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The Five Coolest Electronic Toys of the 1970s

The Five Coolest Electronic Toys of the 1970s

  Today, we have iPhone apps and video game consoles…and thank goodness for them. But ...
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20 Outstanding Mid-Century Sci-Fi Pulp Covers

20 Outstanding Mid-Century Sci-Fi Pulp Covers

Midcentury Sci-Fi pulp was brimming with fantastic cover art.  Illustrated by some of the most ...
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Inside A Box of Negatives Discovered in Antarctica 1914-1917

Inside A Box of Negatives Discovered in Antarctica 1914-1917

These are photographic negatives left a century ago in Captain Scott’s last expedition base at ...
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Turtlenecks and Ugly Couches: The Montgomery Ward Catalog of 1978

Turtlenecks and Ugly Couches: The Montgomery Ward Catalog of 1978

  I'm actually glad they don't sell couches like this anymore. If they did, I'd ...
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The 5 Coolest Gadgets of 1980s Science Fiction TV that Aren’t from Star Trek or Doctor Who

The 5 Coolest Gadgets of 1980s Science Fiction TV that Aren’t from Star Trek or Doctor Who

  In the 1970s, the creators of science fiction television programming toiled to imagine what ...
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Trippy, Far-Out And Cool As Hell Posters From Detroit’s The Grande Ballroom (1967-68)

Trippy, Far-Out And Cool As Hell Posters From Detroit’s The Grande Ballroom (1967-68)

Between 1967 and 1968, Detroit's The Grande Ballroom, played host to some of the world's best acts. Gary ...
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1970s Lee Adverts from Denim Leisure Suit Hell

1970s Lee Adverts from Denim Leisure Suit Hell

In the mid-Seventies, Lee began a series of magazine ads all featuring a dude in ...
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The Rationing Years in Britain 1939 – 1954

The Rationing Years in Britain 1939 – 1954

  When Gallup, in 1947, asked the British public what would be their no-expense-spared fantasy ...
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7 Things Boys Loved in the 70s

7 Things Boys Loved in the 70s

Just think, in 40 years there will be an article about all the things kids ...
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AC/DC And Bon Scott In A School Skirt Appear On The Great Countdown Show In 1975

AC/DC And Bon Scott In A School Skirt Appear On The Great Countdown Show In 1975

IT'S 1975 and AC/DC are making their debut TV appearance with Bon Scott on Australian pop ...
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In 1947, Ten Comic Strip Artists Were Asked To Draw Their Characters Blindfolded

In 1947, Ten Comic Strip Artists Were Asked To Draw Their Characters Blindfolded

IN 1947, Life magazine asked 10 contemporary comic strip artists to see if they could draw ...
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Lucha Libre Magaine Covers Of The 1970s

Lucha Libre Magaine Covers Of The 1970s

IN the 1970s, fans of Mexican Lucha Libre (free wrestling) could invest 2 pesos in ...
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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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