

these type of people still exist. teens are still intelligent. culture is still out there. trashing on a younger generation because of your disconnect from them is literally what these people were talking bad about.

@scythermantis

Жыл бұрын

Maybe skate culture but structurally the spaces are gone maybe it isn't trashing it's pity

@princegobi5992

Жыл бұрын

@@scythermantis you’re wrong. There are so many spaces for creative youth. You just have to interact in real lifr

@gavinvalentino6002

Жыл бұрын

You're talking about maybe 5% of the "younger generation" now. The other 95% rely on their smartphones to think for them, and I'm not beibg ironic. Smartphones are the current generation's valid excuse to not expend the effort required to feed intelligence. And those same youngsters have been absolutely conditioned to believe that one's only real validation comes from the approval of strangers in the virtual world of "look at me" on a screen in the palm if a hand. They have no ideas how truly empty their lives are, because they can't relate to the actual immersive REALITY of pre-Internet life.

@biegebythesea6775

Жыл бұрын

@@gavinvalentino6002 uh no. that's so ignorant. they're very smart kids today, they're very aware of many things and very intelligent. having smart phones doesn't mean your culture is 'look at me' but it means you have access to resources none of us had access to - so many books, papers, tutorials. you sound like a man without a phone. you need to stop projecting. you have no idea if their lives are empty or not.

@yellowgreymorals

Жыл бұрын

@@gavinvalentino6002 What you’re saying is true, but highly exaggerated.

As a young guy today, i swiftly caught on to the fact that these young people were more articulate and better speakers, i think this is a consequence of people spending less time talking and socializing today, people who socialize today take breaks every 5 minutes to look at their cellphones, but when they are taken out of the equation, you have an easier time learning to be thoughtful and hold up a conversation, when the only thing you can look at is other peoples faces. This is only a general observation though, there are ofcourse alot of young people today still being very much social, and have no problem having meaningful conversations instead of being a technology addict, but today it's a conscious decision that may take effort. Btw im danish, so sorry if i misspelt something.

Your channel makes me worry less about all the things we're supposed to be worrying about

In ‘67 my dad was 16. He grew up in El Paso,TX and was definitely a hippie. I’m sure him and his friends were a lot like these kids. Looking for answers. My dad is artistically inclined and can draw and paint. I even have one of his paintings hanging in my bedroom. He also shared his love of music with me although I’m not gifted at it I can’t live without it!

I love listening to the way young folks talked in this era because you can really tell people thought as they spoke and were very mindful of their ideas, you can hear it in their voice.

Whoa….these kids are in their 70-80’s now. Wow. Time is so short. 🤯

@russellharrell2747

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure they did a lot of living in the 5 or so decades since they were filmed.

What I like the most about the people from the 60's and 70's is the way they speak, it's so easy to understand and articulated.

@low-keyrighteous9575

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@benjaminteisan7355

Жыл бұрын

everybody sounds like paul simon…

@cupuacu4life13

Жыл бұрын

i feel the same about portuguese of that era

@yum8666

Жыл бұрын

@@guffmuff90 Oh they read. Books don't teach you how to speak though. The problem these days is that schools don't care about what you have to say. There is no discussions in school anymore over what was read just test on what was read. Kids are losing their voice and that's probably why they are so anxious and dependent these days.

@sorrymomimfloppy7117

Жыл бұрын

Yep, kids used to read and not speak stupid slang like sus or constantly saying SHEEEEESH or some dumb shit 😂

That guy playing in the background sounds just like I did back then .. love the folk music, finger picking style .. boy do I miss those days .. we're all in our 70s and 80s now..

I was born in 1994 and it's amazing learning about the attitudes, hardships, hopes and joys people had in times past. I've learned a lot from your videos and appreciate you sharing these candid shots with the world. I hope to keep learning and showing how things were to my children as well. My oldest is 9 years old and often asks if you've posted more content to watch together. Much love from Boise, Idaho.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comments. I would love you to set up a tripod and record a video of your son and you watching one of my videos. Maybe talking about it. Any chance of that? David Hoffman filmmaker

@OCDGeek128

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, you had your first kid at 19 then?

