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It was known as the ‘Party Pad’, a clandestine bring-your-own-bottle establishment occupying the upper floor of a deserted produce warehouse on Davis Street, downtown San Francisco. The underground hipster hub was run without a license by a beatnik generation actor and poet known as Eric “Big Daddy” Nord, a well-known figure of the bohemian scene in California [...]
In 1954, Edith Piaf would have been 38 years-old. It was a time when she was trying to beat her severe addiction to alcohol and was known to take morphine before going on stage to perform. Nevertheless, I think you’ll agree, her performance moves you, even through the grainy black and white recording of this [...]
‘Destination Earth’ is a 1956 promotional cartoon created by John Sutherland that depicts a civilisation of Martians that come to Earth (the United States). They discover that they are actually inferior and less advanced than the American earthlings, who benefit from an endless supply of petroleum that enriches their everyday lives in a free market [...]
Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives [...]
Imagine a place where caveman bedding, lime green carpeting and hotel rooms named after cultural ethnicities went unquestioned; where the sound of electric waterfalls and squeaking plastic leather seating was welcomed. My friend, you don’t have to imagine anymore, now that you know there’s a place where your inner-kitsch can be free. Welcome to the [...]
You might have heard of the Teddy Boys, a 1950s rebel youth subculture in Britain characterized by an unlikely style of dress inspired by Edwardian dandies fused with American rock’n roll. They formed gangs from East London to North Kensington and became high profile rebels in the media. But an important sub-subculture of the Teddy [...]
Photograph by Thomas Wrede At their peak, in the late 1950s, there were almost 5000 drive-ins. Today, there are only 366 drive-ins operating in the United States. The outdoor theaters saw a dramatic decline in the 70s and 80s and many of their remains can still be found off highways, marked by rusting entrance marquees [...]
In 1954, Dali made an appearance on a popular US game show, The Name’s the Same. I’ve never seen any video recordings of Dali so I found it quite fascinating to see how he was both charming and utterly incomprehensible at the same time. But at the 4:00 minute mark, one of the contestants boldly [...]
1. When the Centro Universitario of Mexico abbreviated all over their sports uniforms: Top row, second from left: “Not me!” 2. Tobacco Companies getting away with it: 3. ‘Alfonso’, not trying to look like anyone in particular at all: 4. When women thought they had options: 5. When this book did [...]
Filmed in 1959, The Way to Beauty shows the lengths women went to 50 years ago in trying to shed the pounds and turn back the clock. Therapies included sticking your face into a blender, covering yourself in candle wax and strapping electrical wires to your head. Via British Pathé ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: [...]
Everybody loves a good photo album, even the NSA! For their 60th anniversary last year, they put
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An impressive line-up of automobiles will be up for auction hosted by Bonhams next week on June 2
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In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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This weekend, my boyfriend pulled out not one, not two but three grays he noticed glistening in the
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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar
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I‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the
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No, this isn’t the rescue mission of a shipwrecked Porsche 911, this is a picture of a 911
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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