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In 1959 Pose magazine let the pin-ups speak

In 1959 Pose magazine let the pin-ups speak

YEARS before the Sun crested the "News in Briefs" Page 3 feature, US cupcake magazine ...
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David Bowie’s 1967 Letter to His First American Fan

David Bowie’s 1967 Letter to His First American Fan

In 1967, Sandra Dodd, a 14-year-old fan living in the USA wrote to David Bowie. ...
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The 10 best premium-rate phone lines of the 1980s

The 10 best premium-rate phone lines of the 1980s

IN the 1980s, fans could get close to the stars on telephone chatlines. The messages ...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s advice for teachers at Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Kurt Vonnegut’s advice for teachers at Iowa Writers’ Workshop

KURT Vonnegut wrote to Richard Gehman in 1967. He had advice to give. “Mornings are for ...
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And the winner of the most memorable Oscar speech of all time is…

And the winner of the most memorable Oscar speech of all time is…

LIGHTS, cameras… Cue wailing and gnashing of teeth… Yes, it’s Oscars time again, and that means ...
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Women behaving like brain-dead fools in vintage adverts

Women behaving like brain-dead fools in vintage adverts

IT'S not all sexism in advertising. Sometimes,the women featured are simple curve-bots happy to be validated ...
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Saucy cartoon jokes in vintage adult girlie magazines

Saucy cartoon jokes in vintage adult girlie magazines

WITH names like Adam, Bachelor, Caper, Cavalier, Click, Dude, Duke, Frolic, Knight, Nugget, Rake, Scamp ...
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Vintage milks bottle tops

Vintage milks bottle tops

VINTAGE milks bottle tops is a gallery of retro graphics and messages to make you ...
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Sir magazine retrospective: Bettie Page, naked Doukhobors and marijuana addicts

Sir magazine retrospective: Bettie Page, naked Doukhobors and marijuana addicts

IN the 1940s and 1950s, magazines like Sir put hairs on your chest. With titles ...
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Vintage American cars and their owners – 1940s and 1950s

Vintage American cars and their owners – 1940s and 1950s

VINTAGE American cars and their owners - a look at those fabulous rides of the ...
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Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party: A Picture Story

Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party: A Picture Story

  Huey P. Newton was the co-founder of the Black Panther Party co-founder and Minister of Defense. ...
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Scanlan’s Magazine’s Guide to Importing Pot From Mexico And Raising Guerrilla War In The USA

Scanlan’s Magazine’s Guide to Importing Pot From Mexico And Raising Guerrilla War In The USA

Scanlan’s Magazine (named after a pig farmer) ran from March 1970 to January 1971. Warren ...
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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 Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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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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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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