Mostly vintage (up through 1980s) New York.

5th May 2013

Photoset with 81 notes

Electric Circus, St. Marks Place, 1967 (source)

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29th April 2013

Photo with 37 notes

Day-Glo image from the Electric Circus, interior

Day-Glo image from the Electric Circus, interior

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28th April 2013

Photo with 51 notes

Opening of The Electric Circus (source)

Inside, people danced, sweated, pushed and blinked. The few Linear Conceptualizers quit immediately. There was the Poet of Pop, Tom Wolfe, and the Fugs’s Tuli Kupferberg, and novelist Mary McCarthy, and Kennedy-in-law Steve Smith, and folk-singer David Blue, and halfback George Plimpton. It looked like the cover of the next Beatles’ album. The New Frontier met the Underground, while the Beautiful People kept score.

Opening of The Electric Circus (source)

Inside, people danced, sweated, pushed and blinked. The few Linear Conceptualizers quit immediately. There was the Poet of Pop, Tom Wolfe, and the Fugs’s Tuli Kupferberg, and novelist Mary McCarthy, and Kennedy-in-law Steve Smith, and folk-singer David Blue, and halfback George Plimpton. It looked like the cover of the next Beatles’ album. The New Frontier met the Underground, while the Beautiful People kept score.

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27th April 2013

Photo with 39 notes

Tompkins Sq Park, June 1, 1967 (source)

Tompkins Sq Park, June 1, 1967 (source)

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26th April 2013

Photo with 49 notes

Light show at the Electric Circus (source)

*note:* Sorry about the small size; many photos of that era were small and low-res.

Light show at the Electric Circus (source)

*note:* Sorry about the small size; many photos of that era were small and low-res.

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25th April 2013

Photo with 63 notes

Tompkins Sq Park, Memorial Day 1967 (source)

Tompkins Sq Park, Memorial Day 1967 (source)

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24th April 2013

Photo with 78 notes

Peace Eye Bookstore, Greenwich Village, NYC (late 1960s)

(source)

Peace Eye Bookstore, Greenwich Village, NYC (late 1960s)

(source)

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9th October 2012

Photo reblogged from The New Manhattanite with 82 notes

thenewmanhattanite:

Central Park, Manhattan, 1973 by Alécio de Andrade.

thenewmanhattanite:

Central Park, Manhattan, 1973 by Alécio de Andrade.

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5th October 2012

Photo with 94 notes

“Couple Kissing,” by Paul McDonough, early 1970s

“Couple Kissing,” by Paul McDonough, early 1970s

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2nd October 2012

Photo with 133 notes

Central Park, 1970  (link)

Central Park, 1970 (link)

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