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The Plotted Genius Of Jack Kerouac’s Divine On The Road Scroll

The Plotted Genius Of Jack Kerouac’s Divine On The Road Scroll

  Jack Kerouac's 1962 essay for Writer’s Digest  “Are Writers Made or Born?" begins: Writers are ...
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The Beast of Birkenshaw: The Brutal Crimes of Scottish Serial Killer Peter Manuel

The Beast of Birkenshaw: The Brutal Crimes of Scottish Serial Killer Peter Manuel

Picture the scene: New Year's Day, 1958, a killer sits at a breakfast table eating ...
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Cor!: The vintage Comic Capers of Benny Hill

Cor!: The vintage Comic Capers of Benny Hill

Benny Hill was funny. Benny Hill was often exceedingly funny. At best: his comedy was ...
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Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin 

Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin 

  The end of World War II heralded a time of peace for much of ...
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Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

When it comes to phallic imagery, it doesn't get much more blatant than the image ...
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Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

There's something about an old photograph with no context - no text, no background information, ...
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From Slingshots to Silly String: Celebrating Wham-O

From Slingshots to Silly String: Celebrating Wham-O

Richard P. Knerr and Arthur K. "Spud" Melin were just a couple dudes in Southern ...
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Before Rowan Atkinson: The Original Blackadder

Before Rowan Atkinson: The Original Blackadder

  Long before Rowan Atkinson graced our screens as the conniving Prince Edmund Plantagenet, better ...
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Fabulous Covers from Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1950-1970

Fabulous Covers from Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1950-1970

Lesbian Pulp Fiction There was an old secondhand bookshop in Edinburgh where I whiled away ...
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“If Husbands Only Knew”: Mid-Century Book Adverts of Sexual Anxiety, True Love and Smut

“If Husbands Only Knew”: Mid-Century Book Adverts of Sexual Anxiety, True Love and Smut

  If you have the chance to pore through some vintage pulp magazines, you'll find ...
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Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

  The "secretary" as the mid-century once knew her is forever gone.  Like the stewardess, ...
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The Illuminated hipsters of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

The Illuminated hipsters of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

  As anyone who has read Jack Kerouac knows, his novels are filled with real ...
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