As worn by Starsky on the TV cop show Starsky and Hutch. A hand knitted cardigan in a cream colour with a brown horizontal pattern banded around the middle.
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InterCity 125
The diesel-powered High Speed Train (HST) known as the InterCity 125 was built by British Rail between 1975 and 1982. With its familiar sloping nose, it could run at speeds of up to 125 mph...
Winklepickers
Winklepickers: such a strange name for the pointy-toed shoe of the 50s and 60s. To understand the lore behind the winkle picker shoe, you, dear visitor, must understand two things:
1. A winkle is a shellfish...
Freda Lingstrom
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The development of television for children in the United Kingdom owes much to the foresight of Freda Lingstrom, the BBCs first Head of Children's Television programmes (between...
Drugs in the 1980s
COCAINE
Not only did coke feature as the Yuppie drug of choice in the decade where Greed was Good and Wall Street was God, but it also nearly put paid to comedian Richard Pryor when he...
Pizza
In 1950, pizza was confined to America's Italian colonies, and the Atlantic Monthly took the good news to the rest of the country:
"You eat it, usually, sitting in a booth in a bare, plain restaurant, with...
