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Today in LES History: Television Debuts at CBGB on the Bowery
Last modified April 1, 2015 at 12:42 am
On this day in… 1974 – The seminal rock/punk/alternative band Television began their Sunday night residency at CBGB, a former Bowery dive bar where band members built a stage for their debut performance. Here is an excerpt from a piece that NYU professor Bryan Waterman wrote last year on the fortieth anniversary of the event… Although […]
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40 Years Ago Today: Television Debuted at CBGB on the Bowery
Last modified April 2, 2014 at 7:50 pm
Those of us who’ve been marking punk’s 40th anniversary this month – a contentious dating scheme, I know – pin our claims on a show that happened 40 years ago today, when the band Television played its first set at CBGB + OMFUG, the club that occupied 315 Bowery from the end of 1973 to 2006. […]
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Trashed Bowery TV Finally Taken Away
Posted June 13, 2012 at 10:23 am
Sanitation crews waited over a week before snatching the large-screen boob-tube. In that time, the sidewalk-hogging unit became a target for graffiti artists and those seeking to destroy shit.
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Pick of the Litter: TV Party on the Bowery
Posted June 8, 2012 at 11:20 am
In today’s Pick of the Litter feature, we spotlight the otherwise beautiful big-screen television parked curbside at the corner of Bowery and Prince Street.
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Pick of the Litter: Television Trashed
Posted October 26, 2009 at 6:28 am
It would appear that thrill-seeking hooligans got to this ginormous trashed television before the Department of Sanitation. Electronic innards were shattered and scattered across the sidewalk near the corner of Eldridge and Stanton Streets.
