1950s
Follies of the Madmen #492
Is Miss Fixit a nurse or a child--or both? I'm confused....
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 01, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Hygiene, 1950s, Love & Romance
Scary Morning Mouth
Happy Halloween!
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 31, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s, Halloween
Hors-d’oeuvre
Hors-d'oeuvre, Jeff Hale,
Some interesting animation from the interface of the Fifties and Sixties.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 30, 2020 -
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Category: PSA’s, Cartoons, 1950s, 1960s
Music to Be Murdered By
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 28, 2020 -
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Category: Celebrities, Death, Hollywood, Music, 1950s
Bambi Play Bags
I sure hope there are air-holes in these repurposed drycleaner bags.Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 24, 2020 -
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Category: Death, Movies, Children, 1950s
She dreamed she was an eskimo
What exactly is going on here? Is the polar bear playing peekaboo with the woman who's dressed inappropriately for Arctic weather? Or is it about to rip her face off?
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 22, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s
Mystery Gadget 88
What's going on with these airplanes?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 22, 2020 -
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Category: Technology, Air Travel and Airlines, 1950s
St. Louis Heat Experiment
Google Arts & Culture hosts a series of images showing a bizarre-looking experiment conducted at the St. Louis University Medical School in 1956. The photos were taken by Life photographer Albert Fenn.Google offers no more details about the photos, but some searching reveals the same photos on Getty Images where they're identified as "an experiment about the effects of heat on a body during highspeed jet flight."
Who the researcher was, I don't know.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 21, 2020 -
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Category: Experiments, 1950s
Chartreuse
A song even more topical today than it was seventy years ago.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 21, 2020 -
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Category: Music, 1950s, Hair and Hairstyling
Home heated by cows
Back in 1951, Swedish engineer Marten Blomquist figured out, through experimentation, that the heat from 18 cows could heat his home.I wonder how many humans it would take to heat a cow shed?
The Hanover Evening Sun - May 14, 1951
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 17, 2020 -
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Category: Cows, 1950s
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