December 2024
December 31, 2024
Tree Ornament Target Practice
Gather the family round for a holiday game of shoot the Christmas tree.From Patent No. 11,918,133 (granted Mar 5, 2024):
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Category: Patents, Weapons, Christmas
Funny Money
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 31, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Money, Husbands, Wives, 1950s
December 30, 2024
Kickin’ Jeans
Jeans designed for kicking people. Sold by Century Martial Arts from 1977 to around 2015. Featured an "exclusive gusset in the crotch."
Kick magazine - Aug 1981
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 30, 2024 -
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Category: Denim
Fracture
The Wikipedia page of the creators.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 30, 2024 -
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Category: Surrealism, Fantasy, Cartoons, 1970s, Europe
December 29, 2024
Up in the air
Des Moines Register - Nov 22, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 29, 2024 -
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Category: Accidents, Children, 1960s
Korla Pandit
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 29, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, 1950s
December 28, 2024
Handedness and Dental Wear
Back in 1950, Dr. Nishijima of Osaka University claimed that dentists could tell whether a person was right or left handed just by looking at their teeth — due to differential wear patterns from brushing.His claim sounds logical enough to me, but more recent research doesn't seem to support it. According to a Dec 2010 article in the Journal of Dental Sciences: "no statistically significant relationship was found between hand preference and tooth-brushing abrasion in this study."
Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial - Jan 21, 1950
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 28, 2024 -
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Category: Teeth
Mystery Illustration 115
Why are these folks gathered together?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 28, 2024 -
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Category: Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, 1950s
December 27, 2024
Miss Kansas Turnpike
I found two holders of the 'Miss Kansas Turnpike' title. The first was Theo Tautfest, who won the title in 1960. The second was Lois Rhodus, who held the title in 1961, while simultaneously being 'Miss Kansas City'.Some info about the Kansas Turnpike from Wikipedia:
Because it predates the Interstate Highway System, the road is not engineered to current Interstate Highway standards and notably lacks a regulation-width median. To reduce the risk of head-on collisions, the Kansas Turnpike now has a continuous, permanent Jersey barrier in the median over its entire length. On opening, there was no fixed speed limit on the highway; drivers were merely asked to keep to a "reasonable and proper" limit, although, shortly afterward, signs were erected in certain stretches indicating a maximum speed of 80 mph (130 km/h).
Clinton Daily Democrat - May 31, 1960
"Lois Rhodus, Miss Kansas Turnpike, poses in a convertible at the Kansas City Athletics American League ballpark in 1961." Source: Pageant, by Keith Lovegrove
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 27, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Transportation, 1960s
The Newbeats
Quite a shocking falsetto there!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 27, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Music, 1960s
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