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VD Is For Everyone: An Hilarious 1969 Promise From The American Social Health Association

VD Is For Everyone: An Hilarious 1969 Promise From The American Social Health Association

  In 1969, The American Social Health Association produced this video about venereal disease. Ostensibly a ...
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1970s Space Colony Art: Fantastic NASA Designs for Massive Orbital Spaceships

1970s Space Colony Art: Fantastic NASA Designs for Massive Orbital Spaceships

In the 1970s space was the mission and the message. One thing occupied minds at NASA: ...
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Adam Purple’s Eden: New York’s Urban Gardener Built Beauty From Rubble 1975-1986

Adam Purple’s Eden: New York’s Urban Gardener Built Beauty From Rubble 1975-1986

  In 1975 Adam Purple was inspired. Squatting in an apartment at 184 Forsyth Street on New York ...
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Sci-Fi TV: 1977 – The Year of Star Wars Also Brought These Forgotten Wonders

Sci-Fi TV: 1977 – The Year of Star Wars Also Brought These Forgotten Wonders

  For my third instalment in this blog series about forgotten sci-fi television, I cast ...
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Stop Driving Us Crazy! (1959): A Methodist Moralising Martian Motor Movie

Stop Driving Us Crazy! (1959): A Methodist Moralising Martian Motor Movie

  In 1959, Dr. Caradine R. Hooton, General Secretary, of the Board Of Temperance of ...
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The Barbarians Arrive: Japanese Depictions of Westerners (1860s)

The Barbarians Arrive: Japanese Depictions of Westerners (1860s)

In the 1850s U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry landed his ships in Japan and set about ending ...
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Light Therapy For Naked Children, Delicate Adults, Sick Pigs And Quacks (Photos: 1900-1950)

Light Therapy For Naked Children, Delicate Adults, Sick Pigs And Quacks (Photos: 1900-1950)

Light therapy was popular in Europe from the turn of the century until the late 1930s. The ...
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Roller Derby Kisses: Turning Girls’ Roller-Derby Bum Bruises Into Art

Roller Derby Kisses: Turning Girls’ Roller-Derby Bum Bruises Into Art

  "It’s only when the heart begins to beat wildly and without pattern – when ...
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17 Soul Jangling 1970s Men’s Fashion Ads

17 Soul Jangling 1970s Men’s Fashion Ads

  This is clearly the coolest dude who has ever walked the earth. He's got ...
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25 Fantastic Photos Of Footballers At Home With Their Families In The 1970s And 80s

25 Fantastic Photos Of Footballers At Home With Their Families In The 1970s And 80s

Before football was WAGs, VAR and super injunctions, life was pretty normal for Britain's top sportsmen ...
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Belladonna of Sadness: A Lost Treasure Of Animated Psychedelic Demonic Eroticism (1973)

Belladonna of Sadness: A Lost Treasure Of Animated Psychedelic Demonic Eroticism (1973)

  Belladonna of Sadness (Kanashimi no Belladonna) is a 1973 "long-forgotten X-rated psychedelic animation gem ...
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Be-Ro Home Recipes: Scones, Cakes, Pastry, Puddings – A 1923 Cookbook Primer

Be-Ro Home Recipes: Scones, Cakes, Pastry, Puddings – A 1923 Cookbook Primer

In the 1920s, budding cooks could learn the art of housekeeping from Be-Ro Home Recipes: Scones, ...
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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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