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Comments Off on Robert McGinnis – Groovy Book Covers
Artist Robert McGinnis is probably best known for his film poster artwork. During his career he illustrated over 40 movie posters in total, these included several James Bond films, Barbarella, Sleeper and his first ever poster assignment Breakfast at...
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Comments Off on Shot In The Dark – Groovy Pinball Machine Art
Flip out to our psychedelic selection of vintage pinball machine back glass pictures. Although the original idea of pinball dates back to the 1700s, the coin operated arcade machines didn’t appear until the 1930s. Our pick of colourful...
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Comments Off on Sock It To ‘Em – Retro Advertising
We guess that advertising socks must of been a pretty tough task. Apart from the pictures and the numerous play on word titles like “He’s got socks appeal”, there’s not too much you can say about a pair of socks. Despite this...
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Comments Off on Paris in Spring
May 1968 saw the first wildcat strikes over France, in particular Paris. It started when students began to protest against University administrators and the police, and it broke out in Lycees and Universities all over the city. Ending in riots and massive...
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Comments Off on A Nostalgic Look At The Future – The Sleeper House
“I’m a clarinet player in 1973, I go into the hospital for a lousy operation, I wake up 200 years later and I’m Flash Gordon! said the Woody Allen Character Miles Monroe in the film Sleeper. As the Sculptured house in Colorado resembles...
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Comments Off on Vintage Recording Studio Gear
We’re not going to pretend we know much about Vintage recording studio gear – because we don’t. We just like these Sixties and Seventies magazine adverts for the images and designs, the cool fonts and the bizarre slogans like “The...
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Comments Off on More From The HMV Oxford Street Record Store in London
After the runaway success of our Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties post, we thought we’d have another look around the world wide web for pictures of the shop in other decades. We expected to find a few photos of the London store,...
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Comments Off on Welcome to Slacksville – 1960s Menswear Adverts
These record cover inspired adverts from the Sixties are worth checking out for the clothing related song titles alone – (Knittin’) on the dock of the bay, Incense and Permanent Press and That old slack magic are just a few of our...
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Comments Off on The Most Successful World Fair – Expo 67
An astounding 50 million people visited the International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada from April to October 1967. On the third day there were 569,000 visitors, setting a single-day attendance record for a world fair. These figures...
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Comments Off on Reimagined Jazz Album Covers
Jazz album covers by record labels such as Blue Note and Verve were pretty cool and well designed when they were originally released. However designer Jeff Rochester from America has recently picked some classic album covers like Blue Train by John...
