If you grew up as a pre-teen or a teenager in the Bay Area in the 1990s, urban radio composed the soundtrack to your coming of age.
Back In The Day
Monthly Archives: March 2012
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Teen Polyglot
Timothy Donner is a sixteen-year-old boy living in Manhattan.
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This World Is Bullshit
httpv://youtu.be/GSLwYrPbuts
Fiona Apple was 19-years-old when she released Tidal, her debut album that turned triple platinum and sold 2.7 million copies in the US alone.
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Mill Girl Murder
From the 1830s-1850s young women in their late teens to early twenties flocked to New England to work in factories.
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Samo on TV Party
httpv://youtu.be/f-Yv7j2cGAs
In 1979, a nineteen-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat appeared on Glenn O’Brien’s infamous TV Party public access show.
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I Remember Being Born…
httpv://youtu.be/sjivdFnjP1Q
Before her role as Steph in The Goonies and before she ever met River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton started off her career modeling in New York City.
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Seventeen
httpv://vimeo.com/36651048
In the early 80’s PBS aired the deceptively simple but fascinating six-part documentary series Middletown.
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Brooklyn Sons & Daughters
Before The Selby, An Afternoon With and Teenage Bedroom—there was The Nooney Brooklyn Photographs–documenting the homes and interiors of your average Brooklyn family.
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Children On Trial
Jack Lee’s 1946 film, Children On Trial follows the rehabilitation of two young delinquents and their successful pass through the British justice system.
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Miss Iran, 1978
Before the Isamlic revolution of 1979 in Iran, there were the beauty pageants of 1978 in Iran.