@erinmcdonald7781

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker That is such a great idea! I wish I'd thought about it before my son graduated and is now in Oregon. I think both of us found you at the same time on YT, and in turn, brought up our discovery. He came from the perspective of a teenager who'd found someone of another generation who really understood people and made cool videos about different times and places. I told him you were a filmmaker that I remembered as making insightful documentaries that impressed me. I know he's watched this, but this would be one of those pieces we really could've commented on together, especially since there's been one particular media trend that was putting kids down, saying they didn't want to work, etc. Your work in capturing humanity and history is priceless, David. Thank you! 💜🌎✌️😎🍀

@Gooieduck1224

Жыл бұрын

Eyyy 94 crew

@alienvomitsex

Жыл бұрын

​@@OCDGeek128 double income no kids life ftw

I'm moved to such emotion listening to these children, these teens, saying what's on their minds. You did a great job recording thoughts and realities in real time. I'm loving listening to the different accents too. That girl with the dark hair has such an accent that nowadays people can only try to replicate

@vitesse_arnhem

Жыл бұрын

It’s true. We can try to clone an English, Scottish, Aussie accent without much issue, but a Sixties American accent is damn hard.

@CobCeo

Жыл бұрын

@@vitesse_arnhem The brooklyn accent I think it is, its a NY accent. People do imitate it well, but I think the average person you stop on the street there in NY would not have such a strong accent now as compared to then is what I mean.

It’s fun seeing teens from back in the day. Nothing is new under the sun (coming from a teen)❤️

It's wild to hear the teen at 2:58 referencing Arlo Guthrie's song Alice's Restaurant, considering this is the year that it was recorded! I know that's only a small part of what you've captured here, but still, thank you for documenting that little piece of culture in the time in which it was created.

@JillKnapp

Жыл бұрын

You can hear someone playing it on the guitar too. Love it.

@jamesfetherston1190

Жыл бұрын

It's an ragged blues line, you can hear it on some old Piedmont style blues tunes. Arlo borrowed it

@bearhall4919

Жыл бұрын

Did you not hear someone playing the Alice Guitar riff at around 4:30?

@jamesfetherston1190

Жыл бұрын

@@bearhall4919 The riff in question pre-dates Arlo's tune by decades.

@shoechew

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesfetherston1190 OK So what?

It will be a shame to see real life community and communion disappear. Social media has a lot of downsides. Learning how to really connect with humans in the physical is most important. I’m sure people wrote a lot about these concerns before but I remain skeptical of anyone getting through to most children. I don’t know how to say it. I think social media is addicting and a hard habit to break especially if you don’t know any better.

@jordangordan8980

Жыл бұрын

Our society today is but a shattered shell of what you see in this video. The way of our world today leaves even less room for American youth to grow in ways that don't souly involve money or production. This video does represent the youth now, but without the last 55 years of decay added onto our minds. - JS (1996)

@StellaBlueMama

Жыл бұрын

Now we have social media addicted parents, who are watching screens instead of interacting. Raising kids entirely on screens, so they can look at theirs.

@unknown6390

Жыл бұрын

Consider also the takeover of roads, streets, highways and the car-centric society America has become due to industry. How can you go outside, walk to a friends house, or to the store in a place where 9/10ths of the neighborhoods are big ugly asphalt lanes for cars to occupy?

@crossedpolars

Жыл бұрын

There will be no social spaces. That's valuable real estate that some landlord or developer can use to extract value from workers. Worker drones exist to enrich the upper classes. Capitalism is getting more efficient year on year at moving any excess money up the pyramid.

@Lexster918

Жыл бұрын

@@unknown6390 in some cities in the US it’s too dangerous to walk around. I’d rather drive. LA is a mess.

