1975 Sly and the Family Stone & QUEEN ads...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Jan. 20, 1975



* Sly and the Family Stone Concert advertisement

* Psychedelic soul band at Radio City Music Hall

* 1st major racially integrated & mixed gender group

* QUEEN English rock band - Freddie Mercury

* Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center concert ad



Page 105 has a full page ad for "Sly & the Family Stone" ... See More  

The day before the end of the Vietnam War...

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, April 29, 1975 



* Vietnam War ending

* Saigon falling to Reds

* Evacuation beginning 



This issue is on the eve of the end of the Vietnam War, with a banner headline: "2 MARINES KILLED BY RED SHELLING" with related photo. Reporting and a few more related photos on pages 4, 5 & 6. 

Complete with 84 pages, nice condition.



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1976 Ronnie Van Zant, Genesis & Nils Lofgren...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, March 29, 1976



* Pre singer Ronnie Van Zant airplane crash disaster

* Lynyrd Skynyrd - American Southern rock band

* GENESIS w/ Phil Collins Beacon Theatre advertisement

* Nils Lofgren - American musician concert & album ad



 Beginning on page 83 is a editorial on Ronnie Van Zant and his group Lynyrd Skynyrd with photo ... See More  

1st landing on Mars... Viking 1...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 20, 1976



* Viking 1 landing on Mars - Nasa (day of)

* 1st spacecraft to land on the planet



The top of the front page has a two column heading: "Viking Poised for Landing And Mars Pictures Today" with subhead. Coverage continues inside with 2 related photos. Viking 1 was the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission. This would b... See More  

Dolly Sinatra killed in 1977....

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Jan. 7, 1977



* Iconic singer & Actor Frank Sinatra

* Dolly Sinatra killed in airplane crash



The front page has a banner headline: "Sinatra's Mother on Lost Jet" with subhead and related photo. (see) Great to have from the home of the entertainment industry, rare as such.

Complete with all sections (100+ pages), nice condition.



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Opening review for the movie "Star Wars" (1977)..

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, June 13, 1977



* Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope

* George Lucas - epic space opera film

* American film critic Molly Haskell review

* Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker

* Early movie advertisement



The top of the front page has a action photo of Luke Skywalker with heading: "Star Wars; Review by Molly Haskell"

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1977 Rock band "Queen" MSG ad...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Nov. 14, 1977



* "Queen" North America concert tour 

* "News of the World Tour" advertisement

* Madison Square Garden performances

* Ronnie Van Zant editorial by Robert Christgau

* re. Lynyrd Skynyrd rock band airplane crash



Page 93 has a 7 x 4 1/2 inch advertisement for: "QUEEN" concert at Madiso... See More  

1978 Ted Bundy's FSU sorority house murders...

SAN JOSE MERCURY, Jan. 16, 1978



* Ted Bundy - American serial killer

* Women - young girls rapist - murderer

* Florida State University sorority house attack



Page 9 has a three column heading: "2 coeds strangled to death, 3 others injured in Florida" with lead-in: "Sorority house terror" and photo of one of his victims. Also a larger photo of a sorority sister peaking o... See More  

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 disaster....

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sept. 26, 1978



* Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182

* Boeing 727 airplane collision disaster



The front page has a banner headline: "Grim Search in Crash Rubble" with subheads, related photo and a map. (see images) Much more inside.

Complete 1st section only with 20 pages, nice condition.

1978 Rock band QUEEN's "Jazz" album release...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich, Village, New York City, Dec. 4, 1978



* "Queen" British rock band advertisement

* "Jazz" album release - Freddie Mercury

* "Bicycle Race" & "Fat Bottomed Girls" fame

* Actor Bruce Lee death revisited 5 years later

* Hong Kong-American martial artist

* Jeet Kune Do martial art founder



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1979 Flight 191 O'Hare airplane disaster....

TRIBUNE, South Bend, Indiana, May 27, 1979



* American Airlines Flight 191 takeoff crash

* O'Hare airport disaster w/ infamous photo

 

The front page has the infamous photo showing Flight 191 sharply banking to the left shortly after takeoff with heading: "Beginning of the end" Also a heading: "Power Loss erases last cockpit words" (see images) First report c... See More  

1979 Flight 191 O'Hare airplane disaster....

CHICAGO SUNDAY SUN-TIMES, June 1, 1979



* American Airlines Flight 191 takeoff crash

* O'Hare airport disaster investigation

* In a Chicago publication (RARE)

 

The front page has a heading: "Engine fails, DC-10 returns" More on page 5 with two related photos. Until 9/11, it was the deadliest air disaster to occur on U.S. soil.

