July 2020
July 26, 2020
Of course, unmarried girls can use them!
Davenport Quad-City Times - June 14, 1959
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 26, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, Gender, Body Fluids, 1950s
Frestonia
CHAZ? Nothing new in the world.Good article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 26, 2020 -
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Category: Government, Stupid Criminals, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1960s, United Kingdom
July 25, 2020
National Association for the Improvement of the Appearance of Hogs
I suspect the National Association for the Improvement of the Appearance of Hogs had only one member.
Argus Leader - Jan 5, 1925
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 25, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1920s
Henry Gibson Anti-Littering Ads
Anyone of a certain age recalls Henry Gibson and his "naive" poems on LAUGH-IN. Apparently, some ad agency thought he'd be perfect for their anti-littering campaign.
Source.
And they were even collected in a book, by the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 25, 2020 -
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Category: PSA’s, Television, Poetry, 1960s
July 24, 2020
Johnnie the Tractor-Driving Monkey
The 1977 video below features both Johnnie and his son, Johnnie II. But mostly Johnnie II.The owner of both, Australian farmer Lindsay Schmidt, said of the original Johnnie:
We take it in turns to drive and toss off the hay to the sheep and cattle."
Billings Gazette - Jan 17, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 24, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Motor Vehicles
Telemeter: 1960s Pay TV
Pay TV in the 1950s and 1960s? Yes, it was a thing, as the article below explains.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on the topic.
Here's a good article on the Canadian version.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 24, 2020 -
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Category: Regionalism, Technology, Television, 1950s, 1960s
July 23, 2020
Corn Vest
Rick Atkinson, Jr. of Canton, Georgia recently received a patent for a vest designed to hold "bulk product," such as corn. The corn goes in pockets at the top of the vest, and can then be dispensed from pockets at the bottom.
Atkinson explains that he designed the vest for hunters who "may carry corn, soybeans, grains, and/or other bulk products to attract deer, hogs, turkey, bear, and/or other wild game." Instead of carrying large bags of corn around, they can simply wear the corn and dispense it as they walk around.
I imagine this could also be useful for feeding pigeons in the park.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 23, 2020 -
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Category: Fashion, Food, Inventions, Patents
The LUX RADIO THEATRE “Most Beautiful 15-Year-old Contest”
Part of our "strange beauty contest" series.It seems highly unlikely that any company could stage this today.
Full article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 23, 2020 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Radio, 1940s
July 22, 2020
Urine Bread 2.0
Eight years ago, I posted about how prisoners held in a Japanese interment camp during World War II learned how to make bread using urine instead of yeast.Now I see that urine bread, of a kind, is back in the news. From bakeryandsnacks.com:
Raguet hopes to "break taboos over excrement" and create a more sustainable food and farming system that makes use of human refuse, while cutting farming costs and boosting crop yields.
More info, in French, here (pdf).
The toilets in which the urine was collected
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 22, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Body Fluids, Excrement
What’s New at the Zoo?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 22, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1960s
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