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Words of Yore: 7 Great Quotes from Decades Past

Words of Yore: 7 Great Quotes from Decades Past

Here is a potpourri of wonderful quotes from yesteryear – some profound, some just humorous.  ...
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‘Saint’ Leonard Cheshire VC: I ‘Saw The Face of Christ’ In The Turin Shroud, Survived Nagasaki And Opened For Pink Floyd

‘Saint’ Leonard Cheshire VC: I ‘Saw The Face of Christ’ In The Turin Shroud, Survived Nagasaki And Opened For Pink Floyd

ON March 7th 1955, the Daily Sketch asked: "Is This The World's Greatest Picture?" Readers gazed upon ...
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Mini Skirt Monday #6: Vinyl Double-Takes

Mini Skirt Monday #6: Vinyl Double-Takes

How many album covers over the years featured a woman in a miniskirt? It would ...
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A Video Of Jim Henson’s 1961 Papercut Jazz Animation

A Video Of Jim Henson’s 1961 Papercut Jazz Animation

  Before he achieved fame with the Muppets, Jim Henson, a skilled animator as well ...
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An Unsightly Mess: Men’s Shorts in the 1970s

An Unsightly Mess: Men’s Shorts in the 1970s

In the 1970s, shorts lived up to their name.  For the ladies there were hot ...
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8 Movie Songs From the 1970s And 1980s That Will Destroy Your Will To Live

8 Movie Songs From the 1970s And 1980s That Will Destroy Your Will To Live

If I can offer any advice to my readers it’s to take care of yourself ...
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976-Evil? 5 of the Strangest 1-900 Horror Hotlines of the 1980s and 1990s

976-Evil? 5 of the Strangest 1-900 Horror Hotlines of the 1980s and 1990s

    Although originally created in the early 1970s for an entirely different purpose, the ...
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Fatal Effects of Masturbation: 1844 French Guide To Death-By-Onanism Prevention

Fatal Effects of Masturbation: 1844 French Guide To Death-By-Onanism Prevention

The Fatal Consequences of Masturbation is a 1844 tome on the perils of onanism. Try ...
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The Hostess with the Mostest and her Self-Heating Trolley

The Hostess with the Mostest and her Self-Heating Trolley

The Hostess trolley has been around for over sixty years, although to most of us ...
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Great Movie Quotes As Told By Archie Comics

Great Movie Quotes As Told By Archie Comics

  This quote from Conan the Barbarian (1982) is a well-loved movie line; yet, now it's even ...
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In 1980 The Advert Told Us: ‘Atari 800 Will Never Become Obsolete’

In 1980 The Advert Told Us: ‘Atari 800 Will Never Become Obsolete’

In 1980 Atari was hot. The Atari 800 was futeuproofed. As the advert said: “It will ...
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When Intrepid Spacemen Sold Cigarettes:  Tobacco Advertising In The Cosmos

When Intrepid Spacemen Sold Cigarettes: Tobacco Advertising In The Cosmos

Once upon a time, tobacco was taste of space and the future.     (more…)
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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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