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Mods, Plods And A Dog In A Box: Scooters 1950-1969

Mods, Plods And A Dog In A Box: Scooters 1950-1969

  In praise of the scooter in British culture. Lots more here.       ...
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Scares and Spandex: Hair Metal in Horror Movies

Scares and Spandex: Hair Metal in Horror Movies

The combination of metal and horror is a match made in heaven (or rather, hell). ...
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Campers of Shag: A Look Inside Groovy Recreational Vehicles of the 1970s

Campers of Shag: A Look Inside Groovy Recreational Vehicles of the 1970s

RV's of the 1970s were things of beauty: thick lustrous burnt-orange shag carpeting, miles of ...
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The Hecklers Made The 1966 General Election Unmissable

  The 1966 General Election was won by the Labour Party and their leader Harold Wilson, ...
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1910: Motor Laws By US State According To New York’s Automobile Club of America

1910: Motor Laws By US State According To New York’s Automobile Club of America

    In 1910, the New York-based Automobile Club of America published a guide to getting around ...
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Not Star Wars, but an Incredible Simulation: Remembering Ideal’s STAR Team Toys

Not Star Wars, but an Incredible Simulation: Remembering Ideal’s STAR Team Toys

The year was 1977 or 1978, and the thing I wanted most in the world ...
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Richie Benaud Takes A Shower And A Shave: 1961

Richie Benaud Takes A Shower And A Shave: 1961

  Richie Benaud, was the Australia cricket captain who became the voice of summer days until bad ...
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Bloodcurdling Tales And Photos of Amputations From The American Civil War

Bloodcurdling Tales And Photos of Amputations From The American Civil War

  War is brutal. War is just. The American Civil War (1861–1865) was no exception. For many men ...
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Faces of Appalachia In The Early and Mid 20th Century

Faces of Appalachia In The Early and Mid 20th Century

Faces of Appalachia In The Early and Mid 20th Century:       Photographs via ...
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Best of the Vest: A Salute to the Sleeveless Wonders of the 70s

Best of the Vest: A Salute to the Sleeveless Wonders of the 70s

What's this man holding?  It looks like a lighter - I presume to set himself ...
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We Don’t Need Other Worlds; We Need A Mirror: Six Sci-Fi Movies that Took the Ultimate Trip – Home

We Don’t Need Other Worlds; We Need A Mirror: Six Sci-Fi Movies that Took the Ultimate Trip – Home

In Stanislew Lem’s 1961 novel, Solaris, one character observes that humans have no need of ...
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Letter from a Slave, 1857

Letter from a Slave, 1857

In August 1857, a young slave Vilet Lester wrote a letter to her former mistress, Patsey ...
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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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