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20 Killer Lobby Cards of 1960s-80s Cinema

20 Killer Lobby Cards of 1960s-80s Cinema

  The People that Time Forgot (1977).  No, this isn't a movie about the middle ...
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A 1970s Yarn-alanche of DIY Threads

A 1970s Yarn-alanche of DIY Threads

Let me give you a quick lesson in 1970s Yarnology.  It had been hugely popular to ...
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Six Postcards of the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow 1938

Six Postcards of the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow 1938

The Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 - to give its official name - marked the fifty ...
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8 Political Upheavals In The UK In The 20th Century

8 Political Upheavals In The UK In The 20th Century

THE 20th Centuy was full of big political decisions. Here are 8 events that defined the ...
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Senseless Idiots of Vintage Horror Comics

Senseless Idiots of Vintage Horror Comics

“John, You’ve been driving along this back road for hours! Please… let’s return to the ...
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The Greatest Songs Ever Banned By The BBC

The Greatest Songs Ever Banned By The BBC

THE BBC has always been a bit of a paradox. It has managed to be ...
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The Five Worst Monsters from 1980s Horror Movies

The Five Worst Monsters from 1980s Horror Movies

  Although visual special effects, make-up and prosthetics improved substantially in the 1980s, not all ...
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Paleotechnology: How a Computer System Works (A 1975 Book)

Paleotechnology: How a Computer System Works (A 1975 Book)

Time to take a quick tour through a book on computing from 1975.  How A Computer ...
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‘I Sense Something… A Presence…’: 5 Egregious Darth Vader Knock-offs of the 1970s

‘I Sense Something… A Presence…’: 5 Egregious Darth Vader Knock-offs of the 1970s

    The Star Wars craze of the 1970s resulted in a whole lot of ...
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Dutch Health And Safety Posters 1926-1992

Dutch Health And Safety Posters 1926-1992

Vintage posters of unexpected horrors ...
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Vintage Gristle: Glistening Mounds of Mid-Century Meat

Vintage Gristle: Glistening Mounds of Mid-Century Meat

In the 1950s and 60s, there were three basic food groups in America: pork, chicken ...
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OOT! OOT! 10 Examples of the Ultimate Disco Chant

OOT! OOT! 10 Examples of the Ultimate Disco Chant

You’ll recognize it when you hear it. It’s inexplicably in countless disco songs. It’s 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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