1950s
Mr Civil Defense
Read the full 16-page comic here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 15, 2024 -
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Category: PSA’s, War, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1950s
Miss Cheesecake
The contest seems to have gone on for a good number of years in the 1940s and 1950s.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 11, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, 1940s, 1950s
I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent
Anyone who recalls Alex's post on "Answer Songs" will enjoy this pairing.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 07, 2024 -
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Category: Crime, Music, Teenagers, 1950s
French vs. American vacuum desire
Different takes on vacuum desire from the 1950s. The French ad is more blatant, but the American ad has pink octopus arms extending from the vacuum and promises that "Only $69.95 fulfills your longing."
1958 French ad for the Samy vacuum cleaner
source: periodpaper.com
Aspirateur de conception révolutionnaire tout plastique alliant la légèreté et la robustesse … A la portée de tous par son prix le SAMY est vraiment l’aspirateur de DEMAIN!
Translation:
A revolutionary all-plastic vacuum cleaner combining lightness and robustness... Within everyone's reach due to its price, the SAMY is truly the vacuum cleaner of TOMORROW!
Life - Feb 9, 1953
via The Vacuum Cleaner by Maud Ellmann
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 02, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Appliances, 1950s, Europe
1951 Car Wash Beauty Pageant
Many more great photos at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 02, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Advertising, 1950s, Cars
I Can’t Find the Door Knob
In line with Alex's post from yesterday about the importance of door knobs, I offer this. Far be it from me to suggest it has any sexual innuendo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 30, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, 1950s
The Chester Ice Chunk
Sep 8, 1957: A 100-pound chunk of ice fell from the sky onto an empty building in Chester, Pennsylvania.Strange falls of ice from the sky have long fascinated the Fortean crowd. See, for example, "The Ice-Fall Problem" by meteorologist (and UFO enthusiast) James E. McDonald:
Also, "Ice Falls" by Frank Edwards in Strangest of All (1962).
Shamokin News-Dispatch - Sep 9, 1957
The Ada Weekly News - July 1, 1971
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 22, 2024 -
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Category: 1950s, Weather
Follies of the Madmen #601
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 22, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, Advertising, Children, 1950s, Native Americans
Forty-Five Men in a Telephone Booth
Entry for the group at Discogs.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 13, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Telephones, 1950s
Mirror Animations
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 07, 2024 -
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Category: Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1950s
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