Photo: Bob Gruen
I love this photo so much. Mainly because this is the corner of 23rd street and 8th avenue back in the day when what's currently a BBQ was a bank, the ad in the background on the building that's only really appropriate for a pack of smokes was a pack of smokes, and diagonally across from where the awesome band for whom every day was Halloween is standing there was the bowling alley where I won a second-place trophy in 5th grade (I was playing against a bunch of chimpanzees, I'm sure) and the Lamston's where I bought my first Maybelline eyeliner pencil, etc., etc., stood.
But perhaps most of all, look at how Gene Simmons is dressed. Not only do I have clogs almost exactly like that, I would wear his whole dang outfit in a snap. Homey looks sharp!
4 comments:
what about the phone booths??? remember those. And how about that amazing plaid coat? I'd love to have that. Kiss, like Star Wars, rewrote the rules for entertainment marketing and merchandizing and while that may have had crappy repercussions in the long run, a whole generation of kids had so much fun.
What a great photo~ brings back alot of memories. Kiss was my very first rock concert i went to ~ Madison Square '79. Intense. What is that Lampston's on the other corner or was it woolworths? Wow.... the good;ol'days!!!!
OH SNAP>>>> and totally the Cigarette Package on the building uptown.... Fabulous...lol.... i love that Gene is wearing clogs too.... this post is freaking awesome...it's like an eyespy of sorts.LOVE IT>!!!
Thanks so much, Cat! Yup it was Lamston's...and check it out, a true Kiss fan pointed out how this pic was used for their "Dressed to Kill" album cover, except without the background. Of course, I think they should have included all of it but do see how the darkness is much more their speed...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nycdreamin/4519551718/
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