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Rubik’s Reign: The Toy Puzzle Craze of the 1980s

Rubik’s Reign: The Toy Puzzle Craze of the 1980s

The first years of the eighties brought kids around the world an intriguing and fun ...
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Vintage Hair Adverts: 1960s-70s Products, Styles and Tragic Cuts

Vintage Hair Adverts: 1960s-70s Products, Styles and Tragic Cuts

Flashbak is no stranger to the world of vintage hair (ex. From Bouffant to Farrah: The ...
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The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

Here is the copy from an ad that aired on Los Angeles radio in the ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

Hitchcock’s 1972 Frenzy Is One Of The Least Festive Films Ever Made

  The BBC2’s decision to screen Alfred Hichcock’s Frenzy at 12.05am on the second of ...
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15 Pop Culture Trivia Nuggets to Impress (or Annoy) Your Friends

15 Pop Culture Trivia Nuggets to Impress (or Annoy) Your Friends

If you’re a Flashbak reader, chances are you have an interest in trivia regarding our ...
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Vintage adverts for mail order adult entertainment

Vintage adverts for mail order adult entertainment

Before the ubiquity of Internet porn adult entertainment was mainly sold under-the-counter from seedy shops ...
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Vintage Celebrations: A Look at Parties Past

Vintage Celebrations: A Look at Parties Past

"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next ...
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The Joy Of Taking A Bath In the 20th Century

The Joy Of Taking A Bath In the 20th Century

It's bath-time! The vast range of aromatherapy soaps and shampoos will create a better, newer and ...
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1955: An Interesting Bath in The Arsenal FC Wash Rooms

1955: An Interesting Bath in The Arsenal FC Wash Rooms

  The above is a photograph of inside English Football League Division One club Arsenal's ...
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The Art of Selling Mineral Water with Topless Fairies

The Art of Selling Mineral Water with Topless Fairies

The use of topless fairies started innocently enough in 1893. The White Rock mascot is supposed ...
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When Natives Attack!  White Damsels and Jungle Savages in Pulp Fiction

When Natives Attack! White Damsels and Jungle Savages in Pulp Fiction

  I think I’d be stating the obvious by saying pulp fiction’s depictions of jungle ...
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40 Songs Ruined by American Classic Rock Radio

40 Songs Ruined by American Classic Rock Radio

Can any of you out there even remember how you felt when you first heard ...
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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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