Last week, we posted a new video short by East Village-based filmmaker Jenny Woodward titled "Last Days of the Mars Bar."
In the entertaining 8-minute video, Hank Penza, the owner of the Mars Bar who died last November, shared some history of the corner space on Second Avenue and East First Street.
Now our friend Alex found a 90-second clip on YouTube ... a rather serene slice-of-Mars-Bar life showing a few people quietly sitting while David Bowie's "China Girl" plays on the jukebox.
The video isn't dated ... it was uploaded in April 2012 — about nine months after the Mars Bar closed for good. It's aptly titled in part "Sweet Memories."
6 comments:
And the 13th Step and its likes apologistas saying that the EV was always loud...
It wasn't as loud because nobody would want to be on the streets since it was full of junkies, muggers, gangs and other criminals and generally unsafe (particularly for women) after dark. Ahh, the good old days.
I really love this video. People are not playing to the camera. Signs of life. The soundtrack with people talking and moving, wonderful.
david and mars together, double dream<3
"It wasn't as loud because nobody would want to be on the streets since it was full of junkies, muggers, gangs and other criminals and generally unsafe (particularly for women) after dark. Ahh, the good old days."
Such BS. Ben? Steven?
Let it go already.
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