Tuning the archive
Pulling this decade’s photographs, sourced moments, and playable landmark from their institutions.
BROADCASTING FROM THE REC ROOM
Saturday television, shag-carpet arcades, mixtapes, and magnificent analog weirdness.
Warm chords · four-on-the-floor
Original instrumental · made for this time machineRewind passport · 1970s
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PICTURE DESK 108 SOURCED MOMENTS
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THE 1970s MEMORY LANES
14 memories on this channel
Swipe or scroll the deck →Higher-quality PNG version of John McConnell's Earth Day flag, based on this photograph. Requested at the English Wikipedia Graphics Lab.
2014-04-22 · John McConnell (flag designer)NASA (Earth photograph)SiBr4 (flag image)
Image source · Public domainTwenty million people take it outside
Logo Apollo 13This is the insignia of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission. The Apollo 13 prime crew were the astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., commander; Thomas K. Mattingly II, command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot. Represented in the Apollo 13 emblem is Apollo, the sun god of Greek mythology, symbolizing how the Apollo flights have extended the light of knowledge to all mankind. The Latin phrase Ex Luna, Scientia means "From the Moon, Knowledge." Apollo 13 was intended
1969-12 · NASA
Image source · Public domainHouston, we've had a problem
Photo of Don Cornelius, with the text "Soul Train" (the show he hosted) printed next to him, dated 1974.
1974-09-28 · Billboard
Image source · Public domainThe hippest trip in America
Pong cabinet signed by Pong creator Allan Alcorn in the 'Golden Age of Video Games' exhibit at Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
2013-05-31 19:23:12 · Chris Rand
Image source · CC BY-SA 3.0License termsAvoid missing ball for high score
Ron Turcotte and Secretariat after winning the 1973 Preakness Stakes
May 19, 1973 · Carl D. Harris
Image source · Public domainThirty-one lengths of daylight
Waite at The Waltons 40th Anniversary in 2012
2012-09-29 20:15:06 · bekahjan
Image source · CC BY 2.0License termsGood night, John-Boy
Still from the sourced Jaws trailer. The video is supplied by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers.
1975 · Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
Image source · YouTube trailer thumbnailDon't go in the water
Chevy Chase at a panel for Community at PaleyFest 2010.
2010-03-03 20:56 · Jesse Chang
Image source · CC BY-SA 2.0License termsLive from New York, it's Saturday night
Viking 1 launched aboard a Titan IIIE rocket August 20, 1975 and arrived at Mars on June 19, 1976. The first month was spent in orbit around the martian planet and on July 20, 1976 Viking Lander 1 separated from the Orbiter and touched down at Chryse Planitia.
1975 · NASA
Image source · Public domainA postcard from Chryse Planitia
Still from the sourced Star Wars trailer. The video is supplied by Star Wars.
1977 · Star Wars
Image source · YouTube trailer thumbnailA long time ago, in a theater with a line around it
Artist's impression of the Voyager space probes (1977—) with the outer worlds they passed. Artist's description: "This painting was commissioned by JPL to commemorate the outer planets mission of the successful pair of Voyager spacecraft. Although done in traditional media, computer drawings were generated as an aid to creating perspective rings of the proper scale for each world, which also has one Moon each highlighted. Only distant shots of Neptune were available at the time the work was done
Date listed at source · Don Davis
Image source · Public domainTwo spacecraft, one golden mixtape
John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson on the Red Carpet reuniting at the TCM Classic Film Festival April 18, 2024 for a 30th anniversary screening of "Pulp Fiction" at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
2024-04-18 19:52:55 · RON RAFFETY
Image source · CC BY-SA 2.0License termsThe white suit points skyward
The descending rows that ate the world's coins
Original Sony Walkman TPS-L2 from 1979
2015-06-03 09:51:50 · Binarysequence
Image source · CC BY-SA 4.0License termsThe soundtrack goes personal
Twenty million people take it outside
What did your school do for Earth Day — and did the litter drive actually work?
Twenty million people take it outside
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In memoriam
Four years of recordings; guitarists are still catching up.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1970Janis JoplinA voice that held nothing back, from Monterey to 'Me and Bobby McGee.'
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1971Louis ArmstrongJazz's founding genius and its warmest ambassador.
Louis Armstrong House Museum 1972Jackie RobinsonNumber 42 broke baseball's color line and never stopped pushing.
National Baseball Hall of Fame 1973Bruce LeeEnter the Dragon arrived weeks after his death and made him a global legend.
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1977Elvis PresleyThe King of Rock and Roll; Graceland's gates have never lacked flowers.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1977Bing Crosby'White Christmas' and a crooning style that taught the microphone to sing.
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1977Charlie ChaplinThe Little Tramp — cinema's first and most durable universal language.
Encyclopaedia BritannicaTHE REC ROOM · 70s
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THE REWIND TEN · 1970s
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A solemn record of major fatal U.S. school shootings since Columbine, built around community remembrance—not the people who caused the harm.
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