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Comments Off on Boss Radio – Sixties and Seventies Promo Material
As English station Radio Caroline was soundtracking the swinging sixties from a ship on the North sea, a new station had just hit the airwaves of Los Angeles called Boss Radio -93/KHJ – providing the latest tunes to the hipsters of Hollywood...
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Comments Off on Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn – Retro Ephemera
Welcome to the Voices of East Anglia Hotel and Motel retro ephemera post. Here we have a mixture of brochures, menus, postcards, pamphlets and magazine adverts from the sixties and seventies. Amongst the selection there’s ol’...
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Comments Off on On The Soul Side – Concert Posters
With the way music is sold changing dramatically over the past few years it seems artists make more money nowadays from touring than they do from CD sales and digital downloads. Live performances are not so much a means to an end now but rather a means in...
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Comments Off on That’s Entertainment – The Kriegsmann Files
When photographer James J. Kriegsmann emigrated from Austria to New York in 1929 and set up a studio in West 46th Street on Broadway, one thing he didn’t bring with him was the prejudice he’d experienced as a Jew in 1920s Europe. He was determined that,...
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Comments Off on Come Fly With Me – Airline Ticket Jackets
With technology allowing people to book their airline tickets on the Internet, then print them off at home or at the office, we guess that ticket jacket designs are almost a lost art (there’s a Phil Collins pun in there somewhere) although...
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Comments Off on Mod Generation Stickers
We came across this motley crew while searching for pictures for our Seventies Sticker Art post. As they were from 1969 they just fell short of the cut-off point, plus there were so many good ones that they deserved their own post. Mod Generation were a set...
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Comments Off on Shop Around – Kays Catalogue
While investigating the heritage world of Kays on the internet we’ve found out a couple of new facts about the British mail order catalogue. Firstly, iconic model Jean Shrimpton posed for the pages of Kays in the early 1960s. And the...
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Comments Off on Expo 70 Japan – Postcards From The Future
Japan made major advancements in the world of modern technology during the Sixties. So when the country hosted the World fair for the first time, it was an ideal opportunity to showcase their new ideas worldwide. “Progress and Harmony for...
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Comments Off on Bags of Style – Record Shop Bags
Back in the day when every high street had a record shop and people actually went out of their houses to buy music the record shop bag was quite a style accessory for any aspiring young man (or woman) about town. We’ve had a good root around the internet...
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Comments Off on All Your Want-Ins at Pontins – 1972 Holiday Brochure
Nowadays holiday camps are considered a bit naff but before the days of cheap air travel and continental holidays they were the family vacation of choice. When Pontins was at its peak they had some 30 holiday camps dotted around the UK and Irish coastline and...
