You just had to be there

The sixties were fun, the seventies were OK. Then it all went to hell. Touchy feelie, self esteem and political correctness destroyed individualism and that sense of the outrageous. In the sixties, Central Park in Manhattan was the mecca. You has to make the scene. You gad to be seen. Weekends attracted huge crowds and there was always the unexpected, the happening. So called progress and group think killed that great feeling that anything was possible. Too bad. These images were made with a Canon FT with a 50 mm F 1.4 Canon FL lens and naturally on Tri-X Pan.