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The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

These Kodachrome slides are from when go-ahead Americans believed a flying car was just around the corner ...
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A Peruse Through ‘American Hairdresser Salon Owner’ (June 1982)

A Peruse Through ‘American Hairdresser Salon Owner’ (June 1982)

From the pages of American Hairdresser Salon Owner (June 1982) comes some rad hairstyles that are sure to impress.... if you're the type that happens to be impressed by bad perms and cocaine inspired cuts. ...
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The 1950s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

The 1950s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

A great set of Kodachrome slides from when Americans in American-made cars explored the country ...
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Captivating Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 1

Captivating Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 1

"The most thrilling part of the coloring process is when suddenly the person looks back at you as if he’s alive" - Olga Shirnina ...
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A Look Around Paris Jewelers, Toledo, Ohio In The 1950s

A Look Around Paris Jewelers, Toledo, Ohio In The 1950s

A lovely collection of Kodachrome snapshots from a local city store ...
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Erwin Blumenfeld – A Free Soul Who Was In Love with Taking Pictures

Erwin Blumenfeld – A Free Soul Who Was In Love with Taking Pictures

“I was an amateur, I am an amateur, and I intend to stay an amateur. To me, an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.” ...
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The Sound of Music Migrations In Paris And London (1962-1989)

The Sound of Music Migrations In Paris And London (1962-1989)

These images of protest and partying in Paris and London show how several generations of immigrants from two former colonial powers, seized music to make their rights equal, claim their place in the public space and help transform both the urban economic and cultural aspects of both countries. ...
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‘The Air is Yours…Use It!’ – Holiday Magazine Travel Adverts from April 1950

‘The Air is Yours…Use It!’ – Holiday Magazine Travel Adverts from April 1950

I pulled these travel advertisements from an April 1950 issue of Holiday magazine. Back then, a cross country vacation could be insanely expensive – a significant expense in a time before credit cards and budget airfare. But that was part of the appeal, wasn’t it? A trip from Georgia to New Mexico sounds like nothing today; but in 1950, that was an exotic adventure... ...
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1960s Hawaii In Kodachrome

1960s Hawaii In Kodachrome

'Far down to the right a thin line of coconut palms marked the new Western edge of America, a lonely-looking wall of jagged black lava cliffs looking out on the white-capped Pacific' - Hunter S. Thompson, The Curse of Lono ...
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How to Make Friends by Telephone: A Fanatical Mid-Century Guide

How to Make Friends by Telephone: A Fanatical Mid-Century Guide

It’s amazing to think that, not so long ago, the telephone was a novel enough technology that books were published to help you master this strange new method of communication. ...
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Hunter S. Thompson’s 10 Best Albums of the 1960s

Hunter S. Thompson’s 10 Best Albums of the 1960s

"I resent your assumption that Music is Not My Bag because I’ve been arguing for the past few years that music is the New Literature, that Dylan is the 1960s’ answer to Hemingway, and that the main voice of the '70s will be on records & videotape instead of books" - Hunter S. Thompson to Rolling Stone editor John Lombardo (1970) ...
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Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses Pub by Ray Bellisario in 1968

Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses Pub by Ray Bellisario in 1968

"I’d just bought a new car. It was a Ford Consul which I’d parked right behind us. So I grabbed her arm and I said, ‘Come with me,’ and she did! And she said, 'Oh, this is fun, I’ve been kidnapped!'" ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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