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Imagination Makes It Fly: Fisher Price’s Alpha Probe (1980)

Imagination Makes It Fly: Fisher Price’s Alpha Probe (1980)

  Here’s another great spaceship toy from my childhood. I was just ten years old ...
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Budding Germ Scientist  Jimmy Page, 13, Plays Guitar on BBC Talent Show All Your Own (1957)

Budding Germ Scientist Jimmy Page, 13, Plays Guitar on BBC Talent Show All Your Own (1957)

It's 1957. A 13-year-old Jimmy Page appears on BBC TV show All Your Own (1952–1961).     ...
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Rod Serling Explains Where Ideas Come From (1972)

Rod Serling Explains Where Ideas Come From (1972)

Rod Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was asked by a student in 1972, "Where Do ...
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Highlights From Le Livre de la Sante by Joseph Handler (1967)

Highlights From Le Livre de la Sante by Joseph Handler (1967)

Highlights from Le Livre de la Sante by Joseph Handler (1967). The educational book's 20 volumes complete a ...
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Rude Girls And Monkey Men: The 1979 and 1980 2-Tone Tours

Rude Girls And Monkey Men: The 1979 and 1980 2-Tone Tours

In 1979 cool kids rocked like a Monkey Man to the 2-Tone tour. The Specials, ...
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Jim Flora’s Mesmeric Album Covers

Jim Flora’s Mesmeric Album Covers

James Flora (1914-1998), a graduate of the Academy of Cincinnati (1935-1939), was hired by Columbia Records, owned ...
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Pierre Imans’ Wax Mannequins And The Ideal Female Body

Pierre Imans’ Wax Mannequins And The Ideal Female Body

Outstanding human mannequins from 1920s Paris ...
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1950s American Vacations In Kodachrome

1950s American Vacations In Kodachrome

In Vintage Americana Vacations (1950s) ElectroSpark shares a set is for Kodachromes shot on the ...
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Otl Aicher’s Order Fights Terrorist Modernity At The 1972 Olympic Games

Otl Aicher’s Order Fights Terrorist Modernity At The 1972 Olympic Games

Kommando Otl Aicher is Alexander Negrelli’s study of the 1972 Olympic Games through the prism ...
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The 1969 Gold Strike Stamps Catalog

The 1969 Gold Strike Stamps Catalog

Those old enough to remember the 1960s and 1970s will remember trading stamps. For those ...
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Historical Dandies: British Cigarette Cards (1932)

Historical Dandies: British Cigarette Cards (1932)

Historical Dandies is a set of cigarette cards created by the Nottingham's John Player & sons ...
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Wonderful Ephemera from Logan’s Run – Released Forty Years Ago

Wonderful Ephemera from Logan’s Run – Released Forty Years Ago

Logan’s Run was originally a novel written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... 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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    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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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