Peace and love, man. What set out to be a 3 day music festival on a dairy farm in upstate New York turned into a defining event in rock and roll history.
Posts Tagged: USA
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Baby Bobby
Bobby Fischer was just 13-years-old when he defeated American chess master Donald Byrne in 1956, marking the beginning of an extraordinary but difficult chess career.
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Marilyn Movie Maker
In 1955, Peter Mangone was a big-eared, fourteen-year-old Bronx boy with a deep love for Marilyn Monroe.
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Boy Scout Jamboree
These boots were made for walking! Two Venezuelan boy scouts departed Caracas on January 11, 1935 and walked 25 miles a day for two years in order to make it to the 1937 Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington DC.
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Rison Family Pictures
A collection of lovingly worn portraits and snapshots from the Rison Family Photograph collection.
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Rave Rave Rave!
above: a rave flyer from San Francisco, early 1990s.
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80 Blocks From Tiffanys
80 Blocks From Tiffanys is a 1979 documentary by Gary Weis following the lives of two gangs in the South Bronx, the Savage Nomads and Savage Skulls.
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Madonna Bar Mitzvah
httpv://youtu.be/I8XDo4lsa10
On March 14, 1992, Shaun Sperling stepped up to the bimah, read from the sacred torah, and completed his bar mitzvah, thus becoming a man according to Jewish custom.
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Philly Girls
1980s sass-a-tude! Rows of Philly brick houses and endless summer friendships.
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Special School #619
Left, a teen drug addict at Riverside Hospital is administered a shot in the arm.