In Providence, Rhode Island of the eighties one could buy a Coffee Cabinet before
going to a hear music at Club Rocket, or take Amtrak south to see the same
band at d.c. space in our nation’s capital.
Category Archives: Music
That Message Kicks (Ben 7)
From 1983 to 1992, Medusa’s nightclub just south of Wrigley Field welcomed kids of all kinds to celebrate their freakiness on the dance floor.
What Kind of Music Is That? (unknown)
Party lines, where more the one home shared the same phone line, required a certain telephone etiquette. Although they were phased out in cities like Chicago by the 1980s, as late at 2000, thousands in the U.S. still shared a line with their neighbor.
I Want to Hold Your Hand (Chris 25)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago produced great artists like Ray Yoshida, great rock bands like Shrimp Boat and an artist’s colony on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
Elevator Music (Chris 24)
In the 1920s Major General George Owen Squier designed the technology for piping muzak into homes and businesses. Ray Conniff’s orchestra perfected this easy listening sound.
Paul Mason Fotsch 