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Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)

Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)

Marijuana is the evil weed that will drive you to madness. Well, so they say. ...
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Starlets’ End: The Rise and Fall of 5 Actresses of the 1940s -60s

Starlets’ End: The Rise and Fall of 5 Actresses of the 1940s -60s

Something snaps when an actress loses her looks and her career falters.  It doesn’t happen ...
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I Am A Human Cannonball: A Brief History Of Circus Bullets

I Am A Human Cannonball: A Brief History Of Circus Bullets

"You've got four seconds between when that cannon fires and when you're going to land, and a lot has to happen in that four seconds, you know" ...
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Texas 1970: A Warning To Pot Users

Texas 1970: A Warning To Pot Users

FLASHBAK to May 25 1970:     This warning sign states the penalties for bringing ...
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1971: The Times Features Vivien Neves, The First Nude To Appear In A British Newspaper

1971: The Times Features Vivien Neves, The First Nude To Appear In A British Newspaper

“A whole page? Wheeee! Imagine all those men in bowler hats grumbling ‘What’s this country coming to?’" ...
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Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life

Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life

               
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Sophie Tucker: Last Of The Red Hot Mamas (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966)

Sophie Tucker: Last Of The Red Hot Mamas (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966)

  Sophie Tucker.com: Born Sonya Kalish to a Jewish family en route to a new ...
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Girlie Magazine Parade (Part 1): From Adam to Eve

Girlie Magazine Parade (Part 1): From Adam to Eve

  How many adult magazines (AKA girlie mags, skin rags) were there in the 1950s ...
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Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949

Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949

    Wikipedia: On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption ...
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When Flying was Fun! BOAC Airline Adverts from the 40s, 50s and 60s

When Flying was Fun! BOAC Airline Adverts from the 40s, 50s and 60s

The British Overseas Airway Corporation or BOAC, as it was normally known, was a British ...
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November 11 1963:  Tottenham Hotspur Lose Manchester United In The Fog

November 11 1963: Tottenham Hotspur Lose Manchester United In The Fog

FLASHBAK to November 11, 1963. The mighty Tottenham Hotspur are taking on Manchester United on the UEFA ...
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Jayne Mansfield (And Her Puppies) Campaigned To Be US President In 1964

Jayne Mansfield (And Her Puppies) Campaigned To Be US President In 1964

  In 1964, Hollywood sexbomb Jayne Mansfield campaigned to be US President:      
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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