Thanks for sharing David. I was born 30 years after you spoke to these people, yet I share a lot of the same ideals and thought patterns. It’s almost comforting knowing we relate more than we differ across generations.

David you have lived a very interesting life! Thank you for recording it and sharing it.

I was a year old then. It's hard to think that a lot of these kids are in their late 70s now. So, if they were 20, they're 76 or older. Great video... they were all so young.

What’s so striking about this is how well spoken, and articulate they are. They take the time to pronounce every word they speak. You don’t hear that from people anymore.

@CampingforCool41

Жыл бұрын

Languages change how they sound throughout history. It has nothing to do with level of intelligence how things are pronounced.

@ayushgaurincredible

11 ай бұрын

Yeah ! I can't speak more than 3 or 4 words in a single sentence 😂

This is beautiful. Brings back alotta Tompkins Square memories. Thanks for sharing

Interesting to see how views in different decades change. Thank you for preserving all of this footage!

Truly fascinating, parallels the minds of today just in a different way. But the struggle is the same. I love the editing work on this as well. Awesome, you did a terrific job encapsulating this specific experience.

1967 - The year I graduated from La Jolla High. I feel so privileged to have lived in that America in its final decades. We'll never get it back. I didn't get to NYC until 1969. Truly a magical time and yes... I also finger-picked that Arlo Guthrie tune... didn't we all? Finally bumped into him at the Caffe Lena in 1972. Such great memories.

This is immensely touching. Thank you so much for sharing.

Thank you for sharing your films :)

Mr Hoffman, I don't watch all your videos, but I've been subscribed to you for several years now, I believe. I just want to give you credit for all these amazing interviews, recordings, footages- essentially memories of the souls that once were. Thank you for doing all of these, and I'm very happy you are sharing them online for everyone to experience a time before.

I love watching these films and learning more about where people are coming from. I really enjoyed listening to this older music back in my youth and often connected in my early 20's with older people who would have been about this age back then. It was great to talk to them and get their insights. I would love to see where these people are now.

So much history. I'm glad there are people like you that archive life as it was at that time, among other times and places.

Can't get enough of your channel David. Fascinating. Thank you for your work then and now. ~ Scott

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Жыл бұрын

Scott. Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that KZread is testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

So sad how so many other agendas push us away from this human need to create, to experience, to meet, to sew, for variety, newness, change, and love. The guy talking about materialism amd it's changes is so right. Somehow it feels so fitting that house of the rising sun was playing I'm the back

Excellently filmed and edited. There was no cookie cutter answer with them. I hope they all did well or are doing well. As they girl at 1:35 said, just searching for themselves. Something that can't easily be done in a home that doesn't understand the generation. I feel for them.

The audio sounds real nice on this, like wow. You do it best for video and audio Mr. Hoffman. Thanks for sharing this video from the past 1967. 🎞️🎥🙏🙂

@justinflownow

Жыл бұрын

Yes the audio quality on your videos is top notch.

Your video contributions are superb. I never miss your posts. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed it!

That song and his delivery was just beautiful ❤😭

Born and raised in New York

@keithkaiman922

Жыл бұрын

It's funny because I lived in NYC in the 80's and everyone told me, "You should have been here in the 70's.

@StephaneVorstellung

Жыл бұрын

And though I've visited NYC numerous times, I've never wanted to live there. When friends suggest I move to the city with them, they, assuming my reservations were about crime/living conditions, they say: "don't worry, it's nothing like it was in 70s and 80s."

@lightoffaithchristian4382

Жыл бұрын

@@StephaneVorstellung I have to say that the 90’s were the best because it was the safest ❤️🙏thanks to Rudy Juliani and pre 9/11. Wonderful time to grow up as a kid

@senglomein5766

Жыл бұрын

@@keithkaiman922 I live here now, and wish it was more like the 90s.

Man these videos, amazing archives you have. No one was walking around with cameras in those days!

