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Here is an 8x10 glossy for Carolyn Mark, circa her Party Girl Mint debut time.

In the photo are Garth Johnson and Tolan McNeil, her two bandmates at the time.

Longtime Carolyn pal and Victoria-ite, J. McLaughlin — and a few years after these photos were taken, the artist who created the cover for Carolyn’s Nashville tribute album —  was the photographer.

Over Bill’s shoulder is one of the steel load bearing columns holding the Dominion Building together, the skeleton of which you can see in photos in two of the three elevators, where a huge multiple-photo collage of historical images from the Dominion Building’s early life is on display, a present to the building spearheaded by former building manager, Bonnie Tegart, the original collage of which was hanging on a wall in her office on the fourth floor, directly across from…

One of the side effects of having spent so many years at a campus/community radio station was seeing the incredible number of promo packages that would arrive.

When we visited the tony offices of Lookout! Records on that big meeting junket to Berkeley, and were invited to go for a walk to their p.o. box to pick up the day’s mail, we had no idea how much mail they received: they had two packed p.o. boxes’ worth of mail, plus…

There was a a Saturday November 10th in 1990, so maybe this poster is from a concert that was held in that year, which meant that it took place while all of the early Mint (and cub) people were still at CiTR, as well as Nardwuar the Human Serviette who might have been on CiTR’s staff as Volunteer Coordinator then. Then again, maybe not; maybe he was the PSA Production Manager or something.

Anyways, there is no real Mint reason for…

Sorry the photo shows a wonderfully sharp wall and shelf, and a somewhat blurry can of meat.

This was a promotional item given out to campus/community radio stations, reviewers, and others, to publicize the 1991 album, Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham, by Toronto’s instro-kings, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, the wordless three-piece consisting of Don Pyle, Reid Diamond (rest in peace), and Brian Connelly — on the Cargo Records label, when the label was a rather very large and influential releaser of…