Category:
1940s

Men’s Adventure Magazines

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Here is a site guaranteed to chew up hours of your idle time.

My pal, Phil Stephensen-Payne, runs a page dedicated to the history of magazines. He recently put together a wing dedicated to the "true story" men's mags.

If you follow this link, you come to a page containing the names of over 150 such zines. Click on any title and be presented with a gallery of cover images like the one above.

Happy viewing!

Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 28, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Destruction, Magazines, Sexuality, Sports, Stereotypes and Cliches, War, Foreign Customs, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Men, Fictional Monsters, Graphics

Electrified Lunch Box

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Wonder why this never caught on...?

Original article here. (Scroll up one page.)

Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 21, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Food, Inventions, Stupidity, 1940s

Strange As It Seems



News of the Weird has several ancestors. One is Strange As It Seems.

Strange as it Seems featured bizarre stories based on cartoons created by John Hix who was a staff artist at the Washington Herald. The comic strip Strange as it Seems was syndicated in American newspapers between 1928 and 1944. Strange as it Seems was comparable to Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Sponsored by Exlax in the 1930s and Palmolive Shave Cream when the show reappeared in 1947-1948.


The brand has recently been revivied, and features a YouTube Channel. Check it out!



Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 17, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Newspapers, Radio, Weird Studies and Guides, Comics, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s

What’s Their Motto?

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Your assignment: to come up with this company's slogan. I'll volunteer the old Timex one, although it's not quite right: "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking!"

Surely WU-vies can do better!

Original ad here. Scroll down.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 15, 2011 - Comments (8)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Sexuality, Public Indecency, Technology, 1940s

Follies of the Mad Men #164

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Wow! Talk about overkill!

The four mythic national beasts of China, Russia, Great Britain and the USA pull the chariot of the Goddess of Freedom--all to sell socks!

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 21, 2011 - Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, 1940s, Fictional Monsters

Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy



Yet more musical stereotyping, this time of our noble Appalachian brethren.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 19, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Humor, Music, Regionalism, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, North America

Sing Song Swing



Rivals Krusty the Klown's "Me so solly" riff for wonderfully horrid stereotypes.....



Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his sing song swing

Charlie Ching
Make his sing song swing
With a tingaling
On the ding dong ding

With a tingaling on the ding dong ding
Makee plenty sing song swing

Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his sing song swing

Foo Yung Foo
Makee doodle-doo
With a toot or two
On the flute bamboo

And the doodle-doo and the tingaling
Makee plenty sing song swing

Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his sing song swing

{instrumental interlude}

{scat}
And a tingaling on the ding dong ding
Makee plenty sing song swing

Chop chop choppity, chop chopsticks
Chop chop choppity, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his sing song swing

Choppa choppa choppity, chop chopsticks
Choppity choppity, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When Charlie Chingee make his swing

Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 12, 2011 - Comments (8)
Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, Asia

Verne Soules

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I do not think it is any too soon to begin contemplating the 80th anniversary (2013) of the invention of the mechanical racetrack hare, by Verne Soules.

Full patent here as PDF.

A mention of his death in 1948.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 29, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Technology, 1930s, 1940s

Follies of the Mad Men #155

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Our customers are self-centered slavedrivers.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 10, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s

Raymond Scott







You heard Raymond Scott backing Jim Henson yesterday. And cartoon and music fans are well aware of composer Scott for his famous tune POWERHOUSE.


But did you also know he was an early pioneer in weird electronic music?

Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 04, 2011 - Comments (1)
Category: Inventions, Music, 1940s, 1950s

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