In 1966 a summer tradition of outdoor concerts began at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Over the years it featured bands such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Ramones and Devo for very cheap.
Category Archives: Music
Call Me I’m Always Here (Jason 7)
The late eighties saw a burst of ads for 1-900 numbers that promised to relieve your feelings of loneliness. But the phone sex business can be traced at least back to the 1970s.
No Area Code (Ben 13)
Speed Kills was a Chicago based zine that published seven issues from 1991
to 1995. Its contents inspired the name for the Chicago based band DragKing.
Ah Dah Dah (Brian 12)
Four years after Disco Demolition Night, The Police performed at Comiskey Park. In
the Quad Cities, 80s entertainment included the Bix Beiderbecke festival and cruising
on Saturday Night.
That Really Doesn’t Sound Like You (Ben 12)
In 1979, Methuen Press published Subculture: the meaning of style by Dick Hebdige, the first academic book to address Punk culture. In 1984, the University of Chicago Press published Paths of Neighborhood Change whose lead author was Richard Taub, a section of which discusses Hyde Park’s urban renewal.
Paul Mason Fotsch 