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Jayne Mansfield – Breathtakingly Voluptuous

Remember the days before videos and mpegs, back when 8mms and the tricky contraptions that showed them were kings. And so were you if you if  you owned them – Ted Image found at “Best Unusual...

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Heat Shock In Bridlington

The glass and cast iron construction might have been a spa back around the turn of the last century, but when I was last in Bridlington it was a concert hall. And in the hot summer of 1980 you could...

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Julie Christie – British Actress

April 19, 1966: Actress Julie Christie meets a throng of photographers and reporters at the Beverly Hills Hotel the morning after winning her Oscar for “Darling,” in which she portrayed a model in...

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Jas. E. Wales – Symbolist Photographer And Pictorialist

Jas. E. Wales is a typical Symbolist photographer and pictorialist of the turn of the century. His photos show women gracefully posed in front of rocks & a waterfall or near trees. Some are...

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The Rand Home Computer Prediction 50 Years Ago

Don’t you just love it when scientists try to predict how this and that will look and be in 50 years. I have magazines and weeklies from as far back as 1900 and whenever someone is trying to see into...

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Buntlin’s Holiday Camps

Butlins (also Butlin’s) is a chain of large holiday camps in the United Kingdom. Butlins was founded by Billy Butlin to provide affordable holidays for ordinary British families. Between 1936 and 1966,...

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Retrorambling’s Visitors Service- Part 12–A Study Of The Poultry Of The World

Since I suspect that you, my visitors, are not completely up to date when it comes to the poultry of the world here is a remedy for that deplorable fact. Study it thoroughly, tests will follow at a...

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The Glas Goggo Scooter

In 1951 Andreas Glas saw the Vespa scooter from Piaggio in Verona, Italy. He was so enthused that he began production of motorscooters that July. The scooter debuted with a 125 cc motor, increased over...

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Hunting Tigers Out In India, Out In, Out In, Out In India

The Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII (centre), posing with the first tiger he ever shot on his tour of Nepal, India. 18th December 1921. The picture text seems to indicate that the inbred degenerated...

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Dead as a dodo

Frank Hayes was a jockey who is most well known for being the jockey to win a horse race while being dead! Hayes suffered a fatal heart attack in the middle of a race at Belmont Park in New York while...

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Gladys Bentley, Lesbian Performer Of The Harlem Renaissance

Way before Janelle Monae made cute suits her signature, or Lady Gaga was flaunting her alter ego Jo Calderone, there was Gladys Bentley, flirting and singing the blues in men’s clothing during the...

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Opperman Unicar

S E Opperman was a tractor manufacturer in England. After he saw the Bond car he decided to build his own four-wheel microcar at a factory in Elstree, Hertfordshire. The first model was the Model "T"...

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A Book Titled “Legal Decisions”

For the really determined alcoholic, in 1885 Herbert Jenner patented a liquor flask hidden in a book: The ornamental covering has been made so as to entirely cover and conceal the flask from...

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Tura Satana – American Actress And Exotic Dancer

Tura Satana (July 10, 1938 – February 4, 2011) was an American actress and former exotic dancer. She was best known for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer‘s 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!...

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"No Job For A Woman" Opening Clip

"Get that woman out of here!" screamed the North African bureau chief for The AP when wire service reporter Ruth Cowan arrived in Algiers to begin her war reporting career. Cowan and nearly 140 other...

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Whistle Orange Soda

Vess Soda is a brand of soft drink manufactured and distributed primarily in the St. Louis, Missouri, USA, metropolitan area. The company was founded in 1916. At the height of its popularity, Vess had...

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She Could Write A Book…

…with all her experience reading novels, which is less difficult, says Joyce Miles, than having novel experience. Recreated from an article from Ace Magazine June 26, 1959 Joyce’s philosophy is that A...

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The Futuro

The Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed and built a series of ovaloid, flying-saucer-like houses out of fibreglass in the late 1960s. He called them Futuro. Suuronen’s houses were comfortably...

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Marilyn Monroe Hiking, August 1950

Images found at Retronaut. Photos by Edward Clark. Thank you to LIFE Archive Filed under: Actresses, Image Gallery Tagged: 1950, Hiking, Marilyn Monroe

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Spintriae, Roman Coins With Erotic Motifs

A spintria (plural, spintriae ) is a small bronze or brass Roman token, possibly for use in brothels, usually depicting sexual acts or symbols. Use Some scholars have argued that spintriae were used to...

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