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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 25 21:14:58 2006, in response to Re: Pic: blast from the past, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jul 25 19:34:09 2006. It is ironic that it was in this era I developed my love for the subway....as did I. I don't know what it was back then, but the subway still had a lot of appeal. Yes, it was COMPLETELY trashed, just about every inch of it (except for the 49th ST, haha), but there was SO much of the golden era of the subway still there, even if in a diamond in the rough. Don't get me wrong, the subway today is amazing, and it's so clean and well kept considering what it once was, however, alot of the old stuff was lost over the last decade or two. Sure, we have restored mosaics, and they are better than ever at retiling, but I'm just talking about old infastructure still in place....for example, stairways, overpasses, the Broadway station intact above Myrtle....the old wooden overpass at Myrtle-Bway...stuff like that all over the system. Abandoned mezzanines on elevated stations, original lighting, all the old trains (even if trashed) I can go on and on. A lot of that was lost in "clean up". (which is good, but you do lose "something" in the process that was still present in the 70's and 80's. |
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