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Sci-Fi TV: 1983 – Wizards, Holograms, and Manimal!

Sci-Fi TV: 1983 – Wizards, Holograms, and Manimal!

The year 1983 brought a variety of short-lived science fiction TV series to the tube ...
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George Orwell’s 1944 Letter Revealing Why He Wrote 1984

George Orwell’s 1944 Letter Revealing Why He Wrote 1984

"For somewhat complex reasons nearly the whole of the English left has been driven to ...
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The Flash Gordon Pinball Table Flyer (1980)

The Flash Gordon Pinball Table Flyer (1980)

  "Pathetic Earthlings... Who Can Save You Now?" - Ming The Merciless, 1980     ...
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Ugly Vintage Meats: Before There Were Food Stylists

Ugly Vintage Meats: Before There Were Food Stylists

Cookbooks and adverts prior to the 1980s had a knack for making food look downright ...
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Venice Beach In The 1970s: Epic Photos Of Surf And Skate Pioneers

Venice Beach In The 1970s: Epic Photos Of Surf And Skate Pioneers

The 1970s and Venice Beach, California, is at the forefront of surfing and skating. David ...
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Hot Dogs And Prohibition Smut: Jack Dinsmore’s The Regular Fellows Monthly (1922)

Hot Dogs And Prohibition Smut: Jack Dinsmore’s The Regular Fellows Monthly (1922)

Jack Dinsmore's Joy Book, The Regular Fellows Monthly was published by The Merit Publishing Co., Cleveland, ...
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Pulp! The Classics: Great Works Of Literature Get Hard Boiled

Pulp! The Classics: Great Works Of Literature Get Hard Boiled

Pulp! The Classics sees David Mann hard boil classic works of literature, working covers into the mid-20th ...
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Eerie And Surreal Double Exposure Photographs From The 1940s, 50s and 60s

Eerie And Surreal Double Exposure Photographs From The 1940s, 50s and 60s

In Double Exposures we see shadows and overlaps of subjects in photographs taken in the 1940s, ...
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Animated Color Stereoviews of Late 19th Century Japan

Animated Color Stereoviews of Late 19th Century Japan

T. Enami (1859-1929) recorded life in Meiji-period Japan on a 3D stereoview. Based at his Yokohama studio, Enami achieved ...
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Dial “R” for Retro: 1960s-80s Ladies and Their Old-School Telephones

Dial “R” for Retro: 1960s-80s Ladies and Their Old-School Telephones

There’s nothing sexy about a smartphone – it’s just a thin flat rectangle.  Let’s face ...
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Believing Is Seeing: Faked Photos Before The Internet

Believing Is Seeing: Faked Photos Before The Internet

  “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses” - Susan Sontag     Do we believe ...
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Ice Cream Is Good: A 1948 Booklet By The National Dairy Council

Ice Cream Is Good: A 1948 Booklet By The National Dairy Council

Ice Cream is Good: a 1948 booklet published by the National Dairy Council.     The ...
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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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