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Comments Off on Dirty Harry Meets Shaft in Thailand (Sort of)
Our first encounter with this seventies Thai film was on you tube.The clip was described as Dirty Harry Meets Shaft in Thailand by French cult movie website Foxy Bronx, but unfortunately they didn’t have a translated title for the film in French or...
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1970s, Architecture •
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Comments Off on The Planners Dream Went Wrong – Schwabylon
The colourful Schwabylon shopping and leisure centre had one hundred shops, a cinema, twelve restaurants, a beer garden, sports facilities, Roman spa, sauna, solarium, swimming pool and a skating rink. Located next door was a Holiday Inn which contained a...
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1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Art, Magazine •
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Comments Off on Jauna Gaita – Cool Covers From Latvia
Sometimes minimal and simplistic graphic designs are the most effective way to sell your products, and here at VoEA we think this applies to these cool covers of Canadian-Latvian culture magazine Jauna Gaita (New Course) When the second world war finished...
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Comments Off on Make it Big – Advertising Billboards
Recently we’ve seen Roy Lichtenstein unveil a massive promotional poster for his first art exhibition and we’ve gazed at the Rock and Roll (and soul) billboards on Sunset strip. Now we cast our net a bit further as we take a look at some huge...
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Comments Off on Reel Time – Vintage Cassette Adverts
Shops that still sell tape cassettes are very few and far between these days, which means the tape is now more or less an obsolete format. The first mass produced Cassettes were made and sold in Germany in 1964 and companies like Memorex, TDK and BASF...
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1960s, 1970s, Transport •
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Comments Off on Welcome to Motor City – Detroit Car Shows
Here we have some great pictures for all you vintage car lovers out there. A while ago we visited the Chicago car show during the sixties and seventies, this time we’re cruising over to the “Motor city” in busier times as we ram-raid the...
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Comments Off on Retro Magazine Covers – File Under Miscellaneous
In our quest to find cool pictures from the past for your viewing pleasure we occasionally stumble upon groovy one-off retro magazine covers that feature eye catching pictures, fab fonts or sometimes both. For example we would of liked to have done a...
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Comments Off on Sony, Sony, Sony – Seventies Catalogues
In this day and age with companies going to the wall left, right and centre it is rare to see a company that has been trading at the top of their game for a number of decades and is still there mixing it up with the big boys. One such company is Sony which...
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1960s, 1970s, Fashion, Retro Advertising •
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Comments Off on Slack Attack – H.I.S. Menswear Adverts
Perhaps we’re looking in the wrong place but try as we might we can’t find any background information on Seventies clothing brand H.I.S. which taking a wild guess we presume was aimed squarely at the menswear market. Not just the menswear market mind you,...
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Comments Off on The Photography of James Barnor
Ghanian James Barnor has been in the photography business for over fifty years.In five decades James has photographed a vast array of fashion models, snapped wildlife and street life in Ghana and captured the birth of multicultural London on film during the...
