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Mattel’s Creepy Crawlers: All You Need to Make a Bug is a Thingmaker Set and an Electric Plug…

Mattel’s Creepy Crawlers: All You Need to Make a Bug is a Thingmaker Set and an Electric Plug…

Although I was raised in the 1970s, a number of memorable toys from the 1960s ...
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Biting the Hand that Feeds It? Sci-Fi TV goes to the Fan Convention

Biting the Hand that Feeds It? Sci-Fi TV goes to the Fan Convention

The 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International is now in our rear-view mirrors. Every year at ...
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I Just Love My New Sewing Machine! Vintage Adverts of Happy Homemakers

I Just Love My New Sewing Machine! Vintage Adverts of Happy Homemakers

He's just given her the gift that keeps on giving - a brand new sewing ...
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Great Songs Made Silly: Unfortunate Uses of Classic Tunes in Commercials

Great Songs Made Silly: Unfortunate Uses of Classic Tunes in Commercials

Sometimes it’s okay to take an old song and use it in a commercial. Was ...
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You Know Nothing John Travolta: If Game of Thrones Was a 1977 TV Movie

You Know Nothing John Travolta: If Game of Thrones Was a 1977 TV Movie

For the fun of it, let's suppose George R. R. Martin started writing A Song ...
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Porn Fashions: Sleazy Styles from the Decade of Decadence

Porn Fashions: Sleazy Styles from the Decade of Decadence

  Not so long ago, we brought you the tackiest in sleazy 70s home interiors.  In a ...
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Nikola Tesla: Lighting Up Mark Twain, The AC/DC Mash-Up And Visions Of The Future

Nikola Tesla: Lighting Up Mark Twain, The AC/DC Mash-Up And Visions Of The Future

The great inventor Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856. Tesla was the naturalised American whose ...
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The Battle Of Britain In Rare Color Photos

The Battle Of Britain In Rare Color Photos

On 10 April 1940 Germany attacked. The Luftwaffe launched daylight attacks on British ports and shipping in the ...
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Visors Up! The Golden Age of Toy Space Helmets

Visors Up! The Golden Age of Toy Space Helmets

Here at Flashbak I have previously remembered the great age of toy space guns and ...
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Victorian Era Beach Life: 52 Photos of Lust, Love And Lace On The Sands

Victorian Era Beach Life: 52 Photos of Lust, Love And Lace On The Sands

The stereoptype is of the prudish Victorian laced-up on the beach, stiff to the point of ...
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Ten Great Kodachrome Photos of London in 1953 by Max Gene Leonard

Ten Great Kodachrome Photos of London in 1953 by Max Gene Leonard

They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes ...
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Disco Dutch: The Sexy and Sometimes Awkward 1970-80s Dance Music of the Netherlands

Disco Dutch: The Sexy and Sometimes Awkward 1970-80s Dance Music of the Netherlands

A while back we featured some truly jaw-dropping record covers from the Netherlands. This time, ...
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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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