1974

"A rush of pleasure surges through my body as it makes contact with my tongue," a Village Voice writer declared upon trying McDonald's for the first time in the 1970s.

This 7 minute video will take you all over Manhattan in the year 1974.

The images depict a New York of shady, bell-bottomed operators, cartoonish Bowery tropes, full-figured women, and fairy tale characters, all rendered in that bizarre '70s-style animation that is that is both playful and unsettling.

A look back at areas of Manhattan in Brooklyn in 1974.

Click through for photos of summertime in Brooklyn... in 1974!