This brings back so many memories for me. This was a year after I graduated from Copley Square High School. I still can hear the Hancock Tower dropping it's glass to the ground. We called it the Plywood Building while it was still half built. So many changes since then. High tech hadn't reached the toll booths yet. It was a year of many changes and challenges for Boston.
Wow, what clear, sharp images and strong colors for a 1975 8mm film! Hard to believe we once drove cars that big and fancy. Or that the Boston skyline had so few skyscrapers. Or that the John Hancock Tower had just been finished. Or that life was so simple. That mellow guitar music is perfect for this record of mellower times. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I was just going into Medford High School in 1975. What a long Strange trip it’s been. Great video. I remember the windows falling out of the Hancock Tower as well.
Wow i love these kind of classic videos, 1 year before i was born, the music goes so perfect with this, you get the feeling of an innocent simpler time.
Walking to the Boston Garden from Everett to watch a Saturday Bruins game in the late eighties which was later but PeeWee practice for the Huskies in 75. The first day that we practice.It was in early August 102° temperature at nine years old I remember that about 1975 and other great memories like the Red Sox almost winning the World Series.lol.
At 24 second mark, there's a clip of my hometown of Fitchburg. This was in the lower Main St section. Fitchburg Music Store was to the right. It's now a CVS. The parking lot on the left is now the parking garage for the intermodal bus and train station. Dead center was originally Worcester North Bank. It's now empty, after Santander Bank moved to a smaller building on Water St, just over the bridge.
I first came into Boston in 79 after being taken away because of the forced bussing - I was born in Boston and moved to Lowell - I served my country then moved back into Boston in 89
Great job! What's the song? Your choice of theme music really elevates this (while making me nostalgic & a little sad)--but any good art is supposed to make people feel *something*, right? So that's a good thing. Thank you for taking your camera with you on that day(s) in 1975. Always love the authentic 8mm look. Terrific.
I see that the first two seconds of the clip are actually from Worcester, MA, somewhere between today's exits 12 and 15 by I-290, I think. I recognize the east End of Storrow Drive at one point and (possibly) a split second of the Allston/Brighton toll along I-90 East.
My dad worked in the Prudential building in 1975. I remember going to the observation lookout many times in 1975 as I was 10 years old. I would have laughed if I was in the video.
I'm afraid I lost my audio tracks list when my PC decided to fall over. It's from the RU-vid audioswap library. See if hettie knows (similar question on my New York video).
Is :17 Central Sq in Cambridge? The order of this is kinda weird. Looks like it goes: Central Sq, Harvard Sq, Memorial Drive, Storrow Drive, Tobin Bridge (?) Not really sequential.
I was working in the combat zone area in 75. Can we go back ? If you didn't have to go to Vietnam it was a pretty good time. Maybe being young helped. They should bring back the observation deck in the John Hancock tower.
Even in 1975, the song 'Please Come to Boston' for me didn't fit, and it really don't fit in 2020. If you cotton to Joan Baez with a 'Where's Boston' like video in the background...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fpuWg12Hw54.html Or if you want DL himself as a soundtrack to the album cover...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TedXFSUUboY.html Please Come to Boston Dave Loggins Born: November 10, 1947 (age 72 years), Mountain City, TN Please come to Boston for the Springtime I'm stayin' here with some friends and they've got lotsa room You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk By a café where I hope to be workin' soon Please come to Boston She said "No-would you come home to me?" And she said, "hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?" "Boston ain't your kinda town" "There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me" "I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee" Please come to Denver with the snowfall We'll move up into the mountains so far that we can't be found And throw "I love you" echoes down the canyon And then lie awake at night till they come back around Please come to Denver She said "No-boy, would you come home to me?" And she said, "hey ramblin' boy why dontcha… Now this drifter's world goes 'round and 'round And I doubt that it's ever gonna stop But of all the dreams I've lost or found And all that I ain't got I still need to lean to Somebody I can sing to Please come to LA to live forever California life alone is just too hard to build I live in a house that looks out over the ocean And there's some stars that fell from the sky Livin' up on the hill Please come to LA She just said "No-boy, would you come home to me?" And she said, "hey ramblin' boy why dontcha settle down?" "LA can't be your kinda town" "There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me" " No, no, I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee" "I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"
answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/362604.html Since the line about the man from Tennessee comes from the woman in the song who wants the singer to come home to her, I always assumed that, by "the man from Tennessee," the song is referring to the singer of the song, the same person referred to as "ramblin' boy." DL was born in Mountain City, TN.
