Vinyl Look-Alikes: Funny Images Compare Music Album Covers That Look Very Similar From the 1960s

With hundreds of thousands of records released over the years, you’re bound to wind up with a lot of similar looking covers. Let's take a look at some of these funny examples:

Both have smoking hot female boxers (a good thing) and both use boxing puns (a very bad thing). “Greatest Hits” and “The Lady is a Champ”… get it?

Casey (of KC & the Sunshine Band) rides atop a giant champagne cork travelling across the sky. Joel Diamond, not to be outdone, rides with TWO lovely ladies atop a giant harmonica traveling across the sky.

Granted, sexing up a water hose for your album cover won’t get you listed with Sgt. Pepper as one of the greats; however, something tells me sexual hoses suits these albums perfectly.

Two chicks in egg chairs.

Usually, album covers take the time to remove any name brand tags from clothing…. not so with the free advertisement for H.I.S. jeans on the High Life record.

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35 Attractive Men Covers of 'Playgirl', a Perfect Magazine for Women in the 1980s

Playgirl is an American magazine was founded in 1973 by Douglas Lambert during the height of the feminist movement as a response to erotic men's magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse that featured similar photos of women.

The magazine features general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news. In the 1970s and 1980s it printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, although, as the magazine knew, it had a significant gay male readership, in a period in which gay male erotic magazines were few.

Here are 35 attractive men covers of this magazine in the 1980s.

Bruce Dern and Maud Adams, 1981

Burt Reynolds, 1981

Barry Bostwick, 1982

Christopher Atkins and Donna Rupert, 1982

 Christopher Reeve, 1982

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36 Vintage Snapshots of Women Expressed Their Love Together From the Early 20th Century

Here is an interesting collection of adorable vintage photos that captured ladies showing affection toward other ladies.

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Amusing Polaroid Snapshots of a Wild Halloween Party From the 1960s

These amusing photographs, spotted on Dangerous Minds, of a Halloween party taken in sometime 1960s were just too good. There’s not a whole lot to say about them. They speak for themselves, don’t they?

According to the site, these photos were auctioned off on eBay back in 2009 and as the seller stated that “they were taken in California by someone named Daibaus...” This must have been the coolest Halloween party ever!

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Interesting Photos of Computer Stores in the 1970s and 1980s

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, if someone wanted to buy a personal computer, they had to make a trip down to a local computer store to physically check out what was available. Once there, customers typically encountered a dizzying array of incompatible platforms with widely varying capabilities.

Depending on the era, think of computers with brand names like Apple, Atari, Commodore, Osborne, Texas Instruments, Radio Shack, Tandy, IBM, NEC, Sinclair, Panasonic, and more.

Here's a small collection of interesting snapshots curated by PCMag.com that give a glimpse into what it was like to visit one of those stores back then.

1. The Front Window

Imagine walking down the street in the 1980s and being greeted by this handsomely arranged scene of Radio Shack TRS-80 computers. That's exactly what the photographer encountered at a computer store in West Germany in 1984. From left to right, we see a TRS-80 Model III, Model 4, Model 100 (in the travel case), and a Model II -- along with various Tandy brand printers beside them. (Photo: Christopher Grabinski)


2. The Computer Store

In this wonderful photo of the Los Angeles-based Computer Store from 1977, we get a rare peek at the inside of a PC shop from the dawn of the personal computer era. Here we see a teenager playing Star Trek on a then brand-new Apple II (possibly built from a kit, since it is missing its logo badge) while the store's owner, Dick Heiser, looks on. In the foreground sit a pair of Cromemco joysticks, which were used for playing Space War on S-100 bus machines. (Photo: George Birch)


3. ComputerLand

During the 1980s, ComputerLand reigned as one of the most successful computer store chains in America. Here is a rare shot of an interior of one, circa 1983, that features IBM PCs, a few DEC Rainbow 100 machines, and a wall of software and removable media for sale. There's also an Osborne 1, one of the first "portable" computers, sitting on a desk near the man standing in the back. (Photo: ComputerLand)


4. Computer Shopping in Japan

In this 1982 photo from a computer store in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, Japan, we see a cramped interior lined with uniquely Japanese computer goods. For example, the machine in the foreground is the Matsushita JR-100, an inexpensive machine with 16K of RAM and a rubber chiclet keyboard. Several other home PCs line the walls as customers look on. (Photo: Katsumi Kasahara)


5. The IBM PC is Here

In this 1981 photo from an unknown Boston, Massachusetts area computer store, we see a display showcasing the new IBM Personal Computer 5150, which was released in August of that year in the US. Next to it we see a precarious stack of IBM PC manuals and software boxes, along with a couple of printers. (Photo: IBM)

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The Queen Shot at by a Teenager During Trooping the Colour in London, 1981

An incident you may have forgotten or been unaware of – but back in 1981, Her Majesty The Queen was shot at several times during the annual Trooping the Colour. In those days, she rode side saddle down the Mall from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade and that’s when an unemployed military cadet spotted his chance.

