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He’s the Bat You’ll Love to Hate: Remembering Mattel’s Gre-gory (1980)

He’s the Bat You’ll Love to Hate: Remembering Mattel’s Gre-gory (1980)

  It was great to be a kid growing in the 1970s and 1980s, in ...
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Portraits From The Photo Booth Time Machine: West London In The 1980s

Portraits From The Photo Booth Time Machine: West London In The 1980s

Myself and my friends were born and bred in suburban West London, writes Mark Charnock. In ...
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Elvira: An Illustrated History of The Mistress of the Dark

Elvira: An Illustrated History of The Mistress of the Dark

In 1981, Cassandra Peterson was working at a typewriter for a low wage secretarial job when her ...
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Oily Biceps and Neon Spandex: Muscle & Fitness Magazines of the 1980s

Oily Biceps and Neon Spandex: Muscle & Fitness Magazines of the 1980s

  It was a time of hyper-concentration on appearance. The Baby Boomers were out of ...
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Vinyl Studs: Macho Album Cover Ladykillers of the 1960s-1980s

Vinyl Studs: Macho Album Cover Ladykillers of the 1960s-1980s

  Even Henry Mancini, the ever-classy composer, wasn't immune to the album cover custom of portraying ...
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You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby: Virginia Slims Advertising Year By Year

You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby: Virginia Slims Advertising Year By Year

It started in 1968 - Phillip Morris launches the very first cigarette brand marketed specifically ...
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Don’t Look Up! Cinema’s Long Pervy Tradition of Ladies on Ladders

Don’t Look Up! Cinema’s Long Pervy Tradition of Ladies on Ladders

  The history of cinema is full of scenes featuring girls climbing up ladders and ...
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A Time Before Netflix: Vintage TV Movie of the Week Adverts

A Time Before Netflix: Vintage TV Movie of the Week Adverts

  Before Netflix, before DVR, before premium movie channels, before even DVD and VHS, you ...
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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native ...
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Joe Strummer’s Wild Westway Western Wear And Sandpaper Blues

Joe Strummer’s Wild Westway Western Wear And Sandpaper Blues

I first met artist/curator Robert Gordon McHarg III two decades ago, when he was developing ...
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The Classic World Domination Game: Celebrating RISK (Parker Brothers)

The Classic World Domination Game: Celebrating RISK (Parker Brothers)

  In 1959, Parker Brothers licensed from creator Albert Lamorisse (1922-1970) a game called “Conquest ...
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Welcome to Family-Time Hell: Vintage Board Games That Time Forgot

Welcome to Family-Time Hell: Vintage Board Games That Time Forgot

  I happen to really love board games, and have happy memories of playing them ...
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