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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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Think Pink! Snapshots On The Path To Millennial Pink

Think Pink! Snapshots On The Path To Millennial Pink

"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink" - Audrey Hepburn ...
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Print at SHOWStudio: The Abiding Allure of Inspirational and Off-The-Map Magazines

Print at SHOWStudio: The Abiding Allure of Inspirational and Off-The-Map Magazines

'This is not a magazine. This is not a conspiracy to force opinion into the subconscious of stylish young people. A synthetic leisure culture is developing – plastic people forced fed on canned entertainment and designer food. Are you ready to be Dazed & Confused? Get high on oxygen? This is urban ideas for creative people. Creative people who want to read something else.' - Dazed & Confused, Issue 1 1991 ...
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The Brady Bunch Volcano Episode: TV’s Greatest Allegory for Sexual Awakening

The Brady Bunch Volcano Episode: TV’s Greatest Allegory for Sexual Awakening

I joined the science club at school, and I'm building a volcano. When I'm finished, ...
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Vintage Vinyl Hall of Shame: More Awful Album Covers

Vintage Vinyl Hall of Shame: More Awful Album Covers

I've done many an article on bad album covers over the past several years; you ...
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Wakey, Wakey! Pontins Holiday Camps in 1984

Wakey, Wakey! Pontins Holiday Camps in 1984

“All the best people come to Pontins.” ...
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The Grateful Dead Levitate Egypt’s Pyramids Under A Lunar Eclipse (1978)

The Grateful Dead Levitate Egypt’s Pyramids Under A Lunar Eclipse (1978)

"I got to a point where the head of the Sphinx was lined up with the top of the Great Pyramid, all lit up. All of a sudden, I went to this timeless place. The sounds from the stage - they could have been from any time. It was as if I went into eternity." - Bob Weir ...
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Faces At The Tyco Toy Factory In 1976 Hong Kong

Faces At The Tyco Toy Factory In 1976 Hong Kong

  Tyco Toys was incorporated as Mantua Metal Products in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey, the metalworks ...
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Playboy in the Yearbook: Texas Tech’s Bunny Pages (1959-1981)

Playboy in the Yearbook: Texas Tech’s Bunny Pages (1959-1981)

In 1959, the Texas Tech University yearbook, La Ventana, began the tradition of having a Playboy Magazine feature complete with female students as Playmates and even a full color centerfold... ...
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Kazuko and Wayne: A Japanese-American Romance Taken Between Dec 1955 and January 1957

Kazuko and Wayne: A Japanese-American Romance Taken Between Dec 1955 and January 1957

"I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die" — Kazuo Ishiguro ...
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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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