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The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

In 1924 the directors of J. Lyons and Co. decided to update their image and specifically their waitresses. They held a staff competition to choose a nickname for the newly styled Lyon’s teashops’ waitresses. The former name of ‘Gladys’ was now seen as very old fashioned. The name ‘Nippy’ was eventually chosen, probably for the connotation that the waitresses nipped speedily around. ...
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Robot Empire: Remembering Topper’s Ding-A-Ling Robots of the 1970s

Robot Empire: Remembering Topper’s Ding-A-Ling Robots of the 1970s

In the late 1960s, a toy company named Topper master-minded a toy robot takeover of ...
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Cardboard Universe: Remembering the Amsco Playsets of the 1970s

Cardboard Universe: Remembering the Amsco Playsets of the 1970s

  In the early-to-mid 1970s -- before Star Wars (1977) premiered -- Amsco (A Milton ...
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The Splendor of Domestic Servitude: 7 Mid-Century Sexist Adverts

The Splendor of Domestic Servitude: 7 Mid-Century Sexist Adverts

As a woman, your entire purpose on earth is to please your chain-smoking, Scotch guzzling ...
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You Have Been Summoned to Galactic Court: Ten Times Your Favorite Space Hero went on Trial

You Have Been Summoned to Galactic Court: Ten Times Your Favorite Space Hero went on Trial

  Even in space, the ultimate enemy is…the court system.  Throughout science fiction TV history, ...
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Scenes From Ladies Dressing Rooms: The Crinoline Craze In The 1850s and 1860s

Scenes From Ladies Dressing Rooms: The Crinoline Craze In The 1850s and 1860s

  Of all the man-made devices intended to retrain womanhood the crinoline is surely the most elaborate. The huge ...
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Album Cover Fashion Horrors

Album Cover Fashion Horrors

To catalog every fashion horror perpetrated on an album cover would literally fill up the internet - we ...
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5 Reasons Horror Movies Aren’t What They Used To Be

5 Reasons Horror Movies Aren’t What They Used To Be

Before we drill down as to why horror films aren’t what they once were in ...
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Devil Worship: Feverish Posters From When Sinister Stage Magicians Harnessed The Occult

Devil Worship: Feverish Posters From When Sinister Stage Magicians Harnessed The Occult

Do you believe in ghosts? Do you believe in the Devil, that He makes mischief ...
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The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s

The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s

Steve Vistaunet's photgraphs of cassette spine designs take us back to pressing 'play' and 'record' on to ...
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Far-Out Former Names of 15 Classic Bands

Far-Out Former Names of 15 Classic Bands

I don’t know about you, but I’m really glad Ozzy and the boys changed their ...
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Photographing Legends: Allan Warren’s Portrait Gallery of The Great And The Good

Photographing Legends: Allan Warren’s Portrait Gallery of The Great And The Good

Allan Warren's Portrait of Salvador Dali, taken in Hôtel Meurice, Paris, 1972. Allan Warren began ...
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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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