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Tag Archives: 1981
I wonder what Valerie Perrine is up to
A buddy of mine has been haunting flea markets and online auctions looking to feed his unquenchable hunger for old comic books and magazines. He managed to score this issue of Playgirl’s Games for Lovers from March of 1981 as … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1981, clutter, Jenner, magazine, Perrine, Playgirl
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Inside Bill’s No. 7
Here’s another scanned 35mm negative in the Photo Elective category. This one was from the interior of a fantastic old diner on Main Street in downtown Willimantic, Connecticut. Through the window you can see Willimantic’s famous foot bridge. All sophomore … Continue reading
DUCKWORK • October 1981
[pdf-embedder url=”https://willceau.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DUCKWORK_Number_4.pdf”] I was settling into my freshman or foundation year at the Philadelphia College of Art when this issue of the school’s quasi-newspaper was published. I have written about this particular issue previously on this website, but I’ve recently … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Philadelphia
Tagged 1981, 20th century, art school, Comico, DUCKWORK, PCA, Philadelphia
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DUCKWORK April 1981
Embedded below is a PDF of the April 1981 edition of DUCKWORK which was CREATED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF ART COMMUNITY. It was a newspaper put together by PCA students for PCA students, and I found a pile of … Continue reading
DUCKWORK
Back in the fall of 1981 when I was starting my freshman year at The Philadelphia College of Art, DUCKWORK was the school’s quasi-official newspaper. It was produced by some of the fellows who went on to become independent comic … Continue reading
Femme Fatale
This is another of Tina Garceau’s shots from a photography elective that all illustration majors were required to take at The Philadelphia College of Art.
Posted in The Photo Elective
Tagged 1980s, 1981, analog, black and white, film noir, Pan-X, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, scan, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage
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Heading Toward 15th & Locust
Tina Garceau behind the lens again on the streets of Philadelphia some time in the very early ’80s.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Photography, The Photo Elective
Tagged 1980s, 1981, analog, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage
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Walking Up 15th
Tina Garceau was one of many illustration majors at The Philadelphia College of Art forced to required to take an elective course in photography. She and an army of other art students scoured the streets of The City of Brotherly … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Philadelphia, Photography, The Photo Elective
Tagged 15th, 1980s, 1981, 35mm, analog, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, scan, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage
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Walking West on Locust
Here’s another shot of the corner of Broad & Locust shot by the fabulous Tina Garceau back at the dawn of the 1980s. It seems she liked shooting at this particular corner which is about a block from where the … Continue reading


