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Tommy Roberts: Mr Freedom’s Extraordinary Store Displays

Tommy Roberts: Mr Freedom’s Extraordinary Store Displays

"My philosophy was, and still is, this: if you run a shop you put on a show" - Tommy Roberts ...
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Emmie Tsumura’s Illustrations of People Who Want You to Work For Free

Emmie Tsumura’s Illustrations of People Who Want You to Work For Free

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to" - Dorothy Parker ...
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Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

"My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going" — Edna St. Vincent Millay ...
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Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson and the Fall of British Leyland

Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson and the Fall of British Leyland

The Morris Marina suffered from an affliction common to far too many British cars of that era – total contempt for the customer. ...
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Life On The Edge At Hamburg’s Cafe Lehmitz (1967-1970)

Life On The Edge At Hamburg’s Cafe Lehmitz (1967-1970)

"Inside a broken clock, splashing the wine with all the rain dogs" - Tom Waits, Rain Dogs ...
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The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records

The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records

Listening to music is a deeply personal experience. Some songs will always make certain people ...
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Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s

Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s

  These photographs were taken by Hugo Frederick Mohrlock, a graduate of Syracuse University, California ...
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Henri Michaux’s Trippy Educational Film On The Effects of Mescaline & Hashish (1963)

Henri Michaux’s Trippy Educational Film On The Effects of Mescaline & Hashish (1963)

  In 1963, Sandoz, the Swiss company that first synthesized LSD in 1938, commissioned poet ...
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David Ogilvy’s 5 Lists For Better Writing, More Money And Great Sex

David Ogilvy’s 5 Lists For Better Writing, More Money And Great Sex

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals" - ...
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Extraordinary Gas Stations From John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture

Extraordinary Gas Stations From John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture

John Margolies (1940-2016) recorded visual wonders found along American roads. Through his photojournalism we see the kind of ...
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Rainbow Dance: Len Lye’s 1930s Fabulous Short Films For The Post Office

Rainbow Dance: Len Lye’s 1930s Fabulous Short Films For The Post Office

  Public information films rarely looked better than New Zealand film artist Len Lye's 1930s ...
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Crowds And Queens Celebrate The Crowley, Louisiana, Rice Festival (October 4, 1938)

Crowds And Queens Celebrate The Crowley, Louisiana, Rice Festival (October 4, 1938)

On October 4, 1938 Crowley, Louisiana, celebrated the town's golden jubilee with a Rice Festival. Dreamt up ...
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