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Sig Waller’s Kitsch Gothic Invades 1950s Suburbia

Sig Waller’s Kitsch Gothic Invades 1950s Suburbia

  Sig Waller  (“S.I.G.” - “Spectrum is Green” from Captain Scarlett and the Mysterions) injects smultzy, kitsch visions ...
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Sylvia Plath: A Life In Photographs, Drawings, Self-Portraits And Pictures

Sylvia Plath: A Life In Photographs, Drawings, Self-Portraits And Pictures

A photographic history of Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) at the ...
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Farrah Everywhere: The Countless Farrah Fawcett Magazine Covers of 1976 to 1980

Farrah Everywhere: The Countless Farrah Fawcett Magazine Covers of 1976 to 1980

Farrah Fawcett appeared in pop culture here and there in the early seventies  - an ...
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Lewis Carroll’s Original Illustrations For Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1864)

Lewis Carroll’s Original Illustrations For Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1864)

  In 1864 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) completed his hand-written book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The story ...
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Who’s Steely Dan and What’s a Supertramp? Band Names Demystified

Who’s Steely Dan and What’s a Supertramp? Band Names Demystified

I'm always curious about where band names originated.  Upon research, usually it's something very boring ...
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Sharks: The Return of The Sharkmobile

Sharks: The Return of The Sharkmobile

In 2016, singer-songwriter Steve “Snips” Parsons was in contact; the reunion of early 70s British rock ...
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Anthony Burgess: My Best 99 Novels 1939-1984 And Top 5 Dystopian Books

Anthony Burgess: My Best 99 Novels 1939-1984 And Top 5 Dystopian Books

  Anthony Burgess, polymath, slang dictionary compiler, creator of other world's and author of A Clockwork Orange, ...
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A Curious Collection of June Brides: Vintage Marriage Snapshots

A Curious Collection of June Brides: Vintage Marriage Snapshots

  The June Brides know the rhyme: "Marry in the month of May, and you'll ...
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Russian Illustrations For Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)

Russian Illustrations For Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)

In 1976, Mikhail Belomlinsky (born St Petersburg 1934), a graduate of the revered St. Petersburg ...
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Ansel Adams’ Photos of Japanese-American Prisoners of War At Manzanar Internment Camp

Ansel Adams’ Photos of Japanese-American Prisoners of War At Manzanar Internment Camp

Actor George Takei recalled his time at an Arkansas internment camp in World War 2. He along ...
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BECKETT: The Opening Credits To An Imaginary 1972 Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett

BECKETT: The Opening Credits To An Imaginary 1972 Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) once worked as a 1970s ...
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Grocery Shopping Yesteryear: An Eclectic Look Back Down the Aisles

Grocery Shopping Yesteryear: An Eclectic Look Back Down the Aisles

I love looking at old pictures of grocery stores.  Getting a glimpse of the old ...
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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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