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It Pushes You to Your Limit: Remembering Computer Perfection (1979)

It Pushes You to Your Limit: Remembering Computer Perfection (1979)

Lakeside's Electronic Perfection was billed in 1979 as "the ultimate playmate" and the same advertising ...
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Chris Spedding: A 1970s Unsung Style Hero

Chris Spedding: A 1970s Unsung Style Hero

  Guitarist Chris Spedding is one of the unsung heroes of Seventies style. I’ve been ...
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Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

  Mmm-mm. Dee-lish!  They sure knew how to make a meat paste look tasty back ...
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Twenty-Five Men’s Fashion Ads in Playboy 1966-1977

Twenty-Five Men’s Fashion Ads in Playboy 1966-1977

In the 1960s and 1970s Playboy was one of the most popular men's magazines in ...
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The Polyester Splendor of 1970s Men’s Fashion Advertising

The Polyester Splendor of 1970s Men’s Fashion Advertising

Do you think you have what it takes to endure a motherload of disco-era studs with ...
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Love at First Light: Romance in 1970s Cigarette Advertising

Love at First Light: Romance in 1970s Cigarette Advertising

The key to good advertising is to invoke a subliminal association.  So, when you look ...
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Photographer Reunites Street Subjects From 40 Years Ago For The Same Picture

Photographer Reunites Street Subjects From 40 Years Ago For The Same Picture

In the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Chris Porsz took photographs of people in his ...
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Fear and Self-Loathing in Romance Comics

Fear and Self-Loathing in Romance Comics

  Romance comic books of the 1950s-1970s were nothing if not predictable.  You could be ...
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The Peculiar Tale Of Robert Lenkiewicz And Diogenes, The Tramp Who Became The Ultimate Memento Mori

The Peculiar Tale Of Robert Lenkiewicz And Diogenes, The Tramp Who Became The Ultimate Memento Mori

The painted kept the body of a man known as Diogenes in a concealed drawer ...
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When Leonard Cohen Dropped Acid And Saved the Show (1972)

When Leonard Cohen Dropped Acid And Saved the Show (1972)

So long, Leonard Cohen (21 September 1934 – 10 November 2016). In 1972, the Canadian ...
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In Praise of David Worth: Tony Hall’s Unpublished Photos Of The British Collector, Male Model And Stylist

In Praise of David Worth: Tony Hall’s Unpublished Photos Of The British Collector, Male Model And Stylist

Before David Gandy, before Nick Kamen, there was David “Piggy” Worth.     “Piggy was ...
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She Wears Short Shorts: 55 Images from the Golden Age of Hotpants

She Wears Short Shorts: 55 Images from the Golden Age of Hotpants

The official birthday of hotpants is 1970 by Mariuccia Mandelli of the Italian fashion label Krizia. ...
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