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Library of Shame ’73: A Look at the Year in Bad Books

Library of Shame ’73: A Look at the Year in Bad Books

Before you is a library of the worst 1973 had to offer.  Granted, I’d probably ...
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Disco Era Detritus: Odds & Ends from 1979

Disco Era Detritus: Odds & Ends from 1979

  This isn't your typical "what was happening in 1979" story.  We won't go into ...
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The Art of Selling Smokes: 11 Vintage Tobacco Adverting Techniques

The Art of Selling Smokes: 11 Vintage Tobacco Adverting Techniques

Let's face it, it wasn't too hard to sell a highly addictive toxin in the ...
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Plastic Also-Rans? The Weird but Awesome Sci-Fi Action Figures of the 1970s

Plastic Also-Rans? The Weird but Awesome Sci-Fi Action Figures of the 1970s

  The great age of action figures arguably began in the seventies with toy companies ...
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What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? The Ultimate Male According to the Bunny Magazine

What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? The Ultimate Male According to the Bunny Magazine

Anyone who has opened a Playboy magazine from the 1960s-70s will recognize the "What sort ...
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Bronco Bullfrog: One of UK Cinema’s Bona Fide Obscurities

Bronco Bullfrog: One of UK Cinema’s Bona Fide Obscurities

Bronco Bullfrog: a forgotten cult cinema gem.     Heard the one about the public-school ...
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A Square Dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (1940)

A Square Dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (1940)

Between 1939 and 1944 the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) (later renamed the Office ...
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13 One Season Wonders of the 1960s and 70s

13 One Season Wonders of the 1960s and 70s

  Some shows stay around long after their expiration date (ex. Family Ties) and others ...
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Geometrical Psychology: Mr Betts’ 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations on The Evolution Of Consciousness

Geometrical Psychology: Mr Betts’ 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations on The Evolution Of Consciousness

Extracts from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation by Louisa S. Cook. Geometrical psychology, ...
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Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

As we learned in Boozvertising Part 1, the art of selling alcohol is often a ...
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You’ll Burn Your Fingers!  Remembering Mattel’s Strange Change Toy (1967)

You’ll Burn Your Fingers! Remembering Mattel’s Strange Change Toy (1967)

  File this one under great toys that kids of the twenty-first century would never ...
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‘Girl May Be Third Brother’: In 1937 Julie Emilie Macard Became A Man

‘Girl May Be Third Brother’: In 1937 Julie Emilie Macard Became A Man

On January 6, 1937, The Times Daily  reported on Julie Emilie Macard. The story began: ...
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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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