_{George Harrison – Cow Palace, Daly City – November 7, 1974 By Alvan Meyerowitz}

Thanks to a spotlight at Boing Boing, I’ve been made aware of 70s-era photographer Alvan Meyerowitz and his Instagram image archive. You’ll want to peruse these San Francisco-related shots from the swingin’ sixties and salty seventies at your leisure. There’s much to enjoy.

After that, jump over to Vox and read all about Great Expectations, the seventies dating service that utilized VCRs and video tapes to help you find a mate. Whatever will they think of next?!

Vox Quote:
“Starting in February 1976, lonely people across Los Angeles drove to a windowless, one-room office on the 18th floor of a building in Century City — the first outpost in what would soon become a national dating franchise called Great Expectations. There, in a room crammed with two TVs, a set of chairs for interviewing, and a stack of cassette tapes, they stepped into the future of dating.”

Links:

Alvan Meyerowitz Instagram Archive

Vox: How 1970s VCR dating paved the way for Tinder and Hinge