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Dystopia on Tape: Post-Apocalyptic VHS Cover Art

Dystopia on Tape: Post-Apocalyptic VHS Cover Art

The VHS era was big into  post-apocalyptic movies (ex. Mad Max, Escape from New York), ...
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Walkabout Cricket: The Australian Aborigini England Tour And Boomerang Circus Of 1868

Walkabout Cricket: The Australian Aborigini England Tour And Boomerang Circus Of 1868

On February 2 1867, the first Australian cricket team to tour England posed for a ...
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In 1968, The BFI Invited Jean-Luc Godard To The National Film Theatre: He Sent This Telegram

In 1968, The BFI Invited Jean-Luc Godard To The National Film Theatre: He Sent This Telegram

In 1968, the BFI invited Jean-Luc Godard to the National Film Theatre to give a ...
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Burlesque in America: From Heyday to Final Shabby Demise

Burlesque in America: From Heyday to Final Shabby Demise

  FROM WHOLESOME TO INDECENT A few hundred years ago, troupes of performers had the ...
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When The English Cheese Maiden Fed Footballers And Took Benny Hill’s Cream

When The English Cheese Maiden Fed Footballers And Took Benny Hill’s Cream

In 1962, Lancashire's Burnley FC and London club Tottenham Hotspur contested the English FA Cup ...
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Sixty Years of Lolita Book Covers

Sixty Years of Lolita Book Covers

  Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Tacky: 20 Fashion Trends of the 1970s

The Good, the Bad and the Tacky: 20 Fashion Trends of the 1970s

Back in December ’13 we listed out 5 fashion offenses of the decade, but I ...
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Livin’ the Dream with Green Stamps: A 1975 Catalog

Livin’ the Dream with Green Stamps: A 1975 Catalog

Remember The Brady Bunch episode where the kids try to cash in their Green Stamps? ...
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The More You Know: 5 Science Fiction-Related PSAs (Public Service Announcements) of the 1970s   

The More You Know: 5 Science Fiction-Related PSAs (Public Service Announcements) of the 1970s  

If you grew up during the 1970s and 1980s you likely remember PSAs or public ...
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Personal Computers In The 1980s: The Faces And Sensations That Made Us All Triangle Drawing Nerds

Personal Computers In The 1980s: The Faces And Sensations That Made Us All Triangle Drawing Nerds

In the 1980s personal computers kicked in. In 1980 alone, the Acorn Atom, Sinclair ZX80 ...
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Jaron Lanier’s EyePhone: Head And Glove Virtual Reality In The 1980s

Jaron Lanier’s EyePhone: Head And Glove Virtual Reality In The 1980s

Before the iPhone, there was the EyePhone.     In this photograph from June 7 ...
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Let’s Play ‘Spot the Wallflower’: 1970s Yearbook Group-Photo Analysis

Let’s Play ‘Spot the Wallflower’: 1970s Yearbook Group-Photo Analysis

Can you spot Miss Popularity in this photograph?  It's quite obviously the center of attention ...
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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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