1960s
The Poetry of Hy Sobiloff
Something tells me Sobiloff should have stuck to his other careers.From his encyclopedia entry:
Sobiloff, whose poetry was respected by many of his better-known contemporaries for its fresh, honest, unpretentious qualities, was also widely known as a filmmaker, industrialist, and philanthropist... While praising his work, both Aiken and Tate come close to representing the poet as a primitive, particularly by their use of words such as "folk" or "unaware..." Less positive were Kimon Friar's judgments of the collection, as presented in Saturday Review: "Sobiloff's poems are monolithic, his lines lack cadence, there is no melodic progression within a single stanza or between stanzas. Instead, we have staccato and precise descriptions of objects, but with little of the poetic realism of a William Carlos Williams or of the subtlety of Wallace Stevens."
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 21, 2024 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Poetry, 1960s
Drunken Hog Pile
Intoxicated animals is a favorite WU theme, going back, I think, to entries in Chuck Shepherd's NOTW.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 16, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Inebriation and Intoxicants, 1960s, Alcohol
Electric Vibro Chin Massager
House Beautiful - Oct 1966
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 12, 2024 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1960s
The Conqueroo
No Wikipedia entry, but here's an interview with one of the founders.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 11, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Music, Psychedelic, 1960s
Miss Moon Maid of 1965
More fotos and text at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 09, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Comics, Space Travel, 1960s
Environments 3
Join the Be-In with the embedded player below. Then experience bucolic raptures.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 04, 2024 -
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Category: Hillbillies, Country Bumpkins, Ruralism and Flyover Country, Parades and Festivals, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s, 1970s
The Complacent Americans
One such gem is a Civil Defense "scare" album called THE COMPLACENT AMERICANS that simply must be heard to be believed. This LP - with its bright orange mushroom cloud cover and its hyperbolic advisories to sensitive listeners - could well have been produced by that genius of exploitation William Castle. But actually it was recorded under the stately auspices of the Office of Civil Defense, a sub-branch of the U.S. government (later replaced by FEMA).
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 29, 2024 -
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Category: PSA’s, War, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s
Food from Petroleum
In recent years there's been lots of talk about finding new sources of food (insects, lab-grown meat, etc.) to feed the world. But back in the 1960s researcher Alfred Champagnat had already invented what he thought would be the food of the future: protein from petroleum.
Newsweek - Feb 27, 1967
Scientific American - Oct 1965
Champagnat's idea seems to have fallen by the wayside. There's a fairly recent article in Mold magazine that discusses his invention. It simply notes that the food industry had other priorities:
Wikipedia has some more info which suggests that the protein obtained from petroleum wasn't entirely safe to eat:
The Soviets were particularly enthusiastic, opening large "BVK" (belkovo-vitaminny kontsentrat, i.e., "protein-vitamin concentrate") plants next to their oil refineries in Kstovo (1973) and Kirishi (1974). The Soviet Ministry of Microbiological Industry had eight plants of this kind by 1989. However, due to concerns of toxicity of alkanes in SCP [single-cell proteins] and pressured by the environmentalist movements, the government decided to close them down, or convert to some other microbiological processes.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 25, 2024 -
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Category: Food, 1960s
Occupational Hazards of Being a Florist
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 25, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Jobs and Occupations, Nature, 1960s
Stan Freberg’s Chun King Commercials
Well-known for his comedy and innovative commercials, Stan Freberg outdid himself for the Chun King campaign.If you go to YouTube, you can see a classic hour of comedy that Freberg did with Chun King as the sponsor.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 24, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Humor, Television, Advertising, 1960s
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