WPIX Special Report: Blackout '77-City of Darkness
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Күн бұрынPortion of a special broadcast covering the aftermath of the New York Blackout of July 13th-14th. Commercials were included. Audio is right-channel only.
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@cattydcat8716 4 жыл бұрын
The store owner interviewed for a while from the 13 minute mark, is incredible articulate. He should have been a writer, not a store keeper, he has a real way with words
@Riogi 3 жыл бұрын
I agree with you. I wonder what became of Murry Meyer.
@alpineinc1 Жыл бұрын
"MEYERS--Murray, 87, of New York, died peacefully February 22, 2005. As the consummate New Yorker, he presided over Murray's Market on the West Side for 50 years as butcher, philosopher, poet and social worker." - from the New York Times. Murray's Market was at 730 Amsterdam Ave (bet 95th-96th). It's a furniture store now.
@RemnantCult Жыл бұрын
@@alpineinc1 God bless that man.
@drinkingpoolwater 11 ай бұрын
wow andy warhol died on 2/22 too. but in 87. it’s a good day to die
@KiCreativeStudioJP 11 ай бұрын
He was genuinely choking back tears. Breaks my heart.
@handsomeX 11 ай бұрын
The more of these old news videos i watch, the more it appears to me that people were a lot more mature and had a better sense of self awareness back then.
@bartondonnelly5293 8 ай бұрын
I had just graduated High School when this happened. David Berkowitz known at that time was ‘The 44 Caliber Killer’ before he was caught. Yep, we sat outside of our house because it was a hot day. We didn’t go back inside until AFTER dark. Oh, such memories.
@falconuruguay4588 4 жыл бұрын
I lived thru this in Brooklyn...I remember it quite well.
@keithtaylor1864 2 жыл бұрын
So do I!
@jamesmack3314 5 жыл бұрын
Wow I was there Age 16....luckily comfortably numb in my Dads east side apartment That was a crazy ass summer
@altfactor 7 жыл бұрын
WPIX had a lot of class by including excerpts of rivals' TV coverage of the 1977 blackout. Likely, videotape shot by WPIX was probably loaned to other stations in return.
@edwincancelii2917 Жыл бұрын
I just turned 5 years old, approaching in my final year of preschool. And I was watching Bareta at that time. My brother was 4 years old.
@ralphtimothe148 6 жыл бұрын
I was ten years old when the blackout happened.
@myklehicks32 3 жыл бұрын
I just turned 8 on that day when the blackout started. It was on my 8th birthday July the 13th 1977. My mother had a celebration for me.
@Bort1965 Жыл бұрын
It is interesting to see these reports about the 1977 blackout, & comparing them to reports about the 1965 & 2003 major blackouts.
@mustafajackson9430 4 жыл бұрын
I remember running up and down the darkened hallway of the Grant Projects where my family lived in Harlem. Good Times.
@CalmKit Жыл бұрын
Ed Koch, mayor of NYC 1978-89
@WARDMAN3 Жыл бұрын
I was almost 8 years old living in Greenwich CT I remember that night so well. We were at a club eating dinner and I remember watching this table umbrella outside blowing wildly in this massive thunderstorm! We did not lose power in CT but I had bigger problems... I was terrified that Son of Sam was going to come up and murder me! Ahhhhhhhh the summer of 1977 Good times!
@melamineflorentine8134 Жыл бұрын
night before they caught him.. when he was on the front page of the post.. the sketch of him.. for some reason I got it into my head that night that he might be up on the roof of my apartment building... I could not move I lay awake sweating that whole night... then he was caught the next day... and then it was like everything was better. that was quite a summer... terrifying.. exhilarating.. hot.. VIVID.... the blackout night we were watching TV and the tv went out.. i seem to remember watching the lights click off row by row in the parking lot behind the apartment a few minutes later... then we were looking for candles and flashlights!
@CaptchaNeon 6 жыл бұрын
People would go in full blown panic if there were a blackout today. Can you imagine the amount of time most people would last with no cell phone, iPad or internet of any kind?
@oldblackstock2499 5 жыл бұрын
One year later from your comment, it happened again. But at least for only a few hours.
@sherrykeith2268 3 жыл бұрын
Yes I can luckly I grew up in 70 and 80 without these things so I would know how to read a book magazine paper or watch local channels
@imadeyoureadthis1500 3 жыл бұрын
theres still the odd blackout where i live and its normally overnight so likt 6pm it starts and the power will come up in the morning
@Cjga1114 Жыл бұрын
Oh forget it! The suicide rate would rise 100%
@handsomeX 11 ай бұрын
@@sherrykeith2268It seemed like people were a LOT more prepared for emergencies in general back then.
