Back in the day arcades were prime teenage gathering places, usually located inside a mall or beachside boardwalk.
Posts Tagged: 1970s
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BBC2’s Something Else
httpv://youtu.be/vaI9IFgBI08
BBC2’s 1979 saturday evening program, “Something Else,” was the first example of television that targeted a youth audience in the UK.
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Alex Chilton at 17
httpv://youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw
Before he was a rock icon and the frontman of seminal power pop band Big Star, Alex Chilton had huge commercial success as the teen frontman of the Box Tops.
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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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Miss Iran, 1978
Before the Isamlic revolution of 1979 in Iran, there were the beauty pageants of 1978 in Iran.
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Looking Back On Joyce Maynard
Joyce Maynard was writing for Seventeen Magazine when she was still a teenage prep school student at Phillips Exeter Academy.
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Poster Youth
La Raza Community Centre offered a variety of activities and support for local youth of San Diego during the late 70s–early 80s.
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Iggy and the Stooges, Farmington High
Seriously punk pics of Iggy Pop performing to grateful students at Farmington High School in Oakland, Michigan on December 5, 1970.
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Street Snaps
Prolific photographer Martha Cooper captured the gritty culture of New York City streets during the 1970s and ’80s.
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Deep End
Deep End is about love in the most unlikely, and humid, of places.