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ROBERT PLANT and JIMMY PAGE performing at The Forum in Inglewood, California, May 31, 1973

Before the era of $400 branded pool floats shaped like literal avocados, we had the Inner Tube. It was simple, it was rubbery, and it smelled faintly of a Goodyear service center. This image perfectly encapsulates the 1974 "Safety Second" movement, a time when a successful afternoon consisted of tethering yourself to twelve strangers and drifting blindly toward a downstream brewery or a particularly sharp rock. Look at that coordination! It’s less of a recreational activity and more of a low-stakes naval blockade. The fashion is peak 74: bowl cuts, high-waisted trunks, and the universal hope that nobody in the front of the line has to pee.

Sourced from "Life in Rural America," 1974.

#if you hear banjo music #paddle faster

I hope the Norwegian World Cup team uses “Immigrant Song” as their into music.

#I love you Norway #was aquavit involved in this pic?

effinbirds

cokesympathy

ROBERT PLANT performing at Oude Rai in Amsterdam, May 27, 1972

#dubious mustache #robert plant

thegikitiki

Volkswagen Pickup, 1980

thegikitiki

Source: The Giki Tiki Archives

#my dad had one of these #in this very color #you could fit my sister’s whole field hockey team in the back #and we did

woodstocksnoopy

#snoopy eloped with woodstock

michaelmoonsbookshop

worn early 19th century Herbal with 50 hand coloured engraved plates

Printed in Halifax c1815

ledbythreads

image description: Alfie Solomons (a 1920s Jewish gangster), and Raven T Shelby (a raven) are in a 70s US diner. Raven is perched on Alfie's arm with his entire head in a huge hot fudge sundae with a cherry on top. Alfie is looking away, perturbed. end ID

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#leds fever dream #lovechild stories #raven t shelby #alfie solomons #beak in a sundae