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15 Pop Culture Trivia Nuggets to Impress (or Annoy) Your Friends

15 Pop Culture Trivia Nuggets to Impress (or Annoy) Your Friends

If you’re a Flashbak reader, chances are you have an interest in trivia regarding our ...
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Vintage adverts for mail order adult entertainment

Vintage adverts for mail order adult entertainment

Before the ubiquity of Internet porn adult entertainment was mainly sold under-the-counter from seedy shops ...
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Vintage Celebrations: A Look at Parties Past

Vintage Celebrations: A Look at Parties Past

"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next ...
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The Joy Of Taking A Bath In the 20th Century

The Joy Of Taking A Bath In the 20th Century

It's bath-time! The vast range of aromatherapy soaps and shampoos will create a better, newer and ...
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1955: An Interesting Bath in The Arsenal FC Wash Rooms

1955: An Interesting Bath in The Arsenal FC Wash Rooms

  The above is a photograph of inside English Football League Division One club Arsenal's ...
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The Art of Selling Mineral Water with Topless Fairies

The Art of Selling Mineral Water with Topless Fairies

The use of topless fairies started innocently enough in 1893. The White Rock mascot is supposed ...
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When Natives Attack!  White Damsels and Jungle Savages in Pulp Fiction

When Natives Attack! White Damsels and Jungle Savages in Pulp Fiction

  I think I’d be stating the obvious by saying pulp fiction’s depictions of jungle ...
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40 Songs Ruined by American Classic Rock Radio

40 Songs Ruined by American Classic Rock Radio

Can any of you out there even remember how you felt when you first heard ...
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A Merry Mundane Christmas from the 1950s

A Merry Mundane Christmas from the 1950s

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Unforgivably Awful Christmas Songs (Part 2)

Unforgivably Awful Christmas Songs (Part 2)

  WARNING: These Christmas songs may cause otherwise happy and healthy individuals to experience pervasive ...
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Great Sci-fi Magazine TV Commercials of the 1970s and 1980s   

Great Sci-fi Magazine TV Commercials of the 1970s and 1980s  

So…anyone remember magazines? That’s just a joke, of course. Printed magazines are still around in ...
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Swinging Sixties Menswear Adverts for Amorous Playboys

Swinging Sixties Menswear Adverts for Amorous Playboys

Here, (in chronological order) are 20+ Swinging Sixties sweaters, slacks, shirts and suits.  Groovy, baby! ...
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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 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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    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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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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