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Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

  Author Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) and Gertrude Stein (February 3, ...
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A Look Inside Hotel & Motel Rooms of the 1950s-70s

A Look Inside Hotel & Motel Rooms of the 1950s-70s

Let's have a look inside the rooms of 38 U.S. hotels and motels from the late ...
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Socks And Sandals Snapshots: Mid-Century Summer Fun

Socks And Sandals Snapshots: Mid-Century Summer Fun

  Have fun before the bittersweet end of summer, when school, work and the family departing ...
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Marilyn Monroe Serigraphs For Avant Garde Magazine March 1968

Marilyn Monroe Serigraphs For Avant Garde Magazine March 1968

Ralph Ginzburg (editor) and Herb Lubalin's (art director; creator of the gorgeous Avant Garde typeface) Avant Garde magazine ran ...
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Jessie Knight – Britain’s Greatest Female Tattooist

Jessie Knight – Britain’s Greatest Female Tattooist

  I am a tattoo artist, as such I won my fame, And I’ve certainly ...
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Umberto Eco Lists The 14 Common Features of The Eternal Fascist

Umberto Eco Lists The 14 Common Features of The Eternal Fascist

  In his 1995 essay Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco looked at how "fascist" lost its meaning ...
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Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

  In 1633 Chinese printer Hu Zhengyan used the douban technique to produce what is ...
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A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

These postcards take us back to France in the 1890s. Through the wonder of Photochrom coloring, we ...
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Vintage Images of Women Shoe Shopping (And The Humble Salesmen That Served Them)

Vintage Images of Women Shoe Shopping (And The Humble Salesmen That Served Them)

Pulled from the vast retro-archives of Flashbak, here are a miscellany of vintage images, primarily ...
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Phallic Innuendo A-Go Go : Vintage Images of Suspiciously Phallic Nature

Phallic Innuendo A-Go Go : Vintage Images of Suspiciously Phallic Nature

I've whipped-out a motherload of vintage images containing suspicious phallic connotations, all spread across the face ...
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Soho Italianate: Gordon Moore’s Adverts for Vince Man’s Shop in Ark Magazine 1957

Soho Italianate: Gordon Moore’s Adverts for Vince Man’s Shop in Ark Magazine 1957

This advert for Vince Man’s Shop – the small Soho boutique which sparked the modernisation ...
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Wonderful Kodachrome Photographs of London in the 1950s

Wonderful Kodachrome Photographs of London in the 1950s

All we know about these photos of London in the 1950s is that they were probably taken ...
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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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