1940s
Johnny Learns His Manners
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 05, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Body Modifications, Etiquette and Formal Behavior, PSA’s, Children, 1940s
The Death Patrol
A ten-year-old, a zoot-suiter, a swami, a cannibal king and a caveman. What evildoer would not die laughing?
The history.
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 28, 2013 -
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Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Comics, 1940s
Borrah Minevitch & His Harmonica Rascals
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 27, 2013 -
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Category: Movies, Music, 1930s, 1940s
Jasper and the Haunted House
What else but "Spooks Gooseberry Pie?"
Learn more here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 23, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, Fantasy, Stop-motion Animation, 1940s
Charley in New Town
Once upon a time, the suburbs were going to be utopia.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 21, 2013 -
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Category: Domestic, Dreams and Nightmares, Government, Urban Life, Utopias and Dystopias, 1940s, Europe
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio
This fool-the-eye room at the Met in NYC looks full of 3-D furnishings, but is really a flat illusion.
More pics at the Met's site.
A 1945 feature from POPULAR SCIENCE.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 14, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, 1940s
Mairzy Doats
The song "Mairzy Doats," performed by the Merry Macs, became a surprise hit in 1944. The song is probably familiar to some of you, but for those who haven't heard it, it's worth having a listen because it's definitely one of the odder songs to ever become a chart topper. Its appeal was probably that it provided some comic relief during the war.The song had an apparently nonsense refrain:
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
But if you listened to the refrain carefully, it made sense as English. Read more about it at wikipedia.
1944 cartoon from the Ogden Standard-Examiner
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 01, 2013 -
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Category: Music, 1940s
Wonder Bread
So far as I know, Wonder Bread has not yet returned to the shelves, although the rights to make it have been purchased. One can only hope that the new company revives this old ad campaign.
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Ad source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 01, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Sex Symbols, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #209
Mysterious infinite regress indicates magnitude of the horror of bad breath?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 30, 2013 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Surrealism, 1940s
Dieting advice from 1945
I wonder how the phrase 'fatty foolish' would go over in a weight watchers meeting nowadays.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 26, 2013 -
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Category: Food, 1940s
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