I was also inspired to dig through the NYTimes archive around the month of April, 1970. I found this article called, “Love Letter Read at the Davis Trial,” about a…
Continue Reading24 days before the release of Company, President Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act as part of a growing campaign in the U.S. to limit smoking. The act…
Continue ReadingAbove is an anniversary announcement. It was published in the New York Times on April 26, 1970, the same day Company opened on Broadway. This announcement underscores the show’s views…
Continue ReadingSince I am a big fan of music from the 1970s, I decided to see what the top music albums of the year 1970 were. I found a ranking on…
Continue ReadingThe artifact I chose was a New York Times article from April 1970 about the first Earth Day and how it was celebrated in New York City. I found this…
Continue ReadingLegendary Concert: Van Morrison @ Fillmore West, San Francisco – April 26th 1970 As an avid music fan, and someone who has multiple Van Morrison cds and records, I knew…
Continue ReadingI came across this ad for a book in searching through 1970 wedding announcements in the NYT archives. I found it particularly funny and fitting to our discussion of marriage…
Continue ReadingThis tweet from the airline company Lufthansa, while not of course posted in 1970 shows an image of the passengers on the Boeing B747’s first flight with the airline…
Continue Readinghttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/banned-bluest-eye/ For this post, I did a search of books published in 1970, and although I don’t know what month The Bluest eye was published in, I know it was…
Continue ReadingI began my search by looking through the New York Times paper on April 26th 1970, the day that Company opened. I found this little blurb about a congressman advocating…
Continue ReadingA quick search of the New York Times archives pulled up quite a few articles relating to marriage and divorce. The first of the two I’ll share, dated December 9,…
Continue ReadingThis headline seems a little bit awkward in today’s lense, but in 1970, this headline must have been shocking. Their slogan (“Say it loud, gay is proud”), among others, demonstrates…
Continue ReadingI chose this ad because I saw elements within in it reflecting an intersection of racism and sexism echoed in the film, particularly the sexist expectation that women should submit…
Continue ReadingSuperman Comic 1950s-60s from the Smithsonian (https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise-exhibition/consumer-era/teen-markets) I chose this comic (I’ll admit, not an ad but still advertising the comic!) because it has such a clear depiction of race/ethnicity…
Continue ReadingI chose this ad because I thought it illustrated some of the racist stereotypes of Puerto Ricans around the time West Side Story was released. This is an ad for…
Continue ReadingHey Everyone! The musical in conversation with this ad is Gypsy and the reason I was drawn to and interested in examining this add was the use of female sexuality…
Continue ReadingIn “America,” Anita sings, “Life is all right in America,” to which Bernardo and the Sharks reply, “If you’re a white in America.” I chose to post this ad because…
Continue ReadingI found this advertisement for men’s shirts from 1952. The premise of the advertisement is that four out of five men want these new shirts, but the fifth man, who…
Continue ReadingThis advertisement displays several themes shown in Gypsy, from the dynamics of a mother-daughter relationship to beauty. I chose it because the matching clothes, the perfect posing, and the act…
Continue ReadingI chose this ad because I felt that it portrayed exactly who Rose didn’t want to be. This is the type of life that Rose said she didn’t want in…
Continue ReadingI was assigned to WSS! I chose this Dr Pepper ad because the wording at the bottom really caught my eye. “It’s different… I like it!” These words really have…
Continue ReadingAs I was looking through 1950-1960s advertisements, I noticed a common theme in the portrayal of mother-daughter relationships. Usually the mothers and daughters were in matching outfits and participating in…
Continue ReadingThis image was the cover for the Vogue magazine from March 1, 1957 (not exactly an advertisement, but I thought the concept was similar enough and appropriate for this discussion).…
Continue ReadingI felt that this advertisement spoke to issues in Gypsy not only of age and sexuality of age as Rose attempts to keep her daughters as children but also the…
Continue Reading(Not assigned a musical) I chose this ad because I don’t think of beer as something that would’ve been advertised to Black women in the 1950s, so I was interested…
Continue ReadingSince this got announced, I’ve been dying to hear some opinions about it. What are all of your thoughts on a Spielberg directed adaptation of West Side Story?
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