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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 15m

29 (I’m including DC!) plus two asterisk cases: AK (drove through, did stop for gas), NH (*think* I was there as a youngster but not sure)

My big gaps are the Plains, Mountain, and Southwest states and oddly enough, northern New England (lived in NJ for almost 30 years)

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 5h

Theme song sung by Johnny Nash of “I Can See Clearly Now” fame!

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 16h

Got to see this silent classic on the big screen with live accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer

Title card for THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) starring Lon Chaney

Intro screen for Milwaukee’s Oriental Theater with a gentlemen playing the Wurlitzer organ, just before he and the instrument descend into the pit

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 18h

<Jim Ross voice> MAH GAWD!!! SUB-ZERO ISN’T EVEN IN THE DC MULTIVERSE!!!!

(ok, I realize there have been some crossovers but roll with me here)

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 19h

NYCC ’25: Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat to appear in DC KO, along with other characters

At the annual Jim Lee and Friends panel at NYCC, the publisher revealed Sub-Zero and other well-known characters are coming to DC KO.

NYCC ’25: Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat to appear in DC KO, along with other characters

At the annual Jim Lee and Friends panel at NYCC, the publisher revealed Sub-Zero and other well-known characters are coming to DC KO.

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 21h

👍 I’d say the Detroit book is the strongest of the 3 as it deals with the break-up of the Supremes, John Sinclair and the Yippies, along with the riots. The Harlem book is relatively the weakest maybe because the music aspects of the books aren’t as focused or centralized as in the other two cities

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 21h

2/2 NYC recs

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire (Hermes) - Five years (1973-1977) in NYC that saw the birth of disco, salsa, hip-hop and punk

This Must Be the Place (Rifkin) - history of various NYC music scenes and communities with a special focus on the venues that hosted them in the ‘50s-‘10s

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s 1/2 NYC recs—some of the same ground as Dream Palace but from different angles

The Village (Strausbaugh)-history of Greenwich Village

The Downtown Pop Underground (McLeod) - art, music, theater, film, etc. scenes in downtown NYC during the ‘60’s-’70s

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 21h

Detroit ‘67, Memphis ‘68, Harlem ‘69 (Cosgrove) - book series that goes month-by-month dovetailing the stories of the music scenes in the respective cities Motown/MC5, Stax, Summer of Soul, etc—with the major events of the day—Detroit riots, MLK assassination, Black Panthers

Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul by Stuart Cosgrove

The Epic Story of Motown and Detroit's Independent Soul Music Scene It’s January 1967—and one of ...

app.thestorygraph.com

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 23h

And since you’re a technologist, you might find The Idea Factory interesting, it’s a history of Bell Labs where basically the cornerstones of today’s technology were created

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner

A sweeping, atmospheric history of Bell Labs that highlights its unparalleled role as an incubat...

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 23h

Really too many to list but I’m a sucker for anything on music scenes/cities/communities and anything NYC art & music scene-wise in the 20th century so hmu if you’re looking for something in that vein

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