Category Archives: Edith Massey

Ramones play Essex’s Seagull Inn (2/4/1979)

Ramones at the Seagull: Stripped-down, honest rock is their stock in trade By Tom Basham (Baltimore Sun 2/9/1979) The Ramones came to town this week. They drove down from New York city Sunday in a window van. Their guitars, drums, … Continue reading

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Edith Massey and Divine Xmas Cards

Santa Claus Is A Black man – AKIM & The Teddy Vann Production Company (from A John Waters Christmas, available SIGNED at Atomic Books!) More Christmas in Dreamland including Christmas videdo clips from “Female Trouble” at the Official Divine Website.

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Inside Edie’s Thrift Shop, 1973

Click photo for hi-res image “Edie, part-time actress and full-time mother figure for underground movie stars, examines an electrical appliance she was given in her Preston street shop.”

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Desperate Living Set Dismantled, 1977

(The Baltimore Sun, 3/27/1977) “On a farm near Hampstead, a block-long set costing $7,000 was built for Mortville, the queen’s ragtag capital in ‘Desperate Living.’ The set also included the wicken queen’s castle.” Notes from back of photo: “Worker dismantling … Continue reading

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Schocking Dundalk

The Go-Go’s Gina Schock was Dundalk born and bred as evidenced by this “Evening Magazine” clip from the 1980s produced by Tom D’Antoni. Baltimore accents are aplenty with her parents and Edith Massey chiming in. The Go-Go’s Notebook: Gina Drumming … Continue reading

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