Vintage Soviet Union (USSR) New Year’s Postcards, Vol. 3 (1970s)
Let’s take a look at the third gallery of vintage New Year’s postcards from the Soviet Union/USSR, this one from the 1970s.…
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Vintage Soviet Union (USSR) New Year’s Postcards, Vol. 2 (1960s)
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Let’s take a look at the second gallery of vintage New Year’s postcards from the USSR, this one from the 1960s.…
Vintage Soviet Union (USSR) New Year’s Postcards, Vol. 1 (1950s)
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The first of four posts looking at a collection of vintage New Year’s postcards from the Soviet Union (USSR). Spans from the 1950s through the 1980s.…
Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 8 — Radiation Dummy
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I wasn’t around to witness the fallout — no pun intended — of the Soviet Union’s detonation of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961. It was and still is the biggest test of a nuclear…
Vintage Photo Wednesday, Vol. 5 — 1950s Family Nuclear Fallout Shelter
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A vintage photograph of a nuclear fallout shelter, from 1950 – right in the heart of the Cold War and the Atomic Age.…
Vince DiCola, ’80s Soundtrack Master
1986 was the year of Vince DiCola and his awesome soundtracks for Rocky IV and The Transformers: The Movie. It was a very good year indeed.…
The 10 Deadliest Tornadoes in World History
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Here is a countdown of the ten most deadly tornadoes (or outbreaks) in recorded world history.…
Movies That Defined My Youth, Part 3
Chris Holmes offers the third in a seemingly endless series dedicated to exploring the movies of his youth (aka The ’80s).…
Book report: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
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It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of my generation or younger, but broadcast news was not always a wasteland of vacuous celebrity gossip, shallow political “analysis”, or crude sensationalism. There was in fact a…