Hip to be Square: A look at young men’s fashions from the 1960s
Most young men in the sixties didn’t look like Charlie Manson in beads and a kaftan. Most wore button-down shirts, drainpipes, and sported short hair.…
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50 ultra stylish lobby cards from the hip world of 1960s American cinema
Drugs, counterculture, spies, and a hundred other elements that help define the word “cool.” Here’s a collection of lobby cards from American films that were…
Martian chronicles: Fantastic covers for UFO comics of the 1960s & 70s
Little green men ain’t what they used to be. We don’t need Sean Spicer to confirm that aliens have already landed and have squeezed their…
Comedians on Acid: Hippie madness at the end of the 60s
Last week we posted our interview with Kliph Nesteroff about his marvelous new book The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy,…
Seldom seen Scott Walker TV appearances from the Sixties
Although perhaps less far-reaching in historical consequences than the burning of the knowledge stored at the Library at Alexandria, when some idiot at the BBC…
Frankie Vaughan: Glasgow’s Gang culture of the 1960s
Gangs have been synonymous with Glasgow since the 1800s. The poverty, squalor and terrible overcrowding of this great industrial city led to a harsh indifferent…
Legendary footage of Brian Wilson performing ‘Surf’s Up,’ 1966
Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks in the studio, 1966 Beach Boy Brian Wilson performing “Surf’s Up” (for my money, his single greatest song) from…