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Illustrated Vintage Coca-Cola Adverts By Pete Hawley 1960′s

The Coca-Cola illustrated advertisements are by creative legend Pete Hawley. Hawley created a provocative style for Jantzen advertising in the 1940′s and 1950′s spanning 17 years. He illustrated over 100 magazine ads for swimsuits, lingerie, sweaters and other ...

Pictures From A Student House Party In The 1960s

So it looks like the Sixties really were swinging! These pictures from a 1960s student house party look pretty debaucherous, everything you hear about the 60s was apparently true from the looks of these photos. ...

50 Years Ago: The World in 1962

50 years ago, the space race was heating up and the Cold War was freezing over. Soviet missile bases discovered in Cuba triggered a crisis that brought the U.S. to the brink of war with the ...

The Beatles First Visit To The USA – 1964

The Beatles made it across the Atlantic in 1964 to play before their adoring, screaming fans in the USA — including, famously, performances on The Ed Sullivan Show that mark, for many people, the true beginning ...

Colour Pictures Of Carnaby Street In 1968

By the 1960s, Carnaby Street proved popular for followers of both the Mod and hippie styles. Many independent fashion boutiques, and designers such as Mary Quant, Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, Lord John, Merc, Take Six, ...

Catch Me If You Can – The Real Story Of Frank Abagnale Jr

He was the inspiration behind the hit movie Catch Me If You Can and the man who performed cons worth millions of Dollars before he even reached the age of 19, but today Frank Abagnale is ...

Living With The Hells Angels – 1965

In early 1965 photographer Bill Ray spent several weeks with a gang that, to this day, serves as a living, brawling embodiment of our schizoid relationship with the rebel: the Hells Angels. Here, in a gallery ...

Mad Men Era Advertising

The show “Mad Men” takes viewers into a fictional 1960s, the pre-feminist era, inside the Madison Avenue ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and its competitors. Don Draper: “What do women want?” Roger Sterling: “Who cares?” Reality ...

Interracial Relationships In 1960s Virginia USA

There isn’t much that is unusual about Richard and Mildred Loving, they met, became childhood sweethearts and fell in love. However Richard was white and Mildred of black and Native American descent, and this was 1960′s ...

Judica-Cordiglia Brothers: The People Who Uncovered a Secret Soviet Space Program?

It’s the 28th November 1960 and a mysterious SOS signal is apparently heard by two former amateur radio operators sitting in a makeshift experimental listening station set in a disused German bunker in Torre Bert. Their ...