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The Berkeley neighborhood went back to the ’80s this weekend when Totally Tennyson took over the Tennyson Street strip from 35th to 46th avenues for a street crawl and party that ended with live music and a high-stakes costume contest at the Oriental Theater. Photographer Marissa Shevins brought back these images of the big-hair shredders and other pop-culture heroes of thirty years ago — from Mr. T to Olivia Newton John — who wandered the street on Saturday.
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