Marcus Sarjeant pointed his gun directly at the Queen.

A teenager named Marcus Sarjeant became the last person to date to be convicted under the Treason Act of 1842, after he fired a replica gun at the Queen on June 13, 1981.

The 17-year-old fired six blanks in quick succession in the Queen’s direction, as she turned from The Mall into Horse Guards Road en route to the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony. He was quickly overpowered by two Guardsmen, a police officer and a St John’s Ambulance volunteer.

The Queen on Trooping the Colour ceremony 1981.

The Queen, who had left Buckingham Palace 15 minutes earlier on her horse Burmese, was visibly startled by the shots, but regained her composure and brought the horse under control, before continuing on her route as her ceremonial escort closed ranks around her.

After the completion of the ceremony on Horse Guards Parade, she returned to the Palace by the same route under the close guard of her escort and security services.

The Queen and Prince Phillip leave Buckingham Palace for the Trooping the Colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade.

The Queen, riding side saddle on her horse Burmese during Trooping the Colour, moments before the attack.

Sarjeant, a former Air Training Cadet from Folkestone, Kent, had joined the Royal Marines a year earlier after leaving school, but had quit within three months, claiming he had been bullied. He had then tried to join the army, but left after just two days of an induction.

Unemployed at the time of the incident, he was said to be an anti-royalist, but when asked about the motivation behind his actions, he reportedly told his captors: “I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be a somebody.”

As the Queen regains control of her alarmed horse, Burmese, police officers rush to the source of the gunfire.

A guardsmen and police were overcoming the struggle.

Marcus under arrest after firing a blank pistol near the Queen as she rode to Trooping the Colour.

In September, Sarjeant became the first person to be tried under the 1842 Act since 1966, on a charge of wilfully discharging a gun “at or near Her Majesty the Queen... with the intent to alarm or distress Her Majesty.”

Lord Chief Justice, Lord Lane sentenced Sarjeant to five years’ imprisonment, saying: “I have little doubt that if you had been able to obtain a live gun... you would have tried to murder Her Majesty.”

The Daily Express reports.

The above famous picture was taken by Georg P. Uebel, a tourist who discovered the picture only after his film was developed. The picture was made public at Sarjeant’s trial in May 1982 but did not attract that much attention. It was as LIFE magazine called it, “a misfired moment of minor note”.

The 1842 Treason Act came into being after a number of incidents involving pistols being pointed at Queen Victoria, or non-harmful substances such as paper being fired at her. It was felt that a new law was required to ensure similar offenses would not automatically incur the death penalty.

Section 2 of the Act, under which Sarjeant was charged, is still in force. It created a new offense of assaulting the Queen, or of having a firearm or offensive weapon in her presence with intent to injure or alarm her, or to cause a breach of the peace.

Sarjeant was reportedly inspired by a series of high-profile shootings in the recent past, including those of Ronald Reagan, John Lennon and Pope John Paul II, noting how the perpetrators had gained instant notoriety.

The teenager, who had earned a marksman’s badge whilst a cadet, had joined a gun club in an attempt to obtain a licensed weapon. He had also tried to buy live ammunition for his father’s pistol.

It was reported that notes had been found written by Sarjeant, which were said to have stated: “I am going to stun and mystify the world with nothing more than a gun... I will become the most famous teenager in the world.”

After serving three years of his sentence - mostly at Grendon Psychiatric Prison in Buckinghamshire - Sarjeant was released in October 1984. He changed his name and has since disappeared into obscurity.

1930s: One of the Best Periods of Women Hat Fashion

If the 1920s was considered the boom for women clothing fashion, the 1930s was the period of hat styles. They were not only beautiful, unique but also diversity of styles. Let's see these 81 beautiful hats for women and choose your best one.

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