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Fleeting images plucked from the winds of time. Context not always provided. No AI.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Oct 1974: Philips Full-Colour Video Cassette Recorder ad from Sound & Vision

«Escape from the dictatorship of T.V. timetables...»
Advertisement for a Philips Full-Colour Video Cassette Recorder, with features such as off-air, parallel, and blind recording, as well as playback. It offers a new concept in television viewing, allowing viewers to record and watch programmes at their leisure, freeing them from TV timetables. The advertisement includes a map showing the location of the vendor. Escape from the dictatorship of T.V. timetables... with the revolutionary new VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER We present a completely new concept in television viewing. Now you can view as you please. Tape any programme you like from your own TV set, whether you're at home or not,or even if you're watching another channel. Then play it back whenever you please on your own set. OFF-AIR RECORDING Record a programme directly as you watch an actual broadcast. PARALLEL RECORDING Enjoy a programme on one channel while VCR records from another. BLIND RECORDING Record a programme without watching it-VCR does it for you automatically when you're out. PLAYBACK See your recordings again and again-at the times that suit you and the family. See this revolutionary concept at 89, NEWPORT STREET, BOLTON. The Proffitt Family Company Tel:26 32541
October 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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I don’t know where this is from. I know that it’s a tile made with a medieval illustration. #Caturday
Medieval illustration of a cat king holding a sceptre and wearing a crown, with three other cats bowing before it on grassy landscape.
October 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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October 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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1947 American Girl magazine.
#b&w #vintagephoto #glasses #book
September 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Photo from a glass negative in my collection. No documented date/info.
Black-and-white photo of a light skinned young woman sitting up in a chair. She is looking down at a short haired, white and gray cat. She’s also holding out one finger as if playfully teasing the cat with it.
May 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Happy Wednesday
May 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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May 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Heavy Metal Magazine, 1979

#harmonica #coverart
May 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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JAZZ MUST GO
Jazz Must Go Is American dancing hellward? Is jazz madness driving us to ruin? These questions are asked not by prudes, but by seriously thinking people who are concerned for the future of our boys and girls. Present-day indecencies of dress, of talk, of manners must stop! Jazz must stop! We must get Back to Pre-War Morals. John R. McMahon has written a series of articles that every mother and every father should read. They show the evil at its worst and point a remedy. In the same issue begins Zane Grey's great new serial story -- The Call of the Canon. Just two of more than fifty features in the 172-page November issue of The Ladies Home Journal --Washington Evening Star, 4 Nov 1921
May 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Picnic, 1964
#b&w #photo #1960s
May 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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May 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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USSR Magazine, 1961
#plannedeconomy #ussr
April 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Robert Tinney
April 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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