Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? Finally acquired a new scanner! 1. The Memory of Whiteness, Kim Stanley Robinson (1985) From the back cover: “In the 33rd century humanity is scattered among the planets of the Solar System. Millions of lives depend on the revolutionary physics of Arthur Holywelkin; millions of … Continue reading Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLVI (Kim Stanley Robinson, Miriam Allen DeFord, Keith Laumer, an...| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
The middleclass suburb of Matchdown Park is all agog. First, newspaper editor Julian Townsend divorced his wife, Susan, and moved away. Then Susan’s neighbour, Louise North started welcoming …| a hot cup of pleasure
Museum Artifact: Slingerland Tempo-King Bass Drum Pedal, 1960s Made By: Slingerland Drum Company, 6633 N. Milwaukee Ave. [Niles, IL] “The Slingerland name is recognized the world over as the finest in drum equipment. . . . It is the only drum firm that manufactures and processes all of its own parts exclusively, which includes skilled wood-working, metal-working, plating, finishing and final assembling.” –Slingerland Drum Co. The post Slingerland Drum Company, est. 1912 appeared first o...| Made-in-Chicago Museum
Museum Artifact: No. 4097 Maple Chairside Table with Marble Top, 1960s Made By: Alonzi Furniture Company, 1840 W. Hubbard St., Chicago, IL [West Town] Donated By: Fred Alonzi “The charm of Alonzi Furniture is readily apparent. You don’t have to tell your trade it is beautiful—they can see it themselves. . . The finish—the design—the quality of the material tells them this. The post Alonzi Furniture Co., est. 1916 appeared first on Made-in-Chicago Museum.| Made-in-Chicago Museum
‘Swim for your life!’ Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman from a screenplay by Charles B. Griffith (The Little Shop … The post CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA Free online on YouTube in 4K appeared first on MOVIES & MANIA.| MOVIES & MANIA
‘He was a homicidal maniac who lived to kill!’ Bloody Pit of Horror is a 1965 Italian-American horror film in which a photographer and models go to an abandoned castle … The post BLOODY PIT OF HORROR – Luridd ’60s Italian horror free to watch online appeared first on MOVIES & MANIA.| MOVIES & MANIA
The Monster of the Opera is a 1961 Italian horror supernatural film directed by Renato Polselli (Black Magic Rites; Mania; Delirium) from a screenplay co-written with Ernesto Gastaldi. The movie stars Marco Mariani, Giuseppe … The post THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA Italian ’60s horror – free on YouTube appeared first on MOVIES & MANIA.| MOVIES & MANIA
‘5 playgirls walked innocently into his arms… only to meet the devil in the flesh!’ The Playgirls and the Vampire is a 1960 Italian horror film written and directed by …| MOVIES & MANIA
“These display screens would display signs of air attack against Canada and the United States. By pushing buttons, the NORAD battle staff members can take an electronic look at the tracks of space satellites or aircraft, which are chartered on the display by computers This is the nerve center which would give the first warning … Continue reading "Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966" The post Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966 appeared first on Fl...| Flashbak
As part of London PhotoMonth, Wonderland celebrates The Joy of Analogue: Portraits from 1955-1995. In testament to the skill of analogue photography, the show incudes polaroids and platinum and silver gelatin prints by the likes of Mary Ellen Mark, Sandra Lousada, Brian Griffin, David Bailey, Herb Ritts, John Claridge, Joel-Peter Witkin and Eve Arnold. In a … Continue reading "The Joy of Analogue Photography: Sensational Old-Fashioned Portraits, 1955-1995" The post The Joy of Analogue Phot...| Flashbak
A handful of souvenirs preserved in the family home prompts MICK DAVIES to reconstruct some potent impressions from nearly sixty years ago.| Oil On Water Press
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the August installment of this column. The Power of the List. I adore lists. I’ve compiled lists of science fiction stories on my site about generation ship stories, immortality (abandoned), overpopulation (abandoned), and sports and games (abandoned). I religiously update my SF Novel and … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVI| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Paul Orban’s interior art for George H. Smith’s “The Last Days of L.A.” in If, ed. Damon Knight (February 1959) Back in 2021, I reviewed and adored George H. Smith’s &…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
I am often asked the question: ‘What do you feel when you sentence a man to death?’ Thus begins this book written by legal luminary, G.D. Khosla, who served in various capacities as mag…| a hot cup of pleasure
