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andrewtsks:

standingbyyoursisterfair:

clintisiceman:

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart (then Jon Leibowitz) as a young College of William & Mary student moshing at a Dead Kennedys show at Casablanca in Richmond, VA, c. 1982.

Photo by Irish Willis Peele.

[gawker.]

Yeah, basically my favorite photo.

brings a smile to my face.

Having done a LOT of research on this era of Richmond hardcore (here’s why) I can tell you that the person being identified as Jon Stewart here is almost certainly Alford Faulkner of Red Cross/The Prevaricators (thanks to a bunch of RVA punks who’ve been around longer than me for helping me figure this out). Of the three guys in front of him with their arms around each other’s shoulders, the one in the center is Cliff Farrar and the one on the right is Pen Rollings of Honor Role/Breadwinner/Butterglove.

For my Richmond peeps, Casablanca was at the corner of Broad and Laurel, and occupied the space now occupied by Empire and the empty storefront next to Empire.

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