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Mildly Disturbing Fun with Frankfurters: Kids Gobbling Hot Dogs in Vintage Advertising

I can’t help it. The image of a mid-century kid eagerly tasting a glistening hot dog is just funny to me. I understand it’s juvenile and jaded, but I hope we are all still at a point where it’s okay to laugh (or at least quietly chuckle) at these old advertisements. ...

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‘Lost Leyton” – Photos of East London in the Early 1960s

A fascinating snapshot of the Bakers' Arms area of Leyton in the early 1960s. ...

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Christina In Red: Sensational Dream-Like Reality On Autochrome (1913)

Sensational pictures from the early days of colour photography ...

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Campers of Shag: A Look Inside Groovy Recreational Vehicles of the 1970s

RV's of the 1970s were things of beauty: thick lustrous burnt-orange shag carpeting, miles of wood paneling, and the gaudiest upholstery the decade had to offer. The 70s studs had their muscle cars, the stoners had their full size vans, families had their "metallic pea" colored station wagons... and for ...

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Photos of the British Army in Northern Ireland – 1969-1979

In 1969, the situation in Northern Ireland was so grave that British troops were sent to restore order. By 1972, the British government suspended the Northern Ireland parliament and imposed direct rule from London. The Troubles saw 3,600 people killed and thousands more injured. These photos are of those times. ...

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British Ice-Lollies And Ice-Creams 1960-1990

YUMMY ice-lollies and ice-creams from the 1960s to the 1980s. What do you miss? What did you hanker for? Did the cider and Brandy Alexander lollies give you a taste for booze? Did you ever win that hovercraft..? (more…)

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Bri-Nylon and the Tragic Story of Nylon’s Inventor Wallace H Carothers

Almost eighty years ago in a DuPont laboratory in Delaware, a team led by a brilliant scientist called Wallace H Carothers discovered what would eventually be called Nylon. Tragically, he never knew that this discovery of the silky thermoplastic polymer changed the face of fashion for ever. Although Nylon was first used commercially ...

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Mud, Flood And Blood: Photos Of London’s River Thames 1895-2000

ONCE upon a time, the River Thames was a working river. The docks thrived. The Ports of London was a hive of imports, business and skullduggery. No part of London has changed more than the docks. In the late 1930s, London Docks was the busiest port in the world. Forty years ...

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Inside Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory

“Silver was the future, it was spacy – the astronauts wore silver suits… And maybe more than anything, silver was narcissism" ...

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New York City in all its Neon-Lit Glory, 1969 – 1971

These brilliant photos of NYC were taken by Hans Joachim Jacobi using a Exakta Varex IIa, an East-German camera, on the way to and from Halifax in Nova Scotia to visit relatives. ...

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‘Elswick Kids’ – Extraordinary Photos by the Late Tish Murtha

Her images capture the joy and freedom of childhood at a time when it was normal to play out in the street, in a way that has been largely lost today. ...

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Education Prophesies: How We Envisioned the Classroom of the Future

If you had asked anyone in the 1950s what the classrooms of 2018 would look like, they’d have described a space-age classroom with all sorts of high-tech gadgetry. The reality is, our classrooms haven’t changed much. In some cases the No.2 pencil has been exchanged for an iPad, and the chalkboard for a dry-erase or SMART board – but it’s still the same old story. ...

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David Lynch Creates An Existential Crisis With Rabbits, His Peculiar Digital Sitcom

You can watch bits of Rabbits (2002), David Lynch’s otherworldly sitcom-style TV show, on the director’s 2006 movie Inland Empire. Or you can watch entire episodes online. Rabbits features Jack (Scott Coffey), Jane (Laura Harring; and for one episode Rebekah Del Rio) and Suzie (Naomi Watts) dressed as rabbits – their rabbit heads are incapable of expression – trapped “in a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain”. ...

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Incredible Photos of Brutalist Architecture in the Former Yugoslavia From 1948-1980

Once a target of critical abuse—its name the reclamation of an insult—Brutalism is back, ...

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A Brilliant Rejection Letter From Gregory Peck

"Thank you for sending your script to me. There is a lot of very good writing in it, but playing a senior citizen in a nursing home is not for me. Don't want to do it. Too vain." ...

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LEGO Marketing Materials From the 1960s-1980s Encouraged Boys and Girls to Build Together

Much has been made over the years of a 1981 LEGO ad, and others like it, featuring a beaming young red-headed girl holding up her LEGO creation over the caption “What it is is beautiful.” ...

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The Exploitative New English Library Covers from the 1960s and 70s

The New English Library (NEL) initially concentrated on fantasy, science fiction and suspense novels it soon realised that to differentiate from other publishers it needed to attract and engage with a growing teenage readership. NEL closely followed popular trends and fashions and got hack writers to write exploitative novels about skinheads, Hells Angels and groupies. ...

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Kevin Cummins’ Iconic Photos of Joy Division and New Order

Some shots you don’t think ‘Right, I’ve just done a defining image.’ It becomes that, because it’s the picture that’s associated with the artist at the moment.” ...

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Hugh Holland’s Sun-Drenched Photos of California Skaters, 1975-78

The subculture of skateboarding that professionalized in the 80s and 90s to become a multimillion-dollar ...

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Flannery O’Connor’s Sardonic Cartoons Lampoon School and Convention (1942-1945)

“For the writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in the eye, and the eye is an organ that eventually involves the whole personality, and as much of the world as can be got into it” - Flannery O'Connor ...

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