#25 The Original Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2008

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

For our very special 25th episode, we give you all sorts of Bowery boys -- the cultural and fashion trends of the 1840s, the notorious enemy of the Five Points gangs, and that slapstick bunch of New York actors from the 1930s and 1940s. And of course, a little bit about us! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 25, The Bowery Boys Exposed.
0:05.3	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.
0:09.3	Hey.
0:11.3	The Bowery Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:15.1	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
0:19.9	Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at EuroChipo.com.
0:24.7	Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys.
0:26.8	This is Greg Young.
0:28.0	And my name is Tom Myers.
0:29.5	Thanks for joining us on our 25th podcast.
0:33.1	We are celebrating.
0:34.7	And so we're celebrating by talking about ourselves.
0:38.1	It's a little introspective where we are.
0:40.3	We're gonna be talking about The Bowery Boys.
0:43.0	Now The Bowery Boys, some of you may know from Martin Scorsese film, The Gangs of
0:47.8	New York, as a gang, right?
0:50.4	Right.
0:51.4	New York.
0:52.4	But in fact, it's not just a gang.
0:53.6	Others of you may also know them from the old films on TV, from the black and white
0:59.3	Bowery Boys gang.
1:00.3	And we're going to tell you a little bit about them, but so it was a gang.
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