What kind of map? [New Times Los Angeles, Sept 12, 1996]

When the first thing you're seeking in a partner is a power imbalance... [New Times Los Angeles, Feb 6, 1997]

Lowrider magazine used to have a whole section devoted to dedications

Superb lover [The New York Review of Books, Feb 9, 1978]

This ad created the Spice Girls.

No dogs? GTFO! [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]

The Haight Ashbury Free Press, 1968

New Times Los Angeles, Nov 21, 1996

Screw, Dec 22, 1969

Just me rooting around the archives again. Dig this ad by the old May Co. department store welcoming LACMA to the neighborhood in 1965.

New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996

Shane seems like the kind of guy who will refer you back to the ad if you ask any questions already addressed in the ad [The Advocate, Dec 27, 1978]

Must be able to sing, dance and tell me what you want, what you really really want

Choose your late ‘70s literate New York avatar [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]

with apologies to @xkcd.com

Mods, lads, guys, marines and Tears for Fears fans in NME in the early 1980s

"Surfing is out of this world. You can't imagine the thrill of the shooting the curl. It positively surpasses every living emotion I've ever had." -- Gidget [Los Angeles Reader, Aug 9, 1996]

I read Solider of Fortune magazine for the ads

Very good looking, truly [New Times Los Angeles, Sept 12, 1996]

And I thought Soldier of Fortune was just a magazine read by weird 12-year-old boys...

He's not really giving us much info about himself — or maybe he is? [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]

Six word short story [Thousand Oaks Star, May 4, 1988]

Super, super big things and super, super big bubble butts for friendship [BLK, Jan 1991]

Mom: We've got Bill Clinton at home. [New Times Los Angeles, Feb 6, 1997]

I don't even recall how I first wound up in the archives of the California Aggie, but there have been so many short stories in that paper's personals section over the years. [The California Aggie, Mar 16, 1965]

I always wonder how many of these people ended up succumbing to doom-scrolling 20 years later after decrying channel surfing.

Back when not owning a TV was a personality [New Times Los Angeles, Feb 6, 1997]

I absolutely love this uneven typewriter, especially the way the word "calling" came out [The Haight Ashbury Free Press, 1968]

Sounds kind of painful actually [New Times Los Angeles, Feb 6, 1997]

The Love Lines column in Lowrider Magazine was a gem. [Lowrider, Sept 1993]

Release the files! [The Village Voice, Mar 2, 1967]

I look at a lot of old newspapers, and I know a fair amount about history, but I still have trouble believing some of what I read, right out there in the open

I think this is some kind of device that electrocutes you if you get turned on? [The National Police Gazette, Oct 21, 1905]

Happy Valentine's Day! [Gay Community News, Feb 15, 1986]

Squeezer and Turbo [Lowrider, Nov 1995]

Spotted in the missed connections section of the local Little Village magazine.

Surely this couldn't have been hard to find in 1970s New York [The Village Voice, Aug 8, 1974]

Attractive and vigorous. Married. [The New York Review of Books, Feb 9, 1978]

When you think it's about one thing but then you keep reading. [The Village Voice, Jan 26, 1967]

Kim Deal is the coolest.

The mustache is an obvious focal point. But also, those bangs!

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]

Anyone else love Ronnie?

Distaste for dance clubs [Los Angeles Reader, Aug 9, 1996]

The story of Oney Judge, Martha Washington's slave who ran away to freedom

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, @rianjohnson.bsky.social

Not enough onomatopoeia in personal ads, if you ask me [The Advocate, Dec 27, 1978]

What did Kathie Lee Gifford ever do to this guy? [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]

Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]