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Cocktails & Striptease: Vintage Burlesque Show Ads

Cocktails & Striptease: Vintage Burlesque Show Ads

In a time before home video, almost every city in the US had its local ...
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Murders In Miniature: Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death

Murders In Miniature: Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death

"There is no detective in England equal to a lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands" — Agatha Christie (Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)) ...
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Think Pink! Snapshots On The Path To Millennial Pink

Think Pink! Snapshots On The Path To Millennial Pink

"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink" - Audrey Hepburn ...
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Print at SHOWStudio: The Abiding Allure of Inspirational and Off-The-Map Magazines

Print at SHOWStudio: The Abiding Allure of Inspirational and Off-The-Map Magazines

'This is not a magazine. This is not a conspiracy to force opinion into the subconscious of stylish young people. A synthetic leisure culture is developing – plastic people forced fed on canned entertainment and designer food. Are you ready to be Dazed & Confused? Get high on oxygen? This is urban ideas for creative people. Creative people who want to read something else.' - Dazed & Confused, Issue 1 1991 ...
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The Brady Bunch Volcano Episode: TV’s Greatest Allegory for Sexual Awakening

The Brady Bunch Volcano Episode: TV’s Greatest Allegory for Sexual Awakening

I joined the science club at school, and I'm building a volcano. When I'm finished, ...
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Vintage Vinyl Hall of Shame: More Awful Album Covers

Vintage Vinyl Hall of Shame: More Awful Album Covers

I've done many an article on bad album covers over the past several years; you ...
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Wakey, Wakey! Pontins Holiday Camps in 1984

Wakey, Wakey! Pontins Holiday Camps in 1984

“All the best people come to Pontins.” ...
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The Grateful Dead Levitate Egypt’s Pyramids Under A Lunar Eclipse (1978)

The Grateful Dead Levitate Egypt’s Pyramids Under A Lunar Eclipse (1978)

"I got to a point where the head of the Sphinx was lined up with the top of the Great Pyramid, all lit up. All of a sudden, I went to this timeless place. The sounds from the stage - they could have been from any time. It was as if I went into eternity." - Bob Weir ...
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Faces At The Tyco Toy Factory In 1976 Hong Kong

Faces At The Tyco Toy Factory In 1976 Hong Kong

  Tyco Toys was incorporated as Mantua Metal Products in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey, the metalworks ...
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Playboy in the Yearbook: Texas Tech’s Bunny Pages (1959-1981)

Playboy in the Yearbook: Texas Tech’s Bunny Pages (1959-1981)

In 1959, the Texas Tech University yearbook, La Ventana, began the tradition of having a Playboy Magazine feature complete with female students as Playmates and even a full color centerfold... ...
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Kazuko and Wayne: A Japanese-American Romance Taken Between Dec 1955 and January 1957

Kazuko and Wayne: A Japanese-American Romance Taken Between Dec 1955 and January 1957

"I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die" — Kazuo Ishiguro ...
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‘A Sardonic Fairytale’: Derek Boshier’s 16 Situations (1971)

‘A Sardonic Fairytale’: Derek Boshier’s 16 Situations (1971)

The contemplative and poised exhibition Land Marks: Structures For A Poetic Universe ran until June ...
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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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