IT'S ALL THE STREETS YOU CROSSED NOT SO LONG AGO: January 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

1972 Ads: Villageast

1972 Voice ads for the Villageast, a.k.a. Village East, the successor to the Fillmore East. Any similarity to Jeremiah VNY's post today on the Village East movie theater a few blocks uptown (previously the Yiddish Folks Theater, the Phoenix, the Gayety, the Eden, and the Entermedia) is purely coincidental! I'm reminded of the time I first heard a reference to a rock venue called the Village East, when Bob Gruen mentioned the 12/23/72 Dolls/Teenage Lust/Magic Tramps show in the commentary of his All Dolled Up DVD. At the time I wasn't sure what the immediate post-Fillmore East incarnations of the building were called, and was confused enough to wonder if he was referring to the former Yiddish Folks.

5/4 and 6/15/72 issues, full-age ad.

6/22/72 issue.

8/31/72 issue.

11/2/72 issue--full-page and originally printed sideways.

11/9/72 issue.

12/14/72 issue.

12/21/72 issue.

12/21/72 "Cheap Thrills" column.

12/28/72 issue.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

1972 Ads: Mercer Arts Center

Selected 1972 Voice ads for the Mercer Arts Center. See more Mercer N.Y. Dolls ads here.

5/11/72 issue.

5/18/72 "Riffs" column.

6/22/72 issue.

6/29/72 issue.

8/3/72 issue.

8/10/72 issue.

8/24/72 "Riffs" column. St. Adrian's managed to hold on until October; here's an article about its closing from the 10/19/72 issue. See also an article about the deplorable living conditions at the University Hotel (a.k.a. the Broadway Central) in the 11/2/72 issue.

9/28/72 issue. "Official"-looking ads like this, replete with logo, didn't seem to start appearing until the fall issues.

9/28/72 issue.

10/5/72 issue.

10/12/72 issue. Separate ads were usually run in both the "cafes/clubs/coffeehouses" section and the theater pages, but in this issue I only spotted one ad in the theater section.