Enjoyed that! Thank you for posting. The song toward the end was touching. I can't help but wonder what happened to these kids...and what they truly found over the course of their lives.

very interesting, I was born in 2003 but the atmosphere I pick up from 60’s footage is always very thought provoking. Thanks for this video david.

Somehow with much less access to information, they seem significantly more intelligent. These “street” teens look more well put together than a lot of average folks these days.

@theproblemmustbeinyourpant5910

Жыл бұрын

Because you had to have a thirst for knowlege to learn. Today infomation is spoonfed to us, there is no struggle to get it which weakens the mind.

@BVi-vl3pg

Жыл бұрын

“Somehow” L O L

This channel is awesome. Thank you for documenting history!

To those judging today's teenagers, if you open your mind and actually care enough to listen to them you'll find a lot of them have similar mindsets. Trashing on new generations is a tale as old as time and starting to do it is a big sign you're getting old, to be honest. Lovely video by the way!

@adrianghandtchi1562

Жыл бұрын

Right on. I was part of those people who did that because I just did not understand, but you can only dismiss people for so long.

@Dreamfyre_

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@leahtv7778

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but getting old is AWESOME

@aha-mv2si

Жыл бұрын

Thank You.

@joha4574

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but it's also not a satisfying argument to simply point out that something is a pattern that runs throughout history and must, therefore, be somehow "good." For example, when some of the old greek philosophers in 5th century Athens were hating on younger generations, our distanced perspective shows that they were rightfully pointing out first signs of developments in society that ultimately let to Athens relentless imperialism, which was a major cause for the breakout of the Peloponnesian War that, ultimately, destroyed much of Athens cultural life and prosperity - a defeat from which it never recovered after it lost the battle at Sicily. There are many other periods where young generations collectively developed movements that drove out terrible wars, stirred hatred against minorities, or established religions in ways that destroyed freedom and culture. I'm not trying to imply that this is necessarily the case with today's young generations, but it should remind us that there are times when it is warranted to criticise the thinking of doing of younger generations. Besides, the digitalisation, and the resulting shift in how information is shared and accessed, introduce unprecedented changes is society which is why it might be more important than ever to stay critical and expect shifts in thinking and behaviour that cannot be anticipated by simply looking at the past. Some of them might be great, but we cannot know for certain how any of this will restructure our world.

You Sir David surely must've always had a very real "knack/talent" in documentary film making! Just plain Awesome! Plus it probably didn't hurt that you were there in those early days (in retrospect a seemingly perfect time historically) at least imho! Also I love that in the description you payed homage to Chris Wilson's life, music, & his ch. Thanks again David! This one is so interesting!✌

Hearing dylan and arlo songs being played in the background really made this!

Thanks so much for posting this ❤

Thank you so much for this.

Fascinating. Love those regional accents, especially that 14-year-old Laura Nyro-looking girl at 8:47.

@georgesempepos9677

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, I was growing up in NY at that time, and her accent was pretty typical for most teens in NYC. And it was much more typical even in mass media- most comics and character actors had a similar accent, it would not have occurred to us that it was a regional accent, we were being provincial, but maybe New Yorkers kind of set the tone for U.S. mass culture back then more than today...

David Hoffman with young people 1967 NYC appreciate your videos Listening 🌼 From Mass USA TYVM 🇺🇸 David Blessings for everyone ♥

What a great video!! Thank you for sharing it!!!

Thank you for sharing this. I’m excited to see more of your work from the archive.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the support. David Hoffman filmmaker

It’s comforting to know that no matter how times change, teenagers still do teenage shit. (both good and bad)

It just proves that human beings need community even the ones that choose to give up everything they own they will not give up the community people need to come together more and they’ll be happy. Separation of people is always been a bad thing.

@user-ux3vw6mb4k

9 ай бұрын

This!!!

This channel is a gold mine.

