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If you were a proud owner of a View-Master stereoscope as a child of the seventies or eighties, you may be pondering how you missed out on such reels as Star Wars, Death Race 2000, Blood Beach and Adult cartoon favourite Fritz the Cat. Don’t worry,...
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Comments Off on Space-Age Design – Irvine New Town
Unlike most ‘conventional’ British new towns Irvine was already a town in its own right before plans were drawn up to raze large swathes of it to the ground and rebuild it under the stewardship of the Irvine Development Corporation. As is often the case...
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Comments Off on On The Reels of Steel
While reel-to-reel tapes have now been consigned to the sizeable bin in the vaults of recording history marked ‘Obsolete’, there was a time when they were king and prior to the introduction of the Philips Compact Cassette in 1963 stood astride the world...
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Comments Off on Look and Learn – Exhibition Postcards
Now it’s time to blind you with science as we take a look at the future in the past. Here we have an assortment of groovy postcards from various exhibitions and displays that were held in museums throughout America and Canada. In this scientific...
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Comments Off on The Black Leopard Comic
As another part of our occasional series focusing on men dressed up with big cat heads, which kicked off with the seminal Lee Lion Head ads, we now take a trip to the South African veldt and cast our beady eye on Die Swart Luiperd also known as The Black...
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Comments Off on Sanctified Soul – Pastor T.L. Barrett
One of our faves and a record that’s been getting heavy rotation on the VoEA office record player is the stunningly good ‘Like a Ship (Without a Sail)’ by the snappily titled Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir. A slab of rare gospel...
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Comments Off on Woody Allen and Tamara Dobson
It seems to be quite the fashion in media circles these days to wage war on Woody Allen and criticise him at every turn. Whilst we’d be the first to admit not all his films over the years have reached the heights of Annie Hall we would also defend him, his...
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Comments Off on Rock in Trade – Musicians in Adverts
One of the many perks of stardom is the opportunity to use your fame to increase your fortune through lending products extra gravitas merely using your own personal endorsement. This has been going on since the year dot and continues to this day mainly...
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Comments Off on Harry Murphy and Friends
As a design studio in 1970s San Francisco Harry Murphy + Friends were the shining stars of the whole design scene whether it be architectural graphics, corporate identity, large murals or simply domestic interior design. They won over 700 national and...
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Comments Off on Bivolino – The Shirt Locker
We’ve not done many posts on bespoke Belgian shirtmakers thus far, in fact to be honest we’ve not done any posts on bespoke Belgian shirtmakers but hey cats and kittens, that’s all about to change as we take a look at Belgium’s number one manufacturer...
