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The 1950s Cross-Dressers of New York’s Casa Sussanna Club

The 1950s Cross-Dressers of New York’s Casa Sussanna Club

Casa Susanna was a private New York club where 1950s heterosexual men could unwind in female clothing. ...
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Sounds to Make You Shiver! Horror Novelty Records of the 1950s-80s

Sounds to Make You Shiver! Horror Novelty Records of the 1950s-80s

Back in the prehistoric days before the internet and video games, kids derived enjoyment from ...
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Fitness Fails: The Suzy Chapstick Workout of 1983

Fitness Fails: The Suzy Chapstick Workout of 1983

Suzy Chaffee, better known by her nickname "Suzy Chapstick", was an Olympic athlete, political activist, ...
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Notting Hill, London, 1950-2000: Murder, Race Riots And Slumming It With The Super-Rich

Notting Hill, London, 1950-2000: Murder, Race Riots And Slumming It With The Super-Rich

NOTTING Hill wasn't always a London enclave for bankers, Trustafarians and the merely stinking rich. It ...
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Teddy Boys At The Elvis Presley Memorial Service, London 1977

Teddy Boys At The Elvis Presley Memorial Service, London 1977

FLASHBAK to August 18 1988: Teddy Boys gather at Christ Church Cockfosters, London, for a memorial service ...
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20 Wonderfully Tasteless and Insane Fotonovelas of the 1970s -80s

20 Wonderfully Tasteless and Insane Fotonovelas of the 1970s -80s

Tragedy thy name is Fotonovela!  Want bizarre and utterly insane stories of brutality and perversity ...
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Back to the Haunted Mansion: How to Have a Perfect 1970s Halloween

Back to the Haunted Mansion: How to Have a Perfect 1970s Halloween

    Well, it’s that time of year again, and in order to celebrate Halloween ...
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“One, Two, Freddy’s Comin’ For You”: 23 Great Horror Movie Lines

“One, Two, Freddy’s Comin’ For You”: 23 Great Horror Movie Lines

There have been some amazing quotes in horror movie history, and I couldn't begin to ...
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Ten Airline Menus from the 20th Century

Ten Airline Menus from the 20th Century

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Bad Halloween Costumes of the 1970s and 80s

Bad Halloween Costumes of the 1970s and 80s

Unfortunately, most trick-or-treat attire of the 1970s and 80s was woefully bad. Generally, costumes consisted of a plastic mask and apron/smock. It was cheap and it came in a box at your local drug store…. ...
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From Bouffant to Farrah: The Glory Days of Big, Big Hair

From Bouffant to Farrah: The Glory Days of Big, Big Hair

Once America pulled itself out of The Great Depression and the boys were home from ...
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The Time is Now: The 5 Scariest Non-Supernatural Episodes of Chris Carter’s Millennium (1996 – 1999)

The Time is Now: The 5 Scariest Non-Supernatural Episodes of Chris Carter’s Millennium (1996 – 1999)

With Halloween fast approaching and the  announcement of a new IDW comic-book based on the ...
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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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