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Dickie Henderson and the Sad Story of Dixie of the Ross Sisters

Dickie Henderson and the Sad Story of Dixie of the Ross Sisters

The story of Britain's favourite entertainer and his marriage to Dixie - one of the Human Pretzels. ...
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Swingin’ Sweater Families of the Sixties

Swingin’ Sweater Families of the Sixties

Here's a bunch of smiling white families from the sixties (and seventies) modeling their snazzy ...
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Women & Teen Fashions 1972: Defining the Seventies Style

Women & Teen Fashions 1972: Defining the Seventies Style

What was so special about fashions from 1972?  I suppose nothing that rises it above ...
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20 Profoundly Strange Moments from Offbeat Films (1960s-1990s)

20 Profoundly Strange Moments from Offbeat Films (1960s-1990s)

Salem Witch Trial Hip-Hop and other cinematic horrors ...
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Sneaker Pimp And Ultimate Design Raconteur: Jim Walrod

Sneaker Pimp And Ultimate Design Raconteur: Jim Walrod

"I said many times to Jim – and have reflected on this over the last few days – that not many people get to pursue their passion every day of their adult lives. Jim did that. He never went to ‘work’. He did not care if he made money doing it, he just wanted to be able to have you understand what he saw and to have your opinion on it" - Kathy Walrod ...
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Celebrity TV Specials of the 1970s

Celebrity TV Specials of the 1970s

  "The Fourth Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes" from October 1979 is the perfect example ...
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Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future

Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real" - Jules Verne, Around The World In Eighty Days ...
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Photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz

Photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz

In June 1918, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, aged 30, accepted the art dealer and photographer ...
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Personal Computer Ads from the 1980s

Personal Computer Ads from the 1980s

It's the early eighties, and the computer was finally entering the home in a big way.  Of course, most of us had no idea how to use these things ... ...
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The Celestial Archive Advent Calendar

The Celestial Archive Advent Calendar

  Conceived , compiled and designed by Stephen Ellcock and Hugh Hales-Tooke, the Celestial Archive ...
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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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Peter Rachman, and Photos of a Run-Down Notting Hill in 1974

Peter Rachman, and Photos of a Run-Down Notting Hill in 1974

“Sex to Rachman was like cleaning his teeth and I was his toothbrush” - Christine Keeler ...
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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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