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Comments Off on Buckle up – Retro Belt Adverts
We’ve got a belter of a post for you here featuring as it does lots of er, belts. As with most, if not all, items of clothing the belt has evolved from being a mere functional item to becoming decorative and also speaking on behalf of the wearer. You want...
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Comments Off on Hanging Out in Record Shops in the Swinging Sixties
Recently a picture of Jimi Hendrix in a record shop featured on the official poster to promote the annual Record store day. So we thought we’d have a dig around for some more photos of stars from the swinging sixties hanging around in various vinyl...
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Comments Off on The Hair Necessities – Magazine Adverts
Whilst the world of ladies’ grooming and hair care products seems to be constantly evolving and presenting new and ever more challenging products the main thing us chaps need to worry about according to the magazine and newspaper advertising is er,...
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Comments Off on Rock On Northridge
Now we head across the pond to Dayton, Ohio. Home town to the Wright Brothers (hence the city motto – The Birthplace of Aviation) and for those of you who take a keen interest in international politics the very place where the Dayton Agreement was drawn up...
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Comments Off on Czech it Out – Vintage Matchbox Labels
As part of our ongoing phillumenical tour of Europe collecting empty matchboxes (and also empty matchbooks it should be said) we now head east from our previous excursion to Germany and take a brief stopover in Prague and the surrounding area to look at what...
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Comments Off on We Proudly Present the Ice Capades
Never heard of the Ice Capades? Then shame on you. For some 50 years they toured constantly across the North American circuit and were an annual summer fixture at the Atlantic City Convention Hall from 1941 through to 1981. Beat that! Their precocious...
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Comments Off on Men of Leesure
We’ve previously featured the advertising of the good people at Lee Jeans (still going strong if you fancy nipping out and buying a pair) when we took a look at their 1971 Lion Head campaign which if you check out the images is pretty self-explanatory....
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Comments Off on Up to Eleven – Retro Amplifier Adverts
Now it’s time to crank it up to eleven as we take a look at some amplifier adverts from the early sixties through to the middle of the super seventies. Some of the amps are endorsed by popular musicians of the day, including a rock collage featuring...
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Comments Off on Argosy – The Original Pulp Fiction
Argosy magazine ran for an astonishing 96 years from 1882 until its demise in 1978. It started as a collection of short fictional stories published on a weekly basis and changed its name from time-to-time as it bought and merged with other titles along the...
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Comments Off on Loungin’ – The Original Onesies
Ooh yes, we’re feeling in a mellow mood here at VoEA HQ. Dinner’s finished, the washing-up is all done and dusted, we’re up-to-speed with the washing and ironing and most importantly the cat’s been fed. Now all that’s left is to don a relaxing...