Porterhouse Blue written by Tom Sharpe It is a little while since I have read one of Tom Sharpe’s books, several years in fact, Porterhouse Blue had been serialised in the television some years ago…| Fenlandphil's Blog
Hi, all: I bring you the review of a book by an author who is very well-known and respected, and whom I had the pleasure of meeting in person at a book fair many years ago. I’ve been meaning …| Just Olga
An exhibition on Lambeth’s council housing between 1965 and 1980 is taking place this month at the Lambeth Archives (16 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1ET). I’m very pleased to feature this …| Municipal Dreams
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the July installment of this column. One of my favorite forms of SF scholarship is careful identification of a intellectual genealogy–tracing what an author read and engaged in dialogue with. Authors are readers. They also can’t escape references and textual traces of what … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXV| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Artist John Lumsden is found dead in his studio. The disarray in the studio shows that Lumsden had put up quite a fight before being strangled to death. Enter Scotland Yard detective Charles Blair with Sergeant Harry Dawson. Detectives, according to the author, are of various types: There were jocular detectives, and grim detectives, and … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Frame-Up by Andrew Garve (1964)→| a hot cup of pleasure
We left Rochdale in last week’s post contemplating the failure of its Ashfield Valley Estate, completed in 1968 and all …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Although Rochdale had built on a large scale in the interwar period, as we saw in last week’s post, and …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Rob Clayton, Provision – Architecture of the Post-War Consensus (Stay Free Publishing, 2025) ‘Provision’ might seem, at first glance, a …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Hello friends! It's been a red-hot summer, hasn't it? Well, to cap off the last few weeks of heat, we're thrilled to announce a collection that is sure to set your hearts ablaze. Introducing the Hearts Afire Collection: two new vintage reproduction styles that are| American Duchess Blog
The Terror is a 1963 horror film about a young officer in Napoleon's Army who pursues a strange woman to a castle. Free online| MOVIES & MANIA
Italian photographer Ferdinando Scianna records the significance of Sicilian religious rituals and practices in the 1960s| Magnum Photos
Today I’m joined again by Rachel S. Cordasco, the creator of the indispensable website and resource Speculative Fiction in Translation, for the fifth installment of our series exploring non-English language SF worlds. Last time we covered Kathinka Lannoy’s strange (and unsuccessful) Dutch language story “Drugs’ll Do You” (1978, trans. 1981). Please note that Rachel and … Continue reading Short Story Review: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, tra...| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Back in 2012, I read Jean Kerr’s best-known book, apparently turned into a beloved film, Please Don’t Eat The Daisies. She followed it in 1960 with The Snake Has All The Lines – a curious title that apparently comes from her son being| Stuck in a Book
I’ve read a couple of books by Michael Frayn from later in his career, but it’s quite a departure to read his debut novel – The Tin Men (1965). It is a raucous satire of – well, of quite a few things.| Stuck in a Book
Crossing Day 20 feels like we’re on the home stretch, and I am still really enjoying doing A Book A Day in May – certainly finding it much easier than last year, when my eyes were still pretty ropey eight| Stuck in a Book
In 1966, The Elementary Science Study published a curriculum, Behavior of Mealworms. It provided opportunities for children to engage in many scientific pursuits with readily accessible larval form of a darkling beetle. In 1977, Hal Abelson and Paul Goldenberg of the MIT AI/Logo Laboratory, published a paper, Teacher’s Guide for Computational Models of Animal Behavior. […] The post Mealworms appeared first on The Daily Papert.| The Daily Papert
The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of a seminal paper by Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert. Published in 1971, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer, set the course of education for the next fifty years and beyond. I created the new book, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50, to honor the vision set forth by Papert and Solomon a half-century ago. Four dozen experts from around the world invite us to consider the original provocations, reflect on their implementation, and ch...| The Daily Papert
