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Telling stories from the past, one tiny advertisement at a time
Kim Deal is the coolest.
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Birth to the Pixies
This month marks 40 years since the founding of the band Pixies. It all came together when Kim Deal answered an ad in the Boston Phoenix. Black Francis and Joey Santiago were looking for a woman…
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The mustache is an obvious focal point. But also, those bangs!
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The number in the bottom right corner, for those of you who are wondering, refers to the issue in which the ad would've expired. In this case, September 11, 1996. [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]
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Anyone else love Ronnie?
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Distaste for dance clubs [Los Angeles Reader, Aug 9, 1996]
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The story of Oney Judge, Martha Washington's slave who ran away to freedom
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George and Martha Washington had more than 300 slaves in their lifetimes, and they had to place ads in the newspaper on at least two occasions trying to get back ones who had run away. #blackhistory #...
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Someone stole the bird's nest out of the cemetery. [The National Police Gazette, June 12, 1847] This could be a prompt for the next Knives Out,
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Not enough onomatopoeia in personal ads, if you ask me [The Advocate, Dec 27, 1978]
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What did Kathie Lee Gifford ever do to this guy? [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]
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Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]
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Are you the piece she's missing? [The New York Review of Books, Feb 9, 1978]
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The VHSDates videos are so not real but still so good
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Anyone else love VHS Dates? The videos aren’t really from the 1980s or 1990s, but they are brilliant. #vhsdates
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How did Steve meet people? In the personals, of course
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Meet Steve, another interview subject from Armand Weston’s 1972 film, PERSONALS #lgbt #lgbtqhistory
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I like big buts [The Advocate, Apr 29, 1986]
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Yabba dabba do!
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Philosophical Flintstones question in the personal ads
The waitress carrying the slab of dinosaur ribs is in the closing credits, not the opening sequence, but anyway! New Times Los Angeles, Oct 3, 1996 #flintstones #theflintstones #1990s #1960s…
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Ernest Hemingway had a six-toed cat, you know [The California Aggie, Jan 9, 1970]
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I feel this. [The California Aggie, May 21, 1986]
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Arms or legs — your call [The Advocate, May 9, 1989]
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He's here. He's queer. [New Times Los Angeles, Oct 3, 1996]
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With the passage of time, I see these ads, um, differently.
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Soloflex Body
These commercials were all over TV in the 1980s. The Advocate, May 9, 1989.
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East Coast savvy and West Coast looks [New Times Los Angeles, Sept 12, 1996]
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Don't wait! [Los Angeles Reader, Aug 9, 1996]
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Honest, moral, non-religious. [New Times Los Angeles, Oct 3, 1996]
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Bluesky is great — the best! — but you can follow me on other platforms too.
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Classified History
Tiny ads. Big stories.
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His editing career didn't go far, apparently
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Dashiell Hammett: Criticism of Prose Fiction
Before he made it big as a writer of hardboiled detective stories, Dashiell Hammett tried to make a buck (per thousand words) editing the work of others. This ad appeared in Writer's Digest in 1924.…
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Did this woman ever find her swishy straight man? [New Times Los Angeles, Sept 12, 1996 & Oct 3, 1996]
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Insert some kind of quip about Ryan Lizza, Olivia Nuzzi and Keith Olbermann here [Pittsburgh City Paper, June 17, 2009]
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Ginger Baker was the drummer of Cream. He was known for long, meandering solos. Bruce Springsteen didn't want that. He wanted an accompanist, and he found Max Weinberg. [The Village Voice, Aug 8, 1974]
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No drugs. No games. [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]
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Vampires!
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They used to just print magazines like this. Every week.
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I too am turned on by ads [Swingers World Magazine ,1973]
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Davy Jones was the first musician picked for the Monkees. He was super cute, so that was an easy decision. To help find the other members, the producers placed ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter in September 1965.
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The Monkees classified ad
Davy Jones was the first musician picked for the Monkees. He was super cute, so that was an easy decision. To help find the other members, the producers placed ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood…
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Diane Keaton was a great actress. Perhaps this wasn’t her most famous scene, but it was a defining role, and it included a reference to the Personals column on the New York Review of Books.
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Did Monkey ever find a rich old lady? [The San Francisco Oracle, 1968]
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These commercials were all over TV in the 1980s. [The Advocate, May 9, 1989]
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"Personals" was a 1972 film featuring interviews with people who placed ads in adult publications. The film also included reenactments of what happened after the interviewees met up with strangers from those ads.
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Armand Weston interviews the people behind personal ads
Directed by Armand Weston, PERSONALS was a 1972 film featuring interviews with people who placed personal ads in adult publications. The film also included reenactments of what happened after the…
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“Callipygian” is New York Review of Books for “great ass” [The New York Review of Books, Feb 9, 1978]
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Long lasting relationship [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]
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Sancho paid the bills
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Carolina A. Miranda
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One of the bummers of losing real deal newspapers is that you'll be reading an article about territorial disputes and just below that you'll find a classified in search of a lost cat named Sancho.
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Bro is a rose is a rose is a rose [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]
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Media-opoly
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This cartoon from Robert Smigel aired on Saturday Night Live in 1998. It was removed in subsequent reruns. #abc #disney #jimmykimmel #fcc
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Really hard to narrow down who might’ve placed this ad.
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Robert Redford RIP
The Village Voice, Jan 2, 1978. #robertredford
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Robert Redford, RIP [The Village Voice, Jan 2, 1978]
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Be like Mike [Seven Days, Nov 13, 1996]
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"By the conventional standards of the community, you three people live under somewhat unusual circumstances"
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In 1972, Armand Weston interviewed people who placed personal ads. The resulting film, PERSONALS, also featured reenactments of scenes described in those interviews. #personals #personalads #1970s #hi...
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