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The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

CONTINUING Anorak's look a bicycles and cycling, we bring you the 1955 Huffy Radio Bike. ...
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Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes

Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes

IT'S 1953 and Groucho Marx's television show You Bet Your Life is on the magic box. But not ...
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The cycling sewing machine of 1939

The cycling sewing machine of 1939

CYCLING. CYCLING! That's good, Olympic champions Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton. But can ...
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A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

ITS as easy as riding a bike. So they say. It turns out that the ...
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A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

SIR Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins have got us all on our bikes. But a ...
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The best and worst Olympic protests

The best and worst Olympic protests

WHEN the Spanish water polo coach considered ordering his team to stay in the pool, ...
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Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

WHO was the mystery woman in red top and jeans, marching proudly at the front ...
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1950s boys advertise underwear for an appreciative man

1950s boys advertise underwear for an appreciative man

AS Old Mr Anorak knows, you can always trust man who tucks his vest into ...
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A history of Olympics cock-ups

A history of Olympics cock-ups

THE Olymics got off to a jittery start this week, when the North Korean women’s ...
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Corporate song of the day: when Burnley Building Society gave savings a disco soundtrack

Corporate song of the day: when Burnley Building Society gave savings a disco soundtrack

CORPORATE song of the day - It's the late 1970s and Burnley Building Society are ...
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Ambush advertising in sport – a history

Ambush advertising in sport – a history

AMBUSH! Olympic boss Lord Coe put his well-shod foot in it this week by announcing ...
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1972: Bettie Page has her mug shot taken (photos)

1972: Bettie Page has her mug shot taken (photos)

BETTIE Page was the hotness who never let her fans down. Until 1972, when the ...
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    1960s: This Japanese Sex Guide Is Bizarre

    1960s: This Japanese Sex Guide Is Bizarre

    In the 1960s cool cats in Japan were reading this how-to-do-sex book. From how to hold hands, rub noses, chuck chins, remove excess polish from shoes, mate with an artist's flexible wooden figure and jerk off a test tube. This book has the lot:         Spotter: Anorak ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

    When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

    The publication of issue 33 of the Royal College of Art’s magazine ARK in the autumn of 1962 hit the moment in terms of the turbo-charging of contemporary youth culture.   ARK 33, which was declared to be “mainly about young people… [a] somewhat oblique exposée of the Young Ones”, celebrated the lives of ...
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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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    Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

    Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

    We still want decent housing for all ...
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    Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

    Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

    People I like can be divided into two groups: a) those who enjoy and get Charles M. Schulz’s wonderful Peanuts comic strip; b) those fools who don't. All of human life is in the artist and writer's 17,897 comic strips. In 1968 Schulz noticed the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King ...
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    The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

    The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

    Here is the copy from an ad that aired on Los Angeles radio in the summer of 1969: Right now PSA, the airline that is famous for its stewardesses, is looking for girls. Yes..girls to fill a cute orange mini-uniform...girls who smile and mean it...girls who give other people a ...
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