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Posted: 26th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

In 1959 Pose magazine let the pin-ups speak

YEARS before the Sun crested the “News in Briefs” Page 3 feature, US cupcake magazine Pose introduced its readers to the ladies’ speech bubbles.

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Posted: 25th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

David Bowie’s 1967 letter to his first American fan

IN 1967, Sandra Dodd, a 14-year-old fan living in the USA wrote to David Bowie. Would Bowie be interested in endorsing her efforts to start a USA fanclub? The 20-year-old Bowie took the time to reply.

I hope one day to get to America. My manager tells me lots about it as he has been there many times with other acts he manages. I was watching an old film on TV the other night called “No Down Payment” a great film, but rather depressing if it is a true reflection of The American Way Of Life. However, shortly after that they showed a documentary about Robert Frost the American poet, filmed mainly at his home in Vermont, and that evened the score. I am sure that that is nearer the real America.

When David Bowie committed Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide live

12 obscure David Bowie gems today’s artists would kill for

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Posted: 25th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Music | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

The 10 best premium-rate phone lines of the 1980s

IN the 1980s, fans could get close to the stars on telephone chatlines. The messages were pre-recorded. But the billing was live.

The New Kid On The Block had a message for you:

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Posted: 24th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

Kurt Vonnegut’s advice for teachers at Iowa Writers’ Workshop

KURT Vonnegut wrote to Richard Gehman in 1967. He had advice to give.

“Mornings are for writing and so are most of the afternoons… The classes don’t matter much.”

Gehman was due to teach at University of Iowa’s famous Writer’s Workshop,where Vonnegut had been there from 1965 to 1967.

“Cancel classes whenever you damn please.”

Spotter: Slate

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Posted: 24th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

And the winner of the most memorable Oscar speech of all time is…

LIGHTS, cameras… Cue wailing and gnashing of teeth… Yes, it’s Oscars time again, and that means Oscar speeches.

Rebecca Rolfe, of the Georgia Institute of Technology has been analyzing these excruciating exercises in emoting, and says that the average length of an acceptance speech was 44 seconds for men and 39 seconds for women in the 1960s. Now it is 1 minute and 57 seconds for men and 1 minute 56 seconds for women. Interestingly, 71 per cent of the tears have come since 1995.

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Posted: 24th, February 2013 | In: Film, Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

Saucy cartoon jokes in vintage adult girlie magazines

WITH names like Adam, Bachelor, Caper, Cavalier, Click, Dude, Duke, Frolic, Knight, Nugget, Rake, Scamp and Stingers, American adult magazines in the 1950s and 1960s appealed to a thrusting blades’ sense of value, self-esteem, lofty ideals and swordsmanship. (Photos here.) The mags featured the usual cheesrcake photos of thrusting model posing in nude. But amidst them were cartoons, funnies featuring buxom woman in the presence of randy men.

High Magazine 1959

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Posted: 23rd, February 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

Sir magazine retrospective: Bettie Page, naked Doukhobors and marijuana addicts

IN the 1940s and 1950s, magazines like Sir put hairs on your chest. With titles like True, Dude, Stag and Male, these organs were for the monosyllabic non-nonsense real man.

Bettie Page (photos here) was the No.1 pin-up., rendered flawless with crayon and a warm tissue to blur her harder edges.

Sir! Magazine, October, 1950, features the magazine’s trademark cover stripe, the banner that promised much – “Mother of Death, Savage Sex, Terrible Secret.” Cover girl Barbara Neil was just happy to be there.

What are they singing – a charity single?

Known by the single name “Lordly,” he was revered as a semi-deity by Doukhobors. Peter Vasilievich Verigin inspired his Doukhobor followers to build a communal empire that spread over three western provinces in the years after 1899, when they arrived in Canada.

Men. Gird your loins!

James Lileks, who scanned these images, nots: “I’d hate to be the Plant Drip, but I could see the virtues in being a Success Dynamo. For one thing, you’d get the favors of shallow harridans like Betty, provided you could dish it out in the same portions you took it, and strike your employees hard enough to send them to the floor.”

Subtle.

Sex in Flames. Great Gipp. Marijuana Addicts.

Was anyone not a slave in Stalin’s uranium mines? Was anyone a holidaymaker?

More covers here.

Spotters: StagMags, Scoop

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Posted: 22nd, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party: a picture story

HUEY P. Newton was the co-founder of the Black Panther Party co-founder and Minister of Defense. He was born on February 17, 1942. He was murdered by a member of the Black Guerilla Family on August 22, 1989. On the way, one policeman was shot dead – Newton’s conviction for the murder of John Frey was overturned. When he was accused of killing Kathleen Smith, Newton fled to Cuba. He returned. Two trails failed to deliver a verdict. The case was dropped. So much for the violence. What about the message?

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Posted: 18th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

August 1970 – A Smuggler’s Guide to Importing Pot from Mexico (Scanlan’s magazine)

AUGUST, 1970 - A Smuggler’s Guide to Importing Pot from Mexico, as featured in Scanlan’s Magazine.

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Posted: 17th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

The 1960s Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs Identification Kit

CHECK out this 1960s Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs Identification Kit. Created not by cool art students looking to id the good stuff, but by Winston Products for Education. This was used in schools to teach students about drugs and their many dangers. How many children go their first look at these drugs in class? “So,” they nodded. “That’s whar the blueys do…”

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Posted: 16th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, marijuana | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

April 1978: Diamond Lil challenges Tampa’s nude dancing ban

CATHI Schutzler, owner of Diamond Lil’s Saloon, operates cassette film for dancer Kim Thompson, 24. On screen, dancer strips nude: On stage, the dancer does the same routine at the same time live, but strips only as far as a skimpy bikini-type outfit. Miss Schutzler says she believes this does not violate Tampa’s law banning nude dancing in bars on April 22, 1978, where alcohol is sold.

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Posted: 16th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

1954: Woody Guthrie pictured in New York City’s Washington Square Park

1954: Arthur Dubinsky captures Woody Guthrie in New York City’s Washington Square Park. He’s accompanied by Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.

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Posted: 15th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Music | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

A tour of Salvador Dali’s Spanish home

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Posted: 15th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

1948: The great horse meat scandal

1948: THE horse meat scandal. Meat on the hoof. Black market “veal”! Eight of every ten horses head to the slaughterhouses! “This sordid trade is on the increase..!” “Shire horses are being wiped out..!”

Sugar rationing in World War 2

How carrots won World War Two

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Posted: 14th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

September 21, 1979: The Clash rock New York’s The Palladium

POP history - September 21, 1979: The Clash rocked New York’s The Palladium for two nights. This footage was shot on 8 mm film footage – the bootleg soundtrack put on later. The second night is celebrated forever. This was the night when Paul Simonon smashed his guitar into the stage at the end of White Riot, the show’s last song. Pennie Smith captured the moment that would form the cover shot of the epic London Calling.

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Posted: 14th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Music | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

Mick Jagger in his silver swimmers, by Francesco Scavullo

MICK Jagger by Francesco Scavullo, 1973.

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Posted: 13th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

Page 3 goes tits-up: a history of the Sun’s shelved stunnas

ALL gone tits-up?

Forty-two is no age at all for a model these days, but life could be ending rather than beginning at 40 for Britain’s most famous glamour modeling institution. Rupert Murdoch, responding to a tweet this week suggesting that the Sun’s Page 3 is “so last century”, replied: “You may be right, don’t know but considering.”