Vintage Photographs of Harlem in the 1970s

[the artist known az]

Back when Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas had a struggle hold on the neighborhood. :huhldup2:

Don't forget Melvin Combs

 

[Remote]

The cacs are going to do the same thing in Detroit and years down the line there going to have pictures likes these. Nobody had jobs in Harlem; just like in Detroit, so they could not keep up their neighborhood. Now, all of a sudden the cacs come in with the gentrification; and clean everything up and bring jobs for their people.

Will be a damn shame if Detroit loses its black people

 

[Liquid]

Breh in the blue is the original hahaha

@3Rivers I might need you to do your magic for that in the background.

I am pretty sure you can remove the smoke from near his face

 

[Liquid]

Beautiful pictures. People look like they're enjoying life

Enjoying each others company instead of staring at their iPhones or worried if the government is tracking every single move.

I was born in the wrong era

 

[Blackking]

see how run down it is, when cacs move in they suddenly start fixing it up, fukking devils....

With all the efforts we spent marching and begging for more integration one day and hating on each other the next day

We could have fixed it ourselves.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Wow dap rep..amazing!!!!

 

[Tilesp4p]

Not to derail the thread...but looking at us in the 70's and 60's there was so much more unity and a level of " consciousness" that we dont have anymore...I really think the crack epidemic in the 80's fukked us up, no lie...we need to get back to "this"

Edit : This thread has made me come to terms with the conspiracy theory(aka the truth) that the CIA created Crack to destroy the black man dgaf what anyone says.

 

[Elle Driver]

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

good ish

are those all the pictures? any more pictures?

 

[Danie84]

70s BLACKEXCELLENCE makes the cypher complete

 

[supanegro]

That would've made her ya moms. You know that right?

Id still get to see her naked

 

[Remote]

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Dude's hat game is on point tho..(in the gray)

 

[Playeroni]

Will be a damn shame if Detroit loses its black people

Im from there, but I live uptown in nyc so i see whats happening first-hand. Im trying to get my money up so I can buy property in Detroit before its too late. Its fukked up back home but I came up there.Everytime I go back I notice a lot of differences, shyts crazy

 

[Remote]

Im from there, but I live uptown in nyc so i see whats happening first-hand. Im trying to get my money up so I can buy property in Detroit before its too late. Its fukked up back home but I came up there.Everytime I go back I notice a lot of differences, shyts crazy

Yeah, I'm hearing that companies are having a hard time filling positions because nobody wants to live there...even though housing is cheap all over.

I guess it's a matter of time before it all gets bought out and remodeled.

 

[wet landscapes]

this is actually my favorite one