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1960s: This Japanese Sex Guide Is Bizarre

In the 1960s cool cats in Japan were reading this how-to-do-sex book. From how to hold hands, rub noses, chuck chins, remove excess polish from shoes, mate with an artist's flexible wooden figure and jerk off a test tube. This book has the lot: Spotter: Anorak ...

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Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...

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When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

The publication of issue 33 of the Royal College of Art’s magazine ARK in the autumn of 1962 hit the moment in terms of the turbo-charging of contemporary youth culture. ARK 33, which was declared to be “mainly about young people… [a] somewhat oblique exposée of the Young Ones”, celebrated the lives of ...

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Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...

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Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

We still want decent housing for all ...

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Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

People I like can be divided into two groups: a) those who enjoy and get Charles M. Schulz’s wonderful Peanuts comic strip; b) those fools who don't. All of human life is in the artist and writer's 17,897 comic strips. In 1968 Schulz noticed the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King ...

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The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

Here is the copy from an ad that aired on Los Angeles radio in the summer of 1969: Right now PSA, the airline that is famous for its stewardesses, is looking for girls. Yes..girls to fill a cute orange mini-uniform...girls who smile and mean it...girls who give other people a ...

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