1960s
The Sadist
If the trailer (top) fascinates, the full movie follows.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 16, 2013 -
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Category: Misbehavior, Rebellion, Acting-out and General Naughtiness, Movies, 1960s, Brain Damage
Birth of the Transistor Radio
Who could have predicted that the technology above would lead to the result below?
A useful reminder for Apple as they attempt to deliver a wristband computer--with what unpredictable results and uses, we shall ultimately find out!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 09, 2013 -
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Category: Music, Technology, Television, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1950s, 1960s
Eurovision Winner: 1967
The annual Eurovision contest is chugging along, and we haven't made fun of a past winner in a while.Here's the best Europe could offer in 1967, a year when everyone else was listening to revolutionary work by the Doors, the Stones, the Beatles, et al.
Sandie Shaw on Wikipedia.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 24, 2013 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Music, 1960s, Europe
Octopus Wrestling
According to wikipedia, octopus wrestling "involves a diver grappling with a large octopus in shallow water and dragging it to the surface."Popular Mechanics (May 1966) provides some more details:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 23, 2013 -
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Category: Sports, Wrestling, 1960s
Early Solar-Powered Car
A 1912 Baker Electric car that was retrofitted with a solar panel by Charles Escoffery for the International Rectifier Corp. back in 1960. The panel cost $20,000. (I don't know what that would be in present-day money, but it wouldn't be cheap.) With the panel, the Baker could run at 20 mph for three hours. International Rectifier hoped to soon be churning out "noiseless, smogless" solar cars for $5000 each. It's 53 years later now, and we're still waiting. Source: Newsweek (Mar 7, 1960) & M3GA.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 16, 2013 -
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Category: Inventions, 1960s, Cars
Follies of the Madmen #199
Special smokes for wimps!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 14, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Television, Tobacco and Smoking, Wimps, Milquetoasts and Cowards, 1960s
International Times
IT was a London-based underground newspaper founded in 1966. (Wikipedia entry here.)
Their online archive provides lots of groovy browsing.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 10, 2013 -
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Category: Newspapers, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Gary Usher: Driven Insane
The YouTube user who goes by the handle "Mr. Teenagedreams" has nearly 2000 rare TEEN AND WHITE DOO-WOP videos up at his channel. Some of them are delightfully weird and demented, but all are utterly captivating glimpses of a strange and remote, now vanished era.
More on Gary Usher here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 31, 2013 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, Outsider Art, Teenagers, 1950s, 1960s
New from Cyriak
Bonobo - 'Cirrus' (Official Video) from Ninja Tune on Vimeo.
More on the visual artist here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 28, 2013 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Technology, Twins, Lookalikes & Doppelgangers, Surrealism, 1950s, 1960s
Weird Snowmen
Evil snowmen is a horror trope that had never occurred to me. But I'm sure it's in one Stephen King novel or another already.
Anthropomorphic icicles is another notion I was blissfully unfamiliar with. Can they really run far enough and fast enough to the north to escape Spring?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 28, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Destruction, Evil, Seasonal, Cartoons, 1930s, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
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