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The Story Of ‘Punk’

The Story Of ‘Punk’

The rotten etymology of Punk - a word used to describe music for centuries ...
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Chalmers Butterfield’s Travels In Kodachrome

Chalmers Butterfield’s Travels In Kodachrome

A gorgeous series of slides documenting an American's travels in the 1950s and 1960s ...
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Summer Weather: Portraits From A 1983 San Francisco TV Station Audition

Summer Weather: Portraits From A 1983 San Francisco TV Station Audition

I found these strips in an envelope. I put them up to the light, and there were all these heads. I had an inkling that they might be interesting, but I really had no idea. ...
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Haight Street Hippies In The Summer of Love

Haight Street Hippies In The Summer of Love

Kodachromes of hippies idling in Haight Ashbury - 1967-1968 ...
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Arnold Genthe’s Fascinating Photos of Japan In 1908

Arnold Genthe’s Fascinating Photos of Japan In 1908

Two years after his photographic studio burnt down in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake Arnold Genthe made a six month trip to a rapidly changing Japan. ...
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Remarkable Photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown At The End Of The 19th Century

Remarkable Photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown At The End Of The 19th Century

Around 1900, Berlin-born naturalised American Arnold Genthe took (often covert) pictures of street life in San Francisco's Chinatown. ...
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The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

These Kodachrome slides are from when go-ahead Americans believed a flying car was just around the corner ...
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“God Forever, The Beatles Never” – When Lennon Compared the Beatles to Jesus in 1966

“God Forever, The Beatles Never” – When Lennon Compared the Beatles to Jesus in 1966

My life with the Beatles had become a trap. I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus. ...
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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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The High Value of a Degree In LSD

The High Value of a Degree In LSD

'Mountain Girl has fully earned this Acid Test diploma' ...
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How a 1960s Power Couple Taught Architects And Dancers To Find Their Inner Hippie

How a 1960s Power Couple Taught Architects And Dancers To Find Their Inner Hippie

“They built their own ‘city’ on the shore of the ocean and recreated the impact and atmosphere of a metropolis in a multimedia presentation. Dancers became architects and architects became dancers.” ...
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A Year With Mrs. Kilpatric: In 1973 A San Francisco Housewife Became Mike Mandel’s Muse

A Year With Mrs. Kilpatric: In 1973 A San Francisco Housewife Became Mike Mandel’s Muse

Mrs. Kilpatric lived about three houses down the street. One day as I was walking past her house I saw her in the front yard and asked if I could make her picture. ...
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