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Irish McCalla – Queen of the Jungle
Nellie Elizabeth “Irish” McCalla (December 25, 1928 – February 1, 2002) Irish McCalla was not your typical 1950’s pin-up. Not the demure Betty Page type, Irish was big! Standing 5’10” and incredibly...
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Brian Duffy – The Man who Shot the Sixties
Brian Duffy (15 June 1933 – 31 May 2010) was an English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion and portrait photography of the 1960s and 1970s. With fellow photographers; David...
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Movie and TV Novelizations – A Lost Art
This is not the source material for these movies and TV shows, oh no, these are all written after the fact to squeeze one last tiny bit of cash out of the public. Nothing wrong with that. Who doesn’t...
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Iggy & the Stooges – The Early Days
Back before he was an old leather chew toy Iggy Pop was a vaguely glammy, pill addled kid from Ann Arbor MI. that would bend over backwards – literally, to perform with his band. Formed in 1967 with...
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Everybody Loves – Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada; September 5, 1940) – Raquel first came to the attention of the public with her role in the sci-fi film The Fantastic Voyage. The next role was the big one – 1...
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Really Bad Heavy Metal Cover Art
Man oh man are these awful. I’ve only heard of a couple of these bands and a couple titles I have no idea what they even say. Not a lot needs to be said about these – enjoy. Gruesome – Savage Land...
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Bunny Yeager – Hot Pinup and Hot Pinup Photographer
Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager (March 13, 1929 – May 25, 2014) Bunny Yeager started her career as a regionally famous model in Miami in the early 50’s appearing in over 300 magazines and publications...
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Shocktober #1 – Tod Browning’s FREAKS
Freaks is a 1932 American Pre-code film (pre Hayes code censorship) in which the title characters were actually played by by sideshow performers with real deformities. Directed and produced by Tod...
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Shocktober #2 – Halloween Pinups
Ah, the fifties, where a sexy pinup was appropriate for every holiday. This was a time when depictions of nudity was still resigned to the under-the-counter porn mags, but bathing suits and lingerie...
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Carnival Strippers by Susan Meiselas
“From 1972 to 1975, I spent my summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As I followed the girl...
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Shocktober 3 – 1960’s and ’70’s Kids
In the 60’s and 70’s if your parents had no imagination or extra time they could buy you a extremely flammable, dangerously hard to see out of mask with accompanying ill-fitting smock. These would...
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The Spider Pool – (Warning: Boobs)
The iconic Spider Pool mural is the largest remnant of screenplay writer and director John W. “Jack” McDermott’s (1892-1946) estate – the house itself was torn down in 1962 but the mural remains. The...
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Bad Christian LP’s – Suggestive Titles and WTF
What were they thinkin? Maybe it’s my 4th grade sense of humor but some of these seem a tad … suggestive/sexual/rapey. Some are just odd, all are wonderful. I mean “The Afternoon Tea-Baggers”,...
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Everybody Looks Good on a Bike – Except Buddy Miles
It’s a fact. Nothing more to say. Apologies to the great Buddy Miles. Marlon Brando from “The Wild One” Elvis from “Roustabout” James Dean Jack Nicholson from “Rebel Rousers” Paul Newman Marianne...
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – 1920’s – 1960’s
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition started in 1924 (tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States with America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit. The oldest...
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Something for the Holidays
If I hear Madonna’s version of Santa Baby one more time I’ll lose my mind (Eartha Kitt’s is the one). What the records below sound like I have no clue – but you can bet Afroman’s A Colt 45 Christmas...
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Who the Hell is Korla Pandit?
Korla Pandit – born 1921, was BIG in the 50’s. he recorded over 2 dozen LP (all on the Hammond or Pipe organ), had his own TV show – Korla Pandit’s Adventures In Music, appeared on various TV shows,...
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Merry Christmas – After the Fact w/ Kenny Irwin Jr.
Just got back from holiday in beautiful Palm Springs, CA. One of the many reasons to go to Palm Springs is to see the art of Mr. Kenny Irwin Jr. Kenny is in his early 40’s, and as the story goes, had...
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RIP David Bowie
David Bowie born David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016) With daughter Alexandria -2000
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