1974 Ads: Other Venues and Miscellany, Part 4

7/4/74 issue:

7/4/74 "Scenes" column excerpt.

7/11/74 issue:

I remember being terrified when my sister took me to meet him at the Queens Boulevard/Elmhurst location.

7/18/74 issue:

I used to read about that Stick contraption in the guitar magazines.

Centerfold section excerpt.

7/18/74 "Scenes" excerpt--yet another quintessential New York beverage.  I myself preferred their "Cream sody," as my Pops pronounced it.

7/25/74 issue:

7/25/74 "Scenes" column excerpt.

8/1/74 issue:

Did this eventually evolve into Beatlemania?  My sister took me to that too, and thankfully it didn't scare me out of my wits.

8/8/74 issue:

More Atlantic appearances.

8/15/74 issue:

8/15/74 "Scenes" column sidebar.

8/22/74 issue:

Upcoming Atlantic artists' appearances.

What the heck was this--a new use for the old Electric Circus premises?

Excerpt from a fascinating 8/22/74 article on the financial underpinnings of the LSD era.

Note that the Academy of Music is listed here--during daytime hours it still operated as a movie theater.

8/22/74 "Scenes" excerpt.  The last line was cut off--"rock and roll gossip."  Was that history of rock magazines ever completed?  I know Betrock did eventually put out a guidebook to teen mags called Hitsville, but the closest thing I can think of to what's described above is Paul Gorman's In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press. 

He was that tall character actor with the unforgettably homely mug.  I remember him best as the biology teacher in Fast Times at Ridgemont High but he was in a zillion things.

8/29/74 issue:

A simple yet effective sketch--I think I would have recognized them even if CSNY weren't mentioned at all.

8/29/74 "Scenes" column excerpt.

"Centerfold" section excerpt.  That can't possibly be the same Bamboo club that the Jersey Shore cast alternates with Karma, can it?