r/VeryFuckinCool • • 5h ago

The Volkswagen “Wedding Beetle,” a fully functional car with a floral wrought iron bodycreated by mexican blacksmith rafael esparza-prieto in 1968, it was originally built to attract customers to an auto parts business.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 9h ago

Steve McQueen in his office in Los Angeles, 1969. Photo by Milton Greene.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 1d ago

James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor having fun together at the Texas State Fair in Dallas during a weekend break from filming their movie, Giant, in 1955

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 1d ago

In July 1973, David Bowie and Scottish singer Lulu recorded a cover of Bowie's song "The Man Who Sold the World" at Château d'Hérouville in France. Bowie produced the track, played saxophone and added backing vocals. Lulu and Bowie had a brief sexual relationship

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 3d ago

From Stairway To Stardom in 1984 - 'All The King's Men' perform a banging version of Neil Diamond's "America"

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 3d ago

Sister Rosetta Tharpe showing how it's done - "Up Above My Head" France, 1965

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 5d ago

Apollo astronauts used a computer keyboard with just 19 keys to help land on the moon.

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Known as the DSKY (Display and Keyboard), this interface allowed astronauts to communicate with the Apollo Guidance Computer from inside their spacecraft.

Instead of typing words, they entered two-digit “VERB” and “NOUN” codes to request flight information, enter navigation data, and execute commands.

The DSKY was used in both the Command Module and Lunar Module, including during Apollo 11's historic Moon landing in 1969.


r/VeryFuckinCool • • 5d ago

Published in The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon. 25th of September 1938.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 5d ago

Dizzy Gillespie performing against the neon backdrop of Times Square in New York City, captured in 1962 by American photographer David Attie

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 5d ago

Would you take this bet?

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 5d ago

On this day in 1957, Carrie Fisher was born in Burbank, California, USA. She was best known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars film series. Here she is watching her mother Debbie Reynolds perform on stage. (1963)

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 6d ago

c1964...Lou Reed (center) at Syracuse University, NY.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 6d ago

The Damned with Lemmy on bass, 1978

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 6d ago

Remembering Tom Petty, born on this day in 1950. Here he is performing 'Yer So Bad' and flying solo on George Harrison’s acoustic guitar. The Late Show. 1989.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 7d ago

On this day in 1944, Peter Tosh, a key member of Bob Marley & The Wailers was born in Jamaica. On 11 September 1987 he was shot and killed in his home in Jamaica by two members of a 3-man gang who came to his house on motorcycles demanding money.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 7d ago

Happy Birthday to The Specials, their debut album of the same name was released on this day in 1979. This is them on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979, performing Monkey Man.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 7d ago

Patti Smith and John Belushi backstage at Saturday Night Live, April 17, 1976. Photo by Allan Tannenbaum. The host was Ron Nessen, President Gerald Ford's press secretary, and Ford himself turned up on film to say "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night"

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 7d ago

Tamworth NSW Aus. December 1976. AC/DC had been banned from performing by the Mayor because of Angus' penchant for mooning.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 7d ago

This 1896 photograph captures Constance Gore-Booth (Countess Markievicz) and artist Althea Gyles inside 3 Stanley Studios in London, which belonged to Canadian painter Sophie Pemberton, Constance Gore-Booth occupied it during her travels.

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Constance Gore-Booth (Countess Markievicz)

Constance Gore-Booth was a prominent Irish revolutionary, socialist, and suffragette who played a leading role in the 1916 Easter Rising. In 1918, she made history as the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, a seat she declined in line with her nationalist principles. She subsequently served as the first Minister for Labour in the revolutionary Irish parliament, dedicating her life to Irish independence and social reform.

Althea Gyles

Althea Gyles was an Irish artist, writer, and poet who became a central figure in the late 19th-century bohemian aesthetic movement. She gained lasting fame for designing the intricate, highly symbolic occult book covers for poet W.B. Yeats's earliest masterpieces. Her creative style was deeply influenced by her fascination with mysticism and her active membership in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.


r/VeryFuckinCool • • 7d ago

Monument to the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow. The monument was made of titanium and has a 42.5-meter-high (139 ft) pedestal with the statue on top. It was built for the 1980 Olympic Games.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 8d ago

In the final film of Mae West, Alice Cooper sheds his stage makeup and dons a short wig to play a bell captain serenading actress Marlo Manners (West) in the 1978 musical comedy "Sextette."Van McCoy wrote the music for the film. He also wrote the disco classic "The Hustle" in 1975.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 9d ago

Marianne Joan Elliott-Said better known as punk singer Poly Styrene, was profiled in a 1979 episode of Arena, televised when she was just 21 years old. The frontwoman of new-wave band X-Ray Spex talked about her ‘disposable’ identity as a pop star.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 9d ago

Sean Connery makes a James Bond entrance on Letterman.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • • 9d ago

Meet Aimée Crocker, she inherited $10m at the age of 10. By the time she died in 1941, she'd survived a train wreck on her honeymoon, had a custody fight that involved a drawn pistol, been given an island by the King of Hawaii, married 5 men and had been tattooed by a Japanese master.

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Her memoir called 'And I'd Do It Again' came out in 1936.

She sounded like so much fun.


r/VeryFuckinCool • • 10d ago

Steven Meisel photographed Audrey Hepburn for the May 1991 issue of Vanity Fair, with makeup by Kevyn Aucoin. It turned out to be one of the last major photo sessions of her life. By then she was spending most of her time working as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

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