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Before the days of uber-technical outdoor equipment, believe it or not, people actually used to perform outdoorsy activities in pretty normal clothing. Edmund Hillary on his historic ascent of Everest in 1953 wore a tweed jacket and a pair of hobnail boots....
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We’ve sifted through It’s Better Than Bad’s vintage postcard collection and picked out some of our favourites. Who needs Instagram when we’ve got the genuine article? Take a trip back in time and across the world courtesy of your...
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Comments Off on Expo 74, Spokane, USA – Souvenirs
In the past VoEA has travelled back to Montreal in Canada for Expo 67 – which at the time was known as the most successful world fair. We’ve also featured some cool futuristic postcards from Expo 70 which was hosted in Osaka, Japan. This time...
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Comments Off on When We Was Fab – A Sixties Music Scrapbook
We are deeply indebted to Richard from the excellent Kernow Beat Blog for supplying us with this fantastic treasure trove of 60’s music memorabilia. Although it includes big names such as The Move, The Equals and The Zombies, it’s photos of less...
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Comments Off on Forty Funky Catalogue Pages From The Seventies
It’s time to sit back, chill out and take a scroll back to the seventies in this jam packed post full of grooviness. We’ve sifted through pages and pages of American and Canadian 1970s catalogues from the huge Wishbook catalogue collection....
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Comments Off on Trainspotting – British Rail Ephemera
Relax in style and let the train take the strain as your favourite retro railway provider Voices of East Anglia whisk you back to a time pre-privatisation of more genteel rail services. A time when British Rail still existed, when you could get a hot baked...
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Comments Off on Forty Pages from the Sears 1969 Catalogue
Here we take another look at American department store Sears and this time their 1969 offerings or the outdoor types the on-trend jacket was the Corduroy Bush Coat with pile-lining in the style of the classic Johnny Morris safari jacket, the Edwardian Look...
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According to Sir Ian Jacob (Director-General from 1952 to 1960) the BBC handbook was published “To provide a clear and reliable guide to the workings of the BBC, to survey the year’s work in British broadcasting, and to bring together as much...
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Comments Off on Mannequins – Brochures for Dummies
If you grew up in the seventies watching Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who, mannequins may remind you of the Autons – the scary alien life-sized dummies. However, if you were growing up in the eighties you may associate the display doll with the 1987 rom-com...
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Comments Off on Striking Designs – German Matchbox Labels
Great graphic designs pop up in the most unlikely places, as we’ve seen before in our Medicated follower of fashion post which feaured some very groovy adverts from a Spanish Medical Magazine. This time we take a look at some cool vintage matchbox...
