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No Batteries Required: Remembering the Fisher Price Movie Viewer (1973)

No Batteries Required: Remembering the Fisher Price Movie Viewer (1973)

In 1973, Fisher Price introduced its popular “Movie Viewer and Cartridge” toy: a camera-like device ...
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Beauty And The Beast: When Samantha Fox Met Lemmy (1983)

Beauty And The Beast: When Samantha Fox Met Lemmy (1983)

In 1983, Samantha Fox met Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015). ...
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All Dressed Up: Beautiful Color Photos From Behind The Scenes of Some Like It Hot

All Dressed Up: Beautiful Color Photos From Behind The Scenes of Some Like It Hot

Billy Wilder always said "Hello schmuck" whenever he met Jerry Lewis. If this wasn't insulting ...
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Dennis Hopper Captured The 1960s In This Time Capsule Of America

Dennis Hopper Captured The 1960s In This Time Capsule Of America

"I never made a cent from these photos. They cost me money but kept me alive..." ...
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Ayn Rand, The Red Scare And It’s A Wonderful Life As Communist Propaganda

Ayn Rand, The Red Scare And It’s A Wonderful Life As Communist Propaganda

  Frank Capra's 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life, a mainstay of the holiday season in the United ...
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‘Peter Max’ Designer Series Matchbooks By The Ohio Match Company (1969)

‘Peter Max’ Designer Series Matchbooks By The Ohio Match Company (1969)

Although The Ohio Match Company did not list the designer of their 1969 Designer Series paper ...
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The Salt Lake Tribune’s Parade Magazine: Highlights From November 1969

The Salt Lake Tribune’s Parade Magazine: Highlights From November 1969

  Let's take another look at our old friend Parade, the newspaper insert of the ...
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Found Photos: A 1970s Teenage Costume Party

Found Photos: A 1970s Teenage Costume Party

  I have no idea of the who, when and where of these photos. but ...
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Body Mix: Record Cover Collages And Second-Hand Creativity

Body Mix: Record Cover Collages And Second-Hand Creativity

  "As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, ...
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Brilliant Found Photos Of Mid-Century Christmas Parties

Brilliant Found Photos Of Mid-Century Christmas Parties

Here at Flashbak we love Found Photos, those pictures all of us have in drawers ...
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You Are Looking at The Future: Devo, Ray Charles, and Mr. Wizard for Pioneer Laserdiscs

You Are Looking at The Future: Devo, Ray Charles, and Mr. Wizard for Pioneer Laserdiscs

In my previous Flashbak article this week, I remembered Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy hawking ...
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Reginald Alan Westaway: Portrait Of The Artist And Outsider

Reginald Alan Westaway: Portrait Of The Artist And Outsider

Property Of A Gentleman, an exhibition at Prague’s Svit gallery, casts much-deserved light on the life ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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