1950s
Meat-Nik
Sep 1958: The National Live Stock and Meat Board's response to the launch of Sputnik was the creation of "Meat-Nik," aka "intercontinental bologna missile."
The National Provisioner - Sep 6, 1958
The National Provisioner - Sep 20, 1958
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 22, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1950s
Miss Frozen Foods
As far as I can tell, the frozen food industry started choosing a "Miss Frozen Foods" in 1956. Sometimes the winner was called Miss Frozen Food Month (or Week). The last Miss Frozen Foods that I can find was named in 1961.
Dillon Daily Tribune - Feb 7, 1956
Miss Frozen Foods of 1958 (Nancy Moss). image source: USC Libraries
Los Angeles Evening Citizen News - Mar 19, 1959
Tampa Tribune - Nov 5, 1961
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 18, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, 1950s
The Language of Handwriting
You know the scene in old movies when the cops or some other authority figure calls in the handwriting expert? The expert examines the sample handwriting and confidently proclaims, "The writer was a sixty-five-year-old widow, who grew up in Romania, and has been a turkey farmer for the past three years." Well, now you too can become such an expert, by studying this volume at the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 12, 2023 -
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Category: Experts and Authority Figures, Movies, Pseudoscience, 1950s
The Yak Yak Contest
Alas, I cannot learn the full roster of contestants, nor the outcome.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 11, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Languages, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Women
Spank yourself slim
Slimming advice from Mildred Graves Ryan, author of Clothes For You (1954).
via Oddball Emporium
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 10, 2023 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, 1950s, Dieting and Weight Loss
American Vegetable Queen
Newsday - Aug 4, 1952
Tampa Tribune - Dec 2, 1952
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Aug 3, 1952
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 06, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Vegetables, 1950s
Cartoons In Sound
Cy Harrice's credits.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 06, 2023 -
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Category: Humor, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1950s
Python on the golf course
1952: Finding that her golf ball had come to rest on top of a 10-foot python, Mrs. Bobbie Pritchard shot the python and then continued to play the ball from on top of the (now dead) snake.I guess that taking a penalty and using a new ball was, for whatever reason, out of the question.
Glasgow Daily Record - Dec 24, 1952
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 01, 2023 -
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Category: Reptiles, Snakes, Worms and Other Slithery Things, Golf, 1950s
1999: Our Hopeful Future
Like most predictive non-fiction, this 1956 volume has both hits and misses throughout. But I was amazed by one page, which predicts flatscreen TVs, a Roomba, and household surveillance cameras, bing-bang-boom!Read the whole thing here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 01, 2023 -
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Category: Predictions, Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Books, 1950s
Pin-Worms may be a family affair
"Fidgeting, nose-picking and a tormenting rectal itch are often tell-tale signs of Pin-Worms . . . Entire families may be victims and not know it."I'm imagining the families who thought the tormenting rectal itches were nothing out-of-the-ordinary.
Super Science Stories - March 1950
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 28, 2023 -
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Category: Health, Disease, Advertising, 1950s
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