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Will History blame me or the Bees? 5 Pop Culture Memories of the Killer Bee Invasion of the 1970s

Will History blame me or the Bees? 5 Pop Culture Memories of the Killer Bee Invasion of the 1970s

  In recent articles here at Flashbak, I have remembered the weird and wonderful pop ...
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Dystopia on Tape: Post-Apocalyptic VHS Cover Art

Dystopia on Tape: Post-Apocalyptic VHS Cover Art

The VHS era was big into  post-apocalyptic movies (ex. Mad Max, Escape from New York), ...
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Walkabout Cricket: The Australian Aborigini England Tour And Boomerang Circus Of 1868

Walkabout Cricket: The Australian Aborigini England Tour And Boomerang Circus Of 1868

On February 2 1867, the first Australian cricket team to tour England posed for a ...
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In 1968, The BFI Invited Jean-Luc Godard To The National Film Theatre: He Sent This Telegram

In 1968, The BFI Invited Jean-Luc Godard To The National Film Theatre: He Sent This Telegram

In 1968, the BFI invited Jean-Luc Godard to the National Film Theatre to give a ...
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Burlesque in America: From Heyday to Final Shabby Demise

Burlesque in America: From Heyday to Final Shabby Demise

  FROM WHOLESOME TO INDECENT A few hundred years ago, troupes of performers had the ...
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When The English Cheese Maiden Fed Footballers And Took Benny Hill’s Cream

When The English Cheese Maiden Fed Footballers And Took Benny Hill’s Cream

In 1962, Lancashire's Burnley FC and London club Tottenham Hotspur contested the English FA Cup ...
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Sixty Years of Lolita Book Covers

Sixty Years of Lolita Book Covers

  Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Tacky: 20 Fashion Trends of the 1970s

The Good, the Bad and the Tacky: 20 Fashion Trends of the 1970s

Back in December ’13 we listed out 5 fashion offenses of the decade, but I ...
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Livin’ the Dream with Green Stamps: A 1975 Catalog

Livin’ the Dream with Green Stamps: A 1975 Catalog

Remember The Brady Bunch episode where the kids try to cash in their Green Stamps? ...
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The More You Know: 5 Science Fiction-Related PSAs (Public Service Announcements) of the 1970s   

The More You Know: 5 Science Fiction-Related PSAs (Public Service Announcements) of the 1970s  

If you grew up during the 1970s and 1980s you likely remember PSAs or public ...
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Personal Computers In The 1980s: The Faces And Sensations That Made Us All Triangle Drawing Nerds

Personal Computers In The 1980s: The Faces And Sensations That Made Us All Triangle Drawing Nerds

In the 1980s personal computers kicked in. In 1980 alone, the Acorn Atom, Sinclair ZX80 ...
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Jaron Lanier’s EyePhone: Head And Glove Virtual Reality In The 1980s

Jaron Lanier’s EyePhone: Head And Glove Virtual Reality In The 1980s

Before the iPhone, there was the EyePhone.     In this photograph from June 7 ...
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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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