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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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    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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