Wow ! This is so shocking and sad at the same time and in so many ways💔 As usual thank you for sharing , your treasures with all of us Mr. Hoffman🙏🏻

They all sound like adult New Yorkers and now they’re parents, grandparents, and great parents

If only we had several updates on all these people. Look at now attractive and clean they all looked, and some were on there own (or did I get that wrong?)?! Thanks for another great tape. I found you when I saw the old tapes of Edwin and the other Maine head-bangers. I loved that, and was so happy when you gave us updates on these people!

BEAUTIFUL. I didn't know there were so many Runaways back then, So much trauma. I hope we can do something to heal the old mistakes.

The clothing, the style, the accents, the vintage look. All so cool

I love this. Thank you for sharing. Somehow, filled me with joy and great to see this kind of interactions

HOLY MOLY I HAVE WATCHED YOUR ORIGINAL RUNAWAY TEENS VIDEO SO MANY TIMES AND SHOW IT TO ALL MY FAVORITE PEOPLE. SUCH AN AMAZING GIFT TO HAVE YOU OFFER US THIS NEW CLIP!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your enthusiasm and your complement and for sharing my film with your favorite people. David Hoffman filmmaker

Thanks David, another gem of the past 🤙🏼

Wonderful articulate young people. I hope some of them are still alive and happy.

I enjoyed this video; I was born in Brooklyn NY 1961 and was 6yr olds during the filming of this video. Kids back then paid more attention to adults didn't have all this technology and knew how to interact with each other than today's youths, sadly, and were very polite back then. I miss those days.

Always enjoy your uploads. Hope had a Great weekend 🙌

Always loved your recordings David!

Wow Mr. H, footage is incredible! I can't believe it survived. Good audio too. Fascinating.

Crazy…. the kids in this video are my dad’s age. I’m sure it seems like just a blink of an eye ago. Would be amazing if anyone’s kids or grandkids recognize them in this!! So thoughtful and forward thinking of you to record all of this!

Wow. These kids are in their late 60s and 70s now.....

hearing the house of the rising sun riff in the background of the clip of the guy who wanted to be a singer was so moving, that song had the same meaning for those kids back then as it does for me now as an nyc teen in 2023

Hey David. My mom grew up in the Bronx and was a teenager when this was filmed. She left NYC soon after. Take care.

New Yorkers were once considered 'friendly' - wow! 😮

Thos reminds me a lot of the german documentary "Herbst der Gammler" (Autumn of the Bums) by the wonderful german filmmaker Peter Fleischmann who died recently unfortunately. If you speak german I strongly recommend watching it. Cheers from Munich (where this film was shot bt). Great material here, too!

This is a beautiful video, and has some mystical and haunting vibe

i watch this video whenever i feel lost. these kids were born in a completely different era and world then me yet, i relate to them more then anything. Thank you for sharing this with us

Very cool footage. In 1976 I hung out in a very interesting part of Northeast Ohio where it was a bunch of hippies and they had an actual beatnik coffee house with poetry readings and folk music acts

@heidih3048

Жыл бұрын

I lived in NE OH for years. Just curious what town this was?

I was a 17 year old street kid and an orphan in 1970. The Judge told me to join the Marines or he would send me to jail for a year.. He saved my life.

@clifford7594

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1970? I take it you opted for jail.

@MA_808

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@@clifford7594 Good point, that damn Democrat LBJ and his damn democrats in Congress killed tens of thousands of Americans and Vietnamese and Chinese on the battlefield with their vote to go to war and stay out of it. I wont forget, either. Thanks for the reminder, Clifford! FLBJ

@justinflownow

Жыл бұрын

Geez the MARINES? That's the hardest part of the military? You couldn't go into the Army?

@biegebythesea6775

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how come you were a street kid?

@allycakess

Жыл бұрын

Do I know you? LOL you sound extremely similar to my mom’s ex boyfriend. Did you grow up in Boston by chance?

Wow! So well spoken.

Thank you for sharing this!

