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Salvation Mountain – Art in the Califorian Desert
90 miles from Palm Springs, CA in the middle of the desolate wind blown Colorado Desert, a few of miles from Slab City (a whole different story) and near the beautifully awful Salton Sea lies Salvation...
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Handling Snakes for the Lord
“And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly...
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RIP Blowfly
Clarence Henry Reid aka Blow Fly (February 14, 1939 – January 17, 2016) Before he became Blow Fly he was simply Clarence Henry Reid born in Vienna...
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Sexy – Not Sexy
While looking through bad album cover design (something I love to do) I noticed how some of the cover models must have thought how goddamn hot they looked or that the persona they chose for themselves...
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Whatever Happened to Sly Stone
Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943) He was young, handsome, and hugely talented, had a killer afro and a huge drug problem, but Jesus Christ, what the hell happened to Sly. It’s hard to...
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MC Cuts – Design on the Road
Pictured here are various Motorcycle Club jackets and patches. Everything on each jacket represents something to it’s owner and club; his standing, club politics, philosophy, chapter, etc. I have no...
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Murder She Wrote
A somewhat depressing post, granted. Looking up the work of King Curtis I found out that he had been murdered while trying to bust up a drug deal on his apartment steps. It made me wonder who else...
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Happy 67th Birthday Nick Lowe
Nicholas Drain “Nick” Lowe (born 24 March 1949) Nick Lowe was a tad older than the rest of the guys in the class of ’77. He’d already gained some fame w/ British pub rockers Brinsley Schwartz and by...
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Merle Haggard – Happy Birthday and So Long
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) He looked a bit like Burt Reynolds in his youth and a lot like Charles Bukowski in his old age. He did everything a country star of the 60’s was...
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The Real Age of Burlesque
I’ve posted a number of these great photos over the years and it’s time to do it again. These are not your modern Dita Von Teese burlesque queens. These are the originators – great names, great hair,...
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Ernesto García Cabral
Ernesto García “The Chango” Cabral (18 December 1890 – 8 August 1968) Cabral first made his name as a caricaturist for newspapers and magazines during the Mexican Revolution of 1911, illustrating the...
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Bettie Page by Weegee
Weegee – real name, Arthur Fellig was short and fat and took pictures of dead people on the streets of New York. He was a Tom Waits song waiting to be wrote. With his very graphic crime scene photos...
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Not Just Colored Vinyl
Unless you’ve been living in a cave (or the midwest) you’ll know that vinyl records are back, and back big. Right now vinyl is outselling all formats of recorded music. I guess people were just bored...
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The Mysterious German Fad of Posing with a Man in a Polar Bear Suit
A bizarre German craze of posing for pictures alongside actors dressed up as polar bears has been unearthed in a series of photographs dating back to the 1920s. The pictures were found hunting through...
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Louise Brooks – The Girl with the Bob
Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), born Mary Louise Brooks. She typified the Flapper era of the 1920’s but somehow managed to look completely different and modern by todays standards....
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Happy Birthday Ringo
Ringo Starr nee Richard Starkey – July 7, 1940 Rory Storm & the Hurricanes – Ringo far right W/ Raquel Welch – The Magic Christian Ringo at 76
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Shameless Promo for My New Vintage Store
My wife and I have been collectors and pickers for years. We’re opening up the new online version of our shop called Dear Wolf. Great, beautifully designed stuff from the 1930’s to the 90’s. Clothes,...
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New York Dolls – 1st LP Outtakes
New York Dolls (The 1st LP) released in July of 1973 received widespread acclaim from critics when it was first released but sold poorly. The band toured the United States to promote the record, but...
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More Posters from Ghana
I’ve posted a bunch of these before and they never fail to amaze me. The deal here is that primarily in Ghana and other parts of Africa there exist traveling cinemas that will roll into your village on...
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