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Totally Rad 1980s Video Game Advertising

Totally Rad 1980s Video Game Advertising

Clearly, this game is just too much to handle.  The RGB color graphics and the AY-3-8910 PSG sound ...
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The Singing Ringing Tree:  Cold War’s Brothers Grimm Terrified Children In The West

The Singing Ringing Tree: Cold War’s Brothers Grimm Terrified Children In The West

Grim scary tales: The Singing Ringing Tree.     For British children of the 1960s, ...
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The Top 50 Sci-Fi Babes of TV & Cinema (1960s-80s)

The Top 50 Sci-Fi Babes of TV & Cinema (1960s-80s)

1. JANE FONDA – BARBARELLA (1968) Roger Vadim brought a comic book to life… and ...
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‘Negroes Stage Big Dallas Juneteenth’ 1936: ‘Dusky Beauties Prance, Cab Calloway Does His Stuff For Truckers’

‘Negroes Stage Big Dallas Juneteenth’ 1936: ‘Dusky Beauties Prance, Cab Calloway Does His Stuff For Truckers’

The Dallas Morning News' report on the 1936 Juneteenth makes for a shocking read. Paula ...
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Nineteen Fabulous Photos of Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1950s and 60s

Nineteen Fabulous Photos of Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1950s and 60s

  These fantastic images of Newcastle upon Tyne taken in the 1950s and 60s were ...
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Selling It With Speech Bubbles: 14 Vintage Comic Book Style Adverts

Selling It With Speech Bubbles: 14 Vintage Comic Book Style Adverts

If you're selling your product in a comic book, it makes sense to have your ...
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Undead, Undead! Jesus Christ it’s Dracula!

Undead, Undead! Jesus Christ it’s Dracula!

  Long before Bela Lugosi terrified audiences as the 'Prince of Darkness' Count Dracula, he ...
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How to Get Whacked in a Horror Film: 20 Tips for Assured Non-Survival

How to Get Whacked in a Horror Film: 20 Tips for Assured Non-Survival

If you're in a horror movie from the 1960s-80s and want to get killed, here ...
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When Kermit met Yoda: The Muppets on set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

When Kermit met Yoda: The Muppets on set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

  August 1979: Irvin Kershner is directing The Empire Strikes Back, aka Star Wars Episode ...
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts The World In 2100: Future Visions From 1964 and 2001

Arthur C. Clarke Predicts The World In 2100: Future Visions From 1964 and 2001

    In 2001 (obviously, he did write 2001: A Space Odyssey), Arthur C. Clarke shared ...
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The Covers Don’t Lie: A brief history of the 1990s UK music scene as told through Select magazine

The Covers Don’t Lie: A brief history of the 1990s UK music scene as told through Select magazine

The way we listened: Sometimes, looking back on all the music that was supposedly hip ...
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Naughty Co-Eds: A Look at Campusploitation Films

Naughty Co-Eds: A Look at Campusploitation Films

  The 1970s brought humanity into the gutter with a buffet of exploitation genre choices: ...
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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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