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“Don’t Let Them Call You Skinny!” – Vintage Weight Gain Advertising for Women

“Don’t Let Them Call You Skinny!” – Vintage Weight Gain Advertising for Women

Perusing through women's interest magazines from the 1950s-1970s, you will often find advertisements for women to put weight on.  ...
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The Shining Behind The Scenes: Watch Jack Nicholson Shocking Himself Into Character

The Shining Behind The Scenes: Watch Jack Nicholson Shocking Himself Into Character

    In 1980 movie goers got to see The Shining, Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson's gripping ...
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Desktop Dining: Photographer Brian Finke Pictures The Joy Of Eating In The Office

Desktop Dining: Photographer Brian Finke Pictures The Joy Of Eating In The Office

'Appetite that comes from hunger. It makes no fuss over the food that satisfies it. If it is great enough, a piece of raw meat will appease it as easily as a roasted pheasant or woodcock' - Alexandre Dumas ...
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Let It Rock Magazine and Barney Bubbles

Let It Rock Magazine and Barney Bubbles

Let It Rock was a monthly British music magazine that ran from October 1972 and December 1975 (35 issues) ...
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Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood from 1971

Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood from 1971

"He told me many times that he got most of the pictures because he managed to talk a local gang leader into walking him around" ...
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Debbie Harry : The Punk Centerfold Photos (1976)

Debbie Harry : The Punk Centerfold Photos (1976)

"She was constantly asked: ‘How does it feel to be a sex symbol?’” - Chris Stein ...
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A European’s Views of New York In the 1970s

A European’s Views of New York In the 1970s

'The streets sagged and steamed with a subterranean fury. The fire escapes rattled like mad monkey cages' - AA Gill ...
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“Nuke the Whales” and 20 More Tacky and Tasteless T-Shirts from the 1970s

“Nuke the Whales” and 20 More Tacky and Tasteless T-Shirts from the 1970s

Yes, there actually was a “Nuke the Whales” T-shirt, but that’s the least problematic tee in this list. ...
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“Revolution is an act of love” – Pictures of Jane Fonda the Activist

“Revolution is an act of love” – Pictures of Jane Fonda the Activist

"Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood." - Jane Fonda ...
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How WWI Propaganda Posters Sold the War to Americans and Helped Invent the Modern Ad Industry

How WWI Propaganda Posters Sold the War to Americans and Helped Invent the Modern Ad Industry

'The manipulators of patriotic opinion made use of the mental clichés and the emotional habits of the public to produce mass reactions against the alleged atrocities, the terror and the tyranny of the enemy' - Edward Bernays ...
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17 New Albums Arriving in Record Stores in the Year 1980

17 New Albums Arriving in Record Stores in the Year 1980

What a year 1980 was for pop ...
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When Tommy Roberts, Johnny Halliday and Sylvia Vartan Brought Hippy Chic To Paris (1967)

When Tommy Roberts, Johnny Halliday and Sylvia Vartan Brought Hippy Chic To Paris (1967)

"By 1967 Haight Ashbury hippie culture had taken off in London. At Kleptomania – my boutique around the corner from Carnaby Street at 10 Kingly Street – it was embraced with gusto" - Tommy Roberts ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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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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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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