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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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Let the Sunshine In: 1960s-70s Adverts in the Golden Age of the Tan

Let the Sunshine In: 1960s-70s Adverts in the Golden Age of the Tan

  Back in the 70s, your goal (mainly women) was to get as brown as ...
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Back of the Net!: Your Favourite Football Stars From 1971

Back of the Net!: Your Favourite Football Stars From 1971

  1960s pop music and television changed football forever--and we can blame The Beatles for ...
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Alfred E. Neuman Goes to the Movies: A Gallery of Seventies Blockbusters as seen in MAD Magazine

Alfred E. Neuman Goes to the Movies: A Gallery of Seventies Blockbusters as seen in MAD Magazine

In the seventies, all the options we now enjoy in terms of home entertainment  (DVDs, ...
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Portraits and Stories of African-American ex-Slaves: 1936-1938

Portraits and Stories of African-American ex-Slaves: 1936-1938

These are 'Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers ...
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In The Hood and In Space: The Five Lamest Horror Movie Franchises of the 1990s

In The Hood and In Space: The Five Lamest Horror Movie Franchises of the 1990s

  The 1960s gave the world the remarkable beginning chapter of a great horror franchise, ...
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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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