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Comments Off on Mocker Mobile – Harley Davidson Scooter
Back in the mid-Sixties it seems you were either a mod or a rocker and there was no middle ground. That meant if you were into two-wheeled transport you either rode a scooter (mod) or a motorbike (rocker) and spent bank holiday weekends fighting each other at...
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Comments Off on Monkees Memorabilia
We all know the story of The Monkees, and how they were regarded as the first ‘boy band’ as such. That said, they don’t really compare to subsuquent boy bands in the quality stakes, and by that I mean they were better. At least we think so....
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Comments Off on Bottoms Up – Vintage Alcohol Advertisements
Nobody does casual sexism quite like the drinks industry in the 1970s. It’s taken quite some time and it’s been such a gradual process that most of us haven’t really noticed it but when we look back at these ads we can see that the battle against...
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Comments Off on Medicated Follower of Fashion – Groovy Spanish Adverts
Sometimes it’s not so much about the actual product that’s being promoted but the ads themselves that we like and here is a prime example. In a dusty old corner of the Internet we found these ads from Spanish medical magazines “Clinica Rural”...
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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 Vintage Olivetti Typewriter Advertising Posters
We guess that typewriter sales are pretty much non-existent these days since the introduction of the personal computer. However Olivetti were pioneers in 1959 when they produced Italy’s first computer, the transistorised Elea 9003. Later they...
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Comments Off on The Hippest Girl in The World and The Citroen
Here’s a comic featuring the “Go-Go wonder of Paris with a heart made of vinyl” (not sure how that works) and a colourful Citroen booklet from the sixties.The psychedelic illustrations for both of these publications come from the...
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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 Fabulous Retro Italian Magazine Adverts
Here we head into Europe for some retro Italian adverts from various magazines from the mid sixties to the early seventies. Amongst our assortment of magazine advertisements are Portable record players, Vespa scooters, Sweets and a Sunglasses advert...
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Comments Off on Stick With It – Seventies Sticker Art
Ahh yes, the humble sticker. Some say the first stickers were invented by the Ancient Egyptians to advertise the daily rates of products on the walls of their souks and bazaars...
