Survival Research Labs Turns 30

by Scott Beale on November 25, 2008 · 2 comments

Survival Research Labs just turned 30 today. Congratulations on an amazing three decades! SRL founder and director Mark Pauline writes:

30 years ago today, I started Survival Research Laboratories. I had come up with the idea of machine performances a few weeks earlier, and when the owner of a local free magazine, “Boulevards Magazine” heard my spiel, and learned that I was thinking of forming SRL as a company, he offered me, a free, full page ad space in his November issue.

I started working on the first SRL machine “The Demanufacturing Plant” the next week. It appeared in the first SRL show “Machine Sex” staged on St. Patrick’s Day in 1979.

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1 Mike Kupietz November 25, 2008 at 12:07 pm

And I'm still waiting for Mark Pauline to give me my 10 bucks back for the 1997 show where I paid my money and then was made, along with a huge crowd of other people, to stand in a spot from which the performance wasn't even visible.

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2 KevinEvans November 26, 2008 at 12:23 pm

the one under the freeway near the bay bridge in SF?

hey, at least you could smell that one.

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