Category Archives: 1980s

Guns N’ Roses – Pissing on Baltimore

“October 1987. Guns N’ Roses began a two-week tour of clubs in the college-heavy northeastern United States, beginning at Long Island’s Sundance club in Bay Shore on October 16. After the next night’s gig at a club at the Allentown … Continue reading

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Halloween in Essex, 1982

Essex was rockin’ back in the 80s! Click to enlarge.

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Santo Gold & “Blood Circus”

One of the most ridiculous infomercials archived by the folks at Ridiculous Infomercial Review is this one for the mother of all mondo bizarro videos, Santo Gold! Santo Gold Commercial This infomercial tries to do two very different tasks at … Continue reading

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Carousel Coupling at the City Fair

Anybody remember this infamous incident in the annals of Baltimore Babylon? I must have xeroxed a copy of the newspaper ad, which hangs to this day on my refrigerator… The infamous 1987 City Fair cartoon,  click for super-sized image. Close-up … Continue reading

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