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Crime Fighting with Twinkies: Comic Book Superheroes Turn To Sugary Cream-Filled Cake

Crime Fighting with Twinkies: Comic Book Superheroes Turn To Sugary Cream-Filled Cake

  MANY of you will remember the Hostess snack adverts that appeared in comic books ...
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12 Impressively Bizarre and Ridiculous Fitness Records

12 Impressively Bizarre and Ridiculous Fitness Records

YEARS AGO in days of old when magic filled the air, people did their workouts ...
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Strange and Terrible Fitness Products from the 1970s

Strange and Terrible Fitness Products from the 1970s

The New Year has arrived.  Time to once again pledge to stop eating like a ...
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Lydia Estes Pinkham Wanted To Cure ‘Hysterical Women’ Of Their Menstrual Weaknesses

Lydia Estes Pinkham Wanted To Cure ‘Hysterical Women’ Of Their Menstrual Weaknesses

LYDIA Estes Pinkham made "women's tonic" to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains.     In ...
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10 Mad, Sexist And Above All Brilliant Vintage Christmas Ads

10 Mad, Sexist And Above All Brilliant Vintage Christmas Ads

HERE are ten Christmas adverts from decades past; some good, some bad.  The common denominator ...
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A Tour of Groovy 1970s Sofas

A Tour of Groovy 1970s Sofas

The 1970s sofa came and went. For a while it was glorious ...
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4 Ways Air Travel Has Become Objectively Terrible

4 Ways Air Travel Has Become Objectively Terrible

  ONCE UPON A TIME, air travel went something like this: You leisurely walked from ...
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The Rolling Stones Were Proud To Withstand ‘Under-Age Sex’ – The 1994 Poster And T-Shirt

The Rolling Stones Were Proud To Withstand ‘Under-Age Sex’ – The 1994 Poster And T-Shirt

  ONCE upon a time "underage sex" was a selling point used by The Rolling ...
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Video Dating In 1957 At The Radio and Television Fair

Video Dating In 1957 At The Radio and Television Fair

ON August 21 1957, visitors to the Radio and Television Fair watched the effect of ...
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Children In Tobacco Adverts

Children In Tobacco Adverts

WHEN British American Tobacco ran an advert for Vype e-cigarettes in an iPad game aimed ...
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Soviet-Era Anti-Alcohol Posters

Soviet-Era Anti-Alcohol Posters

IN the Soviet-era, anti-alcohol posters were artful. The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters has a fine collection. (more…)
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Lunchboxes of The 1970s: When Metal-Wrapped School Dinners Rocked

Lunchboxes of The 1970s: When Metal-Wrapped School Dinners Rocked

IN the 1970s, I had a lunch box. Lots of kids did. That 6 Million ...
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