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Beyond ‘Monster Mash’: 20 Novelty Songs from the Mid-Century Horror Craze

Beyond ‘Monster Mash’: 20 Novelty Songs from the Mid-Century Horror Craze

  We all know "Monster Mash" by Bobby Boris Pickett from 1962, but there were ...
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Studio Prints: At A Printmaker’s Workshop In Kentish Town (1970)

Studio Prints: At A Printmaker’s Workshop In Kentish Town (1970)

The 1970 BBC documentary At A Printmaker’s Workshop focuses on Dorothea Wight’s fabled Studio Prints ...
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Color Slides of New York City, April 1979

Color Slides of New York City, April 1979

"I have never returned to New York so my view of the city is stuck ...
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Portraits From The Photo Booth Time Machine: West London In The 1980s

Portraits From The Photo Booth Time Machine: West London In The 1980s

Myself and my friends were born and bred in suburban West London, writes Mark Charnock. In ...
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Smells Like Only Yesterday: Vintage Perfume Advertising

Smells Like Only Yesterday: Vintage Perfume Advertising

Back in January 2015, we covered men's cologne advertising (That Manly Scent She Craves); so, ...
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Bob Dylan’s Screen Test For Andy Warhol’s Stillies (1965)

Bob Dylan’s Screen Test For Andy Warhol’s Stillies (1965)

In 1965 Andy Warhol made a short black-and-white film of Bob Dylan. Recording on a Bolex 16mm camera ...
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Asylum: Inside The Ruins Of America’s Vast Mental Hospitals

Asylum: Inside The Ruins Of America’s Vast Mental Hospitals

Christopher Payne takes us back to when mental illness was even less understood than it ...
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David Bowie’s Lucien Freud Wallpaper (1995)

David Bowie’s Lucien Freud Wallpaper (1995)

This segment of Laura Ashley wallpaper has a repeat print of David Bowie’s portrait of ...
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Elvira: An Illustrated History of The Mistress of the Dark

Elvira: An Illustrated History of The Mistress of the Dark

In 1981, Cassandra Peterson was working at a typewriter for a low wage secretarial job when her ...
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Bert Hardy’s Personal Vintage Collection: Extraordinary British Photojournalism

Bert Hardy’s Personal Vintage Collection: Extraordinary British Photojournalism

Bert Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995), born in London, worked his way ...
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Henri Matisse Illustrations For James Joyce’s Ulysses – The Book He Never Read (1935)

Henri Matisse Illustrations For James Joyce’s Ulysses – The Book He Never Read (1935)

In 1935 Henri Matisse illustrated James Joyce's Ulysses for the Limited Edition Club in America. As ...
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This Could Be Your Head! The Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture Kit (1975)

This Could Be Your Head! The Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture Kit (1975)

  Here’s another crazy toy from the bygone age of the 1970s to remember just ...
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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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