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You Should Be Dancin’: The 5 Movie Musicals that Killed Disco at the Box Office

You Should Be Dancin’: The 5 Movie Musicals that Killed Disco at the Box Office

    In 1977, John Badham’s Saturday Night Fever took the box office and pop ...
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Reach Out and Charge Someone: Long Distance Calls in the 1970s

Reach Out and Charge Someone: Long Distance Calls in the 1970s

  Have you ever seen a more ridiculous thing in your life? These crummy pieces ...
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Mr Lettsom’s 1797 Moral Thermometer Measures The Impact of Your Drinking Habits

Mr Lettsom’s 1797 Moral Thermometer Measures The Impact of Your Drinking Habits

ACCORDING to 18th-century physician John Coakley Lettsom's “moral and physical thermometer”, one of his Hints Designed to Promote ...
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12 Memorable American TV Commercials of the 1970s

12 Memorable American TV Commercials of the 1970s

This is a list of memorable Seventies commercials. Not the best - just the iconic, ...
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Bathroom Nightmares: The Definitive Guide to Shower Scenes in Horror Cinema

Bathroom Nightmares: The Definitive Guide to Shower Scenes in Horror Cinema

One constant that runs through countless horror films (especially in the slasher genre) is the ...
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Wonderful Footage From The Aftermath Of A 1992 Rave

Wonderful Footage From The Aftermath Of A 1992 Rave

    WHAT was the rave music scene like in the 1990s?     YouTuber mariaraver92 has ...
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Wonderfully Creepy Taxidermy Furniture Of The Victorians

Wonderfully Creepy Taxidermy Furniture Of The Victorians

THE Victorians liked to turn the dead into useful objects. They were the great recyclers. ...
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5 Disturbing Films from the 1970s that Will Destroy Your Will to Live

5 Disturbing Films from the 1970s that Will Destroy Your Will to Live

Why did movies in the 1970s get so nihilistic, nasty and brutal? This has been ...
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The Breast of the Best: The Top 5 Jiggle TV Shows of the 1970s

The Breast of the Best: The Top 5 Jiggle TV Shows of the 1970s

The first half of the 1970s saw television abandoning the light and fluffy sitcom (I ...
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“I Started a High School Sex Riot!” – 20 Sensational Vintage Tabloid Stories

“I Started a High School Sex Riot!” – 20 Sensational Vintage Tabloid Stories

There's nothing new under the sun. Today's tabloids may choose to concentrate on celebs more ...
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British Actors Just Before They Became Famous

British Actors Just Before They Became Famous

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10 Fabulous Maps Of The United States 1856-1932

10 Fabulous Maps Of The United States 1856-1932

SUSAN Schulton's Mapping The Nation is a wonderful book showcasing "the complex and beautiful maps ...
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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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