I had this folder on my desktop titled Melrose Ave 1987 and never put it in a magazine, so I figured I would collect the randomness here and keep it going. Melrose Ave, circa the mid to late 1980s, became a sub-cultural center of commerce for new wave/80s mohawk-style punk rock, perhaps in reaction as an alternative to the hair metal unfolding all around it. Post-hippie, pre-hipster, with stores featuring offbeat names from “Poseur” to “Cowboys and Poodles,” it gave rise to independent record stores, the birth of the retro movement and The Groundlings comedy community.
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