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Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

When it comes to phallic imagery, it doesn't get much more blatant than the image ...
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Photos Of Censor Reverend Vernon Mitchell’s 1960 Tour Of Soho Strip Clubs

Photos Of Censor Reverend Vernon Mitchell’s 1960 Tour Of Soho Strip Clubs

London's Soho is synonymous with the business ends of sex. It's seedy and seductive, if ...
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America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

We've all heard that portion size has gotten out of control – your average 1970s ...
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Test driving Buckminster Fuller’s three-wheeled Dymaxion car was fatal

Test driving Buckminster Fuller’s three-wheeled Dymaxion car was fatal

  In the 1930s, the prolific designer and planner Buckminster Fuller created the three-wheeled Dymaxion car. The vehicle ...
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Campers of Shag (Part 2): Another Look Inside Groovy RV’s of the 1970s

Campers of Shag (Part 2): Another Look Inside Groovy RV’s of the 1970s

We recently took a step inside the recreational vehicles of the 1970s, and those groovy ...
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The Simpsons’ Top Five Movie Parodies of the 21st Century

The Simpsons’ Top Five Movie Parodies of the 21st Century

If you want to, you can read all the conventional wisdom that is available all ...
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The Gorbals Vampire Ate Children And Created A Moral Panic – Glasgow, 1954

The Gorbals Vampire Ate Children And Created A Moral Panic – Glasgow, 1954

"It all started in the playground - the word was there was a vampire and everyone was going to head out there after school..." ...
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Lost Angels: Mugshots of anonymous women, LA 1930s-1940

Lost Angels: Mugshots of anonymous women, LA 1930s-1940

  "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism," wrote Raymond Chandler in The ...
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Fantastic Files: The Forgotten Genre Magazines of the Seventies and Eighties

Fantastic Files: The Forgotten Genre Magazines of the Seventies and Eighties

  The 1970s and 1980s – the pre-Internet Age -- witnessed the rise of so ...
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25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

In 1834 Charles Lambert, the son of a snuff miller from Surrey, set up a ...
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Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

There's something about an old photograph with no context - no text, no background information, ...
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The Leopard And The Baboon: The Staging of a 1966 Classic Image

The Leopard And The Baboon: The Staging of a 1966 Classic Image

    In 1966 John Dominis photographed a leopard and a baboon fighting. Had he happened upon 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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