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Goodson Records: Pliable, Unbreakable and Featherweight
Goodson Records was a short lived record label which produced a flexible type of records in England between December 1929 and February 1931. One of the characteristic features of these white flexible...
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Life in the Penthouse: Automate Your Life
Whilst a fan of the fifties and sixties and quite clearly my appearance is that of a man stuck in a time warp I have always been a man who takes advantage of his current times. From attitudes to...
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The Green Hornet (1940)
Have you survived the hype of the 2011 remake of The Green Hornet? Take a trip back to the era of movie serials with the original episodes from 1940 starring Gordon Jones as 'the Green Hornet' and Keye...
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Don’t Leave Home Without It: What Retrophiles Know
Recently, while transferring my items from one purse to another, as I do almost daily, it suddenly struck me that I carry a lot of things that my non-Retrophile contemporaries do not. Wondering what...
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Will Viharo's Chumpy Walnut: A Runyonesque Fable
Retrospective Magazine contributor Will “the Thrill” Viharo’s very first novel was called Chumpy Walnut, the story of a guy only a foot tall—lost, alone and looking for love and friendship in a wacky,...
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Tura! Tura! Tura!: Tribute to a Tender Tigress
An icon of indie cinema (as well as a personal friend) made the ultimate transition to Cult Movie Heaven this past Friday, February 4, 2011: Tura Satana, immortalized as Varla, the voluptuous,...
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Will Viharo's Private Eye Vic Valentine is Back!
In 1995 the now-defunct Wild Card Press of San Francisco published Retrospective Online contributor Will (later known as “The Thrill”) Viharo’s detective novel, Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me. A...
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Captain America 1944
2011 is turning out to be the year of the Superhero revival. In January of this year we had the Green Hornet starring Seth Rogan. In May, Thor starring Chris Hemsworth thundered on to the screen. The...
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Life In the Penthouse - Dating a Crazy Woman
You're dating your dream girl, and almost everything about her is amazing. You've had a blissful first 30 days. Yes, there have been moments when you scratched your head and thought, “Hmm, her...
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The Golden Age of Burlesque
Although burlesque has Victorian roots its great heyday was around the 1920s and 30s through to the 40s, when prohibition started to bite. In 1930 there were several hundred specialist burlesque houses...
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