1950s

One of Ken Russell’s childhood memories was of going to school on a rainy day and noticing the clouds reflected in the puddles. These clouds–that…

For three nights the children came to the “City of the Dead.” They carried knives, clubs and stakes–even a crucifix. Two hundred or more children…

Maila Nurmi (aka ‘Vampira’) looking gorgeously goth at the beach with her umbrella, mid-1950s. Maila Nurmi the captivatingly gorgeous Finnish model and actress with a…

’50s Portland horror hostess, Tarantula Ghoul Everyone knows about Vampira, the 1950s TV horror movie hostess whose iconic character drew influence from the Morticia character…

“Casa Susanna” was the name of a house in Hunter, New York, a town that is a good hour-plus north of Poughkeepsie, which is itself…

Once upon a time, porn was kept on the top shelf, or under-the-counter, in discrete brown paper bags, or sent by post in anonymous manilla…

Fast on the heels of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency investigation into the dire influence of comic books, innovative and transgressive E.C. Comics released…

I never want to make too many assumptions about our readers or their workplaces, but I think it’s only fair to give y’all a warning:…

Composer/arranger Edward O. Bland’s 1958 quasi-documentary short, Cry of Jazz was one of the first films to examine Black culture. Made during the Eisenhower era…

Source photos of pin-up girls next to their painted “after” image. What caught my attention about these side-by-side comparisons is how they expose the 1950/60s…