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Posts Tagged: 1970s

  • April 23, 2012

    BBC2’s Something Else

    BY Teenage Editor

    httpv://youtu.be/vaI9IFgBI08

    BBC2’s 1979 saturday evening program, “Something Else,” was the first example of television that targeted a youth audience in the UK.  

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • March 26, 2012

    Alex Chilton at 17

    BY Teenage Editor

    httpv://youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw

    Before he was a rock icon and the frontman of seminal power pop band Big Star, Alex Chilton had huge commercial success as the teen frontman of the Box Tops.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • March 12, 2012

    Samo on TV Party

    BY Willa Nasatir

    httpv://youtu.be/f-Yv7j2cGAs

    In 1979, a nineteen-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat appeared on Glenn O’Brien’s infamous TV Party public access show.  

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • March 5, 2012

    Miss Iran, 1978

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Before the Isamlic revolution of 1979 in Iran, there were the beauty pageants of 1978 in Iran.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • February 3, 2012

    Looking Back On Joyce Maynard

    BY Matt Wolf

    Joyce Maynard was writing for Seventeen Magazine when she was still a teenage prep school student at Phillips Exeter Academy.

    FROM:Director's Diary

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  • January 27, 2012

    Poster Youth

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    La Raza Community Centre offered a variety of activities and support for local youth of San Diego during the late 70s–early 80s.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • January 10, 2012

    Iggy and the Stooges, Farmington High

    BY Abigail Wilson

    Seriously punk pics of Iggy Pop performing to grateful students at Farmington High School in Oakland, Michigan on December 5, 1970.

    FROM:Freak Party

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  • December 23, 2011

    Street Snaps

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Prolific photographer Martha Cooper captured the gritty culture of New York City streets during the 1970s and ’80s.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • December 21, 2011

    Deep End

    BY Amelia Stein

    Deep End is about love in the most unlikely, and humid, of places.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • November 28, 2011

    Stereo & Rockets

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Teenage hobbies of the 1970s—model and high powered rocketry & souped up stereo sound systems.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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