@luisreyes1963 4 жыл бұрын
Before the viral pandemic & the 9/11 terrorist attack, this was one of NYC's biggest disasters.
@po2313 3 жыл бұрын
13:52 This man was so eloquent and inciteful. Comparing to looters and arsonists to Nazi Stormtroopers in 1932. I see no difference. Both criminals victimizing the innocent.
@handsomeX 11 ай бұрын
I could hear him talk about anything for hours.
@avalondreaming1433 10 ай бұрын
He was wonderful. He sounds like a great boss as well. I hope that if he had kids and grandchildren they see this and are proud.
@sacredcowmusicjukebox 5 жыл бұрын
July 13, 2019. Happy Anniversary. Partial blackout in NYC. 1977 was a different time in NY. There was still actual native New Yorkers left in the city, as you can hear by the city accents.
@vegasjay2326 6 жыл бұрын
45:10 Wow....amazing foreshadowing!!
@ultramet 6 жыл бұрын
I was watching CPO Sharkey and thought my brother blew a fuse...lived in Spanish Harlem...the next day all hell broke loose.
@jessenavarrete2083 5 жыл бұрын
I'll always remember CPO Sharkey when Johnny Carson confronted Don Rickles about breaking his cigarette box
@sherrykeith2268 3 жыл бұрын
That has to be tramatic for younger people
@bubblegumgangster4949 4 жыл бұрын
6:02 7:05 if he was to say this in 2019 he would be forced to apologize demonized on social media and still cost him his job...
@keithmoon3190 3 жыл бұрын
Pat harper looks so cute
@schwarzekatzen1453 4 жыл бұрын
all this craziness and a psychopath was on the loose!
@alfonsogreen2722 7 жыл бұрын
40 years ago today
@americangiant1003 7 жыл бұрын
Cool! Thanks News Active for posting this. No doubt one of the low point eras of the 20th Century in NYC. Interesting watching this news special for first time here on the WPIX news, the night after the now infamous '77 blackout. Actually first full unedited look at any local NYC newscast the night after that histroic night. I was living in Brooklyn at that time and was 4 years old thus too young to remember. If you want guys a more detailed background of this time period, search for A VH1 documentary special made around 2005-'06 (i think it's still on youtube somewhere) called NYC 77: A Cool year in Hell. Great details from that period also at the height of the disco/punk rock era as well. PS off topic. The fonts/graphics of the WPIX newscasts of that era are now used even on a high school video broadcast. How has technology changed lol.
@alibocoum1906 4 ай бұрын
Time magazine AD is legendary!
@wila4134 Жыл бұрын
Fast forward 30+years, Human behavior does not change😢.These newsreels should be seen by all & prepare for future events that are yet to transpire.🔥
@flavius22 Жыл бұрын
Owner explains how the mob looted his store. Idlot asks why didnt he come back
@IVR02 5 жыл бұрын
It’s oddly coincidental that, exactly 42 years later to the date, there was another blackout in New York, albeit much less violent.
@dariusthepoetictruth5676 Жыл бұрын
Because technology wasn’t the way it was in 1977. Although I didn’t exist until 1983, I did survive the 2004 blackout.
@charliezicolillo 6 жыл бұрын
It showed the BAD.But there was MORE GOOD.The new newsreporter of today should look at the new from the 70's and 80's and LEARN from Gabe Pressman.He was the BEST newsreporter.
@seand67 9 ай бұрын
I’m speechless 😮
@NEPatriot 7 жыл бұрын
Wait till the WPIX Archives on Facebook gets wind of some of the old WPIX Action News footage.
@matthewbulger4080 7 жыл бұрын
Do You Have Any Audio Footage Of The 1977 NYC Blackout From 1010 WINS WCBS Newsradio 880 WOR Radio 710am?
@Elsupermayan8870 2 жыл бұрын
"in darkness there is no sin Light only brings the fear Nothing to corrupt the eyes There is no vision here At first you may find it strange But do not run away The darkness holds a power that you don't find in the day" -The Damned Wait For The Blackout
@hcombs0104 2 жыл бұрын
As someone from New Jersey, I remember watching TV, and then everything turned to fuzz. I wound up watching an old Leave it to Beaver rerun on Channel 10 in Philadelphia...they were an affiliate of CBS (Channel 2 in New York). Having lost its network programming, Channel 10 relied on whatever they could dig up in its studio.
