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  • Cold as ice – Lolly and Ice Cream Adverts

    1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Food, Retro Advertising • 27408 Views

    If you’re somewhere in the world where it’s hot and the sun is shining and you need to cool down, then take a look at these groovy ice cream and lolly related adverts that are straight from the retro fridge.

    Included in our icey picks are favourites like Funny feet when they cost a mere 17p and several lollies inspired by various popular television and film characters like Lady Penelope and The Incredible Hulk.  Continue Reading

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  • The Radical Grandpa Walton

    Television • 8890 Views

    Actor Will Geer will always be best known for playing the lovable Grandpa Walton in the hit Seventies family TV Show “The Waltons”. However, in real life Will was a Plant loving, bisexual radical who toured with Woody Guthrie. Continue Reading

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  • This one time, at band camp, we done DJ Shadow tunes

    1990s, Music • 5286 Views

    Let’s take it back to the old school. It’s Just your favourite DJ saviour being covered by High school bands. Continue Reading

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  • The Groovy People – Jazzin’ with The Muppets

    1970s, Music, Television • 9326 Views

    While Soul stars like Stevie Wonder and The Four Tops made their way to Sesame Street, some cool Jazz artists dropped by to meet Kermit and company on The Muppet Show.

    Here we have some clips of a Drum battle between Buddy Rich and Animal, A dancing Dizzy Gillespie and Lou Rawls singing The Groovy People with The Muppets. Continue Reading

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  • Minnie Riperton Attacked by Lion

    1970s, Music, Television • 23201 Views

    Here we have a rare clip from 1975 of high-pitched soul singer Minnie Riperton chatting on the Sammy and Co show with actor and comedian Richard Pryor.  The short clip shows the singer being attacked by a lion while filming an advert for her 1975 album Adventures in Paradise. Continue Reading

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  • A little trip – Black Psychedelia Mixtape by Florian Keller

    1960s, 1970s, DJ mix, Music • 9869 Views

    It’s got music so high, you can’t get over it, So low you can’t get under it. Tune in and drop out to Florian Keller’s Black Psychedelia mixtape. Enjoy the funky far out sounds of Earth, Wind and Fire, The Temptations (Pictured) , Melvin Van Peebles, Charles Wright, The New Birth and more. Continue Reading

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  • Spike Milligan – Goon but not forgotten

    1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Film, Television • 11349 Views

    It took over two years for his family to come to some kind of agreement but eventually after much bickering and inter-family dispute Spike Milligan’s final wish was granted.  Continue Reading

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  • The Funkiest Hammer film – Dracula AD 1972

    1970s, Film • 19766 Views

    Dracula 1972 AD may not have been the best Hammer film ever made. However, when you’ve got actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, singer Marsha Hunt with a full on afro, American funk rockers Stoneground and ex Manfred Mann guitarist Mike Vickers on board – it’s definitely the grooviest.

    It’s the year 1872, Dracula and Van Helsing are battling on top of a runaway stagecoach. The coach crashes and the Count is impaled on the broken coach wheel. Cue chocolate biscuit pun – Man Killed By Wagon Wheel. A plane flies into the shot of the sky and a Blaxploitation style theme tune kicks in. We are now in Seventies London. Continue Reading

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  • Dope Records – Pot Smuggled in Albums

    1970s, Documentary, Vinyl • 7158 Views

    Check out this short clip man. Here we have a video of  a news item from 1978 when a large quantity of Marijuana was smuggled from Jamaica to Montreal inside record sleeves.  Continue Reading

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  • The House Under The Roller Coaster

    Architecture, Film • 15669 Views

    When you ask anyone who lives near somewhere noisy like a busy road or next to a nightclub – Does the noise bother you? the usual reply is “You get use to it after a while”. Well I’m sure this same principle applies if you lived under the Thunderbolt roller coaster on Coney Island, New York.

    Film buffs may spot that the “The house under the roller coaster” is the same house a young Alvy Singer lived in at the age of nine in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall.

    Originally,the film didn’t have young Alvy living under a roller coaster, but Woody was driving around New York looking for film locations and saw the Thunderbolt coaster with the house underneath. Allen said “I saw this roller-coaster, and I saw the house under it. And I thought, we have to use this. Continue Reading

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