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Comments Off on Jack Kerouac – On the Road again
Legend has it that Kerouac wrote On the Road in 1951 virtually non-stop over a three week period (presumably stopping occasionally for food and sleep) and the text has that almost breathless, stream-of-consciousness feel to it. Influenced by a long, rambling...
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1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Documentary, Music •
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Comments Off on We Like It Like That – The Story of Latin Boogaloo
In New York City from 1965 to 1970, musicians blended English and Spanish lyrics with Afro-Cuban, jazz, rock and R&B rhythms to create Latin boogaloo. We Like it like that is a project by New York Filmmaker and Writer Mathew Ramirez Warren, who has...
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1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Architecture, Popular •
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Comments Off on The Rise and Fall of Brutalist Architecture
Looking back to the 1950s and 60s many of the new public buildings that were commissioned in the UK were designed in the Brutalist style. The authorities had to rebuild a war-ravaged Britain quickly and to a restricted budget. They wanted a solution that...
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1950s, 1960s, Architecture, Documentary, Music •
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Comments Off on The John Coltrane House
In this video the Pop pilgrims visit the house of Jazz legend John Coltrane. Although the house in Philadelphia was declared a National Historic Landmark back in 1999, the house looks almost derelict. It’s not the only property of John...
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1950s, 1960s, Poster, Retro Advertising •
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Comments Off on 40 Vintage European Posters
Mixed bag of cool and colourful vintage advertising posters from around Europe. This selection of 40 posters includes adverts for the Lotto, Televisions,Vespa,Singer Sewing Machine,Bally Shoes, Cars and more. – Jetez un coup d’oeil...
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1950s, 1960s, HMV, Popular, Vinyl •
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Comments Off on Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties
We’ve previously seen the outside of the HMV record store in our feature on the Streets of London 1976-1978, Now we go further back in time and visit the vinyl packed shop in the 1960’s as we go inside the record shop and check out some...
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1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Retro Advertising •
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Comments Off on Inflight Entertainment
Fasten your seat belts and get set to fly through some Airline related adverts from the golden age of advertising from the sixties and seventies...
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1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Film, Television •
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Comments Off on Spike Milligan – Goon but not forgotten
It took over two years for his family to come to some kind of agreement but eventually after much bickering and inter-family dispute Spike Milligan’s final wish was granted. ...
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1950s, Film, Hanging Out •
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Comments Off on Audrey Hepburn and a Donkey
We’ve had hundreds of emails here at VOEA headquarters, asking for pictures of Audrey Hepburn and a donkey, so, don’t say we don’t listen to our public, here is a picture of said woman, with said animal...
