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Classic Sleazy Reads: The Christina Books

Classic Sleazy Reads: The Christina Books

  THE Christina books lasted through the Seventies and the Eighties, through several authors at ...
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The 18 Best Baby Makin’ Songs of the 1970s

The 18 Best Baby Makin’ Songs of the 1970s

  THE Seventies brand of soul music was wonderfully varied. Sometimes it was political with unflinching ...
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The Only Good Human is a Dead Human? The 5 Most Historically Significant Humans in the Planet of the Apes Saga

The Only Good Human is a Dead Human? The 5 Most Historically Significant Humans in the Planet of the Apes Saga

  IN my earlier post this week, I gazed at the five simians that -- across ...
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Medieval Easter Bunnies That Want To Kill You

Medieval Easter Bunnies That Want To Kill You

Medieval margin illustrations of killer rabbits ...
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The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing

The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing

    WE all possess an old high-school yearbook lovingly covered in graffiti.  Well, I am ...
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The British New Wave Films and the Books That Inspired Them

The British New Wave Films and the Books That Inspired Them

A slight relaxation of censorship by the late fifties together with the invention of lightweight portable cameras and faster film stock made it easier for directors such as Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson to make films on location away from London and the usual film studios. ...
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8 Things That Were So Much Simpler In The Seventies

8 Things That Were So Much Simpler In The Seventies

BEFORE you get mad, let me preface this list by saying that being complicated does not ...
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Wrigley’s Pan Fried Nightmares – Killing Tastebuds In The 1960s

Wrigley’s Pan Fried Nightmares – Killing Tastebuds In The 1960s

 Wrigley's Spearmint needs to stick to what they know: GUM. Branching out was a huge ...
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Beam Me Up Totty: The Babes of Star Trek

Beam Me Up Totty: The Babes of Star Trek

  THE beautiful female cargo of Harcourt Fenton Mudd (Season 1, Episode 6 -  shown ...
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Fonts of Simian Kindness? The 5 Most Historically Significant Apes in the Planet of the Apes Saga

Fonts of Simian Kindness? The 5 Most Historically Significant Apes in the Planet of the Apes Saga

  THE Planet of the Apes franchise consists of five original feature films made from 1968 ...
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Interior Desecrations: A 1975 Home Furnishing Catalog

Interior Desecrations: A 1975 Home Furnishing Catalog

FOR your viewing pleasure, I have scanned a 1975 newspaper insert for Ethan Allen furniture. I ...
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Hugo Boss made uniforms for the SS but American Companies Collaborated with the Nazis Too!

Hugo Boss made uniforms for the SS but American Companies Collaborated with the Nazis Too!

It wasn’t just German companies that gave Hitler a helping hand during WW2. Here are four huge American companies that hardly covered themselves in World War Two glory. ...
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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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