Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Playboy goes nude-free

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.


The New York Times has an article today about Playboy going nudity free.  The end of an era, in which like many other businesses, it becomes hard to compete with the internet's offerings.  As of March 2016, Playboy become just the articles that so many people swore they bought the magazine to read.

 

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When Niagara Falls ran dry

By Jack Brummet, River, creek, falls, and oceans Ed.

In 1969, The Army Corps of Engineers dammed up the water to Niagara Falls so they could "remove loose rocks."  The image is from History In Pictures


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Drawing: Faces #1253 - groups a & b

By Jack Brummet

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Thursday, October 08, 2015

Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Manhattan, lights off, July 12, 1977 (we were there)

By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed.



The 24-hour blackout of NYC (from History in pictures twitter feed) 7/13/77. KeeKeeJan, and I were there. It was the Summer of Sam and I was in Long Island College hospital in Brooklyn with a pneumothorax and double pneumonia. The only good part was that I had a view of lower Manhattan and watched as the lights blinked off around town.
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