The many faces of PCL

First header ever. Used Aug - Sept 2004.


2nd header. The first guest designer. Magnus Sandberg of the fantastic vinyl sharity site (now defunct) Bellybongo made this and it was used between Sept - Nov 2004.
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Used between Nov 2004 - Jan 2005.
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In use Jan - March 2005.
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The Guys. The longest in service.
From approximately June 2005 until April 2007. (Here is the Christmas edition!).
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April 2007 - May 2008.
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Designed by Lex 10.
From May 2008 - Autumn 2009.


Designed by Lex10. From Autumn 2009-Winter 2009/2010
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Also a Lex10 production. In use Winter 2009/2010-June 2010.
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From June 2010-June 2011.
Designed by Simon Nograbat aka Ping Pong Junior.
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The design was a collaboration between jayKayEss and mrdantefontana. From June 2011- August 2011.


Note: Some shortlived headers have been lost. I especially remember the header we used between March - June 2005. The site had a green touch and the header was greenish with the guys from Thore Callmars dance orchestra.

Another Nickel In The Machine

Three rather wimpy 'Hells Angels' guarding 144 Piccadilly - 1969

Eel Pie Island, 31st August 1960 

Adam Diment - the bang bang birds published in 1968

Another Nickel In The Machine is a blog about 20th century London (not particularly focused on the 60s), its history, its culture and its music. It is truly fascinating. Found thanks via Planetbarbarella.

Now That You Don't Mention It

It was interesting to discover that Pink Anderson on film existed.

Tempos of Time

Michael at Boot Sale Sounds found an EP:" ... A soundscape of the last century starting with the clip clop of a horse drawn cab and ending with the bleep bleep of Sputnik. In between the voices of Churchill, Hitler, Marie Lloyd, Curuso, Gracie Fields and George Formby to name but a few...."

Experience Tempos of Time!



Side 1

Ange and Lethal in Their Former Life

“Mary Shank tarred and feathered her friend, Miss Dorothy Grandon, in a jealous rage. The women vow to remain friends.”

More great finds at Whitney Gifford's tumblr.

December 1941 Famous Funnies

Over at GlyphJockey:

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Get to know the communist history more intimately

Click "Karl Marx" for a closer look at source.

Campaign launched by czhech agency to get people to visit the Museum of Communism in Prague and get to know the communist history more intimately. (via Adland)

When legends gather

Jayne Mansfiel + Roberto Rosselini / Mick Jagger + Divine / Carole Lombard + Sabu
All images found on this excellent blog:
if charlie parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats.
An ongoing series of cultural and personal observations by Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson and Kimberly Lindbergs.

via label: when legends gather

other labels:
They were collaborators
Musical Indulgences
Sex education
... there's too many!

music and retro photography

Incredible Flickr sets from AIRFORM (including architecture, design, fashion, retro photographies, music bands, record cover and labels ...
Everything that we love here at PCL!

Scratchy

Travis Wammack about Scratchy:


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boomp3.com
boomp3.com

120 years of electronic music

http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/

America by Air

"In 1930, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess after convincing Boeing Air Transport that the presence of women nurses would help relieve passenger fears of flying."

And the project turned out to be a huge success. Men with an economy good enough to chose to be transported by air in the 1930s and 1940s proved her right. Stewardesses have a soothing and comforting effect.

Training groups and schools were set up - and the requirements soon were hard to live up to.

I wouldn't have made it. And I'm pretty girlish, service minded and long enough

Check out if you would have been stewardess material in the 1950s: Stewardess Requirements.

Experience more American airlines history at America by Air.

Guitar Four Hands (1942)

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The "musical Drake family," Weslaco, Texas. (1942)
Via www.shorpy.com -- The History in HD.

The Way Of All Flesh

" Yesterday at the flea market I picked up a small cosmetics case stuffed with photos almost all of which were of the same woman. The bulk of the photos were photobooths and portraits documenting her as she aged over the course of about 50 years or so. (...) the dates where available are underneath each photo. Given the date of the first photo I figure she was born in late 1937 or early 1938. The last photo dates from the early 90s so she's somewhere in her early-to-mid 50s there. "
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Find all the photos and original post at The Boat Lullabies blog.

Black History Through Magazines

Very nice collection of scans from vintage magazines depicting African-American life through the eyes of various magazines of the times.

From the author, vieilles_announces Flickr page

"These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external harddrive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.

I have no political agenda. I am simply displaying a "slice" of the Social History of people of color in the 20th century as recorded by popular periodicals."

Harry Smith : Anthology Of American Folk Music

Harry Smith " was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his skills as an anthropologist, linguist, and translator. He had a lifelong interest in the occult and esoteric fields of knowledge, leading him to speak of his art in alchemical and cosmological terms." (via www.harrysmitharchives.com )

Harry Smith's folk 78rpm collection : Anthology Of American folk Music (originally released on Folkways in 1952) with 84 songs from various artists recorded between 1927 and 1932. A must have ! If you don't own a copy you fool, go grab it on DoYouSpeakEnglish?

Harry Smith's experimental movies Early Abstractions made available on YouTube by JuanAuxEnfers

The Daisy Girl

"DAISY... is a multimedia extravaganza that is the definitive examination of the notorious 1964 television campaign ad that featured a little girl plucking daisies before being obliterated by stock footage of an atomic bomb explosion. Produced for the Democratic National Committee and designed to decimate the presidential aspirations of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Daisy spot has come to be regarded as an iconic moment in pop culture history.
Conelrad has spent the last year tracking down everyone associated with the ad that we could find—including the elusive Daisy Girl herself—as well as locating long forgotten historical documents (textual, graphic, audio, and film) in order to create the most authoritative history ever published on this iconic advertisement. ..."
Daisy: The Complete History Of An Infamous And Iconic Ad at Conelrad.

Sifting vintage video

vintage.VideoSift at VideoSift. All sorts of old video/tv/movie clips (as well as a few full movies) collected at one place. (via Biggest part of my life is me, which is, btw, the new home for Frank, the Peanut Butter Sandwich Man)

You can find a lot of fun and good stuff browsing this site. Like this one:

'Swamp Women' (1955) [Poster], directed by Roger Corman:

Uncensored History of the Blues

Uncensored History of the Blues - "The Delta Blues Museum's Uncensored Blues Podcast takes a raw look at the early history of recorded blues music in US. Each show includes a series of rare pre-war blues tracks and some discussion of those songs. " (via Bifurcated Rivets)