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"suburban kid, got no name" etc. I mostly post random images that I find in digital archives. No theme or purpose, but topics include Chicago, Ireland, London, UK, USA, music, social history, street photography, et al. Not a bot. Contae Chill Mhantáin

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · Nov 11

State Street, Chicago (1975)
Photo: Chicago History Museum

1975 photo of State Street, Chicago, at night, main subjects being the State Lake and Chicago theatres, both cinemas at the time, with one showing The Godafather Part II with Al Pacino and the other showing The Towering Inferno. Shadowy figures walk under the marquee lights, a somewhat "noir" image.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 16h

1984

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Elvis Presley fans still flock to the dead singer’s house because he made them feel sexy and they want assurance he went to heaven, a psychologist says.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 17h

Elvis Presley performs at the Chicago Stadium (1972)
 Photo: Jack Lenahan, Chicago Sun-Times collection

View of a man from behind who is wearing a white form fitting (but flared at the lower legs) body suit decorated with rhinestones or similar. He appears to be dancing or posing under a spotlight on stage.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 18h

A still from a 1962 TV series about existentialism called Self Encounter, Episode 5; "Hell is Others"

Image: KRMA-TV (Denver) / American Archive of Public Broadcasting

A woman in cat eye glasses and severe hair style sits in a chair talking with eyes closed. A modern art painting is behind her.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 19h

Portola Redwoods State Park, Calif. (2018)

View from the ground looking up at very tall leafy trees, with the sun shining through a gap and clear sky seen in another.

The trunk of a redwood tree, with a hollow opening.

Looking at tall leafy trees from below, with certain areas bright from sunlight.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 21h

Mick Jones of The Clash (1979)
 Photo: Pennie Smith / Armadigeon Times No. 2

View of a large mostly empty room with a man sitting and eating at a table near a curtain with an Exit sign above it.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 22h

Piccadilly Circus (1915) 
Image: Muirhead Bone / Boston Public Library

Print of an etching of a city scene at night.
From source: A view of Piccadilly Circus as seen by night from the Quadrant, with the County Fire office on the left, the Pavilion near the middle, and the Criterion to the right, beyond Mr. Alfred Gilbert's fountain. The Circus is full of traffic, among the most conspicuous objects being a motor car stationed near the kerb on the left, and a mounted soldier advancing towards Regent Street on the right. The sky is very dark, but is crossed by the rays of searchlights while a strong light is thrown downwards from the electric street lamps, which have their tops obscured in accordance with the special war regulations which prevailed during the winter of 1914-15. The composition is complete and the work is approximately finished, but the general effect is much lighter than in the published states, and the rays from the searchlights cross the whole width of the sky instead of only partially penetrating its gloom.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 14h

Guitarist Little Pat Rushing on Maxwell Street, Chicago (1983)

Photo: James Newberry / Chicago Historical Society

View taken from ground level looking up at a guitar player standing outdoors with a bass player sitting. There are several standing onlookers, including one man in foreground who may be dancing.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 16h

1984

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 17h

Elvis Presley performs at the Chicago Stadium (1972)
 Photo: Jack Lenahan, Chicago Sun-Times collection

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 18h

A still from a 1962 TV series about existentialism called Self Encounter, Episode 5; "Hell is Others"

Image: KRMA-TV (Denver) / American Archive of Public Broadcasting

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 19h

Portola Redwoods State Park, Calif. (2018)

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 21h

Mick Jones of The Clash (1979)
 Photo: Pennie Smith / Armadigeon Times No. 2

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 22h

Piccadilly Circus (1915) 
Image: Muirhead Bone / Boston Public Library

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

Jack Kerouac reading at the Seven Arts Cafe in New York City

Burt Glinn, 1959

a man in a rain coat and beret, stood reading from a piece of paper in a busy cafe.

It is not Daniel Craig...

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

Good shout. But street view is only offering me 2025 and 2018 for this address...will check out Google earth

SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

They were looking for staff from 1964 to 1972

Maybe it was '72 when they were forced to stop advertising jobs with a 72 hour work week!

Scans of newspaper classified ads for job listings at Germ Proof Cleaners

SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

Really frustrated I can't find a proper colour pic of the sign, but you can sort of see the purplish/blue hue on the back of this record by the artist Wazmo Nariz

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

This place closed down in the early 1980s but stood defiantly with its distinctive blue sign and space age name until some time after 2006, when it was finally torn down.

Photo: Debora Drower / Flickr

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

Germ Proof Cleaners, Rogers Park, Chicago (1987)

Photo: Robert W. Krueger / Chicago Public Library

View of a commercial building with the sign Germ Proof Cleaners, 5 Hour Service, with cars parked on the sidewalk and street in front of it.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

Dinah Shore (ca. 1940s)

Photo: Capitol Records / University of Missouri--Kansas City

Dinah Shore standing in the open cockpit of an airplane. Shore is wearing work overalls and looking down while smiling.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the Road A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years. The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published. Continue reading...

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Emmet Mojo McA @mojomca.bsky.social · 1d

I'm named after the man!
There are no statues of me, as yet. But someday, you wait and see...

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

Whoever wrote this is deeply fucking uncool.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow...

Dinah Shore - Blues In The Night (1942)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNyU...

Dinah Shore - Blues In The Night

YouTube video by NM Catalogue

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

The one in Dublin is a copy cast in 1968 from the original from 1916 (seen here, located in Washington, DC), created by Irish sculptor Jerome Connor.

Pretty sure the one in SF is also a copy of this one.

A statue of a man on a pedestal in a park.

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