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The Brixton Riots and Winifred Atwell – The Amazing Honky Tonk Woman

The Brixton Riots and Winifred Atwell – The Amazing Honky Tonk Woman

At around eight o’clock on the Saturday evening of 14 April 1981, a Molotov cocktail ...
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Brian Eno, Polly Eltes and Judy Nylon In A Rare 1974 Promo

Brian Eno, Polly Eltes and Judy Nylon In A Rare 1974 Promo

  This is the little-seen promo video for Brian Eno’s song China, My China (from ...
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A Clockwork Carpet: When Floor Coverings Went Orange

A Clockwork Carpet: When Floor Coverings Went Orange

To say orange was a popular color in the late sixties to early seventies would ...
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When the Oscar Statue Snorted Cocaine On Hollywood Boulevard

When the Oscar Statue Snorted Cocaine On Hollywood Boulevard

Every so often we at Flashbak see something from the present and near-present we think ...
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Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Mocked Gender Roles In These Private End Of The 19th Century Photographs

Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Mocked Gender Roles In These Private End Of The 19th Century Photographs

  In a box marked “private”, portrait photographers Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944) ...
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Marilyn Monroe In A Jackie Kennedy Wig (1962)

Marilyn Monroe In A Jackie Kennedy Wig (1962)

In June 1962, six weeks before she died, Marilyn Monroe pulled on a black wig and ...
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The Newlyweds and their Baby Were America’s First Comic Book Family (1907)

The Newlyweds and their Baby Were America’s First Comic Book Family (1907)

  In 1904 George McManus ( 1884-1954) scored a job at New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's ...
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Willy Michel And Me: A Photographer’s Joyous Mid-Century Photomaton Portraits

Willy Michel And Me: A Photographer’s Joyous Mid-Century Photomaton Portraits

In the summer of 1928, Willy Michel (August 20, 1905 - March 1, 1976) began ...
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Frida Kahlo’s Touching Letter to A Troubled Georgia O’Keeffe (1933)

Frida Kahlo’s Touching Letter to A Troubled Georgia O’Keeffe (1933)

  On March 1st, 1933, 26-year-old Mexican painter Frida Kahlo wrote this letter to her ...
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Photos Of Brutal Paris, City of Concrete

Photos Of Brutal Paris, City of Concrete

Paris-born Damien Gosset photographs the architecture of his home city. Look at any American-made TV show ...
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Groovy Chicks Selling Motorbikes: 1960s Sexy Swingin’ Scooter & Motorcycle Adverts

Groovy Chicks Selling Motorbikes: 1960s Sexy Swingin’ Scooter & Motorcycle Adverts

"There's nothing square about the new world of fun and adventure you'll discover with your ...
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Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office

Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office

In 1949, Dayalets created mascots to promote vitamins made by Abbott Laboratories, of Chicago, Illinois. ...
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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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