1950s
How to Catch a Cold
Disney and Kleenex: a match made in...Madison Avenue?Plus: excess square-dancing opens you up to germs.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 26, 2019 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Health, Disease, PSA’s, 1950s
Miss Cinderemmy
Apparently the Emmy Awards once featured a beauty queen. The 1956 contenders first below, then the 1957 queen.
December 31, 1957. Lovely Rochelle Greenblatt, 21 year old receptionist at McCadden Studios, Hollywood, was chosen 'Miss Cinderemmy' tonight (Dec. 31) and presented at midnight to the entire television industry at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences New Year's Eve Ball staged at Beverly Hilton. She was crowned as queen of the ball by actor Ronnie Burns, son of comedy star, George Burns, who coincidentally owns and operates McCadden Studios.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 25, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Television, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #417
Kiss the foot!
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 13, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, Sex Symbols, 1950s, Feet
Atomic Agriculture
And you thought GMO crops were scary!
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 12, 2019 -
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Category: Agriculture, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s
I Dig Chicks
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 10, 2019 -
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Category: Music, 1950s, Women
Follies of the Madmen #415
High fashion and a handy place to store your smokes!
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 04, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1950s
Panda and the Magic Serpent (Tale of the White Serpent)
As its Wikipedia page tells us: "It is the first anime in any shape or form to be released in America."
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 26, 2019 -
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Category: Cartoons, 1950s, Asia, North America
Niagara Falls with bubbles
Adding a foaming agent to Niagara Falls was evidently the fantasy of some chemical engineer at Monsanto.
Newsweek - Mar 17, 1952
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 24, 2019 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s, Pranks, Natural Wonders
Mystery Illustration 80
An estate sale? A trade show? What event brings these objects together?
The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 11, 2019 -
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Category: 1950s
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