@HAL9000s3 Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, the Son of Sam could have been anywhere...
@Mhel2023 Жыл бұрын
Haha us kids spent the whole summer looking for yellow Volkswagens
@jasonpalacios1363 Ай бұрын
Just like the Led Zeppelin song, "The Song Remains the Same."
@imgonnagogetthepapersgetth8347 4 жыл бұрын
4:26 I thought that was them having like, a makeshift cafeteria setup outside.
@jessejohnson6799 4 ай бұрын
I was 12yrs old during that time
@wmbrown6 Жыл бұрын
Looks like Jim Jensen and Dave Marash were broadcasting from the "CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite" set, with Marash sitting in - and Jensen leaning on - Cronkite's horseshoe-shaped desk.
@johnnyd63 Жыл бұрын
Pat Harper was a dish!
@compazine 7 жыл бұрын
LoL @ 1:10 what NYU classes go past 930 at night??
@razbo1963 5 ай бұрын
I remember this day, living on the water in N.J the city was black, I also have the Daily News paper from this day Mother kept hanging on my wall.
@quantumjuice228 6 жыл бұрын
Birth of Hip-Hop 🎤
@stephanecayouette9429 3 жыл бұрын
where can I get one of those roll-o-matics?
@maxble2602 6 жыл бұрын
How cool was ny in the 70s
@jamesmack3314 5 жыл бұрын
Very Crazy cool
@Mhel2023 5 жыл бұрын
It was cool, probably scary to outsiders but to Native NY'ers just another day lol.
@JP-yw4wx 2 жыл бұрын
All this because the grid was built back when Moses was splitting the water. Now that's old !!!!
@michaelglenn367 Жыл бұрын
Seriousy..can someone please tell the closest Woolworths where I can get a roll a matic? I live in West Hills CA
@OakhillSailor 7 жыл бұрын
This is so funny. We always think the present times are the worst.
@djtimemasheen7585 3 жыл бұрын
you are so right
@andrewpollard_ Жыл бұрын
It is. Many people love to complain about everything today, yet put on rose-colored glasses to everything when they were young despite the terrible things happening then too. It's funny if it isn't annoying.
@Paranoia..................38 Жыл бұрын
I. Remember that day. I was 6.
@marcribaudo1965 7 жыл бұрын
Tonight is the 40th anniversary.
@brandyw.7943 10 ай бұрын
Who is this Frank Casey? He is good at his job. Where is he Now?
@wmbrown6 7 жыл бұрын
Le'me guess - 3/4" Umatic, right?
@jeffohara5003 2 жыл бұрын
Probably 16mm film. Portable Umatic at every station was a year or two away.
@jason_m_schmidt622 Жыл бұрын
All of that happened in just 25 hours. Picture what would happen today
@Cameo718. 6 жыл бұрын
Lol Prince Charles didn't get married until 4 years later..55:20
@MediaWatchDawg 3 жыл бұрын
Typical NY Post (0:02) sensationalism.* *Nice to see somethings NEVER change.
@robertpalin2161 3 жыл бұрын
did a Yankees game get interrupted?
@tedperry6466 3 жыл бұрын
no, the Yankees were playing in Milwaukee, but the blackout did affect the Met game who were playing the Cubs
@tedperry6466 3 жыл бұрын
I live in NJ, so we didn't lose power. But we did lose the TV feeds, including WPIX and the Yankee game. Can't remember if WOR channel 9 still had the Met game. They broadcasted in NJ, so they still might have had it
@cliffbooth1029 3 жыл бұрын
We Won the World Series that year and the next. Then Thurman died.
@cliffbooth1029 3 жыл бұрын
@@tedperry6466 interesting
@allencollins6031 Жыл бұрын
@@cliffbooth1029Thurman #15
@jediknight38 9 ай бұрын
At the beginning of the video where the newscaster refers to poor people as "have nots." Him saying that today would've gotten the guy fired. And Pat Doyle on camera, WITH A CIGAR! Yep. In todays snowflake environment, even a little thing as flashing a smoke on live television could cause a newsguy to lose his job!
@katkenobi6765 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, look how weird the clothes and hair were!!!! Lmao! Can’t believe how ugly the late 70s were!!!!!
@user-eu9zu9ku4t Жыл бұрын
lol
@CalmKit Жыл бұрын
Every times fashion looks like the height of fashion in it’s time. In 40 years future generation will look back at clothing, hairstyles, cars, etc of the 2020’s and think it’s weird as well