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Category Archives: 1980s
Serious Comics: 1987 Baltimore Comic Book Stores article
By Lou Maistros (Baltimore City Paper, 10/30/1987) Click to enlarge images:
Posted in 1980s, Shopping
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Crack the Sky Cracks the Video Market (1982)
By Tom Basilan (Baltimore Sun, July 2, 1982) The hour was late. The auditorium lights in Painters Mill Star Theater were dimmed while the stage lights gleamed. The 1982 model Crack the Sky, fully equipped with a horn section and … Continue reading
“Alternatively Yours”: City Paper founder Russ Smith profiled in Johns Hopkins Magazine
While reading Rafael Alvarez’s Crabtown, USA, I came across the chapter on his early days at City Squeeze, the self-published tabloid founded in 1977 by Johns Hopkins grads Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch, which became the City Paper in 1978. As Alvarez observed, the … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, Baltimorons, Media, Uncategorized
Tagged baltimore sun, city paper, city squeeze, johns hopkins university, rafael alvarez, russ smith
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