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Alarmed and Dangerous: A Look at Crime in 1970s-80s America

Alarmed and Dangerous: A Look at Crime in 1970s-80s America

I won’t begin to make a case for whether crime increased during the 1970s, and ...
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The Beaulieu Palace Jazz Riot And A Homosexual Plot  (1960)

The Beaulieu Palace Jazz Riot And A Homosexual Plot (1960)

ON July 30 1960, "things got out of hand" at the Beaulieu jazz festival. One ...
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Five Pop Culture Memories of the Bigfoot Craze of the 1970s

Five Pop Culture Memories of the Bigfoot Craze of the 1970s

In 2014, the cryptid Bigfoot or “Sasquatch” has made something of a silver screen comeback, ...
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1981: Arsenal And Pele Go Nuts For Ingersoll Electronics

1981: Arsenal And Pele Go Nuts For Ingersoll Electronics

You should see the first photo when Pele was wearing shorts: Brazil legend Pele gets a ...
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Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)

Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)

Marijuana is the evil weed that will drive you to madness. Well, so they say. ...
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Starlets’ End: The Rise and Fall of 5 Actresses of the 1940s -60s

Starlets’ End: The Rise and Fall of 5 Actresses of the 1940s -60s

Something snaps when an actress loses her looks and her career falters.  It doesn’t happen ...
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I Am A Human Cannonball: A Brief History Of Circus Bullets

I Am A Human Cannonball: A Brief History Of Circus Bullets

"You've got four seconds between when that cannon fires and when you're going to land, and a lot has to happen in that four seconds, you know" ...
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Texas 1970: A Warning To Pot Users

Texas 1970: A Warning To Pot Users

FLASHBAK to May 25 1970:     This warning sign states the penalties for bringing ...
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1971: The Times Features Vivien Neves, The First Nude To Appear In A British Newspaper

1971: The Times Features Vivien Neves, The First Nude To Appear In A British Newspaper

“A whole page? Wheeee! Imagine all those men in bowler hats grumbling ‘What’s this country coming to?’" ...
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Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life

Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life

               
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Sophie Tucker: Last Of The Red Hot Mamas (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966)

Sophie Tucker: Last Of The Red Hot Mamas (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966)

  Sophie Tucker.com: Born Sonya Kalish to a Jewish family en route to a new ...
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Girlie Magazine Parade (Part 1): From Adam to Eve

Girlie Magazine Parade (Part 1): From Adam to Eve

  How many adult magazines (AKA girlie mags, skin rags) were there in the 1950s ...
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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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