1950s
The Philco Safari
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 19, 2019 -
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Category: Technology, Television, 1950s
Albert Clark Reed, Disappearing Rocket Scientist
Foto source.
Read the full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 13, 2019 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Eccentrics, Science, 1950s, Sadness
Flying Saucers Over Istanbul
Essay with many still photos here.
IMDB page.
Another short clip here via Facebook.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 12, 2019 -
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Category: Feminism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Robots, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #452
Nothing like adding a sex element to simple juvenile love of chocolate.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 11, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Sexuality, Chocolate, 1950s
Clutch Cargo in “Pipeline to Danger”
Clutch gets involved with the Saudis!The IIMDB page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 09, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Surrealism, Cartoons, 1950s
Mystery Illustration 88
In the Golden Age of comics, there was no internet to provide reference fotos for odd creatures or other objects/places/people which an artist might need to draw.
What creature is this artist attempting to depict?
The answer is here (page 23).
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 06, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Comics, 1950s
Grand Overture with Vacuum Cleaners
Malcolm Arnold's "Grand, Grand Overture, Opus 57" is scored for three vacuum cleaners, one floor polisher, four rifles, and a full symphony orchestra. It was originally commissioned for the 1956 Hoffnung Music Festival Concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London. It sold out within two hours after the box office opened, breaking all records up to that time for the Royal Festival Hall.I found a recent performance of it posted on YouTube, but disappointingly the vacuum cleaners are difficult to hear over the orchestra. And the part (around the 8:00 mark) where a gunman pretends to shoot members of the orchestra is gonna make audiences a lot more uncomfortable nowadays than it did back in 1956.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 02, 2019 -
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Category: Music, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #450
Why not eliminate half your potential customers by insisting your product is only for men?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 29, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Games, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Men, Women
Smirnoff Leaves You Breathless
1958 ad campaign for Smirnoff Vodka. The ad copy about "breathless" drinkers who are "on the vodka wagon" makes me think of wheezing, out-of-breath drunks.
San Bernardino County Sun - Nov 6, 1958
Miami News - Oct 16, 1958
San Antonio Express - Sep 23, 1958
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 24, 2019 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, Advertising, 1950s, Alcohol
Miss Anti-Freeze
It's Anti-Freeze Week! Or, at least, it could have been if DuPont was still promoting this car-maintenance holiday. It usually fell sometime in mid to late October.Here's a few of the young women on whom the title of "Miss Anti-Freeze" was bestowed.
Grenola Gazette - Oct 16, 1952
Pike County Dispatch - Oct 8, 1953
Taylor Daily Press - Oct 20, 1953
Wausau Daily Herald - Oct 12, 1953
Alabama Citizen - Oct 30, 1954
Salem News - Oct 17, 1955
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 21, 2019 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, 1950s, Cars
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