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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 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 Really Rosie – Carole King Cartoon from 1975
Really Rosie is a musical comprising of a book and words by Maurice Sendak, and music by Carole King. It’s based on Sendaks books Chicken Soup with Rice, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, and The Sign On Rosies Door...
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Comments Off on Popular Science Leisure Homes Book.
Here we have some cool illustrations of Seventies style houses from the Popular Science Leisure Homes Book. The book by Alfred Lees was first published in 1980, it’s packed with various designs including an underground solar house, an octagon house...
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Comments Off on Digging the Shirt – Retro Adverts
The humble shirt. It’s been around some 5000 years now and to most, if not all of us, is an indispensable part of our wardrobe. Here we look back a few years to some fine examples of not only the shirtmakers craft, but also the art of advertising said...
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Comments Off on Monkey Magic – Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp
Lancelot Link -Secret Chimp was basically Get Smart with chimpanzees, which is no surprise as two of the shows creators were also writers for the Sixties comedy secret agent show. The programme was originally broadcast in America on ABC from 1970 to 1972....
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Comments Off on Don’t Burst My Bubble – Sweet machine cards
Here we have a variety of American sweet vending machine cards from the fifties through to seventies. These unique and colourful signs were inserted into the front of the machine to entice teens to part with their hard earned pocket money. We guess...
