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Subway Stories
My children both love the subway. They're not unusual. It's a common passion in small kids. Occasionally, I am struck when people are surprised that I would take my children on public transportation. I'm not sure exactly what the current reasoning is behind "protecting" children from the horrors of the train, because I don't tend to get into long chats about it, but I did just encounter this article and slide show, no doubt inspired by the release of the new version of The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, about the unpleasantness of New York City trains in the 1980's, so maybe these scenes are what people are somehow imagining. This is a New York I knew quite well and things are very different now. Actually, the extreme differences in the subways between the 1974 original Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (no I don't know why the numbers are spelled out in the original and are numbers in the remake titles) and today are one of the things that makes the movie interesting (and the cast, if you're a fan of any of the following: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Jerry Stiller). I am not entirely of the "I liked the city better when you were afraid to walk in Times Square" opinion, but I am invested in the city and what it was during the various eras I lived here. Thinking about this, the original is one of the few movies I could probably get Felix to watch, since so much time is spent watching signals change.
Sadly, the tooth troubles persist.
posted by Elise at 3:45 AM
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