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Roman Polanski and The Tragedy of Macbeth

Roman Polanski and The Tragedy of Macbeth

  Hugh Hefner was thinking about breasts. He thought about breasts a lot. And pussy. ...
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Magical Mystery Décor: Trippy Home Interiors of the 60s and 70s

Magical Mystery Décor: Trippy Home Interiors of the 60s and 70s

  The late 1960s and 70s were all about experimentation and breaking with tradition - ...
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Space Age Star Wars Lobby Cards From 1977

Space Age Star Wars Lobby Cards From 1977

It's 1977 and no Lobby worth the name is complete without Star Wars Lobby Cards. ...
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The Suffragette and Fascist Mary Richardson and the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery

The Suffragette and Fascist Mary Richardson and the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery

”Everything that Valasquez does may be regarded as absolutely right.” – John Ruskin ...
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Peace, Love & Hush Puppies: Far-Out Men’s Footwear from the 1970s

Peace, Love & Hush Puppies: Far-Out Men’s Footwear from the 1970s

  He's tightening his big-ass boot, which means he's already done the deed, and now ...
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April 1970: Chelsea Fans Waiting for The FA Cup Victors to Arrive at Euston Station

April 1970: Chelsea Fans Waiting for The FA Cup Victors to Arrive at Euston Station

On April 29 1970,  Chelsea fans camped out on the floors at London's Euston Station. They were waiting for their team to start their parade of the 1970 FA Cup after beating 'mighty' Leeds United at Old Trafford. ...
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This is not a Book! A Gallery of the Fotonovel, the Photostory, and Photonovels

This is not a Book! A Gallery of the Fotonovel, the Photostory, and Photonovels

In the era of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu, it’s difficult to explain to youngsters ...
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Castaways Behaving Badly: Gilligan’s Island Devilry Caught on Tape

Castaways Behaving Badly: Gilligan’s Island Devilry Caught on Tape

Are we to believe the Seven Castaways, trapped together on this desert island for several ...
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Smutty Sex-For-Sale Teletext Pages From 1980s German TV

Smutty Sex-For-Sale Teletext Pages From 1980s German TV

Over on Flashbak, you can read how the Internet killed Ceefax, that BBC infomation service ...
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Sex Sells Auto Equipment (Part 2)

Sex Sells Auto Equipment (Part 2)

  Auto equipment advertising in the 1960s-80s basically consisted of two components (1) the product ...
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Not Miss America: 37 Queens of Pageants Off-the-Beaten-Path

Not Miss America: 37 Queens of Pageants Off-the-Beaten-Path

  Beauty Pageants are a time-honored  tradition. It's become almost cliche to oppose them from ...
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Faces and fashions from Paris 1969

Faces and fashions from Paris 1969

In 1969, Pari U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy began secret ...
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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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