The Haunted House of Horror is a 1969 British-American proto-slasher horror film written and directed by Michael Armstrong. Free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the June installment of this column. I adore teaching American History for college credit. Every summer I ponder what to change and improve. And this year, I want to integrate a few science fiction stories! My 1950s unit in the spring semester could be … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIV| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Photo of Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke’s Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution (2025) Over the last few years, I have highlighted a smattering of the vast range of spectacular scholarship on sci…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Never say Never! We start with a Mission Briefing, inside this KVWV truck located at the Paramount Studios lumber storage and mill. The Big Black Vehicle arrives… The briefing involves election fraud in Mexico. In this swank 1966 apartment, the record player is disabled as we browse the folders on I.M.F personnel needed for infiltration.… Continue reading Mission Impossible-Mayberry in Disguise→| Phantom of the Backlots
Many moons ago, Native Americans were on the warpath over the use of the offensive name Redskins for a football team. Woke Americans changed it to the Washington Commanders. Now, our long national …| Envisioning The American Dream
This is another cake that I did not grow up with nor did either of my parents. Actually, I only came to know about Apricot Nectar Cake in an old 1960s article that mentions a popular cake recipe from a few years back made with nectar. Well that sent my spidey senses a tingling and … Continue reading The History of Apricot Nectar Cake| Quaint Cooking
Originally published as a “Historicist” column on Torontoist on July 4, 2015. The Enterprise, July 13, 1966. “Sex-and-snacks draw fire.” “Bra and bottles litter lawns.” “North York fear…| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
Castle of the Walking Dead is a 1967 horror film about a Count, executed for murdering twelve young women , who returns to life... Reviews| MOVIES & MANIA
Theatre of Death is a 1967 British horror film involving killings centred around a Parisian theatre company with a tyrannical director.| MOVIES & MANIA
House of the Damned is a 1963 American horror film produced and directed by Maury Dexter. Reviews, trailer, free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
The news of the death of teen idol Bobby Sherman yesterday finally surpassed all the Trump posts on my social media feed as women of a certain age lamented the passing of their first crush. And gay…| Envisioning The American Dream
Finding information about John Romain has been a challenge, but there's nothing challenging about seeing the beauty of this handbag.| www.perennialvintagesupply.com
Whenever hearing the name Martin Luther King Jr. four other words will immediately pop into one’s head: “I have a dream”. Possibly the most famous phrase from any speech ever held. The Christian minister King (1929-1968) is a worldwide icon in the fight for equal rights for coloured people. Shot dead at the age of…| Lords of the Drinks
I woke up with Moe on the mind. My dog Moe, was not the first Moe in my life. The Three Stooges notwithstanding, the only other Moe I ever knew was my father’s law partner, who unknowingly was inst…| Envisioning The American Dream
Victor leaves his native St. Kitts for the busy streets of London with barely a backward glance. Frustrated with what he sees as the insular mindset of his rural town, not least that of his parents, he saves enough for the ship passage to the ‘Mother Country’ and joins the many thousands of Caribbeans trying to make a new life in post-war Britain. Before leaving, Victor hastily marries Lorna – a young woman with whom he has fathered a son, Leon – with a promise to send for them lat...| Afropean: your guide to the Afro European diaspora and beyond
Gorgo is a 1961 British giant monster movie directed by Eugène Lourié (The Giant Behemoth; The Colossus of New York... free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
The Creeping Terror is a 1964 sci-fi horror film about a shambling monster that emerges from a spaceship to eat people.| MOVIES & MANIA
The Night Walker is a 1964 mystery horror thriller about a woman haunted by recurring nightmares that seem to be instigated... free online| MOVIES & MANIA
The Tell-Tale Heart aka Hidden Room of a 1000 Horrors is a 1960 British horror film directed by Ernest Morris. The screenplay by Brian Clemens (Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter) and Eldon …| MOVIES & MANIA
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1968 Canadian/American television horror film directed by Charles Jarrott based on a teleplay by Ian McLellan Hunter (The Amazing …| MOVIES & MANIA
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Matthew Bowman— Late in the night of September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home on a lonely state road in central New Hampshire when they saw a... READ MORE| Yale University Press
