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Poster from 1937 Columbia Pictures film Paid to Dance. The women in the poster are leaning towards the camera and not smiling
A child plays hopscotch by herself while a lady in a headscarf walks away in the background.
A bright red sign with a giant yellow button attached, reads “Sewing Forgiveness.”
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  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Submit to the City
  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
Tagged: Hometown Narrative
Palm trees illuminated by lights.

Magic City Nocturne

Three cars are parked on Elizabeth Avenue in Mexico in front of a furniture store.

Wendy

Return to Bombay Quarter

A large boat is tethered to land in Detroit, Michigan.

The Same River Twice

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