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.
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You Can Reach Me Anytime (James 27)
In 1971, Hyde Park had seven second hand bookstores, including Chicago’s oldest bookstore. Today, Powell’s on 57th is the only one still in business.
Ra Ra Ra (unknown)
Zen Buddhism became popular in post WWII San Francisco, especially among beat poets like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Tram Combs. The influence of Zen extended into cookbooks, when Edward Espe Brown began baking at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.
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.
It’s Eight (James 26)
The Regenstein Library opened in 1970 and soon became the center of social life on the University of Chicago campus. One reason for its popularity were the comfortable study areas, including window alcoves with Pfister Lounge Chairs.
Paul Mason Fotsch 