Sunday, October 12, 2014

Rave like it's 1999 in Tompkins Square Park



Dunno much about this undated video from 1999 … a reader came across it the other day.



Worth noting: The boy's reaction at the 51-second mark … and the introduction of who is presumably the "Rave Santa" in the title at the 1:26 point.

Here's another longer video … this one is dated from April 1999…

12 comments:

Giovanni said...

Classic. EV Grieve could have made a fortune selling dance lessons that day. Some of those moves look like a cross between a zombie apocalypse and an epileptic seizure. But the old guy with the whire beard has some of the best moves out there, at least he's dancing to the beat.

East Village Today said...

The second video looks like a reenactment of the riot!

This is why the East Village is so cool!

Anonymous said...

EV roools!

Wish I had a time machine.

IzF said...

Is that Dick Shae???
Ahhh the goo dole days…..for me at least. I never jumped around like a monkey so much.
It's funny, every club you'd go to that's what they were playing.

Anonymous said...


Rave Santa! I've found my Halloween costume!

aron pieman kay said...

i do think its dick shea!!

Crazy Eddie said...

"This is why the East Village is so cool!"

Do you write for the official Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town FB page as well?

Example-Official management 10/2/14 FB post for a late 1940's photo of the construction of PCVST with the Empire State in the background:

"Happy Throwback Thursday! We don't have an exact year for this one but this was taken in the mid-1940s when Stuytown was being built. How cool is that view of the Empire State building? At that time the ESB was only about 15 years old and it was the tallest building in the world!"

Rube text speak-written by Rubes, for Rubes. And CW Capital/Compass Rock actually pays for this trite while talented writers starve.

Anonymous said...

per confirmation from 2 diff friends, that is, in fact, dick shea.

Anonymous said...

it is dick shea. confirmed.

Anonymous said...

That's not Dick Shea.

Anonymous said...

Who's dick Shea anyway?

Anonymous said...

an awesome dick. fun guy. former navy seal. threw fish food all over my head when i was swimming with goldfish in a mountain pond. ive only hung out with him for a weekend but it was enuf hahaha