Complete with all 136 pages, tabloid size, v... See More  

Thurman Munson killed... New York Yankees...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, August 3, 1979 



* Cather Thurman Munson 

* New York Yankees baseball

* Jet airplane crash disaster



The top of the front page has a one column photo with tiny heading: "Killed" with brief text. Actual report is in the sport's section which is missing here.

First section only with pages 1-32, missing the sport's section. Great condition.... See More  

Premiere of "Airplane", in a Los Angeles newspaper...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 4, 1980



* Best "Airplane" film advertisement

* Grand opening weekend movie premiere

* Satirical parody - Leslie Nielsen

* Great ad for "The Shining" too



A nice issue on the premiere of the motion picture hit "Airplane" and perhaps no better issue could be found than this, the leading newspaper from the home of the entertainment industr... See More  

1980 rock band "QUEEN" at MSG advertisement...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Aug. 3-Sept. 9, 1980



* "Queen" concerts advertisement

* British rock band - Freddie Mercury

* "The Game" album tour - Brian May

*  Madison Square Garden performances



Page 52 has a 4 1/2 x 3 inch advertisement for upcoming "QUEEN" performances at Madison Square Garden. (see images)

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The first space shuttle launch is a success...

THE WASHINGTON POST, April 15, 1981 



* Historic 1st Space Shuttle success (Columbia)



The front page banner headline announces: "Astronauts Fly Shuttle to Perfect Landing" with subhead: "Craft's Maiden Flight Meets All Expectations" and 3 related photos.

A new era in space exploration has begun, and nice to have in this iconic newspaper from the nation's... See More  

1982 "Divine" drag queen performance ad...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, May 4, 1982



* "DIVINE" - Harris Glenn Milstead

* Character actor, singer and drag queen

* The Fun House nightclub advertisement



Page 118 has a 7 x 3 inch advertisement for a performance by "DIVINE" at the Fun House in New York City. (see image)

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Twilight Zone accident... Vic Morrow death...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 25, 1982



* Twilight Zone: The Movie helicopter accident

* Actor Vic Morrow & 2 others killed

* Hollywood movie - film scene



The front page has a two column heading: "Falling Copter Kills TV Star Morrow, 2 Children" (see images) Great to have this report in a newspaper from the home of the entertainment industry.

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Tuskegee Airmen honored at museum...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 26, 1982



* Tuskegee Airmen honored w/ opneing

* African American pilots of WWII

* National Air and Space Museum exhibit

* 1982 Wilkes-Barre shootings

* George Banks spree killings



The top of page 33 has a two column heading: "Museum Exhibit Traces Blacks' Role in Aviation" with related pictorial. (see) First report coverage on the "Black Wings... See More  

1983 Korean Airlines Flight 007 disaster...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sept. 2, 1983



* Korean Air Line Flight 007 disaster

* Boeing 747 airplane shot down over Pacific

* Soviet Air Forces fighter aircraft

* American-Russian tensions high



The front page has a banner headline announcing: "Soviets Down Jetliner; 269 Aboard..." with subheads and related map. (see images) Much more on inside pages.

Complete with all major sections (1... See More  

1983 Run-DMC... beginning of new-school hip hop music...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, June 11, 1985



* Early & rare Run-DMC D.M.C. advertisement

* Performance at the RITZ nightclub in Manhattan

* Beginning of new-school hip hop - rap music

* "The Goonies" film advertisement

* Grand Opening Day movie premiere 

* Adventure comedy cult classic 



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The shuttle Challenger explodes...

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, California, Jan. 29, 1986



* Space Shuttle Challenger disaster



One of the most tragic events in American history - intensified by the fact that millions of children were watching the event unfold via television feeds in their schools due to one of the passengers being school teacher Christa McAuliffe. The inside contains many related photos and articles - too many to it... See More  

1986 Isao Tomita NYC concert advertisement...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Sept. 16, 1986



* Japanese composer Isao Tomita

* Pioneer of electronic & space music 

* Battery Park, New York City

* Statue of Liberty centennial 



Page 65 has a full page advertisement for a upcoming performance by "TOMITA" at Battery Park in New York. This event celebrated the centennial of the Statue ... See More  

1988 "Judas Priest" & "AC/DC concert advertisements...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, July 5, 1988



* Judas Priest - English heavy metal band 

* "Ram It Down" "Mercenaries of Metal" tour

* Robert Halford - Ian Hill - Glenn Tipton

* AC/DC rock band concert advertisement

* Madison Square Garden MSG performance 



Page 66 has a nice full page advertisement for the upcoming performances b... See More  

1988 NYPD & the Tompkins Square riots...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Aug. 23, 1988



* 1988 Tompkins Square Park riots 

* East Village, Manhattan, New York City

* Homeless, squatters & drug dealers 

* NYPD police brutality complaints 



The front page has a heading: "Under Fire" and more with related photo. (see images) And beginning on page 10 is an editorial on the sit... See More