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5 Video Store Memories of the 1980s

5 Video Store Memories of the 1980s

For many, it was a sad thing to see the many Blockbuster Video stores sit ...
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A Guide To The Stranger: Read This 1849 Guide To Procuring Prostitutes In Philadelphia

A Guide To The Stranger: Read This 1849 Guide To Procuring Prostitutes In Philadelphia

  IN 1849, those looking for sex in Philadelphia cold buy a usefuel book: A ...
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1920s: Thea Alba Was ‘The Woman With 10 Brains’ (One For Each Finger)

1920s: Thea Alba Was ‘The Woman With 10 Brains’ (One For Each Finger)

    IN the 1920s, German-born Thea Alba toured as “The Woman With Ten Brains”. Why? ...
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Ten great Agatha Christie Covers

Ten great Agatha Christie Covers

Agatha Christie put all the time spent not cleaning her teeth into her writing and ...
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1964: Fans Chase The Beatles Into London’s Marylebone Station

1964: Fans Chase The Beatles Into London’s Marylebone Station

Photos of The Beatles filming A Hard Day's Night ...
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The Case of the Curiously Absent French Fries and Other Adverts of ’74

The Case of the Curiously Absent French Fries and Other Adverts of ’74

  Ahhh. Remember when credit cards were for emergencies? Things have completely reversed - most ...
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Hush Puppies and Amphetamines: Adverts of ’81

Hush Puppies and Amphetamines: Adverts of ’81

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a heaping helping of magazine advertisements from the fine ...
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Matt Groening’s 1989 Apple Student’s Guide

Matt Groening’s 1989 Apple Student’s Guide

Matt Groening’s Apple Student's Guide came out around the same time The Simpsons debut on Fox. The ...
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The Computers Are Coming! A Warning From Southwest Radio Church In 1980

The Computers Are Coming! A Warning From Southwest Radio Church In 1980

  The Computers Are Coming! A warning from Southwest Radio Church in 1980. (The book ...
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The Insane World of Spanish and Italian Crime Comics of the 1960s-70s

The Insane World of Spanish and Italian Crime Comics of the 1960s-70s

My interest in these Italian and Spanish crime comics started with Joe Crack. How could ...
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My Uncle Was Drafted By The NY Giants in 1943 – $150 per game, BYO Sneakers

My Uncle Was Drafted By The NY Giants in 1943 – $150 per game, BYO Sneakers

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The Beatles Cartoon Show 1965-1969

The Beatles Cartoon Show 1965-1969

THE Beatles cartoon was produced from 1965 to 1969, airing on ABC in the US. 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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