1950s
One Little Indian
One Little Indian, Grant Munro, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 08, 2024 -
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, PSA’s, Stop-motion Animation, 1950s, North America, Native Americans, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows
Blindfolded Sewing
Do NOT try this at home!
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 02, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Injuries, 1950s
Space Songs
Here's a sample track from the album depicted below. The rest of the tracks are on YouTube.And a bonus! The first side of ENERGY & MOTION SONGS.
Tom Glazer at Wikipedia.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 29, 2024 -
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Category: Education, Music, Science, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1950s
Fish Surgery
This is not a topic I had given much thought to, before encountering this report from 1955.Then I found more-current info.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 25, 2024 -
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Category: Medicine, Fish, 1950s, Twenty-first Century
Buy bread in waxed paper
Buy bread in waxed paper and then lounge about with it while wearing a gown designed by Pauline Trigere.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 24, 2024 -
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Category: Fashion, Food, Advertising, 1950s
Meet Miss Electronic
Once upon a time answering machines were considered strange and dumbfounding.
Wilmington News Journal - Mar 31, 1956
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 18, 2024 -
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Category: Technology, Telephones, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #592
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 15, 2024 -
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Category: Television, Advertising, Smoking and Tobacco, 1950s
Miss Brick Throw of 1959
We've looked at the humor of DJ Rege Cordic at Radio Station KDKA in a previous post.The home page of Rege Cordic.
But here's a stunt not covered there.
He decided to stage a gag beauty contest for "Miss Brick Throw of 1959."
It was announced in 1958 in BILLBOARD.
Eventually a winner was chosen, "Miss Twerpie Walker," and a fake magazine was printed for the occasion.
Listen to three minutes of the gag here. NOTE: sound file begins to play automatically.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 11, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Humor, Pranks, Radio, Regionalism, 1950s
Harmonica Record
Obscure world record: longest time playing the harmonica while sitting in a chair balanced on top of three wine bottles. Set by Michel Perrigaud in 1959, who played for seven-and-a-half hours.
Albuquerque Journal - Jan 29, 1959
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 08, 2024 -
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Category: Music, World Records, 1950s
Beatniks Under the Microscope
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 27, 2024 -
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Category: Science, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1950s
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