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Chez Armageddon: The 1970s Cold War Bunker Deep Below Las Vegas

Chez Armageddon: The 1970s Cold War Bunker Deep Below Las Vegas

The home you never wanted for all eternity ...
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A Look Through 1980s “Britain’s Biggest Selling Home Computer Magazine”

A Look Through 1980s “Britain’s Biggest Selling Home Computer Magazine”

"Grandad spends his time reliving his days in the RAF with Mission Impossible, Alien and Omega Race."  Meanwhile, "Dad escapes to another world with Cosmic Jailbreak..." ...
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Convict Cowboys – A Look at Prison Rodeos

Convict Cowboys – A Look at Prison Rodeos

I came across this old program from October 1960 for a Texas Prison Rodeo…  Prison Rodeo?  Was this a thing?  As it turns out, yes – in fact, they were quite popular in the U.S., and some continue to this day. ...
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Swedish Polyester Pop Portraits: Unsightly Scandinavian Music Acts from the 1970s-80s

Swedish Polyester Pop Portraits: Unsightly Scandinavian Music Acts from the 1970s-80s

In the disco era, there was a seemingly endless supply of Scandinavian groups sporting some of the worst displays of coordinated costumes the world has ever seen.  The complete lack of fashion sense and outrageously over-the-top outfits is truly something to behold. ...
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Photos of Vermont’s Rutland Fair Freak Show in 1941

Photos of Vermont’s Rutland Fair Freak Show in 1941

In September 1941, Jack Delano took these pictures of sideshow adverts, posters and billboards at the Rutland Fair, Rutland, Vermont (founded 1846) for the Farm Security Administration. ...
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The 100-Year-Old Found Photos Brought To Life With An iPhone

The 100-Year-Old Found Photos Brought To Life With An iPhone

"I realised I was looking at pictures than no-one has looked at for probably over 100 years" - Greg Pack ...
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Eerie Cold War Nuclear Testing Photos from the Height of the Atomic Age

Eerie Cold War Nuclear Testing Photos from the Height of the Atomic Age

Less than a month before the horrific bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, a smaller, secret detonation took place in the New Mexico desert, 230 miles south of Los Alamos in a valley called the Jornada del Muerto (“Journey of the Dead Man”). ...
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A Glorious Collections of Photos So Bad They’re Good

A Glorious Collections of Photos So Bad They’re Good

Fingers over lenses, severed limbs, missing heads, misfires, bad crops, oddly lit, badly composed, inadvertent close-ups and all photographs so bad they end up brilliant. ...
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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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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... 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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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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