John “Rotten” Lydon and John “Sid Vicious” Beverly helping police with their inquiries, London (1977)
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mastodon 4.7.3I mostly post random images that I find in digital archives. There's no theme or purpose, although they are obviously topics I am interested in. Some of the images are chosen for aesthetics, some for documentary/historical value (in my lonely judgment). I won't flood anyone's timeline.
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Dolly Parton posing next to her pinball machine, Charlotte, North Carolina (1979)
Chicago History Museum, Hedrich-Blessing Collection
Rockingham County Library bookmobile, North Carolina (1955)
North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
#YearPlaylist: 1972 Part 1
One of the more accessible ones of these?
I remember hearing Johnny Nash, the Staple Singers, and The Sweet on WLS-AM.
I must have a false memory of hearing the Jean Genie on the radio as a child - it only reached 71 on the US chart.
Most of the rest I didn't hear until the early '80s, or in some cases, much later.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf7faWAFuL4w
Remember when you didn’t have to charge your headphones?
That was awesome.
“Sharecropper woman worker, Southeast Missouri Farms” (1938)
Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration Photographs, NYPL
Queen's Square, Belfast (1955)
Bert Hardy
Urban landscape, Los Angeles by FONTANA Franco - 1979 - Turin Gallery for Modern and Contemporary Art, Italy
Forum Cafeteria, Madison Street, Chicago (1940)
Heinrich-Blessing, Chicago History Museum
Bay of Kotor, Montenegro (June 2026)
- Go to physio for injury
- Physio recommends fitness class
- Sustain new injury in last fitness class
- … go to physio?
I’m sure there’s a meme for this
Best thing heard in Manchester in about six months.
Pittsburgh, Pa. (1955)
W. Eugene Smith, Howard Greenberg Gallery
“S RRY GIRLS”
Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, New York (1935)
Berenice Abbott, NYPL
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@sk76/112909260601408055
I just twigged the moral. Previously I thought it was still talking about baseball, and that the "Main" was the field (or village green or whatever).
Instead it's saying baseball is a metaphor for the pursuits of the British Empire - "the Main" being, duh, the high seas.
"Example of a fully-fitted modern kitchen", UK (1960)
Photo: John Maltby / RIBA Collections
Una's, Ashington, Northumberland, England (1980)
Photo: Mik Critchlow / Side Gallery
Woman on Cathedral Lane, Dublin (1964)
Photo: Elinor Wiltshire / National Library of Ireland
"Queer things that will happen..." (1899)
Image: Chicago Tribune / Chicagology
"Unidentified girl poses in woods in costume" (ca. 1915)
Photo: William Davis Hassler / New-York Historical Society
“Self-Portrait. Playmate Hostess, NY, NY” (1978)
Photo: Merilyn Meisler
Highlights (for me) of the full 36 tracks listing of the Shane tribute album with Springsteen, U2, et al
https://www.spinmagazine.com/2026/07/u2-bob-geldof-shane-macgowan-tribute/
Well, does it?
The Slits at the Music Machine, London (1977)
Photo: Jill Furmanovsky / Rockarchive
Dublin (April 2026)
Sidewalk star
Fabric (ca. 1925)
Image: Marion Dorn / Metropolitan Museum of Art
DIY music in 1958
(from an article on the folk music boom as a rejection of TV and pop music)
From a collection of photographs of Ladino and indigenous people, Guatemala (1898-1950)
Photo: Center for Mesoamerican Research / British Library
Damien O'Neill, The Undertones (1980)
Pershing Hotel, Chicago (1963)
Photo: Sandor Demlinger /
WayOutWardell on Flickr
Presumably that is Sun Ra on the left.
Ballet Theatre Rehearsal Break, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City (1945)
Photo: Walker Evans / Metropolitan Museum of Art
Can't fight the seether
Wrigley organist plays Terence Trent D’Arby’s Wishing Well during Austin Wells’ AB.
And the old Tonight Show theme for Ryan McMahon.
Banshee Boilers
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Putting a picture of the soon to be displaced on the cover of your gentrification plan...
#YearPlaylist: 1980
The only ones I actually heard in 1980 are Ramones, Clash, Undertones, and Epicycle (they went to my school).
Quite a lot I listened to in the early 80s, though.
Some stuff I didn't get around to until five years later (Bunnymen, Funky 4 Plus 1)
And a few oddities I picked up on compilations this century.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQclYkh2u0vCloKRFJ8DMHkzbETzO83U
Ireland in transition (1926 census data coming this month)...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/release-census-ireland-1926-not-monocultural
Cubs fans - would I have any chance of rocking up to a mid week day game in late august and finding someone unloading tickets?
Replying to
@uncle_vinny@ohai.social I think I have some wired ones I got when I forgot to bring the wireless ones on a trip. I should see where they are…
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I was trying to find this online, with no luck. Wish I got a decent pic / scan at my friend's house. It's her late partner Tony (who I knew in the early 2000s)
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@Guillotine_Jones
Don't think so. It seems the Broadway production of West Side Story was in 1957-1959 and in a different theatre.
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@Chancerubbage I think skiffle was. Although it was seen as a youth phenomenon not adults. I read there were an estimated 10,000 skiffle groups at one point.