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but she has a heart of gold!

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And I promise I’ll take only a few hundred million more

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to inspire your work week

#religon #gods vs monsters

when I crack open a book…

#space #travel #who needs a space suit

ultralight no-belly armor - it will be so good!

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the future used to be full of sex

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never forget to remember

#911

When your automatic drain attacks!

#drumming #drums

take an interstellar trip…

…to your doom!

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Moth doing bug stuff

moth doing bug stuff

#bug #moth #fly in your mouth #save world

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Doug Henning turns a trick

my favorite demon gets pissed this guy keeps leaping in front of the camera

#demon #movie poster #6 armed creature on shows 2

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My mother warned me not to go into the video arcades around Times Square in NYC, but Playland always seemed to call to me. There were three different Playland’s in the area, and I think my mom was thinking of the one on 42nd street pictured at the top in 1972, and seen in Midnight Cowboy (1969).

While it didn’t have video games yet, it had a carnival midway called Hubert’s Museum (in the basement) featuring a Flea Circus!

That location closed, but the one on 47th St In 1990 (pictured), had a pretty big selection of games, was very close to where you could still get a passable fake ID, and very few people in cowboy hats hustling outside.

The bottom picture, from a recreation of the 42nd St location for the HBO series The Deuce, looks a bit sleazier and distinctly lacks a flea circus.