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Cannon Towels put the gay into the Army

Cannon Towels put the gay into the Army

THOSE vintage gay adverts did not feature the work of Cannon Towels. With a Cannon ...
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Before health and safety: The Candy Knife slices like a razor

Before health and safety: The Candy Knife slices like a razor

WOWZA! Life before health and safety: A  cheap cut-yer-legs-off razor-style blade and candy bars! What ...
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These vintage gay adverts were our little secret

These vintage gay adverts were our little secret

BEING gay was not always as difficult as it is now. It used to be ...
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From 1976 two Swine Flu films to scare the life out of you

From 1976 two Swine Flu films to scare the life out of you

WINTER is coming. And that means swine flu. Be afraid. In 1976, you were very ...
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Playboy – 11 great cartoons from yesteryear

Playboy – 11 great cartoons from yesteryear

Playboy magazine isn't just about the articles. It's about the cartoons, too:    
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Russian antiwar film from 1983 – never trust a match

Russian antiwar film from 1983 – never trust a match

Russia. 1983. This is how wars start. Never trust a match:
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1962: Dr. Michael Ash hands out Strontium-87 lollipops

1962: Dr. Michael Ash hands out Strontium-87 lollipops

SNAPSHOT: Dr. Michael Ash, 44-year-old British medical specialist, on the beach at Bexhill, England on ...
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Josphine Baker rocks the yellow banana two-piece: 1936 in photos

Josphine Baker rocks the yellow banana two-piece: 1936 in photos

Josephine Baker works the yellow banana skirt at the Ziegfeld Follies performance on 11/02/1936:  
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Naked Ziegfeld Girls Were Not Gratuitous Nudes

Naked Ziegfeld Girls Were Not Gratuitous Nudes

Women undressing had never looked so glamorous... ...
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Flapper Fanny: The 1920s Girl Who Always Knew What To Say

Flapper Fanny: The 1920s Girl Who Always Knew What To Say

Flapper Fanny was a comic strip that began life in the 1920s. Flapper Fanny was smart, ...
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Flapper Fanny was the girl who always knew what to say

Flapper Fanny was the girl who always knew what to say

FLAPPER Fanny was a comic strip that began life in the 1920s. Flapper Fanny was ...
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Archie Time Travels From 1972 To 2012

Archie Time Travels From 1972 To 2012

In 1972 Archie time-traveled to the year 2012. He was right about one thing: those ...
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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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