My parents dropped me off at the video store. “People dropped the kids off at a baseball practice. Growing up in Oak Forest, Carston was part of the VCR generation. “I’ve always been fascinated about how art and media reflect where the culture was and where it is,” Carston says. It’s a repository of Chicago movie ads, photographs, and film reviews from the last century. To keep track of his archive dives, he created Windy City Ballyhoo on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. “They all tell a story of what was going on.” “I don’t know if it’s like the repressed Catholicism thing or what, but titillation was really big money here in Chicago,” Carston says. He (virtually) went to closed theaters (remember the State and Lake?) and peeked at grind house and X-rated offerings, playing day and night, through the paper’s movie ads. Theaters everywhere closed, leaving everyone stuck streaming at home.Īlbany Park resident Adam Carston went online and got his cinema fix by getting into a time machine of sorts: online newspaper archives. In 2020, movie theaters were one of the first places to shutter, thanks to COVID-19.
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