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“Not Sensuous. Just Natural” – The International Naturist Federation World Congress Comes to Orpington in 1970.

“Not Sensuous. Just Natural” – The International Naturist Federation World Congress Comes to Orpington in 1970.

The International Naturist Federation’s 12th World Congress was held at the North Kent Sun Club ...
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Mini Skirt Monday #2: Mini Skirt Over-Exposure Syndrome

Mini Skirt Monday #2: Mini Skirt Over-Exposure Syndrome

The early Seventies were overflowing with high hemlines.  On the surface, this would seem to ...
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Coagulated Cookery: The Midcentury Gelatinized Dinner Table

Coagulated Cookery: The Midcentury Gelatinized Dinner Table

  Early on in the 20th century, homemakers turned to gelatin to save money by ...
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Sashes And Tashes: Mr Glory Hole Is Crowned

Sashes And Tashes: Mr Glory Hole Is Crowned

FLASHBAK to the 1980s, when Mr Glory Hole was proud to wear the sash and ...
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More Awkward Band Publicity Photos

More Awkward Band Publicity Photos

We just couldn’t leave well enough alone.  There are so many wonderfully awful publicity photographs ...
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Road Rage: The 5 Most Evil Vehicles in Movie History

Road Rage: The 5 Most Evil Vehicles in Movie History

      In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan wrote that the modern automobile has become ...
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8 Highly Suggestive Vintage Ads

8 Highly Suggestive Vintage Ads

  "Skip the booze, the grass, the soft music..." In other words - you no ...
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Sugar Peddling Vintage Ads: Lose Weight With Fizzy Drinks!

Sugar Peddling Vintage Ads: Lose Weight With Fizzy Drinks!

  "If sugar is so fattening, how come so many kids are thin? Next time ...
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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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    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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    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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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