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Sammy’s Stork Club of the Bowery New York: ‘An Alcoholic Haven’ of Prospering Poverty (1934 – 1970)

Sammy’s Stork Club of the Bowery New York: ‘An Alcoholic Haven’ of Prospering Poverty (1934 – 1970)

"From 8 in the morning until 4 the next morning Sammy’s is an alcoholic haven ...
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Whatever Happened to These Retro TV Girls from Your Youth?

Whatever Happened to These Retro TV Girls from Your Youth?

A while back we published Whatever Happened to These Retro TV Stars from Your Youth? ...
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Art And Beauty: Every One Of The Wonderful Cannes Festival Film Posters From The 20th Century

Art And Beauty: Every One Of The Wonderful Cannes Festival Film Posters From The 20th Century

The Cannes film festival gets an official poster every year. It's a big deal. The 21st Century has seen ...
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25 Great Pictures Of Arsenal Fans In The 1930s

Arsenal in the 1930s were English football's most successful team. Under the coaching of Herbert Chapman - ...
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The Rolling Stones Recorded ‘Satisfaction’ Fifty Years Ago Today

The Rolling Stones Recorded ‘Satisfaction’ Fifty Years Ago Today

Keith: We recorded ‘Satisfaction’ at RCA studios in Los Angeles. This time everything went right. ...
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The Scab: A Photo History Of Fear, Freedom And Fighting For Work

The Scab: A Photo History Of Fear, Freedom And Fighting For Work

SCAB! This wonderful picture is from 1916. "Don't Be A Scab" say the two girls ...
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30 Photographs Of A Glasgow Day In 1960

30 Photographs Of A Glasgow Day In 1960

In April 1960, Allan Hailstone - known on Flickr as Allhails - photographed life in ...
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Richard Berry’s Louie Louie: the song that sowed the seeds for garage, punk and heavy metal

Richard Berry’s Louie Louie: the song that sowed the seeds for garage, punk and heavy metal

  Garage bands have cut their teeth on it since time immemorial. Animal House venerated ...
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A Field Guide to the Hammer House of Horror Women

A Field Guide to the Hammer House of Horror Women

  We've presented you before with guidebooks to the women of A Man Called U.N.C.L.E. ...
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Pan’s Primer: A Lesson On Those Sexy British TV Dance Troupes

Pan’s Primer: A Lesson On Those Sexy British TV Dance Troupes

Most Americans won't recognize the names Pan's People, Hot Gossip, or Legs & Co, and this is ...
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Set Phasers to Stun: The Five Greatest Toy (Space) Guns of the Seventies

Set Phasers to Stun: The Five Greatest Toy (Space) Guns of the Seventies

If most kids today are like my eight year-old son, they generally don’t play today ...
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Cock of the Walk or Feather Duster? The Five Greatest Heroes of 1980s Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

Cock of the Walk or Feather Duster? The Five Greatest Heroes of 1980s Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

Thanks to George Miller, Mel Gibson and The Road Warrior (1982), the eighties represents 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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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