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America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

We've all heard that portion size has gotten out of control – your average 1970s ...
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Test driving Buckminster Fuller’s three-wheeled Dymaxion car was fatal

Test driving Buckminster Fuller’s three-wheeled Dymaxion car was fatal

  In the 1930s, the prolific designer and planner Buckminster Fuller created the three-wheeled Dymaxion car. The vehicle ...
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Campers of Shag (Part 2): Another Look Inside Groovy RV’s of the 1970s

Campers of Shag (Part 2): Another Look Inside Groovy RV’s of the 1970s

We recently took a step inside the recreational vehicles of the 1970s, and those groovy ...
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The Simpsons’ Top Five Movie Parodies of the 21st Century

The Simpsons’ Top Five Movie Parodies of the 21st Century

If you want to, you can read all the conventional wisdom that is available all ...
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The Gorbals Vampire Ate Children And Created A Moral Panic – Glasgow, 1954

The Gorbals Vampire Ate Children And Created A Moral Panic – Glasgow, 1954

"It all started in the playground - the word was there was a vampire and everyone was going to head out there after school..." ...
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Lost Angels: Mugshots of anonymous women, LA 1930s-1940

Lost Angels: Mugshots of anonymous women, LA 1930s-1940

  "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism," wrote Raymond Chandler in The ...
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Fantastic Files: The Forgotten Genre Magazines of the Seventies and Eighties

Fantastic Files: The Forgotten Genre Magazines of the Seventies and Eighties

  The 1970s and 1980s – the pre-Internet Age -- witnessed the rise of so ...
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25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

In 1834 Charles Lambert, the son of a snuff miller from Surrey, set up a ...
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Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

There's something about an old photograph with no context - no text, no background information, ...
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The Leopard And The Baboon: The Staging of a 1966 Classic Image

The Leopard And The Baboon: The Staging of a 1966 Classic Image

    In 1966 John Dominis photographed a leopard and a baboon fighting. Had he happened upon the ...
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30 Celebrities in Vintage Commercials & Advertising

30 Celebrities in Vintage Commercials & Advertising

Yes, that's Barbara Eden in a 1964 advert for suntan lotion, before she became Jeannie. ...
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British Football Fans 1900-1930: Black Faces, Duck Hats And Living Dangerously

British Football Fans 1900-1930: Black Faces, Duck Hats And Living Dangerously

 
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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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