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Baden Street Settlement

A Black owned and operated food cooperative. The director of the Baden Street Food Coop was Lilian McNeil, and Pauline Wilson was the Baden Street Neighborhood Development.

Black Velvet feels great in a crowd

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a billboard advertisement for Black Velvet whiskey. A white, blond, female model poses by sitting up straight and cross-legge...

Black Velvet feels smooth on the rocks

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a billboard advertisement for Black Velvet whiskey. A white, blond, female model poses in the center of the advertisement in a...

Dundalk News Co., Inc.

An adult magazine and bookstore located on South Avenue, across from the Holiday Cine Theater

Feel the Black Velvet

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of billboard advertisement for Black Velvet whiskey. A whiskey bottle tipped on its side dominates the billboard, and the copy ab...

Holiday Cine Theater

A movie theater that screened pornographic films located on East Main Street. The theater was attached to a Holiday Inn hotel

Kodak Hall Eastman Theatre

The Eastman School of Music

May Day (East Main Street)

Screenshot from the Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a poster wheat-pasted to raise awareness for May Day 1977. On the poster is an image of a sentence spray painted on the wa...

May Day (Lyell and State Street)

Screenshot from the Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a poster wheat-pasted to raise awareness for May Day 1977. On the poster is an image of a sentence spray painted on the wa...

May Day (Monroe Avenue)

Screenshot from the Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a poster wheat-pasted to raise awareness for May Day 1977. On the poster is an image of a sentence spray painted on the wa...

Monroe County Community Organizers People's Club (The People's Club)

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Self-Help Productions" of the street sign for "The People's Club," a Black cultural center and community organizing center located on Jefferson Avenue.

Monroe County Hall of Justice

Monroe Movie Theater

A movie theater that screened pornographic films located on Monroe avenue. Members of R-WAVAW organized protests outside of this theater

Monroe Theater's Movie Supports Rape—No Women Deserve It

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a poster wheat-pasted directly underneath a Black Velvet billboard advertisement on Monroe Avenue. The poster reads: "Monroe T...

Northend News Co.

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of an adult magazine and bookstore located on Monroe Avenue.

Nothing beats the feel of Black Velvet

Screenshot from the Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a billboard advertisement for Black Velvet whiskey. A white, blond female model is seated cross-legged in a black, short a...

Pussycat Lounge

A go-go dance and strip club that used to be located on East Main Street, adjacent to Kodak Hall Eastman Theatre.

Riverview Bar

Lesbian bar. Members of R-WAVAW often met up and congregated here before and after street activities.

Smash Matriarchy

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a version of the "Smash Patriarchy" poster wheat-pasted to the side of a building underneath a Black Velvet billboard advertis...

Smash Patriarchy—Father's Day

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint." The screenshot contains an image of a version of the "Smash Patriarchy" poster wheat-pasted on a building at the intersection o...

Smash Patriarchy—Triangle Adult News

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards & Spray Paint" of a battered, torn-up version of the "Smash Patriarchy" poster wheat-pasted to the front door of the adult bookstore Triangle Adul...

Snake Sisters Cafe

Lesbian-owned and operated cafe in the South Wedge, where today is the current Lux Lounge

The Haiti Gallery

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Self-Help Productions" of a Black owned and operated art gallery founded by the late Clyde Sanford.

The People's Club Liquor Store

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Self-Help Productions" of a liquor store cooperatively owned and operated by The People's Club. The store was directly down the street from the club.

Touchin' Velvet

Photograph of a billboard with an advertisement for Black Velvet Whisky, comprised of a white blond woman lying on her stomach with a full glass next to her left hand. The billboard is dotted with ...