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Old Lost Things. TV Guide Edition

Salacuse — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:11:38 +0000

At the flea market this weekend I found this Dec. 1975 tv guide from local Long Island newspaper Newsday. I just love to see what tv looked like before cable.

There is a description of M.A.S.H. that I will highlight in another photo where the surgeons “suffer through a long night of wintrey night punctuated by a rash of difficult surgical cases and unsettling artillery fire…” Doesn’t that seem like a description over EVERY episode of M.A.S.H that you have ever seen? Maybe in some episodes its too hot with unsettling artillery fire or the surgeons try to take some R&R but get interrupted by unsettling artillery fire but they are all the same and all great.

I do not know who kept this tv guide insert from a newspaper for 35 years, but I am thankful that they did. Now we can enjoy the fruits of their neurosis.

Old Lost Things

Salacuse — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:56:39 +0000

I found this amazing magazine at the flea market this weekend.
It is from June 1958 and it cost 40 cents then.

This issue is about advertising in the subways. Look at how striking the monochromatic red is against the blurry, grainy black and white photo.

Old Lost Things

Salacuse — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:39:06 +0000

I bought this slide at the flea market this summer. It was shot in the 1970’s and I love how much it looks like a still from a Cassavetes film.

Old Lost Things

Salacuse — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:10:52 +0000

This is an amazing punk artifact from an old club in NJ called City Gardens. It was originally posted by RandyNow and it is the calendar used for bookings in 1987. You can also see how much each band made.

Look for The Ramones making $5,500 on Jan 2nd and The Exploited only making $150 on June 28th

NYC IN THE 70’s

Salacuse — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:52:47 +0000

If you fetishize NYC in the 70’s like I do, then you will love this video from Ubu.com that my brother forwarded me. It’s a film by Hilary Harris who was a pioneer of time laps photography and in this film she compares how a city is like a living organism. See if you can find your neighborhood. (drag the video to the center for better viewing)

As For You, Troy Donahue

Salacuse — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:26:44 +0000

This is another item I saved from the flea market of time. What I love about it is its simplicity. There are almost no cover lines obscuring the image and the solid red background makes it visually arresting. This issue is dated November 15, 1959

I know nothing about this Troy Donahue other than the casual mention in a Grease song, but I did think the cover was worth archiving.

Jack Johnson the Boxer

Salacuse — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:41:36 +0000

Often I find things at flea markets and I think to myself that if I do not buy this and save it, this item will be lost forever. Especially paper ephemera. From time to time I will post these things so that there is a log of them.

This first one is from a french magazine from his era. It was actually found on the internet but it is a great example of something so beautiful being too easily lost and forgotten.