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Watching My Name Go By. The early days of NYC Graffiti, 1976!
Posted by Dave Nice on Thursday, June 25, 2015

Williamsburg History

This picture from the New York Times, August 1, 1974, charting out the 
various turfs of northern Brooklyn street gangs.  It's not a souvenir from 
the film  The Warriors, but an actual list of the many violent gangs which 
kept Brooklyn a dangerous place to walk around in during the 1970s.

By the 1970s, Williamsburg was best known for its steeply rising crime 
rate, harboring both violent street-gang activity and organized crime.

The New York Times ran of list of several notorious Williamsburg gangs, 

including the Dirty Ones, the Driggs Boys Of Justice, the Tomahawks, 

the Devils Rebels and the Screaming Phantoms. In 1981 Luis Garden 

Acosta, a prominent community leader, called northern Brooklyn 

(Williamsburg, with its neighbors Bushwick and Greenpoint) the 

“killing fields” for the number of teenagers killed in bloody gang 

conflicts.

There is a nice little article on Brooklyn in 1981 here.

Sonntagsfilm

Sunday Goodie

pictures from the Nike Exeter Factory and BRS store

*all pictures provided from Lindy Darrell

A Brief History of John Baldessari

Sunday Goodie - 1974 Esquire Mag

An esteemed Norman Mailer, reports on the brand new at the time 
youth trend that was graffiti. The amazing cover image of this May 
1974 Esquire Mgazine is by Jean Paul Goude who later went on to 
date and create all the seminal Grace Jones artwork and imagery. 
Whoever doesn't own a copy of the wonderful book 'The Faith of 
Graffiti' gets some more insight after the jump.
The whole article with some more amazing pictures by Jon Naar

1974 Pricelist

I take'em all!

August 11th, 1973

"Hip-Hop started when my father brought a PA system and didn't know how
to hook it up. I was messing around with the music and I started out by
buying a few records to play at my house. When I was doing that I saw a lot
of kids playing outside in the backyard. My sister asked me to give a party
one day. Actually, she wanted me to play at a party [1520 Segdwick Ave] and
I went out and got around twenty records that I felt was good enough and
we gave a party and charged about twenty five cents to come in and made
300 dollars."


"At the time I was into graffiti so there was a lot of curiosity was about who
I was. And so when they came there they saw who I was and what I did, I
fulfilled their expectations on me. Herc could talk and play good music and
people didn't mess around in his party. The ‘babes’ were there and he might
call your name on the mic. In those days ain't no body know about calling
your name on the mic or hearing records back to back..."
Kool Herc

Seventees Kids

Here a little somthing for a lazy sunday afternoon:

gk1 from graffitikings on Vimeo.

Sunday Goodie!

A gallery of New York Times photography documenting 10 decades of
New York City’s subway system. Absolutely stunning pictures!!


















Thanks to Alun Jones for the hint

Blade

Blade - KING OF GRAFF from Henrik JøJ on Vimeo.

Jon Naar

This Jon Naar interview is not new but so nice…just like the book