Following on from our post last month on Vintage London Soho, we ran across an entire magazine dedicated to London after dark, appropriately titled Focus on…London After Dark, a magazine put out by Selbee Associates of New York in 1963. And once again we find a now familiar picture of a man standing in the doorway of a strip tease joint staring right at the photographer, and us. But this time the picture is much more timely (you’ll remember the earlier post was from 1972 and full of recycled pictures which we’d dated to around 1963). Also timely is a full 16 pages dedicated to the Profumo Affair, which in effect ended Harold McMillan’s Prime Ministership as well as the Conservative Government. Oh how times have changed!
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