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The Five Coolest Electronic Toys of the 1970s

The Five Coolest Electronic Toys of the 1970s

  Today, we have iPhone apps and video game consoles…and thank goodness for them. But ...
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20 Outstanding Mid-Century Sci-Fi Pulp Covers

20 Outstanding Mid-Century Sci-Fi Pulp Covers

Midcentury Sci-Fi pulp was brimming with fantastic cover art.  Illustrated by some of the most ...
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Inside A Box of Negatives Discovered in Antarctica 1914-1917

Inside A Box of Negatives Discovered in Antarctica 1914-1917

These are photographic negatives left a century ago in Captain Scott’s last expedition base at ...
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Turtlenecks and Ugly Couches: The Montgomery Ward Catalog of 1978

Turtlenecks and Ugly Couches: The Montgomery Ward Catalog of 1978

  I'm actually glad they don't sell couches like this anymore. If they did, I'd ...
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The 5 Coolest Gadgets of 1980s Science Fiction TV that Aren’t from Star Trek or Doctor Who

The 5 Coolest Gadgets of 1980s Science Fiction TV that Aren’t from Star Trek or Doctor Who

  In the 1970s, the creators of science fiction television programming toiled to imagine what ...
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Trippy, Far-Out And Cool As Hell Posters From Detroit’s The Grande Ballroom (1967-68)

Trippy, Far-Out And Cool As Hell Posters From Detroit’s The Grande Ballroom (1967-68)

Between 1967 and 1968, Detroit's The Grande Ballroom, played host to some of the world's best acts. Gary ...
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1970s Lee Adverts from Denim Leisure Suit Hell

1970s Lee Adverts from Denim Leisure Suit Hell

In the mid-Seventies, Lee began a series of magazine ads all featuring a dude in ...
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The Rationing Years in Britain 1939 – 1954

The Rationing Years in Britain 1939 – 1954

  When Gallup, in 1947, asked the British public what would be their no-expense-spared fantasy ...
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7 Things Boys Loved in the 70s

7 Things Boys Loved in the 70s

Just think, in 40 years there will be an article about all the things kids ...
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AC/DC And Bon Scott In A School Skirt Appear On The Great Countdown Show In 1975

AC/DC And Bon Scott In A School Skirt Appear On The Great Countdown Show In 1975

IT'S 1975 and AC/DC are making their debut TV appearance with Bon Scott on Australian pop ...
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In 1947, Ten Comic Strip Artists Were Asked To Draw Their Characters Blindfolded

In 1947, Ten Comic Strip Artists Were Asked To Draw Their Characters Blindfolded

IN 1947, Life magazine asked 10 contemporary comic strip artists to see if they could draw ...
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Lucha Libre Magaine Covers Of The 1970s

Lucha Libre Magaine Covers Of The 1970s

IN the 1970s, fans of Mexican Lucha Libre (free wrestling) could invest 2 pesos in ...
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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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