Here’s some Amsterdam 1983 footage, by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken.
If you’re impatient, you can skip to where he starts the voice-over at 1m45s
But you really shouldn’t 
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Sydney 1993:
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Nothing like a little bit of upbeat smooth jazz to make me nostalgic.
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I learnt all I know about NYC from Friends too.
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I went to an art gallery once that was showing some super 8 footage with some sad acoustic guitar music over it and I started tearing up, then I was like, HEY! Stop manipulating my emotions! I don’t even know any of these people or places!
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Huh. I’m a Manhattan native born in 1956. I left for LA in 1995. Whenever I visit I remember that I don’t miss NY, I miss NY in the 80s. It’s been so horribly poisoned by money and the internet, there’s no going back. I was an actor and a temp, and I had an affordable 2-bedroom in midtown. Now I’m a suburbanite (though my kids deny that; they say we live in the city). Weird.
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Same impulse that made punks wear swastika shirts?
The first bit is someone riffing on this (couldn’t listen to the second part tbh):
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I’m more alongside the impulse that makes punks beat nazis to death with motorcycle chains.
Do they actually do that? The ones I meet just slouch about and ask people for change.
Anyway, the point is wearing something offensive for the sake of offending.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And it was specifically filmed as a tech demo for D-VHS IIRC.
If it wasn’t a white looking dude I could (almost) equate it to the (mostly black and Puerto Rican) Bronx street gangs of the 1970s that would have swastikas and iron crosses and such on their outfits.
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Some anarcho-punks will punch fascists, others are pacifists who are also opposed to fascism.
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