By Mark | October 19, 2018
Ever wonder what #Ypsilanti looked like in the summer of #1970? Well, thanks to my friend Barry LaRue, now we know. Here's the recently unearthed 8mm footage shot by LarRue when he was 14. Note the old Michigan Ave porn shop, and the "Art" theater. https://t.co/FYgRSroVDx — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) October 19, 2018 I’ve now […]
By Mark | October 8, 2018
Back when I used to have the radio show, I would occasionally get messages from a listener in Colorado. For the purposes of this post, we’ll call him Jeff… Well, Jeff, in one of our conversations, let it be known that he’d not only spent a good part of the ‘70s in Ypsilanti, but that […]
Posted in History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 16mm, 1972, 1976, 8mm, adult films, Alibi Bar, amyl nitrate, Bill Clinton, Bimbo’s, blue collar, chronic masturbation, Cleveland, College Pharmacy, commissions, customer service, deep throat, Doc Johnson, Eruption, escort services, factories, General Tom Thumb, glory holes, Green Room, Hungry Charlie’s, independent retail, John Holmes, Kroger, Larry’s Tropical Fish, Martha Washington Theater, masturbation, Michigan Avenue, Michigan Avenue Bookstore, mopping, oral history, peep shows, porn, prostitution, quarters, Reuben Sturman, Ron Braverman, semen, sex toys, Spaghetti Bender, Swedish Erotica, The Deuce, The Saturday Six Pack, The Velvet Touch |
By Mark | August 19, 2018
I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1973, 1976, adult films, Alan Frybach, Andrea Marie Truden, Andrea True, computer game, disco, Don Knotts, dongs, Edith Massey, film history, Germany, Henry Ford Museum, Hot Channels, Illinois, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mark III, Mark's obsessions, More More More, North Washington Street, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, porn, pubic hair, R.G. Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Serial Mom, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum of American History, technology, The Hearts of Age, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, virtual reality, Virtuosity, VR, Welt am Draht, Woodstock, World on a Wire |
