Pop-culture memories , NYC , and pinball .

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This is kind of meant to be a accompaning post to a " My story " post that might be a touch more down-:-( - This will , at least initially , touch on Seventies memories I am fonder of .
With the P-ball reference I especially hope I'll get Kraftiekortie here , and since he's likewise about my age and from the NYC metroplex too I hope ASPartOfMe will stop by ~ Y'all come !
I never played pinball a gigantic lot as a teenager , but I did a bit and I remember playing an early " naughty - what is it doing to the kids today ! " arcade game called Death Race 2000 !
KK , you are from NYC proper , and IIRC (as for all here) NYC in the 70s was getting rid of a LaGuardia-era law that , effectively , outlawed standard pinball machines - Maybe then , as a response to that , more PB machines sprung up ?
Far away from my upper end of Westchester , in Yonkers really just across the border I recall a chain resturaunt that had a way big arcade as well , presumably to cater to the " Since you can't do it in NYC..." trade . I was from (Or so I make this distiction , anyway ~ ?) from the more far , upper , end of Westchester - They tended to discourage/not like " teenage "-y things like arcades (There was apparently a local DA then dead set against porno flicks , too so they were kept out ~ Hwever , when video stores came along , normal shops had separate porn sections like elsewhere I remember asking my father about this and he said the law was more clearly protecting a private/indoor store's ~ Um , whatever word I'm looking for here !) tho they did not stop them entirely .
ASP , we share having our youthful music fan days touch , in so9me ways , upon the " new wave " (you should pardon the expression) , um , " early punk to indie to college rock to alernative/whatever " era , even if our experiences/versions of it sort of differed like thoose blind guys and that elephant (Oh , Mr. Metaphor Man I ! !! !! !! !!)...Um , maybe I've put up enough of this for now Ya think ?

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...I remember that there was a big , flashy/sorta rundown-looking , pinball arcade in Times Square then , called Playland IIRC .
I recall the Ramones and suchlike being photographed there .
I think I went there on my trips into NYC maybe once ~ or twice ~ briefly .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

"New Wave" on New York area radio

Commercial Radio
WPIX-FM from 1978 to early 1980


Scott Muni had a show "British Things" on WNEW-FM which ran Friday Afternoons from 3 to 4 PM which was mostly New Wave

WLIR-FM mixed in New Wave from the beginning of Punk and went full bore with its "Dare to Be Different" format in 1982. A documentry about the '80's 'LIR is scheduled to hit the film festivals this year.


College Radio
WNYU "New Afternoon Show"

WVHC (Hofstra University where they are holding the
presidential debate) show "Post Punk Progressive Pop Party"
Not active website dedicated to the show and the music


New wave local club/alternative radio mini hits from NYC bands
The Cosmopolitans - (How to Keep Your) Husband Happy


Polyrock - Romantic Me


Bush Tetras - Things That Go Boom In The Night


Comateens - The Late Mistake

ASPP , I don't know whether you lived further into LI than I did into Westchester County , or if LI , larger I guess?? , has more a " culture of its own " than Westchester County does , as far as NYC suburban areas go...
As it happens , WLIR was a big deal to a lot of people , but I always lived jjuuussstt a bit beyond heir range , as with other stuff ~ Strictly for station names here , I remember WPIX''s " New Wave " time , and I recall WNYU - and I listened a lot to the New Jersey station , WFDU , connected to Farliegh Dickinson University , which shared frequencies with WNYU (Maybe they were beyond your area ?) .
'Fdu was , maybe , a teeny it marginal in reception where I was-Sort of the story of my life , looking back , everything always seemed just a little bit too far away - I never listened that much to that other , more " hardcore " indie/college station , from North Jersey (the one that Vin Scelsa came form) , they were , again , maybe a bit distant for me (I think they ended being a broadcast station and became online-only - The Scelsa's-former station , I mean . They had a station guide/official fanzine titled Lowest Common Denominator .) .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I'm younger, but we grew up with pinball machines at home. My parents' friend is in the business so we had a pinball machine at home. He'd find a buyer for it and then deliver a different one to us. We had 3 or 4 different ones. My parents still have the last one, "High Speed," downstairs in their basement beside the bar. It gets switched on a few times a year for the nephews and grandkids etc to play.

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