70s Archives - Boing Boing

fun This 1970s toilet paper holder with a built-in radio is the retro bathroom gadget you never knew you needed Popkin

Comics A "long lost" 70s superhero comic is finally being published Thom Dunn
music Funky Friday: "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" Elvin Bishop, 1976 Xeni Jardin
movies The Story of The Source Family Birth Rope, as told to Boing Boing by Isis Aquarian in Hawaii Xeni Jardin
1970s Nude Psychotherapy (vintage seventies magazine ad) Xeni Jardin
music A Long, Drawn Out Trip: The "lost" animated short that introduced Pink Floyd to Gerald Scarfe Xeni Jardin
music BB reader: "Spot where Pink Floyd's 'Wish you Were Here' album cover was shot? I actually *am* here." Xeni Jardin
science fiction Hot tip from 1979: the living room of the future will be filled with computers Xeni Jardin
History Shag carpet around the toilet — the 1970s were something else Popkin
law Armed with German copyright, Fender threatens makers of Strat-style guitars Rob Beschizza
art Erotic wooden puzzles from 1960s spark joy Popkin
books Vintage clown photos capture old circus culture Popkin
Weird Seattle's mystery soda machine vanished in 2018 with a goodbye note Ellsworth Toohey
Games Did you know there was a bad Double Dragon comic book? Rob Beschizza
economics Why America is deeply, uniformly unhappy Ellsworth Toohey
books An editor who read "Crash" called JG Ballard "beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish" Mark Frauenfelder
nyc This 1930s children's book on city planning is a delight Gail Sherman
Science A group of 200 chimps had a civil war Ellsworth Toohey
History The caganer: Catalonia's defecating nativity figure Ellsworth Toohey
gadgets NASA-styled retro wristwatch has a price tag fit for the shuttle program Rob Beschizza