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Early 80s Comedies: Cocaine Fueled Cinematic Insanity

Early 80s Comedies: Cocaine Fueled Cinematic Insanity

Have you ever seen the 1960s Peter Sellers film, The Party? If not, let me ...
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Big Jim, Big Fun: Your 1970s Renaissance Toy Man Action Figure

Big Jim, Big Fun: Your 1970s Renaissance Toy Man Action Figure

  As a child growing in the 1970s, I was never as much into Hasbro’s ...
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Japs, Japes And Dr Seuss: US Anti-Malaria Warning Posters From World War 2Dr Seuss

Japs, Japes And Dr Seuss: US Anti-Malaria Warning Posters From World War 2Dr Seuss

  In World War II, the US military issued posters warning the fighting folk about malaria. ...
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26 Great Photos Of When A Class Took Their Teacher To See The Rolling Stones In 1978

26 Great Photos Of When A Class Took Their Teacher To See The Rolling Stones In 1978

  In the summer of 1978, The Rolling Stones toured the US. And on 17 June they ...
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In 1995 Steve Jobs Revealed The Secret of Life In 46 Seconds

In 1995 Steve Jobs Revealed The Secret of Life In 46 Seconds

  In 1994 the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association interviewed Apple founder Steve Jobs. At the time ...
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A Gallery of Toy Utility Belts of the 1970s

A Gallery of Toy Utility Belts of the 1970s

In the disco decade, before video games changed the way kids play, a good make-believe ...
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North Shields Prisoner Mug Shots: 1902-1916

North Shields Prisoner Mug Shots: 1902-1916

  These mug shots are of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 ...
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5 Reasons We Should All Love 1970s Fashions

5 Reasons We Should All Love 1970s Fashions

1970s fashions have developed a bad reputation; an object of mockery and snarky remarks. It ...
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A Short Vision: The 1950s Nuclear Armageddon Cartoon That Terrified Everyone Watching The Ed Sullivan Show

A Short Vision: The 1950s Nuclear Armageddon Cartoon That Terrified Everyone Watching The Ed Sullivan Show

  In the early 1950s, trained painters Peter Foldes and his wife Joan began work ...
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Captive Audiences: 1981 Television Commercials

Captive Audiences: 1981 Television Commercials

With TiVo, DVR, Instant Streaming, etc. who watches commercials anymore?  Once upon a time, suffering ...
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19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

1983: The era of off-the-shoulder sweatshirts and leotards with matching tights (the brighter and shinier ...
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The Great Toy Robots, Circa 1978 – 1988

The Great Toy Robots, Circa 1978 – 1988

After Star Wars premiered in 1977, the world fell in love with droids R2-D2 and ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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