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Retro Culture of Fear
Caps 2.0 Posted on Apr 24, 2017 at 07:50 PM
My fear of New York City came into effect after my Dad died. He worked in the city for what was called Nynex at the time, and he would occasionally take me or my brother into the city with him to spend a day at work, after which we might do something like visit a museum or cross the Hudson River into New Jersey and attend a Giants game.
My dad was a Vietnam veteran and one of the toughest, yet gentlest people I knew. He died when I was 12, and I no longer felt safe visiting the city. It didn't help that my mom, with whom I had a fractured and bitter relationship, didn't understand why I was afraid of the city. She was born and raised in the Bronx, so she strode through with no problem. Me? I was scared and still am.
echidna64 Posted on Apr 24, 2017 at 03:00 PM
My favorite depiction of NY in the 80's is from the Ninja Turtles movies lol
Things were pretty bad back then, nowadays you simply can't afford to live there if you make less than 100K
Hoju Koolander Posted on Apr 24, 2017 at 06:05 AM
@Vaporman87 See in my case the warnings were all nonsense, but you guys apparently had access to the stuff. That's crazy!
@mickyarber It's like I've always said, Virginia is the California of the East! OK, maybe I've never actually said that, but VA and CA share a letter!
mickyarber Posted on Apr 24, 2017 at 12:46 AM
I'm always amazed at how mine and your childhoods mirrored each other's. Most of this is the same fears that were drilled into us in school here in Virginia. Except maybe the street gangs.
I always felt the same about NYC. Through depictions on television and in movies, it always seemed dirty and violent. Then I went there for the first time and thought, "this ain't bad, hell, it's pretty cool!"
Vaporman87 Posted on Apr 23, 2017 at 05:21 AM
Here's something you can fact check on the internet; the county I live in (Meigs) is notorious for "Meigs County Gold (or Green)"... or marijuana for those a bit confused. Even people in other states had heard of Meigs County's abundance of Mary Jane (why that is I don't want to know). So naturally we were routinely shovel fed a steady dose of anti-drug seminars in school. Typically this was a group of former dopeheads putting the fear of the almighty in you.
Now look at this nation. We're legalizing the stuff. Go figure.
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