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Campers of Shag: A Look Inside Groovy Recreational Vehicles of the 1970s

Campers of Shag: A Look Inside Groovy Recreational Vehicles of the 1970s

RV's of the 1970s were things of beauty: thick lustrous burnt-orange shag carpeting, miles of ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

The Hecklers Made The 1966 General Election Unmissable

  The 1966 General Election was won by the Labour Party and their leader Harold Wilson, ...
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1910: Motor Laws By US State According To New York’s Automobile Club of America

1910: Motor Laws By US State According To New York’s Automobile Club of America

    In 1910, the New York-based Automobile Club of America published a guide to getting around ...
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Not Star Wars, but an Incredible Simulation: Remembering Ideal’s STAR Team Toys

Not Star Wars, but an Incredible Simulation: Remembering Ideal’s STAR Team Toys

The year was 1977 or 1978, and the thing I wanted most in the world ...
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Richie Benaud Takes A Shower And A Shave: 1961

Richie Benaud Takes A Shower And A Shave: 1961

  Richie Benaud, was the Australia cricket captain who became the voice of summer days until bad ...
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Bloodcurdling Tales And Photos of Amputations From The American Civil War

Bloodcurdling Tales And Photos of Amputations From The American Civil War

  War is brutal. War is just. The American Civil War (1861–1865) was no exception. For many men ...
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Faces of Appalachia In The Early and Mid 20th Century

Faces of Appalachia In The Early and Mid 20th Century

Faces of Appalachia In The Early and Mid 20th Century:       Photographs via ...
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Best of the Vest: A Salute to the Sleeveless Wonders of the 70s

Best of the Vest: A Salute to the Sleeveless Wonders of the 70s

What's this man holding?  It looks like a lighter - I presume to set himself ...
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We Don’t Need Other Worlds; We Need A Mirror: Six Sci-Fi Movies that Took the Ultimate Trip – Home

We Don’t Need Other Worlds; We Need A Mirror: Six Sci-Fi Movies that Took the Ultimate Trip – Home

In Stanislew Lem’s 1961 novel, Solaris, one character observes that humans have no need of ...
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Letter from a Slave, 1857

Letter from a Slave, 1857

In August 1857, a young slave Vilet Lester wrote a letter to her former mistress, Patsey ...
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Stardust and David Essex Changed My Life: The Rise and Fall of Jim Maclean

Stardust and David Essex Changed My Life: The Rise and Fall of Jim Maclean

Stardust: The rise and fall of Jim Maclean.     "There was an identity crisis ...
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On This Day In Photos: April 7th In The 20th Century

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

Photos we found of people, places and events on June 7th in the 20th Century:
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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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