October 2018
October 12, 2018
Women in Tubes
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 12, 2018 -
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Category: Miniature People in Ads, Surrealism, 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
October 11, 2018
World’s largest swing made from colored pencils
Is it just me, or do world record categories seem to be getting increasingly specific?More info: Express Tribune
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 11, 2018 -
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Category: World Records
Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back
Paean to an outhouse.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 11, 2018 -
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Category: Architecture, Domestic, Music, Excrement, 1960s
October 10, 2018
Gasmask Testers
This was obviously before the creation of OSHA, or its British equivalent.
Los Angeles Times - Oct 21, 1927
Harrisburg Evening News - Nov 1, 1927
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 10, 2018 -
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Category: Jobs and Occupations, 1920s
Have a Slothful Halloween!
Maybe it's not to late to have Karoline Hinz craft one of these for your trick-or-treating.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 10, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Costumes and Masks, Holidays
October 9, 2018
Girl Scouts File Suit
The most controversial poster of 1969, which prompted the Girl Scouts to file suit. Although a judge threw out the case, citing no evidence that the organization had suffered any damages.Read the lawsuit: GIRL SCOUTS OF U.S. OF A. v. PERSONALITY POSTERS MFG. CO.
source: Vintage Girl Scout
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle - Aug 6, 1969
Austin American - Oct 10, 1969
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 09, 2018 -
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Category: Lawsuits, 1960s, Pregnancy
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 16
Xul Solar, "San P," 1923
I think we should just nominate Xul Solar as someone whose entire output would have displeased our Soviet realist.
More images here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 09, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1920s, Russia
October 8, 2018
Henry Ford’s Soybean Suit
One of Henry Ford's lesser known accomplishments was that he had his researchers create for him the world's first suit made out of soybeans. He's shown here modeling it in 1941. Reportedly it was very itchy.
Source: The Henry Ford
Source: The Public Image of Henry Ford
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 08, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #388
Dress so as to resemble a soda can.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 08, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Fashion, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1970s
October 7, 2018
Rent-a-Thief
Incentive your employees to be honest by surreptitiously hiring a thief whom you can ‘catch’ and publicly shame.
Pomona Progress Bulletin - July 23, 1974
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 07, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Crime, 1970s
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