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In The Library: Where Books Live And You Think (Photos 1950-1961)

In The Library: Where Books Live And You Think (Photos 1950-1961)

  Dear Children of Troy: Your librarian has asked me to write, telling you what ...
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Lions And Riders Take On The Wall Of Death

Lions And Riders Take On The Wall Of Death

Before the telly people made their own entertainment. This is no fusty Luddite rant about ...
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James Tormey’s Superb Raymond Chandler Covers For Penguin

James Tormey’s Superb Raymond Chandler Covers For Penguin

The exclusion of designer James Tormey  – and in particular his early 70s covers for ...
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His Evil Brains Glow in the Dark: Remembering Kenner’s Alien Figure (1979)

His Evil Brains Glow in the Dark: Remembering Kenner’s Alien Figure (1979)

  One of the most legendary and sought-after toys from my youth in the 1970s ...
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The Trippy Varna Restaurant In Århus, Denmark, by Verner Panton (1971)

The Trippy Varna Restaurant In Århus, Denmark, by Verner Panton (1971)

Ever visit the Varna Restaurant, aka the Varna Palace or Varna Palæet, in Århus, Denmark, back ...
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All Aboard the LNER Pathé Cinema Train of 1938

All Aboard the LNER Pathé Cinema Train of 1938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Io6mvocu4 Cinema On Train - Mr JH Thomas Inaugurates a new service at King's Cross. ...
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The Instructor Magazine (Jan 1969): Sex-Ed, Multi-Culturalism And Everyone Passes

The Instructor Magazine (Jan 1969): Sex-Ed, Multi-Culturalism And Everyone Passes

  In the late 60s, education got a massive facelift - a transformation from the ...
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Vintage Guide for Strip-teasers: Bettie Page Illustrates What Strippers Are Allowed To Show By State

Vintage Guide for Strip-teasers: Bettie Page Illustrates What Strippers Are Allowed To Show By State

In the 1950s, striptease artistes were confused. What could they show legally in each US ...
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Life’s Greatest Trip: ‘Naturally Stoned On Jesus’ In 1971

Life’s Greatest Trip: ‘Naturally Stoned On Jesus’ In 1971

In late 1971, Arthur Blessitt was 'Naturally Stoned on Jesus" in his book Life's Greatest Trip. ...
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In 1974 David Bowie Played An Unwitting Role In The Birth Of Punk

In 1974 David Bowie Played An Unwitting Role In The Birth Of Punk

    It is a little known fact that David Bowie was an occasional visitor ...
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The Legendary Jack Kirby’s Comic Book of The Prisoner

The Legendary Jack Kirby’s Comic Book of The Prisoner

Jack Kirby was a legendary figure in the history of American comic books. The characters ...
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Remembering The Parker Brothers Situation Games (1968-1970)   

Remembering The Parker Brothers Situation Games (1968-1970)  

  In the late 1960s, Parker Brothers -- manufacturers of Sorry!, Ouija and other great ...
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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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