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Re: PHOTOS, PHOTOS-1980's Graffiti Era, Pre GOH-What do you think? (679331)

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Posted by GP38 Chris on Tue Mar 23 17:52:19 2004, in response to Re: PHOTOS, PHOTOS-1980's Graffiti Era, Pre GOH-What do you think?,
posted by SUBWAYMAN on Tue Mar 23 16:11:43 2004.

Actually, by about 1985 they were not that dirty (full of grafitti, but the interiors didn't have grime, just grafitti). The were strewn with grafitti, but at the terminals around 1985, they would clean all the windows, and mop the floor. Metropolitan was my school station in the mid 80's, and as soon as the M would pull in and the people would get out, the cleaners would come running, and mop the floors and clean all the windows! They were dirtier in the 70's and early 80's.
This was about when David Gunn took over, and although all the trains were covered in grafitti, they started cleaning them. As strange as it sounds, by 1985 the windows actually were cleaner than they are now. (Pre 1985 they were not, sometimes even covered in spray paint). Scratchitti was non-existant (because i guess they all wrote on the trains then), and they did start an honest effort to clean the windows every time they came into the terminals, and mop the floors. So by about 1985, the trains were still trashed with grafitti, but the dirt did start to disappear a bit.

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