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Tag Archives: 1980s
Relics of the Recent Past
It’s weird to think that Blockbuster is gone. I wasn’t a regular customer because there was another chain closer to home, but they were everywhere. At the height of the popularity of video rentals, I always felt that large urban … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, What's on TV?
Tagged 1980s, Betamax, Blockbuster, DVD, rental, VCR, VHS
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Eric’s Mark I
Eric’s Mark I was one of many movie theaters that was in Center City Philadelphia that are now sadly gone. This is back when images from actual celluloid film was projected on the screen. That meant that the viewer had … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Philadelphia
Tagged 1980s, Eric's Mark I, movies, Philadelphia
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Because it was on…
Back when I attended The Philadelphia College of Art, the city of Philadelphia was not wired for cable television while the surrounding suburbs had enjoyed the benefits of basic cable and perhaps a pay station like HBO or PRISM for … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, What's on TV?
Tagged 1980, 1980s, CBS, crab, crabs, Illustration, Island Claws, monster, PCA, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art
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The Fifth Beatle
This is another of The Photo Elective series of photographs that Tina, I and every other illustration major attending The Philadelphia College of Art were required to shoot, process and print. This is a self-portrait of Ms Garceau.
Posted in Photography, The Photo Elective
Tagged 1980s, analog, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, Tina Garceau, USA
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Seeing The Being
I sit and draw and watch TV. I always have. When I was little, I watched amiable announcer Bill “Wee Willie” Webber present hours of kids shows every afternoon as I drew cartoons on scratch pads, rolls of adding machine … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged 1980s, 1983, Amazon Prime, exploitation, grindhouse, horror, monster, Roku, The Being, vintage
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Gaiety Sandwich Shop — an Update
People constantly scour the Internet seeking the newest of the new. What I love about the Internet is that it is also a nearly infinite backlog of information. There is something for everyone, and something that may have been posted … Continue reading
Posted in Philadelphia, Photography, The Photo Elective
Tagged 1980s, 1982, analog, Gaiety Sandwich Shop, Joe Williams, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, vintage
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Almost All of Them Flops
This is a nicely printed flyer that was handed out at a comic book convention in the very early 1980s. On the opposite side of what’s pictured above was a list of horror and science fiction classics released by Universal … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1980s, horror, movies, science fiction, USA, vintage
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More Thoughts on Leaving Netflix
I have a few more thoughts bouncing around my brain pan on cancelling my Netflix subscription which I thought I would share with you. I have been a Netflix subscriber since the end of the 20th Century and practically all of … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged 1980s, cord cutter, entertainment, internet, Joe Williams, Netflix, PlutoTV, Popcornflix, Roku, Sketch, sketchbook, streaming, USA, VUDU
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Digital Clutter
This is a followup to my earlier post about the art school formerly known as The Philadelphia College of Art. Thanks to the Internet Archive which is probably the greatest site on the internet a number of odd, wonderful and … Continue reading
The Way It Was
This terrific map is from the 1982-83 Philadelphia College of Art catalog which I uncovered amid my clutter and marveled at the terrifically clean graphic design done well before anybody had heard of Illustrator, Freehand or CorelDraw. This was all … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Philadelphia
Tagged 1980s, Joe Williams, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, USA, vintage
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ARCO Park
Today we present a fairly decent view of the way things were. This is ARCO Park circa late 1970s/early 1980s. It sat on Broad Street between Spruce and Pine. It’s all gone now — swallowed up by the massive Kimmel … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Philadelphia
Tagged 1980s, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, vintage
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The Sketchbook from Heaven
In the past I have written about sketchbooks I have bought that seemed like a good idea at the point of purchase but failed miserably when put into practice. Either the sketchbooks looked handsome on the shelf and proved unwieldy … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1970s, 1980s, art, Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comic book, comics, doodles, drawing, Jet Pens, Joe Williams, monster, New Jersey, Philadelphia, science fiction, Sketch, sketchbook, USA
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A Long Time Ago About 4 Hours Away…
This is another of The Photo Elective series of photographs that Tina, I and every other illustration major attending The Philadelphia College of Art were required to shoot, process and print. My guess is that the notion of the class … Continue reading
Posted in News, The Photo Elective
Tagged 1980s, analog, black and white, Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut, Gremlin, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage, Windham
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She’ll Be Back
Here’s another of Tina Garceau’s Photo Elective self-portraits that I recently discovered. They were taken as part of a class assignment at The Philadelphia College of Art. Fortunately I found them because I think a stubborn humility would have prevented … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, The Photo Elective
Tagged 1980s, 35mm, analog, black and white, Pan-X, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage
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