1950s
Orange Blossoms for Violet
I don't think the Italian subtitles will stop you from enjoying this bit of monkey madness.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 13, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Cartoons, 1950s
30 Dumb Inventions
This has been making its way around the internet over the past few days, but it is still interesting. The Life website has a photo gallery of 30 dumb inventions. Most of them are just terrible, like an external baby cage for your (high rise) apartment window or a phone answering robot (who just happens to be mute), but this one in particular just strikes me as a great idea: Illuminated tires.
If these were actually available, which doesn't seem likely, I would definitely buy some. They just look so cool, especially on vintage cars like the one pictured above.
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Tue Oct 06, 2009 -
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Category: Technology, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
I’m Back!
Hello Weird Universe readers. Some of you may remember back in May when I was posting weird things I found in old magazines, and maybe a few of you were wondering what happened to those posts. Being a college student, I had to go home over the summer, and my parents still don't have an internet connection (technically they have AOL, but that doesn't really count), so I had no way to post anything on Weird Universe for a few months. When I got back to Chicago, it took a while to get settled in, and I finally decided I should start posting again. I will try to post a few things a week from now on.I feel I should start with one of the most bizarre juxtapositions ever to appear, well, anywhere:
(from the April 1953 issue of Popular Science)
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Sat Oct 03, 2009 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, War, Advertising, 1950s
Key to Our Horizons
As we contemplate Peak Oil and other scary scenarios, here's a look back at a time when the automobile was king.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 01, 2009 -
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Category: 1950s, Cars, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Follies of the Mad Men #71
An ad which inevitably causes the viewer to ask, "Is that a barber pole in your Jockeys, or are you just happy to see me?"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 11, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Fashion, 1950s, Genitals
Mother Takes a Holiday
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 10, 2009 -
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Category: Domestic, Marriage, Family, Children, Husbands, Teenagers, Wives, Movies, Documentaries, Advertising, Products, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Good Wrinkles
A twenty-minute cartoon about prunes? Now, that's weird!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 01, 2009 -
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Category: Food, Cartoons, Documentaries, 1950s
A Is For Atom
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 12, 2009 -
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Category: Destruction, Science, Documentaries, 1950s
Squeak the Squirrel
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 10, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Documentaries, 1950s
The Sandpaper Ballet
Any orchestral work that uses sandpaper as a musical "instrument" qualifies as weird. But when it's performed by men in tutus, it's even weirder.Read more about composer Leroy Anderson here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 06, 2009 -
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Category: Music, Tools, 1950s
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