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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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13 Cracking Photos Of Liverpool Football Club Fans In The 20th Century

13 Cracking Photos Of Liverpool Football Club Fans In The 20th Century

On 29 April 1901, Liverpool won their first title. At the end of the 1989-1990 ...
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Crayola Horrors: A Look at Some Odd and Unsettling Vintage Coloring Books

Crayola Horrors: A Look at Some Odd and Unsettling Vintage Coloring Books

Comic books from decades past were often poorly drawn and hurriedly put together; meant for ...
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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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