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Buy Me Boston Volume 2 : A Look At Clever Ads From The 1960s to 1980s
Author Brian Coleman returns with the second volume of Buy Me Boston
, a curated collection of local ads and flyers that takes longtime Boston residents back to life between the 1960âs and 1980âs. Coleman spoke to GBH Radioâs Henry Santoro about his archival project. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.
Henry Santoro: Some of the many things that make Boston unique have been hiding in plain sight, and they ve been hiding for some time. They come in the form of old advertisements, everything from restaurants and hair salons to clothing stores and radio stations. There are flyers for bands that don t exist anymore, who are playing clubs that also don t exist anymore. Well, we can credit pop culture kingpin Brian Coleman for gathering up the crème de la crème of these local ads and flyers from the 1960âs through the 1980âs and putting them into books that he calls