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Residents Share Stories, Photos And Enduring Love For Their Prefab Homes

Residents Share Stories, Photos And Enduring Love For Their Prefab Homes

  My passion or rather obsession for prefabs happened by accident very soon after I ...
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40 Found Photos of Ladies Clothes Shopping in the 1960s and 70s

40 Found Photos of Ladies Clothes Shopping in the 1960s and 70s

For me, the most interesting old photographs are the ones depicting normal day-to-day, mundane activities. ...
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The Gonzo Insanity of 1960s Israeli Holocaust Porn

The Gonzo Insanity of 1960s Israeli Holocaust Porn

  Stalag fiction was perhaps the ultimate taboo-busting literature: Holocaust pornography. In the early 1960s Stalag titles were ...
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The Visiting Massage: A Thriving Business in 1980s Heathrow

The Visiting Massage: A Thriving Business in 1980s Heathrow

What's the story with all the "visiting massage" services in British adult magazines from the ...
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Snapshots Of The 1981 Reading Festival

Snapshots Of The 1981 Reading Festival

Reading Festival in the 1970s and Steven Vaughan's great snapshots of the show in 1979. Now ...
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Found-Photo Super-Studs of the 1970s

Found-Photo Super-Studs of the 1970s

How in the name of all of God's creation did this dude end up with ...
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Richard Nixon In Disneyland (1955)

Richard Nixon In Disneyland (1955)

On August 11 1955 Vice President Richard M. Nixon rode into Disneyland and took a ride ...
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David Bowie Wears A Dress On The Cover Of 1970 Sex Magazine Curious

David Bowie Wears A Dress On The Cover Of 1970 Sex Magazine Curious

  David Bowie modelled a David Fish dress on the cover of Curious magazine Number 19 ...
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National Nurses’ Uniforms Of 1950

National Nurses’ Uniforms Of 1950

The International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection features 93 hand-colored photographs of nurses in their national uniforms by ...
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The Exceptional Malcolm McLaren Exhibition 2014

The Exceptional Malcolm McLaren Exhibition 2014

    The response to my August 2014 Malcolm McLaren exhibition Let It Rock has ...
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Poster Art by the Artist Paul Colin

Poster Art by the Artist Paul Colin

Paul Colin, who died in 1985 a few days away from his 93rd birthday, was undoubtedly one of France’s greatest poster artists. ...
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Albert Einstein Explains the Meaning Of Life, The Trouble With Girl Scientists And The Secret To Happiness

Albert Einstein Explains the Meaning Of Life, The Trouble With Girl Scientists And The Secret To Happiness

  On September 19, 1946, Myfanwy (Tyfanny) Williams wrote a letter to Albert Einstein (14 ...
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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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