Howdy doody all you wonderful Wednesday Walkers around the world here to share your stories and photos with the rest of us with thanks to @tattoodjay
So a few years ago...well...Ok, maybe a few more than that... 🤣..., I was lucky enough to visit the USA and travel around for a while when Summer camp in upstate New York finished.
One of the many places I visited was the Big Apple..you know, NEW YORK CITY and this incredible city was a place that I felt so at home in and so supported by so many complete strangers- which really is a superb reason to #makemesmile by @elizacheng.
Genuine people that were truly lovely and wanted to help. None that saw me as a young tourist and wanted to rip me off (although I'm sure that there were some there) but in my case, I was only ever shown friendship, assistance and even protection from so many complete strangers.
For a city as huge as New York, the atmosphere that I saw every day walking around for miles and miles was nothing but community, encouragement and nourishment- to me and to everyone else from everyone else.
Unfortunately I have lost so many photos since then, but I'd like to show you a small variety of photos that I took form the streets of this stunning city as I walked around it back in late 1997.
As these photos were taken on an old automatic kodak camera on 35mm film, they have since been digitised (scanned only yesterday) and I have put them through Photoshop, but some of them are just too degraded to leave as simple photos, so I have stylised them in one way or another so you can still see the images awesomeness without the many facets of their deterioration.
I won't go into too many details as these are all pretty self explanatory, suffice to say, when you do travel somewhere, you always end up walking everywhere.
Well atleast I did anyway...otherwise you miss things...
This is where I stayed on 20th St between 7th and 8th Ave's, not too far from Greenwich Village
And this was just around the street on the 20th St- the 10th Precint- the front door which was the opening front door for many cop shows at the time...
I was almost an extra on New York Undercover- which was the sequel to 21 Jump St..lol...but I didn't, I chickened out at the last minute and stood at the barricade of the street scene as they filmed, watching the extras walk past- and I could have been- should have been one of them....Anyhoooo....
I am NOT chickening out of anything else ever again! Well except for skydiving and bungee jumping...maybe...) Though skydiving over Vero Beach in Florida was fun..and I mean really truly and incredibly FREAKIN AWESOME..😃😃😃..(but that's a story for another time though..😉...)
Anyway, as I was leaving, there was a girl was walking across the road towards me with this huge double bass/cello case on wheels, and when we crossed paths, she asked me if I knew where Bondi St was- in an Aussie accent- which totally shocked me, cause again, in a city of ...what how many million people in NY in 1997...? you don't expect to hear an Aussie accent..(especially one that doesn't look like a backpacker anyway....)....anyway I said no sorry, but I know where Bondi is in Australia...I wished her good luck and we both went our separate ways...
Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed this brief, historic tour of New York City and I really wish that I had all of those photos that I took to show you here...
When I got to New Orleans (eventually..) I was showing someone some of my photos and to my horror, discovered that there were so many packets of them missing, and instead, somehow I had a few plastic sleeves of someone elses negatives with me instead!
I looked through these negatives and did not recognise 1 person or scene in them, so one day I'm going to scan them, upload them and hopefully find their owner as their was some family memories on them if I remember correctly...And you never know, mine might come back to me someday too...
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Well, thank you all for reading and putting up with my rambling tonight and if you did make it this far, you are absolute champions!
And unless otherwise stated- ALL photographs, are all my originals taken by me sometime in the past few decades or so somewhere in my travels and as such, ofcourse they are subject to all international IP and copyright laws and I may have already used them for my own commercial purposes here https://www.redbubble.com/people/CHOCOLATESCORPI/shop And here https://fineartamerica.com/art/chocolatescorpi, So please ask first if you want to use any of them as we wouldn't want you getting into trouble. Thank you 😊
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