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Chairs Gone Wild: Funky Places To Sit In The Seventies

Chairs Gone Wild: Funky Places To Sit In The Seventies

  You get the feeling, when looking at 1970s styles, that designers just took a ...
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Come on Pip Squeak, We’re Saving a Seat for You: The 5 Most Underrated Films of Sam Raimi

Come on Pip Squeak, We’re Saving a Seat for You: The 5 Most Underrated Films of Sam Raimi

  Sam Raimi began his career making low-budget horror films such as The Evil Dead ...
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The 25 Worst Song Titles of the 1960s-70s

The 25 Worst Song Titles of the 1960s-70s

  Some of these fall into the “so bad they’re good” category, while others fall ...
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The Creature Wants Our Women!  The Strange Libidos of Vintage Movie Monsters

The Creature Wants Our Women! The Strange Libidos of Vintage Movie Monsters

  Whether it be giant gorilla or mutant zombie, there’s just something disconcerting about when ...
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Mini Skirt Monday: Minis and Vintage Computers

Mini Skirt Monday: Minis and Vintage Computers

Is there a better way to start out the week than with a generous helping ...
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Flashbak’s Top 8 Swinging Sixties London Films

Flashbak’s Top 8 Swinging Sixties London Films

The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night suddenly made the British Kitchen Sink movies appear just a little bit old fashioned. Even if you were from a grey Northern mill town and you'd just got your girlfriend pregnant or indeed you were pregnant, London was suddenly your oyster. In the world of art, music and fashion, England's capital city was the centre of all that was hip. It was the destination of anybody who was anybody and even if you weren’t. ...
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‘A London look for a London girl’ Susannah York and Warren Beatty in Vogue, 1966

‘A London look for a London girl’ Susannah York and Warren Beatty in Vogue, 1966

  In 1966 Susannah York and Warren Beatty appeared together in the film Kaleidoscope directed ...
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The Top 20 Gratuitous Nude Scenes Of The 1980s

The Top 20 Gratuitous Nude Scenes Of The 1980s

What exactly is gratuitous nudity?  If you have to struggle to come up with a ...
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‘Knit One, Purl One, Kill One’: 1970s Emasculating Action Man Knitting Patterns

‘Knit One, Purl One, Kill One’: 1970s Emasculating Action Man Knitting Patterns

In 1960s and 70s Britain there was arguably no toy more masculine than Palitoy’s Action ...
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Miniskirts And Lots Of Purple: A 1972 Women’s Fashion Catalog

Miniskirts And Lots Of Purple: A 1972 Women’s Fashion Catalog

  For you're viewing pleasure, I have lovingly scanned the women's fashion pages from the 1972 ...
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10 Ridiculous (but Awesome) Horror Movie Tag-Lines of the 1990s

10 Ridiculous (but Awesome) Horror Movie Tag-Lines of the 1990s

  BY the beginning of the 1990s, horror movies had changed significantly from previous decades, ...
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1970s-80s Finland: Land Of Exceptionally Awful Singing And Dancing

1970s-80s Finland: Land Of Exceptionally Awful Singing And Dancing

  FINLAND is the Land of the Midnight Sun; but in the 70s and 80s it ...
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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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