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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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That Manly Scent She Craves: Vintage Cologne and Aftershave Adverts

That Manly Scent She Craves: Vintage Cologne and Aftershave Adverts

Vintage cologne and aftershave advertising consisted of two elements: (1) manly superstuds, the hairier the ...
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Life during wartime: 33 colour photographs of America during the Second World War

Life during wartime: 33 colour photographs of America during the Second World War

American women worked hard on the home front during the Second World War building the ...
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15 Reasons The 1970s Were The Best Decade In Horror Cinema

15 Reasons The 1970s Were The Best Decade In Horror Cinema

This list of reasons why horror flicks of the 1970s were better than anything since ...
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Size Doesn’t Matter? The Tiny Heroes of the Big and Small Screen

Size Doesn’t Matter? The Tiny Heroes of the Big and Small Screen

This summer, Marvel introduces a diminutive superhero to general audiences with Ant-Man (2015) starring Paul ...
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Dead Ringers! Bronze Age Wonder Woman Comic Cover Clones

Dead Ringers! Bronze Age Wonder Woman Comic Cover Clones

  Wonder Woman comic books from the Bronze Age (1970-1983) are a peculiar sight.  They ...
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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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