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SEVEN DECADES

In December 1972, Robert Downey – Sr. – Got 12 Pages of Holiday Cheer

The provocative director starred in a dozen full-page ads for his new film, “Greaser’s Palace.” It didn’t help much.

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1970s ad from the Village Voice.

CULTURAL COMMERCE ARCHIVES

Soundtrack to the Watergate Break-In: Ziggy, the Stones, Tina & Ike, Cheech & Chong, ZZ, ‘Brandy,’ the Fillmore, and More

Perusing the vinyl bins to find the music that accompanied the downfall of a president.

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MUSIC ARCHIVES

An Impresario Gets the Star Treatment

"Bill Graham has been putting on some beautiful, well-run concerts at his Fillmore East.”

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CULTURAL COMMERCE ARCHIVES

Beam Us Up. No Wait — Just Get Us Outta Here!

Back to 1968, when the chic inherited the Earth — but they didn't all fit

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CULTURAL COMMERCE ARCHIVES

Taking the Stage with Alfred E. Neuman

A look back to when Mad magazine's black and white pages came to life on a New York stage

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CULTURAL COMMERCE ARCHIVES

Protesting the War — In Your Best Dress

A new section of the Voice Archives will look at advertising and its discontents

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AD CANDY ARCHIVES

New Year’s Eve Parties — 20th-Century Version

How did we get down last millennium? The Voice Archives takes an auld lang syne view of club ads from the Fifties to the Nineties.

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AD CANDY ARCHIVES

Ads of Christmas Past

Jesus crucified on an East Village fire escape, John and Yoko sell their album, an early punk-rock sighting, and other Yule celebrations

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From The Archives

Andy Land 8: Ads For — and Attacks On — the Avant Garde

As the counterculture heated up in the 1960s, the Heat took notice

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From The Archives

Andy Land 5: Evicting Tenants Downtown and Having a Retrospective Uptown

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