Odds and Ends

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Before moving on, I mentioned some time ago some pictures I've only seen on the Web and not found any physical copies of. So, here they are. Some of them anyway. I'd found a bunch…

Times Square Press Folder

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At least that's what it was called when I got it. It's only a folder though in the sense that it's folded, not that it contained something else like the press kits which have pockets…

Times Square isn’t a punk picture”

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  Magazines are dated ahead by their publishers to try to keep them on the stands longer than their competitors. The date on a magazine usually refers to when it is supposed to be replaced…

“TIMES SQUARE ‘package’ due shortly”

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  Even the culturally barren industrial wasteland of Northeast Ohio was receiving word of the impending great event. I'm kidding, of course; Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown... this area birthed Pere Ubu, the Dead Boys, and Devo,…

The Last Word

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The May 1980 issue of Photoplay mentioned Times Square's production in Ken Johns' Last Word column. [gallery columns="2" size="medium" ids="857,859"] The image of Nicky singing "Damn Dog" in the Cleo Club was later published in…

“The Trend Settles in New York”

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I confess I don't quite understand what that title means. Am I missing something clever?   This article was published at the end of April 1980, from an interview done when there were two weeks…

“34”

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Here we have an 8"x10" black and white print showing Nicky leaping into the air at the start of the concert in Times Square (as opposed to her leaping into the air at the end…

42nd & 6th

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    So: the girls are east of Times Square and headed for it. They've already traded clothes, and are on foot. In the film, this happens after they've been on the subway in those…

WJAD

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The originals of these first two images weren't collected by me. They're located on an old, apparently long-abandoned Angelfire site on which Mr. Charles E. Rowe, Jr. documented some of his career in radio, part…

Nicky Marotta, 1980

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And this, of course, is the look they settled on for Nicky, ultimately using this photo on nearly all the American publicity materials. As this is the outfit she wears when the girls escape from…