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Jiji and Kinako: A Cat Brought Joy To My Sick And Grumpy Grandpa

Jiji and Kinako: A Cat Brought Joy To My Sick And Grumpy Grandpa

“You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone” ― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals ...
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‘The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time’ – The Sad Tale of Actress Kay Kendall

‘The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time’ – The Sad Tale of Actress Kay Kendall

"As they say about crime victims, Kay Kendall was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In her case, the crime was a waste of talent." ...
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Crossing The Equator: When Shellbacks Became Pollywogs Aboard The USS Princeton (1957)

Crossing The Equator: When Shellbacks Became Pollywogs Aboard The USS Princeton (1957)

Sailors who have already crossed the Equator (Shellbacks) enacted King Neptune's "Royal Order of the Deep" on those who had not (Pollywogs) ...
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Before Wal-Mart Conquered America: Local Mom & Pop Ads from the 1970s

Before Wal-Mart Conquered America: Local Mom & Pop Ads from the 1970s

In 1970, every town in the US had its Main Street, complete with locally owned ...
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Atari to Nintendo: Home Electronic Games (1975-1986)

Atari to Nintendo: Home Electronic Games (1975-1986)

Paging through catalogs from Sears, Montgomery Ward, and JC Penney, let's follow the rise, fall ...
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Photos Of Austria – March 1st 1938

Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Photos Of Austria – March 1st 1938

“Our life is like a journey…" - Annemarie Schwarzenbach ...
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Edvard Munch’s Experimental Selfies

Edvard Munch’s Experimental Selfies

“Illness, madness, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life” - Edvard Munch ...
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Hollywood In Kodachrome: People Of LA 1979-1982

Hollywood In Kodachrome: People Of LA 1979-1982

"Look at that mountain - Look at those trees - Look at that bum over there, man - He's down on his knees - Look at these women - There ain't nothing like 'em nowhere" - Randy Neman, I Love LA ...
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What’s Playing at the Local Cineplex? A Look at 1980s Newspaper Movie Ads

What’s Playing at the Local Cineplex? A Look at 1980s Newspaper Movie Ads

  If you want to demonstrate how times have changed for movies, just show them ...
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A Night Out At The Too Far East Club, Seoul, South Korea 1956

A Night Out At The Too Far East Club, Seoul, South Korea 1956

  A set of photos taken by Pvt. Jack Tobin at a USO-type show on ...
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Cocktails & Striptease: Vintage Burlesque Show Ads

Cocktails & Striptease: Vintage Burlesque Show Ads

In a time before home video, almost every city in the US had its local ...
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Murders In Miniature: Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death

Murders In Miniature: Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death

"There is no detective in England equal to a lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands" — Agatha Christie (Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)) ...
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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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