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Posted by SilverFox on Wed Oct 4 04:24:00 2006, in response to Re: 7 train tagged in service!, posted by South Brooklyn Railway on Tue Oct 3 19:59:33 2006. Look, I see your point, but please see ours as well. In the early 80s, I was still pre-teen to very early teen, but I remember the appearance of the trains and stations crystally clear. There were few, if any, naturally-painted, tiled, or cemented parts of the subway system. True, some of the graffiti were well-executed, but the overall air of the system was sinister and uninviting. Everything was filthy, crumbling, and exuded the hint that further danger lurks not too far away. You always felt like a lamb going to slaughter, either as a target on a platform, or subject to roving gangs of wolf packs or mechanical breakdowns on the trains themselves. The whole system either smelled of something burning, or of urine. Each night on the news, there would seemingly be some new screwup either caused by mechanical breakdown (more like the machine just couldn't take it anymore and outright disintigrated), or by the ingenuity and ferocity of the crime detailed. I remember the story of some idiot running around Ely Avenue with a meat cleaver. He wasn't caught for some time before doing a lot of damage to straphangers. The subway was a place nobody wanted to be; not even if they had to be there. Unlike today. Graffiti have sort-of reinvented themselves as "ghetto chic," commissioned by legitimate "artists" looking to make money or expose their talents to the public and have little, if any, malice toward the establishment. But in the 80s graffiti weren't ghetto chic. They were a message that authority and law and order weren't in control, and that all hope should be abandoned once entering the scrawled halls. I hope you can now understand and appreciate our desire for keeping graffiti as far OFF subways and buses and other public fixtures as much as possible. |
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