Show Noted Episode 368: Welcome to Fear City

This week Host Dave Bledsoe issues a dire warning that New York City is on the verge of slipping into a hellscape dystopia all because of this unreasonable demand he settle these bartabs. (The Bartenders told him to “Drop Dead”) On the show this week we kick off a month of shows about the Greatest Goddamn City in the World during The Worst Decade Ever, NYC in the 1970’s!

Along the way we learn how Dave earnestly believed that Oklahoma City Oklahoma was a booming metropolis and the height of urban life. (He was ten years old so we guess we can excuse it.) From there we dive right into the history of how the Big Apple rotted during the late 60’s and got all wormy in the 1970’s! (It’s all just protein people!) From the crime wave to the economic collapse we lay out just where things went and how no one was willing to do a damn thing about it! (Baghdad wasn’t the first city Donald Rumsfeld had a pivotal role in destroying!) Then we discover that as bad as things were, New York City in the 70’s was still the Center of the Universe for all the Cool People!

Our sponsor this week is The Bad Old Days, the tool for the politician needing a quick distraction from all the shit they are supposed to be fixing! We open with people on the streets of Fear City and close with LB Cooper dreaming of the Big Apple!

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Citations Needed:

Full text of "Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York"

https://archive.org/stream/welcome-to-fear-city/welcome-to-fear-city_djvu.txt

'Welcome to Fear City' – the inside story of New York's civil war, 40 years on

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/18/welcome-to-fear-city-the-inside-story-of-new-yorks-civil-war-40-years-on

Splendor in the Grit

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/06/seventies-nyc200906

Uncited Additional Reading: 

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/a-crisis-without-keynes-the-1975-new-york-city-fiscal-crisis-revisited

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/blackout-gallery/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/t-magazine/1970s-new-york-history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City_(1946%E2%80%931977)#1970s

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/09/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-70s-new-york.html

https://genius.com/Cashman-and-west-american-city-suite-lyrics

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