Admirers of the Brutalist style John E. Fogarty Building hold a funeral for the building in Providence that is being torn down for a new hotel.
By: Steve – Staff photographer for 28 years at the Providence Journal.
Published on: March 17, 2017
Source: http://www.tout.com/m/egqq7c
Summer Regattas, Peter’s Cove, Blue Hill, Maine, 1934. Alida Donnell Milliken Camp filmed a 1934 sailing regatta and many other summertime activities, spending every summer of her life on the coast of Maine. To read more about this video, the collection it comes from, and to explore more of the holdings at Northeast Historic Film please visit oldfilm.org [Mrs. Frederic E. Camp Collection, Northeast Historic Film, Acc. 0672]
After a successful and thought-provoking New England Archivists spring meeting in Portland, ME – and with spring on the way! – we thought we’d share a film from the Northeast Historic Film collection. This film was recently uploaded to NHF’s YouTube page.
With to Brian’s (It’s Trash Culture) reference to Max Headroom’s Coca-Cola commercial, we thought we’d share with you this fun little gem from the wonderful folks at AV Geeks.
A motivational film for Coca-Cola deliverymen on cleaning their displays and “fronting” the product name in order to boost sales. Follows Chicago and rural Alabama deliverymen on their routes.
While eating lunch with a colleague recently the topic of cardboard cereal box records came up. “Wait, what!?” I said to my colleague (who is roughly fifteen years my senior) as he explained that back in the 1960s-1970s you could find cutout records on the back of certain cereal boxes and play them like you would a typical vinyl record.
After doing some research I learned that, in fact, these wacky novelty treats first appeared as early as the 1950s (the first on the back of a Wheaties box) and continued to be produced until the 1980s.
The Jackson Five, The Monkees, and The Archies were just a few of the different artists you could take home along with your Honeycombs or Raisin Bran.
Music wasn’t the only entertainment you could put into your ears over breakfast. Occasionally you would even find “Scary Stories” or “Spooky Tales” – which I’m sure proved to be an exciting find during the Halloween season.
And like most pop culture novelty items that weren’t necessarily created with longevity in mind, these cereal box records are now sought after by collectors of not just pop culture but also music and even advertising. As Oliver Wang points out in his CuePoint post, The Wacky, Wiggly, Razor-Thin World of the Flexi Disc, “Made using a special laminate that could be secured to cereal cartons, their charm had much to do with their incongruity:
one doesn’t normally expect to be able to cut a playable Monkees record off the back of a Honeycomb box. By design, most flexis were meant to be novelties and true to the term, here was a truly novel creation.”
A historical documentary about the construction of the staircase between the Mystic Housing Project and a nearby elementary school, in order to ensure the students’ safety to and from school. The documentary covers the years between 1976 to 1982. – Archive.org
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