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Two Decades of Sleeping Bag Evolution: From Peter Max to Skeletor

Two Decades of Sleeping Bag Evolution: From Peter Max to Skeletor

It wasn't until the 1980s that sleeping bags became billboards for kids' favorite pop culture ...
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1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls

1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls

"Advice my father gave me: never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect" - Kurt Vonnegut ...
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Wan Chai: Sex, Dives and Bar Cards From 1970s Hong Kong

Wan Chai: Sex, Dives and Bar Cards From 1970s Hong Kong

“I told you I would just give you trouble” - Suzie Wong ...
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Marvellous Kodachrome Pictures of London from 1973

Marvellous Kodachrome Pictures of London from 1973

I’ve found that Americans tend to take pics of ‘mundane’ things that us Brits would take for granted and never photograph. ...
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David Bowie At A Moment of Transformation (1973)

David Bowie At A Moment of Transformation (1973)

“In those minutes, you could see he really was about to become a major pop star” - Joe Stevens ...
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A Holiday Potpourri of 40 Classy to Wildly Irreverent Vintage Christmas Magazine Covers

A Holiday Potpourri of 40 Classy to Wildly Irreverent Vintage Christmas Magazine Covers

Sure, we could have delivered a bunch of boring Christmas magazine back issues, but that's ...
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Dirty Santa: Vintage Photos of Ladies on St. Nick’s Lap

Dirty Santa: Vintage Photos of Ladies on St. Nick’s Lap

"I saw mummy kissing Santa' ...
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Artistic & Literary Inspirations for 1980s New Wave Songs

Artistic & Literary Inspirations for 1980s New Wave Songs

Eighties new wave wasn't all peppy synthesizer fluff.  Quite the contrary, the genre brought a ...
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Patricia and Bruce’s Joyful Wedding: February 9 1968

Patricia and Bruce’s Joyful Wedding: February 9 1968

These found photos take us February 9, 1968. The Boone Memorial Presbyterian Church in Caldwell, ...
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Vintage Christmas Cringe: Families in Matching Holiday Pajamas

Vintage Christmas Cringe: Families in Matching Holiday Pajamas

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city” - George Burns ...
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Jingle Fails: Awful Christmas Album Covers (Part 4)

Jingle Fails: Awful Christmas Album Covers (Part 4)

It's the holiday season - and that means another round of bad yuletide vinyl.  Also, ...
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Holidays On Display: Selling Christmas In Vintage Postcards

Holidays On Display: Selling Christmas In Vintage Postcards

Most of these Christmas postcards were collected for but not used in my book Holidays ...
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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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