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Happiness is a Warm Gun: 1965 Boy’s Life Adverts

Happiness is a Warm Gun: 1965 Boy’s Life Adverts

Boys' Life magazine in the 1950s and 1960s was basically a manual on how to ...
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Vinyl 2 of a Kind: Cheesecake Edition

Vinyl 2 of a Kind: Cheesecake Edition

Back in August, we brought you pairs of albums which looked alike.  It was so ...
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Comin at Ya: The Eighties 3-D Movie Craze (circa 1981 – 1983)

Comin at Ya: The Eighties 3-D Movie Craze (circa 1981 – 1983)

In 2009, 3-D movies roared back to the pop culture forefront with expensive sci-fi epics like ...
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The “Sexist” Gentlemen Prefer Hanes Adverts of the 1970s and 80s

The “Sexist” Gentlemen Prefer Hanes Adverts of the 1970s and 80s

The ad campaign “Gentlemen Prefer Hanes” spanned over a decade, beginning in the early 1970s ...
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Stanley Kubrick’s code red

Stanley Kubrick’s code red

Pick a colour between one and ten. Double it. Add three, and subtract the colour ...
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Troops of the Royal Scots Regiment demonstrate their Grantapault in Belfast, Northern Ireland in July 1970

Troops of the Royal Scots Regiment demonstrate their Grantapault in Belfast, Northern Ireland in July 1970

We've seen photographs of British troops in Northern Ireland. But we thought these pictures deserved their ...
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Scared America: 8 Crises and Collective Panics of the 1970s

Scared America: 8 Crises and Collective Panics of the 1970s

Every decade has its share of fears – whether it’s the Red Scare or Global ...
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Photos of the British Army in Northern Ireland – 1969-1979

Photos of the British Army in Northern Ireland – 1969-1979

In 1969, the situation in Northern Ireland was so grave that British troops were sent ...
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From Uncool to Uncola – The Fabulous Psychedelic 7-Up Ads 1969-1973

From Uncool to Uncola – The Fabulous Psychedelic 7-Up Ads 1969-1973

No one really knows where the name 7-Up really comes from although we do know that ...
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There Are Those Who Believe: The Ancient Astronaut Craze of the 1970s and 1980s

There Are Those Who Believe: The Ancient Astronaut Craze of the 1970s and 1980s

In 1968, Swiss author Erich Von Daniken published a literary work called Chariots of the ...
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Comedy on the Tube: 1970s-80s TV Guide Adverts

Comedy on the Tube: 1970s-80s TV Guide Adverts

American television comedies have certainly experienced its share of highs and lows (probably a lot ...
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Girlie Magazine Parade (Part 2): From French to Gypsy

Girlie Magazine Parade (Part 2): From French to Gypsy

In our previous girlie magazine post I promised that I'd continue with the alphabetical gallery of ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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