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Category Archives: 1980s
Tesco Vee Sells His Soul to Visit Baltimore, “Capital of Sleaze”!
WAY USA host Tesco Vee makes a pact with the Devil to meet John Waters! In 1988, MTV was still cool, if only for one show. Way USA was an ultra-cool, albeit short-lived, underground travel series that aired on MTV … Continue reading
Posted in "The Block", 1980s, Baltimore Babylon, Baltimorons, Celebrities, Decades, Dining, Dreamlanders, Entertainment, John Waters, Neighborhoods, Nightlife, Roadside Attractions, Sex, Uncategorized, Vices
Tagged jean hill, john waters, tesco vee, the block, way usa
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Edith Massey: Edith’s Shopping Bag, 1980
Edith Massey [Edith’s Shopping Bag] South Broadway, Baltimore, Maryland 1980 Elinor B. Cahn 8×10 inch photograph The East Baltimore Documentary Photography Project Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society 1982.19.1.132 Copyright Elinor B. Cahn, 1980. Full-sized image at Maryland … Continue reading
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Baltimore 98 Rock Street Sheet (1983)
Flash on back to 1983 with the electrifyingly Nagel-esque “98 Rock Street Sheet” — an advertising supplement fueled by a Canadian Moosehead/Molson knock-off beer. (What the hell IS Calgary Beer?) The “Street Sheet” features a Franken and Davis cover story about their upcoming … Continue reading
Posted in 1980s, Baltimorons, William Donald Schaefer
Tagged 98 rock, alana shor, bootcamp, crack the sky, shor patrol
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1983 BalTimOre Thanksgiving Parade Takeover
Give us this day a conquered nation so many more may suffer starvation Thanks to Vermin Supreme for his Facebook posting of this classic holiday stunt that was masterminded by BalTimOre, the estwhile Charm City outsider artist provocateur/agit-prankster extraordinaire who … Continue reading
Posted in 1980s, Baltimore Babylon, Baltimorons, Holidays, Kitsch, Pranks, Roadside Attractions, Thanksgiving
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