From November 2011 through July 2012 I wrote the “Past Pieces of Toronto” column for OpenFile, which explored elements of the city which no longer exist. The following was originally po…| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
Museum Artifact: Replogle 12″ Relief Globe, 1964 Made By: Replogle Globes, Inc., 1901 N. Narragansett Avenue, Chicago, IL [North Austin] “As I followed that globe from beginning to end of the manufacturing process, I was struck by something cosmic in the very setting. Overhead, conveyers whirled finished spheres in stately orbits. Below them, ranks of plastic bases glittered like stars. I stood amid a galaxy in miniature.” The post Replogle Globes, Inc., est. 1930 appeared first on Made...| Made-in-Chicago Museum
Hopefully you've heard by now that J.C. Penney's, now under new management, has dropped its "American Living" brand. Manufactured by Ralph ...| mrlapel.blogspot.com
Surplus military clothing has always been a go-to option for many people within the last century; whether for rugged outdoor activities or ironic anti-war protesting, military clothing was there. That's because surplus is abundant, it tends to be fairly well-made, and it's cheap.| The Houndstooth Kid
These are a blast from the 1960s. I'm not usually a big fan of patent leather; it usually looks like plastic (modern equivalents usually are), creases very easily, and doesn't look right with everything but formal kits.| The Houndstooth Kid
Some new Spring arrivals at the Houndstooth Kid Haberdashery. These hats are in a variety of styles, conditions, and sizes. Sizes range from medium to large.| The Houndstooth Kid
This is a topic I've been meaning to discuss for some time now. It's fitting that I post this piece on the day the Midwest is receiving not just a winter storm but a blizzard.| The Houndstooth Kid
This article is adapted from Professor Kołakowski’s keynote address to the 1978 national convention of Social Democrats, USA. Leszek Kołakowski has a long record of devotion to the cause of truth and the struggle for freedom. In 1956, in articles and speeches, he voiced the protests of’ intellectuals and workers against the Communist dictatorship in […]| People's War
Originally published as a “Historicist” column on Torontoist on August 21, 2010. Markham Street with Mirvish Village signs, circa 1982. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 1465, File 6, Item 11. In one of his autobiographies, “Honest Ed” Mirvish noted that he “never intended to install an artists’ colony on Markham Street….Like most things I’ve gotten … Continue reading "A Village Grows on Markham Street"| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
Museum Artifact: “Little Playmates” Musical Postcard / Christmas Card and “Chicago” Musical Postcard, c. 1960 Made By: Musical Postcard Company, 415 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, IL [River North] Donated By: Nyla Panzilius It’s no news to anyone that you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole. But what about playing a rectangular paper record on a round turntable? If you’re simultaneously intrigued and skeptical, The post Musical Postcard Company, est. 1958 appeared first on Made-in...| Made-in-Chicago Museum
Museum Artifact: Duro “Sign Maker” Letter and Number Decals + Display Box, c. 1960s Made By: Duro Decal Co., Inc. / Duro Art Supply, Inc. / Duro Art Industries, 1832 W. Juneway Terrace, Chicago, IL [Rogers Park] Donated By: Jeff Levine “Duro Letters and Numbers speed up work and are easy to transfer, making every sign a perfect job. Each character is precision made of Best Grade Black Lacquer and Gold Bronze to insure uniformity and quality. The post Duro Decal Company, est. 1938 appear...| Made-in-Chicago Museum
A history-making horror movie has the strangest origin, and it's definitely not for everyone, as it helped pioneer a new horror genre.| GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
On February 8th, the LA Sentinel posted an article about the History of Black Television as part of its celebration of Black History Month. The article tells a condensed chronology of important milestones in the evolution and progression of black actors and entertainers on television. Among the list of shows, of course, was I SPY. … Continue reading "I SPY’s Invisible Standard?"| TheConsummateCulp.com
American Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of Good Chinese Wife, which recounts her years in a Chinese family as a wife, daughter-in-law, and mother. Susan also contributed the excellent introduction to the Camphor Press edition of Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls. She blogs at susanbkason.com. In the mid-1960s, my mom spent a year in [...] The post My Family’s Travels to 1965 Taiwan appeared first on Camphor Press.| Camphor Press
Cyclists were 1st to push for good roads & were pioneers of motoring| Roads Were Not Built For Cars
