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Architect Carlo Mollino’s Secret Stash of Erotic Polaroids (NSFW)

Architect Carlo Mollino’s Secret Stash of Erotic Polaroids (NSFW)

After Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino died in 1973, a large secret stash of ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

Cheesy Songs, Feathered Hair & Snazzy Outfits: A 70s-80s Eurovision Mixtape

  I certainly don't want to knock Eurovision contestants from the late 1970s to early 80s ...
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History Deceived: 13 Restored and Colorized Images From The Early And Mid 20th Century

History Deceived: 13 Restored and Colorized Images From The Early And Mid 20th Century

Do color photographs do something more than black-and-white pictures? Below is a gallery of 13 ...
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The Naked Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, AKA Le Corbusier: A Life In Photos

The Naked Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, AKA Le Corbusier: A Life In Photos

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier, was the most potent architect of the 20th century. The artist, polemicist and urban ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

In 1924 the directors of J. Lyons and Co. decided to update their image and specifically their waitresses. They held a staff competition to choose a nickname for the newly styled Lyon’s teashops’ waitresses. The former name of ‘Gladys’ was now seen as very old fashioned. The name ‘Nippy’ was eventually chosen, probably for the connotation that the waitresses nipped speedily around. ...
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Robot Empire: Remembering Topper’s Ding-A-Ling Robots of the 1970s

Robot Empire: Remembering Topper’s Ding-A-Ling Robots of the 1970s

In the late 1960s, a toy company named Topper master-minded a toy robot takeover of ...
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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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    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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