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21 Vintage Camera Adverts for Your Inner Voyeur

21 Vintage Camera Adverts for Your Inner Voyeur

Before the age of digital cameras in everything, buying a happy snapper was technological Viagra. ...
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In 1967 five flying saucers landed in Somerset and across southern England

In 1967 five flying saucers landed in Somerset and across southern England

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In pre-War America Paul Satko and his family sailed their Ark of Juneau from Virginia to Alaska

In pre-War America Paul Satko and his family sailed their Ark of Juneau from Virginia to Alaska

IN pre-war Great Depression-hit America, Paul Satko and his family set about transforming their car ...
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Fabulous Frisbee 1977: A model shows us the Basic Catching Postions

Fabulous Frisbee 1977: A model shows us the Basic Catching Postions

SO. Summer's coming and you're wondering who to throw a frisbee like the dudes in ...
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Hunter S. Thompson writes to a TV producer

Hunter S. Thompson writes to a TV producer

IT'S  Hunter S. Thompson Sunday. Here's how  the writer responded to a TV contract: Spotter: The ...
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Was The Yugo The Worst Car Ever Made?

Was The Yugo The Worst Car Ever Made?

WAS the Yugo the worst care ever made? Known locally as the Zastava Koral, the ...
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The fur-lined tea cup and saucer made by Meret Oppenheim

The fur-lined tea cup and saucer made by Meret Oppenheim

FLASHBACK to December 9 1936. This fur-lined tea cup and saucer made by Meret Oppenheim ...
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In photos: The Ernest Henry Shackleton story

In photos: The Ernest Henry Shackleton story

SIR Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer. He led the the Endurance expedition of ...
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When Hunter S Thompson interviewed Keith Richards

When Hunter S Thompson interviewed Keith Richards

HUNTER S. Thompson met Keith Richards for an interview. The trick with all interviews is ...
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Al Schiefley and Les Skuse give a lovely lady the ‘SWEET’ and ‘SOUR’ boob tattoo

Al Schiefley and Les Skuse give a lovely lady the ‘SWEET’ and ‘SOUR’ boob tattoo

IN this photograph, Al Schiefley and Les Skuse apply ink to a willing dish. Les Skuse lived all his ...
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White House speechwriter William Safire’s letter to President Nixon on the failed moon landing of 1969

White House speechwriter William Safire’s letter to President Nixon on the failed moon landing of 1969

AS we in the know know, the 1969 moon landing never happened. But in case ...
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When Lester Bangs Creemed for Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music

When Lester Bangs Creemed for Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music

IN 1976, Lester Bangs (Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung) wrote for Creem magazine an article on Metal ...
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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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