Tag Archives: 1980s

Old Faces

March 5, 2014 – 7:03 pm

This photo from a 42nd Street porno parlor dates back to the early 80s. For some reason the older man looks familiar, as if he might have been involved in the nightclub business. No one I asked knew his name mostly because they didn’t recognize him. Then again not everyone toured the XXX shops of [...]

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CRACK ISLAND by Peter Nolan Smith

November 6, 2013 – 8:45 pm

Crack cocaine swept across the Lower East Side in the summer of 1986. East 11th Street between Avenue B and C on the Lower East Side of New York was the destination of choice for its adherents and hundreds of crack zombies lined the sidewalk before the tenement building on the corner of Avenue B [...]

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# 17 by Peter Nolan Smith

August 20, 2013 – 9:24 pm

One wintry night December of 1976 I was stumbling home from a derelict bar at the corner of the Bowery and Houston. The icy wind slashed through my thin clothing and I was about to hail a taxi, when I felt the thump of a bass emanating from a white stucco building. The accompanying music [...]

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A La Porte De Le Balajo

October 13, 2012 – 2:37 pm

In the mid-80s DJs Albert Grintuch and his partner Serge Duprat took over the Bastille nightclub, Le Balajo. Once a week our crowd of rockers filled the large dancehall. While I worked the door with Jacques Negrit as security. The barmen and waitresses were the same surly staff as the other nights of the week [...]

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HERMAPHRODITE by Peter Nolan Smith

September 20, 2012 – 9:56 am

Back in the early 80s the Louvre belonged to art historians and serious affectionados of the better things in life. Few people visited the museum dusty corridors. I liked the quiet and studied the paintings at length without any disturbance from the occasional passers-by. I was working the door of the Bains-Douches nightclub and my [...]

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