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Unforgivable home croch clothes from the 1970s

Unforgivable home croch clothes from the 1970s

DID you home crochet in the 1960s and 1970s? Did you buy Aunt Lydia's Knit ...
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Photos of UFOs and aliens – the truth is out there

Photos of UFOs and aliens – the truth is out there

UFOs. Aliens. They've been to planet Earth. Often. Did you seem them? These people did. ...
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What happened when a white journalist dyed their and lived in America’s Deep South

What happened when a white journalist dyed their and lived in America’s Deep South

OVER 50 years ago a white journalist dyed his skin black to experience segregation in ...
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This collection of odd 1970s family photos is a cultural artefact

This collection of odd 1970s family photos is a cultural artefact

THE 1970s family unit was recorded in a palette of all the brown and those ...
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Famous musicians doing ordinary things at home

Famous musicians doing ordinary things at home

IN this collection of great photos, we see famous faces form the 1970s at home. ...
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FLASHBACK: Bombshell resignations – how to say ‘stick your job’ in style

FLASHBACK: Bombshell resignations – how to say ‘stick your job’ in style

RESIGNATIONS - memorable ones. And on that bombshell… (more…)
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Houseplants of the 1970s (ferns and tongues)

Houseplants of the 1970s (ferns and tongues)

IN the 1970s, home decor was abut house plants, most often ferns, the mother-in-law's tongue ...
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Food hell: when Campbell’s made soup gravy

Food hell: when Campbell’s made soup gravy

CAMPBELL'S make soup. And that might be the start and the end of it. But ...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s letter on his son’s refusal to fight in Vietnam

Kurt Vonnegut’s letter on his son’s refusal to fight in Vietnam

KURT Vonnegut is, of course, the subject of the work Kurt Vonnegut: Letters. In one, he ...
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1975: Ronald Reagan’s pet mouse threatens Presidential bid

1975: Ronald Reagan’s pet mouse threatens Presidential bid

WHAT'S that in Barack Obama's pocket? Is Mitt Romney's jacket twitching? On November 23, 1975, ...
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1974: retina-burning interior designs in Women’s Day magazine

1974: retina-burning interior designs in Women’s Day magazine

IT'S 1974 and Woman's Day magazine has a selection of d'lish interiors. (more…)
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Vintage advert: 300 ‘pretty girls’ for one dollar

Vintage advert: 300 ‘pretty girls’ for one dollar

VINTAGE advert of the day. Back in the day you could buy 300 "pretty girls" ...
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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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