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Feb 13 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
OK, I'm gonna test my theory that Twitter is screwing up thread posting.

I'll pay this 6 tweet thread and you tell me if it looks all screwy.

Wish me luck...
Ah yes,the days when we used to assemble our own electron guns.

Radio News, January 1948
Hipsters, geeks or both?

Radio News, October 1947.
Portable radios for rent - a profitable business! Radio News, May 1948.
Worst. Television. Ever!
(But I love the chair.)

How To Build Your Own Television Receiver. Radio News, November 1928.
OK, how did that go? Good, bad or plain weird?
Reports just reaching us... It looks OK... Everything is normal for Twitter...

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Feb 12
Did you have a twin tub? It was the miracle of 1960s washing machine technology that literally shook the kitchen!

Let's take a look at it...
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A twin tub is just that: a washing machine with two upright tubs - one for washing, one for spinning. Genius!
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Feb 11
Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"

And today it's a Queen-Sized Gothic special...
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However for years the standard size for a paperback book was the dimensions of a coat pocket. Paperbacks were meant to be read on the train or bus, so they had to be compact. The US term for them was 'pocket books.'
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Jan 30
Today in pulp... a tale of an unintentionally radical publisher. It only produced 42 books between 1968-9, but it caught the hedonistic, solipsistic, free love mood of the West Coast freakout scene like no other.

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Jan 27
Italian mobile library.
Tell A Story book van, Lisbon.
Weapon of Mass Instruction, Argentina.
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Jan 14
There are many Golden Age comic book heroes that we don't hear much about nowadays. One of the most successful ones for Nedor Publishing was The Black Terror: Nemesis of Crime!
First appearing in Exciting Comics issue 9, published in 1941, he quickly overtook Captain Future, Major Mars and Dr Strange (no not THAT one) to become Nestor's top rated superhero.
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Jan 11
Today in pulp... cover by Denis McLoughlin! Image
The Blushing Monkey, by Roman McDougald. Boardman Books, 1953. Cover by Denis McLoughlin. Image
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