Shut up, Macy’s
OK, let me get this straight [sic]. Macy’s takes a song from the musical Rent, originally written to be sung at the funeral of a gay non-white drag queen, from a show about the East Village being...
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it’s great not to be dead!
From a safety pamphlet entitled “It’s Great to be Alive!” that accompanied a 1968 Schwinn bike — charmingly blogged about here and here. I hate when that happens.
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vintage ads … with SEXISM!
So this page of unnerving ads (thanks to Crazy Days and Nights for the link) — it is WHOA. No joke, I'm almost sure this is Denise Richards. More here.
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please post conspicuously
A U.S. Department of Fisheries promotional campaign from 1911. Thanks, Julie…
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fun with history
Lovely little history of the Pyramid Club building (at 101 Avenue A) on Bowery Boogie today. The writer, an educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum named Allison B. Siegel, traces the address...
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magic, snazzy children’s books, seltzer and comedy
Here’s a visit to the New-York Historical Society’s “Summer of Magic” show. David Copperfield’s hair, in person, was MESMERIZING. And check out this 80-year-old Polish children’s book classic, now...
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all the stuff
Look, it’s turn-of-the-century swimming champ Rose Pitonof, aka “The Coney Island Mermaid”! Star of tobacco trading cards and Steeplechase Pier! On the eve of Yom Kippur, is it okay to ask for an...
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