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10 Fantastically Awful Retro Toys From Your Corrupted Youth

10 Fantastically Awful Retro Toys From Your Corrupted Youth

AS things heat up in Ukraine and the ever-precarious Middle East continues its pattern of ...
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Lip Tester, Circa 1948

Lip Tester, Circa 1948

THIS Lip Tester is from circa 1948: (more…)
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Watch The Nazi-Musical Mash-Up: ‘Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk, Assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats’

Watch The Nazi-Musical Mash-Up: ‘Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk, Assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats’

IN 1941,  Charles A. Ridley of the British Ministry of Information added footage of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the ...
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Julie Newmar In Playboy, Photos And On Growing Old

Julie Newmar In Playboy, Photos And On Growing Old

Julie Newmar was Catgirl. On April 27, 2013, we went to see Julie take questions ...
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Watch This 1979 Kate Bush Documentary On Her Liverpool Empire Show

Watch This 1979 Kate Bush Documentary On Her Liverpool Empire Show

  KATE Bush is touring again. Why did she ever stop? (more…)
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1958: Anti-French Cartoons Showing A Fat Marianne Murdering Algerian Children

1958: Anti-French Cartoons Showing A Fat Marianne Murdering Algerian Children

FLASHBACK toMarch 30, 1958: Algeria's war of liberation from France. An anti-French cartoon, showing French ...
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What Men Don’t Like About Women – Read This 1945 Guide To Being A Man

What Men Don’t Like About Women – Read This 1945 Guide To Being A Man

IN 1945, Thomas D Hornton write the book What men don't like about women.   ...
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Discos Locos: Hispanic Record Cover Insanity

Discos Locos: Hispanic Record Cover Insanity

WE recently took a look at some particularly insane record covers from the Netherlands and Sweden. ...
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1983: Simon Birrell of Norwich Shows His BBC Micro Computer Game Bug Bomb To Virgin Interactive’s Richard Branson

1983: Simon Birrell of Norwich Shows His BBC Micro Computer Game Bug Bomb To Virgin Interactive’s Richard Branson

FLASHBACK to July 1 1983: Sixteen-year-old Simon Birrell (r), of Norwich, with millionaire Richard Branson, ...
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Read Robert Crumb’s Weirdo Comic Book On Philip K Dick’s LSD-Driven Meeting With God

Read Robert Crumb’s Weirdo Comic Book On Philip K Dick’s LSD-Driven Meeting With God

WE get to see the face of God in Robert Crumb's Book Of Genesis. But ...
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Norwich City Council Takes Delivery Of A Massive Computer In 1957

Norwich City Council Takes Delivery Of A Massive Computer In 1957

FLASHBACK to 1957:  Norwich City Council take delivery of their new computer
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Watch 1955 Burlesque Film Teaserama, Featuring Bettie Page The Girls ‘Who Strip To Please’

Watch 1955 Burlesque Film Teaserama, Featuring Bettie Page The Girls ‘Who Strip To Please’

  IN 1955,  Teaserama featured American stars of burlesque working the stage.     (more…)
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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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