1950s
Life Imitates THE FLY
Full article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 18, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Health, Insects and Spiders, Science, 1950s
Joe Magarac
The steel mill equivalent of Paul Bunyan? Who knew?
Original comic strip here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 10, 2013 -
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Category: Regionalism, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Myths and Fairytales, Superheroes, 1930s, 1950s, North America
Les Baxter
It's never not a good time to contemplate the miracle of Les Baxter and his music.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 03, 2013 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s, 1960s
Patricia McCormick, Female Bullfighter
There haven't been many female bullfighters, and being a female bullfighter back in the 1950s made Patricia McCormick even more of an oddity. Wikipedia offers this brief bio of her:
Wikigender has some info about the history of female bullfighting:
Read more about McCormick here and here.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 28, 2012 -
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Category: Sports, 1950s
One of My Xmas Gifts
Vintage paperbacks are the best!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 26, 2012 -
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Category: Holidays, Books, 1950s, Europe
Most Disturbing Cartoon Lion Ever
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Source of image in Amazon link.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 20, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Comics, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #195
This one comes courtesy of longtime WU-vie Expat47.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 15, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Junk Food, Reader Recommendation, 1950s
Documenta
I'm sorry I learned about the Documenta Art Festival only just now. The thirteenth one occured this past September, and there won't be another for five more years.We'll have to content ourselves with these videos till then.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 06, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Bombast, Bloviation and Pretentiousness, 1950s, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Queen Elizabeth, Teenybopper
[Original article here.]
Courier Mail Wednesday 19 September 1956
The Queen sees Rock 'n' roll Film
London. September 18. (AAP)- Queen Elizabeth has asked to see the film “Rock Around the Clock” which has led to rock 'n' roll disturbances in several British towns.
A copy of the film was sent from London yesterday to Balmoral, where the Queen is on holiday, the Daily Mirror said today.
The Daily Express reported that showings of “Rock Around the Clock” has been banned by country councils in Stockport, Cheshire, and Gloucestershire yesterday.
But at Burt St. Edmunds in Suffolk, no objections were raised by members of a watch committee after a private showing of the film.
Sir Malcolm Sargeant, conductor of the BBC symphony orchestra, said to day that rock 'n' roll music was “nothing more than an exhibition of primitive tom tom thumping, and was ‘centuries old’. It was not ‘new and wonderful’ as many young people thought. It had been played in the jungles for centuries.”
At age 86, Queen Elizabeth reminds no one of a rocker--although she does hand out a lot of knighthoods to musicians. But in 1956, at age 30, she could really groove.
She was obviously remembering those days in 1979, when she and Bill Haley reconnected for the first time in nearly 25 years.
[Original text here.]
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 04, 2012 -
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Category: Music, Royalty, 1950s, Europe
A Knight in her Armor
Came across this in Newsweek, Jan 19, 1953. I bet a lot of WUvies were pretty weird as kids, but how many of us wore suits of armor to school? And this was several decades before the invention of Dungeons & Dragons. I wonder what became of Tina Inge. She's quite likely still out there somewhere, but is she still wearing her armor?
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 25, 2012 -
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Category: Children, 1950s
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