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Stunning Shots of London in 1974 by Erik van Straten

Stunning Shots of London in 1974 by Erik van Straten

Erik van Straten, now 61 years old, was in London for one week in April ...
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Miniskirts And Stairs: 1960s Women In Peril

Miniskirts And Stairs: 1960s Women In Peril

  Yes, it's true we're engaging in many wars, our economy has fallen, and our ...
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Duel: Oliver Sacks And The Thrilling Fright Of Road Rage

Duel: Oliver Sacks And The Thrilling Fright Of Road Rage

  Ever experience Road Rage, the desire to hurt another road users, or at least ...
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Mug Shots of Feckless Hippies And Other Juvenile Delinquents

Mug Shots of Feckless Hippies And Other Juvenile Delinquents

What became of the lumpen hippies and juvenile delinquents in the mugshots below? They were ...
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Found Photos: 1970s Studio Portraits

Found Photos: 1970s Studio Portraits

  You may have wondered why Flashbak hasn't done a post on old portraits - you ...
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Vinyl Brilliance: Alice Cooper’s Quadrupple Whammy

Vinyl Brilliance: Alice Cooper’s Quadrupple Whammy

  The four albums released by Alice Cooper between 1971 and 1973 propelled the band’s ...
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In 1985 Vidal Sassoon And Andy Warhol Sold Hair Products To The Bald

In 1985 Vidal Sassoon And Andy Warhol Sold Hair Products To The Bald

In 1985 readers of Rolling Stone and other magazines were let in on a secret: ...
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Everything You Never Expected from a Computer: Remembering the Amiga 500

Everything You Never Expected from a Computer: Remembering the Amiga 500

In 1987, Commodore released the Amiga 500, a home computer, a system that -- to ...
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Picasso On Inspiration And The Magic Of Dust (1964)

Picasso On Inspiration And The Magic Of Dust (1964)

“Read this book if you want to understand me” – Pablo Picasso   Spanish artist ...
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The Timeless Computer: Remembering the Atari 800

The Timeless Computer: Remembering the Atari 800

My first home computer was not the TRS-80, or even the Commodore VIC-20, both of ...
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On This Day In Photos: December 7th In The 20th Century

On This Day In Photos: December 7th In The 20th Century

Photos we found of people, places and events on December 7th in the 20th Century:
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The Prime Movers: Iggy The Iguana, White Panthers And The MC5

The Prime Movers: Iggy The Iguana, White Panthers And The MC5

  Brothers Michael and Dan Erlewine were leading lights of Blues band The Prime Movers, ...
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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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