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Captive Audiences: 1981 Television Commercials

Captive Audiences: 1981 Television Commercials

With TiVo, DVR, Instant Streaming, etc. who watches commercials anymore?  Once upon a time, suffering ...
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19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

1983: The era of off-the-shoulder sweatshirts and leotards with matching tights (the brighter and shinier ...
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The Great Toy Robots, Circa 1978 – 1988

The Great Toy Robots, Circa 1978 – 1988

After Star Wars premiered in 1977, the world fell in love with droids R2-D2 and ...
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When Playgrounds Were Deadly

When Playgrounds Were Deadly

Remember when playgrounds were fun? Sure, there was a pretty good chance you'd be scalded ...
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Synthetic Street USA: America’s Fake Rooftops And Towns of World War II

Synthetic Street USA: America’s Fake Rooftops And Towns of World War II

Synthetic Street USA wasn't a real street. No-one lived in the houses on it. It ...
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Spirit Photography In 1920s England: When William Hope Conned Arthur Conan Doyle

Spirit Photography In 1920s England: When William Hope Conned Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you believe in ghosts? William Hope (1863 – 8 March 1933) did. Maybe. More ...
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Rene Lalique’s Glass Mascots: 1920s Car Ornaments For Your Hood

Rene Lalique’s Glass Mascots: 1920s Car Ornaments For Your Hood

  What you need for your car is a mascot. And no mascot is more ...
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Don’t Tamper in God’s Domain: Jurassic Park and the ‘Life Finds a Way’ Horror Movies of the 1990s

Don’t Tamper in God’s Domain: Jurassic Park and the ‘Life Finds a Way’ Horror Movies of the 1990s

Jurassic World (2015) -- the third sequel to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) -- opens ...
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Stay Calm!  It’s Just Nuclear Annihilation (A 1950 A-Bomb Instructional Pamphlet)

Stay Calm! It’s Just Nuclear Annihilation (A 1950 A-Bomb Instructional Pamphlet)

Midcentury Americans lived in perpetual fear of nuclear annihilation from the Commies.  Classrooms had regular ...
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30 1970s Men’s Fashion Adverts That Cannot Be Unseen

30 1970s Men’s Fashion Adverts That Cannot Be Unseen

Men's fashion is the gift that keeps on giving. Until armour becomes ubiquitous, men will ...
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On This Day In Photos: June 7th In The 20th Century

On This Day In Photos: June 7th In The 20th Century

Photos we found of people, places and events on June 7th in the 20th Century:
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Ecstatic Teenagers Screaming At Pop Concerts In The 1960s And 1970s

Ecstatic Teenagers Screaming At Pop Concerts In The 1960s And 1970s

  Were you there? Did you scream hysterially as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The ...
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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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