1950s
Broadway Themed Pajamas
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 16, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Entertainment, Fashion, 1950s
The Ford Skyliner
A hardtop convertible. Just what millions were clamoring for--not!The Wikipedia page.
Jump to the 6:30 mark in the video to see the roof in action.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 15, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Chindogu, 1950s, Cars
“Give Me a Red Hot Mama and an Ice Cold Beer”
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 14, 2019 -
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Category: Music, 1950s, Women, Alcohol
The Marilyn Monroe Protractor
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 12, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body, Technology, 1950s
Joe Wardle’s Emergency Landing
This photo illustrates the more likely intersection of plane and car. But in 1952 a certain Joe Wardle got lucky.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 09, 2019 -
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Category: Accidents, Air Travel and Airlines, 1950s, Cars
Peter Pain Parody
Alex and I never coordinate our posts, but sometimes they achieve thematic synchronicity. Yesterday, for instance, he posted about losing weight and I posted about obesity.But his post from today, about Corporate Icon Peter Pain, happened magically to dovetail with my leisure-time reading of last evening, when I was enjoying THE THING FROM THE GRAVE, a collection of the work that artist Joe Orlando did for the fabled EC Comics. I read Orlando's Peter Pain Parody, and then this morning found Alex's post!
BTW: the whole line of EC reprints from Fantagraphics is worthy of your attention.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 05, 2019 -
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Category: Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Comics, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1950s, Parody, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
Follies of the Madmen #455
Imagining oneself swimming through filthy dishwater is not the turn-on the advertisers imagine it to be.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 02, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Miniature People in Ads, Domestic, 1950s
Mystery Gadget 82
What's this box do?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 29, 2019 -
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Category: Technology, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #454
Mental burdens of college life.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 26, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Domestic, Fashion, Hygiene, 1950s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
Mystery Illustration 89
What occasion brings all these young lads together?
The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 20, 2019 -
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Category: Ceremonies, 1950s
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