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The Centralia mine fire disaster in 1981...
The Centralia mine fire disaster in 1981...
Item # 706529
May 19, 1981
THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, May 20-26, 1981
* Centralia coal-seam mine fire - Pennsylvania
* History of the World, Part I - movie - film
* Mel Brooks - opening day premiere advertisement
Starting on the front page with heading: "Burn Centralia, Burn" is coverage on the Centralia mine fire in Pennsylvania. Coverage continues on multiple inside pages with a few related photos. See images for portion of the text. This was when the fire was at it's peak and evacuations of the borough began.
Page 62 has a nice full page advertisement for "History of the World, Part I" film for it's opening day. The movie premiered on June 12.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.
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Complete with 136 pages, tabloid size, one fold along the center, nice condition.
Provenance note: This issue comes from The Village Voice's own archives, part of their in-house collection used to create their digital archive. Rare as such.
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Category: The 20th Century
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