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Revealing Snapshots of Bristol 1974-1984

Revealing Snapshots of Bristol 1974-1984

The post-war rebuilding of Bristol city centre was characterised by 1960s and 1970s skyscrapers, mid-century modern architecture and road 'improvements'. Much of which changed the city more than the efforts of the Luftwaffe. ...
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The Singularly Mediocre Fashions of Grandma’s 1970s Workbasket Magazine

The Singularly Mediocre Fashions of Grandma’s 1970s Workbasket Magazine

I saw them sitting on a flea-market shelf - about fifty issues of a magazine called Workbasket.  Each contained a few full-color pages of the featured “fashions” for do-it-yourself needlecraft. ...
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Jim Henson’s Sadistic And Hilarious Adverts For Wilkins Coffee (1957-1961)

Jim Henson’s Sadistic And Hilarious Adverts For Wilkins Coffee (1957-1961)

These coffee commercials featured Wilkins, a violent, happy and sadistic habitual coffee drinker, with more than a passing resemblance to even-tempered Kermit, who mocks, kills and maims a coffee doubter, the prototype Cookie Monster-Beaker hybrid named Wontkins. ...
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10 Terrible Songs About Food (1960s-1970s)

10 Terrible Songs About Food (1960s-1970s)

There were a lot of great songs about food released in the 1960s and 1970s ...
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Pictures of Birmingham Gigs in the Early 1980s

Pictures of Birmingham Gigs in the Early 1980s

I started at Birmingham University and quickly began taking concert photgraphs for the university newspaper Redbrick as a way to get free tickets. ...
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Erotic Film Posters from the 60s Celebrate the End of Hollywood Hays Code Censorship

Erotic Film Posters from the 60s Celebrate the End of Hollywood Hays Code Censorship

Fast forward to the early 1960s and the Hays Code, while still technically extant until 1965, had been weakened to the point of unenforceability. ...
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David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

Klein's influential posters still look extraordinary to this day and "define the excitement and enthusiasm of the early years of post-war air travel." ...
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Men on Vintage Knitting Patterns

Men on Vintage Knitting Patterns

Often seen handling weaponry, wooden objects and sticks or gazing into the distance, the male models are often in pairs... ...
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A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

The post-war test pilot in the 1950s had an incredibly high death rate.  Literally a quarter of them died.  Wolfe’s novel describes the grisly details of life as a test pilot, where it seemed there was a funeral to attend every week. ...
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Java Nostalgia: Remembrances Before the ‘Coffee Culture’ Boom

Java Nostalgia: Remembrances Before the ‘Coffee Culture’ Boom

It’s early morning 1982 and you’re visiting your neighbors, and they offer you a cup of coffee.  You know exactly what you’re going to get – it’s going to be a watery mug of Maxwell House or Folgers. End of story. ...
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Children in ‘The Troubles’: Northern Ireland 1969-1981

Children in ‘The Troubles’: Northern Ireland 1969-1981

For many, Northern Ireland during 'the Troubles' was a place synonymous with murder, bombs, hit-squads, vicious bastards, shootings, victims of liberal bigots, prison and intimidation. ...
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30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns

30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns

Wherever there’s a clown, you’ll find a child crying.  What possesses adults to think children love clowns? ...
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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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