1950s
St. Louis Heat Experiment
Google Arts & Culture hosts a series of images showing a bizarre-looking experiment conducted at the St. Louis University Medical School in 1956. The photos were taken by Life photographer Albert Fenn.Google offers no more details about the photos, but some searching reveals the same photos on Getty Images where they're identified as "an experiment about the effects of heat on a body during highspeed jet flight."
Who the researcher was, I don't know.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 21, 2020 -
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Category: Experiments, 1950s
Chartreuse
A song even more topical today than it was seventy years ago.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 21, 2020 -
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Category: Music, 1950s, Hair and Hairstyling
Home heated by cows
Back in 1951, Swedish engineer Marten Blomquist figured out, through experimentation, that the heat from 18 cows could heat his home.I wonder how many humans it would take to heat a cow shed?
The Hanover Evening Sun - May 14, 1951
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 17, 2020 -
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Category: Cows, 1950s
Hanes Legs
A collection of seemingly unattached body parts.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 16, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s, Head, Legs
Flagpole Rock
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 13, 2020 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Buildings and Other Structures, Eccentrics, Music, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1950s
The Sound of Silence
1959: Students at the University of Detroit added a "silent record" to the student center jukebox, for those who needed a moment of silence.
Detroit Free Press - Jan 17, 1959
Canonsburg Daily Notes - Jan 20, 1959
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Jan 16, 1959
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 10, 2020 -
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Category: Music, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #490
Our televised brainwashing will turn honest citizens into criminals.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 07, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Crime, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Television, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #489
Nightmare depiction of a leering middle-aged man convinces kids to drink horrid-tasting stuff.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 27, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Children, 1950s, Fictional Monsters
I Was a Teen-Age Caveman
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 26, 2020 -
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Category: Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Antisocial Activities, Music, Violence, Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Creatures, 1950s
Miss Ice Centennial
Source of photo.
Source of photo.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 21, 2020 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1950s
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