1950s
Mystery Illustration 115
Why are these folks gathered together?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 28, 2024 -
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Category: Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, 1950s
The Children who turned blue without cabbage
In 1951, The Lancet reported the odd case of siblings who would turn blue unless they regularly ate cabbage. It turned out that the kids suffered from a genetically caused deficiency of ascorbic acid. Knowing this freed them from a lifetime of having to eat cabbage. Though they had to take ascorbic acid supplements instead.I'm pretty sure that the relevant Lancet article is "Familial Idiopathic Methæmoglobinæmia" (Apr 28, 1951), although I haven't been able to find a non-paywalled copy of it to confirm this.
Santa Ana Register - Aug 26, 1951
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 26, 2024 -
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Category: Vegetables, 1950s, Disease
I Like Christmas
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 11, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, Children, 1950s
Santa Claus Rides A Strawberry Roan
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 09, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Holidays, Music, Regionalism, 1950s
Typical reactions of typical American women to feeling A-bomb blast
May 1955: Seven "typical American women" crouched in a trench 3500 yards from an atomic-bomb test in the Nevada desert. They did it to "demonstrate to other women that civilians can survive an atomic blast, if they take proper precautions."The best reaction to the blast came from Mrs. Grace Doebler of Tucson, Ariz.: "I'd like to do it again, with a bigger one."
Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin - May 5, 1955
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 04, 2024 -
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Category: Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s, Women
Anyone At All: Safety in the Community
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 30, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Domestic, Health, PSA’s, 1950s
Atomic Bomb food tastes off
May 1955: Food tasters sampled a meal of French fries, vegetables, strawberries, chicken pot pie, cod fish fillets, and orange juice taken from a freezer buried 1,270 feet from an atomic bomb blast. While all the food was deemed edible, they said the orange juice and pie were noticeably "off flavor."It's unclear why the food tasted off. Radiation shouldn't have changed the taste of the food. It was probably because they were told where it was from and their expectations led them to believe it tasted different. The researchers should have conducted a blind taste test.
Tampa Bay Times - May 11, 1955
Reno Gazette-Journal - May 12, 1955
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 26, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s
Smog Helmet
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 23, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, 1950s, United Kingdom
Sound Patterns
Who was the market for this?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 15, 2024 -
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Category: Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1950s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Refrigerator Bowl Queen
Jacksonville State College gamecock football team played against the University of Rhode Island on December 4, 1955 in the eighth annual Refrigerator Bowl at Evansville, Indiana. Gamecocks won 12 to 10. Shown players from the University of Rhode Island and Jacksonville State select a Refrigerator Bowl Queen.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 09, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Sports, Appliances, 1950s
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