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Comments Off on Dancing at Kilgarriff’s Café
In this latest addition to our Everyday People section we check out some pictures from the Boston Public Library. Previously we’ve had some Dancing in the park on Cambridge Common in the late 1960s, this time we head forward a few years and go indoors...
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Comments Off on Sue Lloyd – Sixties Suffolk Siren
Sue Lloyd was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk so we’re particularly interested in her here at VoEA! One of our own as they say. Later on her family moved to Birmingham and she attended high school there. She went on to win a scholarship to the Royal Ballet...
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Comments Off on Call The Cops – American Police Car Brochures
Woop-Woop, It’s the sound of da police – Here we have a collection of American police squad vehicle brochure covers from the sixties and seventies. The first law enforcement wagon was powered by electricity and hit the streets of Akron, Ohio way...
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Comments Off on Retro Runnin’ Bare QSL Cards
The arcane world of amateur radio remains somewhat of a mystery to us here at VoEA HQ but hey, each to their own, live and let live etc. We’ve uncovered a batch of pretty groovy QSL cards produced by radio hams and it seemed rude not to share them with...
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Comments Off on El Hombre Nuclear Comic Book Covers
Argentina’s historical inflation problems are well documented which probably explains why they were reluctant to give their version of the Six Million Dollar Man a monetary value. Instead they chose to call him El Hombre Nuclear which even those of us...
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Comments Off on On My Radio – London Radio Ads for Movies
Whilst stumbling through the interweb the other day, we came across a Youtube member with a neat little collection of London radio ads for movies of the mid 70’s to mid 80’s (the golden age), so we decide to flag 10 up for you to enjoy. It’s...
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Comments Off on Boston Tea Party Posters
The Boston Tea Party venue on Berkeley Street (and latterly Claredon Street) , Boston, Massachusetts was only around for a relatively brief four years but in that time built itself a name as one of the great psychedelic music venues of the late sixties to...
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Comments Off on On The Sole Side – Adverts For Mens Shoes
We’ve dipped our toes into the world of shoe advertising before in our Pedwin shoes post which featured a groovy television advert from 1968. This time we’re taking a stroll into the past as we look through a variety of men’s footwear...
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Comments Off on Getting Kicks With Stevie Nicks – Self-defence Book
Stevie Nicks: multi-million selling singer-songwriter, nominated as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, one of the people behind the 10th best-selling album of all time (Rumours – Fleetwood Mac in case you were wondering),...
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Comments Off on Psycho Calendar qu’est-ce que c’est
We’ve featured the almost Pythonsesque work of Push-Pin studios and their pseudo-psychedelic (don’t know if that’s the right expression but it sounds good) images and now we’re paying them a second visit to look at a calendar they designed for...
