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Night of the Living VHS: 1980s Horror Video Box Art

Night of the Living VHS: 1980s Horror Video Box Art

If only all horror VHS covers could look this good. Alas, it was not to ...
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JM Barrie Queues For Coffee In London 1921, And Other Moments In Exile

JM Barrie Queues For Coffee In London 1921, And Other Moments In Exile

  JM Barrie: 1860 - 1937. BBC: James Matthew Barrie was born at Kirriemuir in ...
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Alvin Stardust Photos: 27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014

Alvin Stardust Photos: 27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014

Alvin Stardust was born Bernard William Jewry during the war in September 1942. He later became professionally ...
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Velvet Shadows and Kissing Sticks: 1970s-80s Beauty and Cosmetics Adverts

Velvet Shadows and Kissing Sticks: 1970s-80s Beauty and Cosmetics Adverts

"She's not going to marry the boy next door."  She's going to marry the rebel ...
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15 Painfully Awkward Album Covers for Your Viewing Displeasure

15 Painfully Awkward Album Covers for Your Viewing Displeasure

We’ve covered plenty of bad album covers here on Flashbak; but today we’re focusing on ...
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The Amazing 1971 Zenith Color TV

The Amazing 1971 Zenith Color TV

If you're as old as me, you remember when television sets were built as sturdy ...
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Lust for Lowbrow: 5 Ways Blue Collar Was King in the 70s

Lust for Lowbrow: 5 Ways Blue Collar Was King in the 70s

Something happened in the 1970s where suddenly all our heroes, our movies, our fashion, our ...
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Mods In A Cage And Police On The A23 To Brighton: The 1981 Lambretta Rally

Mods In A Cage And Police On The A23 To Brighton: The 1981 Lambretta Rally

Police detain 'Parka' wearing youths in parcel trucks before putting them on the train out ...
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17 Vintage Clowns To Haunt Your Dreams

17 Vintage Clowns To Haunt Your Dreams

Believe it or not, there are still people who find clowns charming, and don’t recognize ...
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Caxton Hall in Westminster – Where the Stars Got Married

Caxton Hall in Westminster – Where the Stars Got Married

Caxton Hall, now a redeveloped apartment and office block, was once THE registry office that ...
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Lynda Bellingham At The Phoenix Theatre, London, In “Norman, is that you?”

Lynda Bellingham At The Phoenix Theatre, London, In “Norman, is that you?”

HARRY Worth and Lynda Bellingham and Harry Worth rehearse at the Phoenix Theatre in London in the new ...
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Liverpool Dockers Strike In 1970

Liverpool Dockers Strike In 1970

FLASHBAK to 18/07/1970: A general view of the mass meeting of Liverpool dockers at the ...
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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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