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What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? The Ultimate Male According to the Bunny Magazine

What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? The Ultimate Male According to the Bunny Magazine

Anyone who has opened a Playboy magazine from the 1960s-70s will recognize the "What sort ...
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Bronco Bullfrog: One of UK Cinema’s Bona Fide Obscurities

Bronco Bullfrog: One of UK Cinema’s Bona Fide Obscurities

Bronco Bullfrog: a forgotten cult cinema gem.     Heard the one about the public-school ...
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A Square Dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (1940)

A Square Dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (1940)

Between 1939 and 1944 the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) (later renamed the Office ...
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13 One Season Wonders of the 1960s and 70s

13 One Season Wonders of the 1960s and 70s

  Some shows stay around long after their expiration date (ex. Family Ties) and others ...
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Geometrical Psychology: Mr Betts’ 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations on The Evolution Of Consciousness

Geometrical Psychology: Mr Betts’ 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations on The Evolution Of Consciousness

Extracts from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation by Louisa S. Cook. Geometrical psychology, ...
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Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

As we learned in Boozvertising Part 1, the art of selling alcohol is often a ...
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You’ll Burn Your Fingers!  Remembering Mattel’s Strange Change Toy (1967)

You’ll Burn Your Fingers! Remembering Mattel’s Strange Change Toy (1967)

  File this one under great toys that kids of the twenty-first century would never ...
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‘Girl May Be Third Brother’: In 1937 Julie Emilie Macard Became A Man

‘Girl May Be Third Brother’: In 1937 Julie Emilie Macard Became A Man

On January 6, 1937, The Times Daily  reported on Julie Emilie Macard. The story began: ...
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Television’s Worst Final Seasons of the 1970s-1980s

Television’s Worst Final Seasons of the 1970s-1980s

It’s rare to find a show that was good from beginning to end. Nearly every ...
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Mervyn Peake’s illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island

Mervyn Peake’s illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island

  If ever a budding author wanted to learn the craft of writing great fiction, ...
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Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

  The "secretary" as the mid-century once knew her is forever gone.  Like the stewardess, ...
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Vintage Japanese Beer Adverts: Hand-Painted Maidens

Vintage Japanese Beer Adverts: Hand-Painted Maidens

Before the Second World War, adverts in Japan, including Japanese Beer Adverts, were often produced by ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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