@SliceFury

Жыл бұрын

you right bout that, yo

@melaniesmith9849

Жыл бұрын

@@SliceFury - you’re incredibly sexy, and have great taste, too

this is amazing

The song the one kid sang is haunting and beautiful.

❤ it when they are passing the match around... for the children, for the future! We need more places like this today specially in the city.. thanks for this

wait are these the same kids from the runaway video? I really liked both of those videos. I’ve had a fascination with the 60s and 70s for a good couple of years now, and i always loved how people talked back then. as a shy kid, I’d like to take inspiration from these well spoken young people! 😊

@paranoidplane9799

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Love your thumbnail man, huge Dylan fan myself. Definitely a cool cat.

@africanwilddog6685

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@@paranoidplane9799 hahaha thank you!! funny you’re the first one to recognize him! :D

same frustration, lack of direction, and apathy that the youth have today. They were a novelty back then, now it's the norm.

@badmen1550

Жыл бұрын

Late-stage modernity.

Love the ending of this Video. Absolutely beautiful performance by the guy with the glasses. I remember seeing this footage on another channel before or maybe it was on your channel actually and you just reuploaded it maybe? Anyways great video

We used to have a hang out spot back in the 90s. It was always full of fun people and music. All we did was talk, eat and laugh. I feel bad for kids today, they'll never have that.

Haven’t watched you for awhile. Good to know you’re still around. A wise man you are. A person I’d love to sit with on a bench and talk about things. The documentary, we all think we’re so aware and relevant. Life kicks our ass and puts us in our place. We live god willing and we hopefully do good and are humbled. Life is pretty local and we effect little.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

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I do not disagree with much of what you have written but I do disagree that we effect very little. We in fact effect plenty when we do our best. David Hoffman filmmaker

@optimisticfuture6808

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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker thank you David. I can’t disagree. In the context we do effect but often in ways we don’t realize. It’s a great thing you’re doing preserving these small pieces of personal history. What a gift KZread and others like it to share these things with persons.

@optimisticfuture6808

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Is there a way to reach you via email?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

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my office email is allinaday@aol.com. David Hoffman Filmmaker

this is wholesome af compared to today

Those guys were SLICK . they knew how to Talk 🔥🔥🔥 ❌📱❌ This Channel is a such a Treasure. Thank you David Hoffman for taking the time to document these moments, you were truly on the front lines of History 😎

You just keep doing it again and again. IE: make incredible videos.

I hope some of the people who were in this video find this and watch it now.

Thank you for this. I see people who are young, scared and trying to make do with what they have, which is one of those things that transcends the ages. The clothes and lingo may have changed , but the spirit of what it is remains the same. Makes me wonder what happened to all these people, a lot of them would be probably in their late 60s to 70s by about now. These are just some of the baby boomers. I am 30 years old, I may feel like I am disconnected from people that are younger than me, but I feel like in the same retrospect I am disconnected from the people older than me. The cyclical nature of things, is fascinating. And just like it, the tradition of people dunking on other people they don’t understand continues as much, myself for a while included, I hope it’s not too late though to continue to connect. Some of the people in this comment section have a very rosy colored glass of what people were before and what they are now, yet there are so many things that get left out from the experience, because we’re only seeing a small part of it, nostalgia is a funny thing, it praises the small moments, yet erases the pain on why we anted to leave it behind. I’m grateful that the newer generations have a lot more access and transparency than what we had before.

this is a gem. very prolific.

Fascinating. These kids are smart, eloquent and you can see that they had to grow up quicker. Times were hard but there are new challenges facing young people today, such as heavy atomisation via social media, everyone glued to their phones and stuff. But the same old issues exist: boredom, alienation, drugs, casual violence, abuse, a gap in generational understanding and a combination of any of these things can really f*ck a kid up. I know this first hand. However, I see a lot of great aspects in the up and coming generations. There are always kids that are trying to be switched on or to find new ways and we should always try to understand them and sympathise with them.6 Thanks, as always, David Hoffman - your archives offer invaluable insights.