Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 09/24/2019 at 09:10 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Come back with me now to 1973....

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 09:18

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1973... Smog emissions going into effect.  I bet there isn’t 3200 HP total in that picture. 

benjrblant > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 09:23

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mmm, you can smell the unburned gasoline from here.

facw > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 09:27

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A bit different today:

That defunct pedestrian bridge (since replaced) is presumably where the original photo was taken from.

Unless they’ve changed things since I lived there, the 9/11 light “towers” are shot off from the top at the parking garage the road goes under, rather than from ground zero itself.

The tunnel itself was a major defeat for Robet Moses, who wanted to build a monumental bridge instead connecting to the West Side Highway, destroying much of Battery Park for the bridge approach. This was protested (one of the first successful attempts to stop building highways at the expense of cities), and t he bridge was ultimately killed ostensibly due to risk of blocking access to Brooklyn Navy Yard. This was probably a bit of a dodge, since ships had to pass under the more limiting Brooklyn Bridge anyway:

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 09:30

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This thread needs a Potamkin Cadillac commercial:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 09:30

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Funny, I was just posting a picture of a New Look bus in regard to the post on the Jeep delivery van from last night. Similar angle-broken windshield.

Spanfeller is a twat > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 09:33

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The metro has barely changed.

Viaducto and Tlalpan got fatter tho. 

ttyymmnn > someassemblyrequired 09/24/2019 at 09:52

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Thankfully, they found a cure for disco fever.

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 09:57

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ttyymmnn > someassemblyrequired 09/24/2019 at 09:59

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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 10:04

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*Coughs at the thought of what that smelled like with a road full of non-catalyst equipped cars*

Maybe this explains some things about boomers... They spent their formative years in cars inhaling the exhaust of all the non-catalyst equipped cars around them.

fintail > ttyymmnn 09/24/2019 at 10:07

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Malaise lurking just around the corner.  Oldie appears to be the 64 Impala, oddballs the Audi 100 and Datsun 610 (?) coupe.  

benjrblant > facw 09/24/2019 at 10:28

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mm. robert moses. grumble grumble grumble.

ttyymmnn > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/24/2019 at 10:28

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Well, I was 7 years old when that photo was taken....