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Nuclear toys of the 1950s

Nuclear toys of the 1950s

IN the 1950s, nuclear toys were a hit. The A.C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab retailed at ...
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Highway Hi-Fit Phonograph

Highway Hi-Fit Phonograph

FLASHBACK to the Highway Hi-Fi Phonograph: (more…)
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The terrifying Ten Little Indians anti-drug PSA

The terrifying Ten Little Indians anti-drug PSA

IN 1972, you were warned about taking drugs with the ditty Ten Little Indians:   ...
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American Civil War in photos

American Civil War in photos

IN photos: the US civil war: [imagebrowser id=5618]
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Peter Wyngarde: when ‘Rape ‘ was King and gross indecency wore vinyl and velvet

Peter Wyngarde: when ‘Rape ‘ was King and gross indecency wore vinyl and velvet

THE Daily Mail is never slow to point out, in merciless detail, the physical and ...
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Reflections on Iceberg Slim: the chronicler of male-female relations

Reflections on Iceberg Slim: the chronicler of male-female relations

I FIRST read Iceberg Slim's autobiography Pimp when I was a teenager. The title, the ...
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Class of 1943: Name the stars in this MGM Studio photo

Class of 1943: Name the stars in this MGM Studio photo

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Album covers: the most manly men in music

Album covers: the most manly men in music

LOOSEN your neckerchief. Unbutton that S-belt on your Comfi-Slax. And open a freakin' window. We've ...
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SuperMuff: Sex, sexism and bad puns sold cars and their part in the 1970s

SuperMuff: Sex, sexism and bad puns sold cars and their part in the 1970s

IN the 1970s, sex sold cars. It also sold cars parts. As much as the ...
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Studs in vintage men’s fashion ads always get the girls

Studs in vintage men’s fashion ads always get the girls

MENS fashion is all about sex. In the 1960s and 1970s, the link was as ...
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Euro pop songs – five of the worst

Euro pop songs – five of the worst

IT occurred to us that Eurovison might be a rich tablet of talent, but it ...
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Book of the Day: The Life and Loves of Mr Jiveass Nigger

Book of the Day: The Life and Loves of Mr Jiveass Nigger

BOOK of the Day: The Life and Loves of Mr Jiveass Nigger, by Cecil Brown: ...
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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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