Stan Lee - Growing up during the Depression in New York (1/42)
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The creative genius of US writer Stan Lee (1922-2018) generated 'Spider Man', 'X-Men', 'The Hulk' and other complex characters. Marvel Comics with Lee at the helm became hugely successful. In January 2011, Lee received the 2428th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [Listener: Leo Bear: date recorded: 2006].
TRANSCRIPT: December 28th was a very important date for me, in the year 1922. That's when I was born, on the west side of Manhattan, on 98th Street and West End Avenue. I'm sorry I can't remember any more about my birth, but the next thing I remember I was about five or six years old, and... my parents used to like to take photographs of me. They didn't have a camera but there were always people in the neighborhood - professional photographers. I think you'd pay them a dime at that time, and they… they would have a little pony with them, and they'd put the little kid on the pony, and take his photo, and give the photo to the mother. So I have... I seem to remember I had more photos of myself taken on ponies, and she would sometimes dress me in a sailor suit or something and take pictures of me. I think she wanted me to be an actor, I'm not sure. But anyway, I had a fairly normal childhood, I guess. We didn't have any money. It was during the Depression. My father who, was a great guy but he had trouble getting a job, and so he was unemployed most of the time. My earliest memories are just him sitting home reading the want ads in the newspaper, time and again. He had been a dress cutter, and there were just no jobs apparently for dress cutters.
So we lived... after a while we moved to, I think, the Bronx in New York, and... It was funny because I remember that the... we lived in a little apartment house on University Avenue and 175th Street, and the women in those days - the mothers - would have little wooden folding chairs, and they'd come outside with their children, and they would all sit in front of the building on their little folding chairs, and talk to each other and gossip while they were watching the children play. And when I think back, it was very strange 'cause, when I was eight, nine, 10 years old, whatever it was, I used to roller skate and ride a bike, and we never wore helmets or knee pads or elbow things or... we just rode our bikes, and we skated. And if we fell, we bruised ourselves and put some bandage on, and went back and skated some more. When I see people today riding a bicycle with these dumb-looking helmets, and kids roller skating covered up with things that... every part of their body is covered up so that, no matter where they fall, that part is protected, it's just very funny to me. We also played... we played hockey in the street when the traffic wasn't there. We played hockey on roller skates, and on the side street which had very little traffic we chose up teams, and we were always skating back and forth, and hitting the puck. And there would be somebody stationed at the top of the street so if a car came, he'd yell ‘Hey hey! Car coming’. And we'd stop playing for a minute. The one luxury that I missed... I never had a bicycle until I was, I don't know, maybe 10 or 11 or 12... I'm not good at dates or things... but the one thing I wanted was a bicycle, and finally my folks scraped up enough money and they bought me this two-wheeler. And man, I felt as though I had been freed ‘cause now I could go anywhere on that bike. I could ride downtown; I could go across town ‘cause… obviously, we didn't have a car. Fact is, I think back, we didn't have a telephone either. I never missed it because we were used to not having a telephone. I don't think I knew anybody who had a telephone so we didn't know what we were missing.
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Today, I watch to reminisce and mourn for one of the greatest storytellers of our time. RIP Stan Lee.
Thank you for creating Marvel, Stan. Along with Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Romita Sr. and Jr. for expanding the universe.
It’s interesting that the earliest memories he had of his dad was of him reading the want ads looking for a job. The first scene with Uncle Ben in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, he was reading the want ads looking for a job. I’m sure there was some connection with that.
right now in 2022 this doesent seem like a channel that will succseed... but with time in the future people wil start to look back and this channel willmstart griwing rapidly once they relize that some of the people the legends that are on here ... have already passed away. RIP Stan lee we hope ur stories will cintinue to inspire EXCELSIOR!!!
Thankyou Stan Lee, the way you created marvel and the movies and inspired millions, Om shanti 🙏
2:21 it’s kind of ironic he also made Spider-Man hit and run
Am i the only one who watches these like watching videos of your grandfather? Maybe its because my own grandfather was named stanley
Interesting to see this...
Thank you very much for the videos
thanks for this vidoe
Thks XOXO
All of his superheroes are from new york 🗽
With all this Billionaire Cage Fights Threats that's happing. Idd love to see Stan Lee smash up Walt Disney.... "What ya do Bro! U kinda made me. What ya do?"😢
When was this recorded? I think it’s either late 90’s or early 2000’s?
Long live democratic socialism and sir stan lee s legacy
Where is he talk about, his origin Romania stuffs?
@rolanddeschain9880
2 жыл бұрын
He is american man If you are born in america and rised there ur part of america and everything more is not important
EY, EY, CAR COMIN!
Episode 16 of this thing shows up on my feed randomly on exactly December 28th.
What year is this from?
@Twiska
5 жыл бұрын
2000 I think. Before the Iron Man movie.
@webofstories
5 жыл бұрын
This recording was made in April 2006.
@globalx-wing7286
5 жыл бұрын
@@webofstories Thank you!
@stevieslicknj3420
5 жыл бұрын
@@Twiska iron man movie. came out in (2008)
The enemies of the ebony superheroes that ived dreamed up was Brittleman Protoplasmio the amoebaman The Distortionist Rockenstein Alloymaster Wolfpire Behemotha The White Marble Gilamon Doctor Honeycomb Slate Gruesome One Mister Clue The Frizzler The Living Corpse The Corrosive Man The Braiden Witch and others that might be too hard for me to come up with.
In 1985 Hanna barbera already had came up with a cartoon show called the super powers team Galactic guardians on ABC and when lived experience the first episode the music clearly reminded me of the same music from the original superfriends episodes and the Godzilla cartoons as well they could of came up with Marvel's secret wars cartoon series on syndication from marvel productions cause if they did the series would be as awesome like the super powers team.
With all due respect I remember likewised years ago back in 1999 came up two relative cocky muscle bound masked crimefighting afro american individuals who are fearsome to battled the forces of crime and their names are Bulky and Brawny even if they are considered to be known as THE BOLD BROTHERS their enemies are CLUEMASTER a mysterious criminal who wears a green outfit that has a mask and in front of it has a question mark and another monstrous character that almost has the same look as the rock and frankenstein introducing the one and only ROCKENSTEIN.
@milliondollarmistake
2 жыл бұрын
who
Wow his childhood is very same to my childhood wayback when my country is still a 3rd world country.
The episodes of The TEEN-AGE SUPERHEROES are The Ghost of the Teen-age superheroes War of the The TEEN-AGE SUPERHEROES The Perils of The TEEN-AGE SUPERHEROES The Invisible TEEN-AGE SUPERHEROES The Trial of The TEEN-AGE SUPERHEROES The TEEN-AGE SUPERHEROES meets The HUMAN ASTEROID AFTERMATHUS Strikes Again The girl in armor MINIMENACE WOODBOY is Riotproof would be very strange in superhero animated history of the rock and roll age.
The way he fucked over Jack "king" Kirby was disgraceful how he lives with himself and crows about HIS achievements is disgusting.
@GEGGARCHY
2 жыл бұрын
I know this was 4 years ago, but FUCK OFF, like bro this is only one part of the video he credits Jack Kirby in many parts of the video