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Epic Adverts: Stevie Wonder Plays Atari Video Games

Epic Adverts: Stevie Wonder Plays Atari Video Games

IN 1977, Stevie Wonder advertised Atari Video games: "If I could play video games, you ...
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From 1968 And 1970 Visitors To Margate And Girvan Took A Trip Through Keith Albarn’s Fun Houses

From 1968 And 1970 Visitors To Margate And Girvan Took A Trip Through Keith Albarn’s Fun Houses

IN 1968, the Funland theme park in Margate, Kent, introduced a new attraction. Created by Keith ...
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DIY English Fashions Of The Mid 20th Century

DIY English Fashions Of The Mid 20th Century

JAMES Lileks has looked beyond the shards of lard and war-effort carrot stuck between our ...
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5 Insane And Fab Al Fresco Moments In 1960s Pop Music

5 Insane And Fab Al Fresco Moments In 1960s Pop Music

WE recently told how, back in 1964, the Yardbirds gave an impromptu performance in Lord ...
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From Movies to TV: 10 Tragic Failures

From Movies to TV: 10 Tragic Failures

  MOVIES adapted for television series aren’t necessarily terrible; in fact, the outcome is often ...
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The 10 Most Sexist Pig Ads From Ms Magazine In The 1970s

The 10 Most Sexist Pig Ads From Ms Magazine In The 1970s

BACK in the day, men were in charge. Well, so they wanted to be. The ...
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The Five Weirdest Things Ever Thrown Onto A Pitch

  WHEN Villarreal fans taunted Barcelona’s Dani Alves by throwing him a banana, it was ...
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1962-1977: The Wonderful Designs Of Sainsbury’s Own-Label Groceries

1962-1977: The Wonderful Designs Of Sainsbury’s Own-Label Groceries

IN the 1960s, Sainsbury's began selling own-label groceries. The packaging was marvellous: Like these cornflakes ...
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When Max Clifford Met Mandy Allwood: Police, Power, Sex, Money And Tabloids

When Max Clifford Met Mandy Allwood: Police, Power, Sex, Money And Tabloids

MAX Clifford has been found guilty of eight charges of indecent assault. Ron Greenslade recalls ...
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Pages of Polyester: The Sears 1974 Catalog

Pages of Polyester: The Sears 1974 Catalog

FROM the women's fashion section of the 1974 Fall-Winter Sears Catalog, here are 35 pages ...
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1943: Bizarre American Locomotive Company Advert

1943: Bizarre American Locomotive Company Advert

IN 1943, The American Locomotive Company published this advert:       (more…)
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1955 Hair Tonic Advert: Lucky Tiger Gets the Gals

1955 Hair Tonic Advert: Lucky Tiger Gets the Gals

IN the 1950s, Lucky Tiger would seduce the girls. If you got really lucky, you ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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