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The Holy Word in the Glossy Pages of 1980’s Christian Youth Magazines

The Holy Word in the Glossy Pages of 1980’s Christian Youth Magazines

Church of God magazines for youth in the 1980s ...
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The Joy Of Chewing Gum And Blowing Bubbles – 16 Brilliant Snapshots

The Joy Of Chewing Gum And Blowing Bubbles – 16 Brilliant Snapshots

'The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint' - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird ...
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A Brilliant Illustrated Book Of Demons And Spells From Early 20th Century Iran

A Brilliant Illustrated Book Of Demons And Spells From Early 20th Century Iran

An indispensable guide to identifying and preventing demons from licking your toes ...
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Sun Ra’s Afrofuturistic Album Covers

Sun Ra’s Afrofuturistic Album Covers

Herman Poole Blount, better known as Sun Ra, rightfully gets credit for inventing Afrofuturism, the ingenious blend of sci-fi, Egyptology, occultism, and indigenous African spirituality. Even more impressive, the bandleader and free jazz innovator made it to outer space before NASA. ...
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Book Club from Hell: ‘The Story of Fertilizer’ and Other Painfully Bad & Boring Vintage Reads

Book Club from Hell: ‘The Story of Fertilizer’ and Other Painfully Bad & Boring Vintage Reads

I'm sure there are some out there who are fascinated by fertilizer's place in history, ...
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Sensational Photos of Life On The Streets Of Working Class Manchester In The 1960s

Sensational Photos of Life On The Streets Of Working Class Manchester In The 1960s

"Learn as much as you can from the photographers you most admire – then find your own voice" - Shirley Baker ...
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10 Awkward Family Portraits Not Suitable for Framing

10 Awkward Family Portraits Not Suitable for Framing

We’ve all gone through an awkward stage – a stage where, if you could wipe the record clean of any evidence of your existence in those problematic years, you wouldn’t hesitate.  ...
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Spectacular Sleevenotes: Lowell George, Little Feat And The Last Record Album, 1975

Spectacular Sleevenotes: Lowell George, Little Feat And The Last Record Album, 1975

The band’s association with Neon Park from their second album onward made for great packages ...
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27 Glorious Colour Slides of York In 1968

27 Glorious Colour Slides of York In 1968

A look back to a bygone era ...
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‘The Way We Were’ – Essex Friends During the Summer of 1972

‘The Way We Were’ – Essex Friends During the Summer of 1972

These photos by Alan Richardson using a simple Agfa 100 Sensor camera. He remembers the time: ...
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Mildly Disturbing Fun with Frankfurters: Kids Gobbling Hot Dogs in Vintage Advertising

Mildly Disturbing Fun with Frankfurters: Kids Gobbling Hot Dogs in Vintage Advertising

I can’t help it. The image of a mid-century kid eagerly tasting a glistening hot dog is just funny to me.  I understand it’s juvenile and jaded, but I hope we are all still at a point where it’s okay to laugh (or at least quietly chuckle) at these old advertisements. ...
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Inside Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory

Inside Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory

“Silver was the future, it was spacy – the astronauts wore silver suits… And maybe more than anything, silver was narcissism" ...
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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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