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Comments Off on Falling in Love at Woodstock Festival – The Comics
You’ve heard the album, listened to the song, seen the film, and got the T shirt or perhaps you were there (man) at the most famous rock festival in history, but now it’s time to take a look at Woodstock – The comics. Here we have not one,...
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Comments Off on Space Age German Lifeguard Station
In another one of our occasional posts on crazy continental architecture here we look at a groovy German coastguard station on the island Rugen in northern Germany. It may look like it’s in the middle of a field but don’t let these photos deceive you –...
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Comments Off on Drums Please – Sly Stone and Richard Pryor
When comedians get plaudits from other comedians you know they’re good and Richard Pryor was one such comedian. Bob Newhart called him “the seminal comedian of the last 50 years”, Jerry Seinfeld described him as “the Picasso or our profession”,...
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Comments Off on Swinging Hatchetts – London Night Club 1968-1978
As the go-to place for all the glamorous folk in London (and further afield) the West End has always had a certain appeal when it comes to a big night out. We’re going to look back a few years now and head up West to Hatchetts Playground & Restaurant...
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Comments Off on The Swainson/Woods Collection – Taranaki Tales
We have here a group of photographs culled from a collection made up of the negatives from two photographic studios based in Taranaki, New Zealand. The collection runs from 1927 – 1997, and is basically a recorded social history of that area. We have...
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Comments Off on Wilson Pickett Eats, Shoots and Leaves (then Gets Arrested)
Whether this happened in the midnight hour we’re not 100% certain but it seems when you combine assorted soul singers with alcohol, lethal weaponry and a hunting trip in upstate New York then occasionally trouble ensues and on this occasion it certainly did...
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Comments Off on The Art of Joseph Smith – Film Posters
Unknowingly we’ve posted artwork by Joseph Smith before in our Biker Movie posters post – He illustrated the wonderful film poster for Werewolves on Wheels (the poster’s better than the film). Smith’s most well-known work is the poster...
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Comments Off on Rock-A-Bye: 1973 Canadian TV Documentary
Back to a time before the Rolling Stones had wrinkles, before Keith Richards started looking like a pirate and a Canadian documentary featuring lots of drugs, lots of police, lots of vinyl and almost inevitably lots of hair. This fascinating piece of social...
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Comments Off on Match of The Day – Playboy Bunnies Versus Apes
We’ve not had many football related posts as there’s more than enough news and views on the subject out there to last anyone a lifetime but here’s something completely different from 1973 which ticks all the right boxes for us featuring as it does men...
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Comments Off on Wheels of Man – 1972 Catalogue
Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway, looking for adventure and whatever comes our way. Yeah darlin’ go make it happen, take the world in a love embrace, fire all of your guns at once and explode into space – wearing, of course, Wheels of...
