A mini-flyer for an LGBTQ Town Hall meeting hosted by Join the Impact Chicago. I’ve been enjoying seeing these flyers around my neighborhood for weeks but didn’t want to take one until after the event date had passed.

A 1989 flyer for Schism at the Paradise Lounge in San Francisco from the collection of Stephen Perkins in De Pere, Wisconsin. Stephen lived in San Francisco between 1980 and 1990 and he collected tons of flyers off the street during his time in the Bay Area. You can see some of Stephen’s other collections on Public Collectors here.

A 1986 flyer for the Dead Boys from the collection of Stephen Perkins in De Pere, Wisconsin. Stephen lived in San Francisco between 1980 and 1990 and he collected tons of flyers off the street during his time in the Bay Area. You can see some of Stephen’s other collections on Public Collectors here.

Public Collectors: now helping you find a job. A flyer with dress tips for women (trim those long, talon-like nails).

Public Collectors: now helping you find a job. A flyer with dress tips for men (leave the mud flap girls tie at home).

A 1985 anti-McDonalds flyer from the collection of Stephen Perkins in De Pere, Wisconsin. Stephen lived in San Francisco between 1980 and 1990 and he collected tons of flyers off the street during his time in the Bay Area. You can see some of Stephen’s other collections on Public Collectors here.

A 1983 flyer for an M.D.C., Tragic Mulatto, The Dicks, Condemned to Death and Red Kross show in San Francisco from the collection Stephen Perkins in De Pere, Wisconsin. Stephen lived in San Francisco between 1980 and 1990 and he collected tons of flyers off the street during his time in the Bay Area. You can see some of Stephen’s other collections on Public Collectors here.

A photocopied flyer from Occupy Wall Street in New York, given to me by a friend after the first few days of the protest, September, 2011. May these protests continue and grow on Wall Street, and all other streets!

Another urgent warning in Chicago about Rita Prost, just noticed this week in Logan Square. I have posted about these anonymous flyers before, here and here.

A flyer for a very early Fugazi show in Philadelphia (that I unfortunately did not see). You can watch footage from this show in the film Instrument when Guy Picciotto is shown pushing his body through a basketball hoop. I have created this Flickr set for my collection of flyers of concerts and other events from the late 1980s and early 1990s. There are about thirty so far.

The front side of a Reagan-era flyer from a protest in Philadelphia against the lack of response to the AIDS epidemic. This double-sided photocopy is undated but appears to be from 1987.

City Gardens, a legendary (now gone) punk dive in the shit-hole town of Trenton, New Jersey had some of the most generic and crudely designed concert calendar flyers around. Nonetheless, looking back at a small trove of them that I saved, one is reminded of the rather amazing concert booking prowess of promoter Randy Now. Also, some of these band juxtapositions are truly bizarre. Swans and Living Colour on the same bill?! This flyer is from 1988.

Scan of a flyer found in Chicago. This is at least several years old so it might be a little too late to answer the call.

This flyer was found inside a free newspaper box in downtown Chicago in May, 2009 shortly after the deadly DUI incident described. Stickers also appeared, further attempting to make police accountable for the crimes they commit on or off duty.

A flyer for a concert that I unfortunately did not see. According to motorcityrock.com, this concert took place in 1986. The combination of Swans and Laughing Hyenas must have been unimaginably loud.