Pretty Cool Daddy-O, Roosevelt Island Kids From 1980 Perform West Side Story At The Youth Center - Where Have All The Years Gone?

 Image From 2010 Roosevelt Island Reunion

Previous posts have reported on the adult reunions of 1970's-80's era kids who grew up on Roosevelt Island. Since you've seen what the original Roosevelt Island kids now look like at the reunions, here's a blast from the past's Wayback Machine showing some of them as they were over 30 years ago as teenagers in a Roosevelt Island Youth Center performance of West Side Story.



This 1980 Roosevelt Island Youth Center performance of West Side Story was put up on You Tube by one of the Roosevelt Island kids - Christopher Scott Knell of Fine Line Studios. According to Christopher:

The "Original" Kids from Roosevelt Island perform "West Side Story" at the Youth Center on Roosevelt Island in 1980.

The whole show is here for the first time...

There's about 10 minutes missing towards the beginning because some un-named individual recorded over the original VHS tape with The Who on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert or some such late night concert show.

But now it's finally edited and fixed up a bit.

Thanks to Dana D. for getting me the original.

Hope ya'll enjoy it,

Here's more on Roosevelt Island from the 1980's.

Pretty Cool Daddy-O.