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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 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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