1960s
You Had Me At “Bacon”
I was flipping through one of my old copies of Popular Science when this ad caught my eye, so I went to Google Books to find a digital version from their Popular Science archive.
(From the October 1967 issue of Popular Science)
I'm sure many of you will agree that this prospect alone would be enough to shell out the equivalent of roughly $5,000 for one of those new-fangled microwave ovens...
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Fri Apr 01, 2011 -
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Category: Advertising, Products, Bacon, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
How to Smell Like Sean Connery
From Life magazine for Dec 17, 1965.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 22, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Movies, Baths, Showers and Other Cleansing Methods, 1960s
Pat Boone’s “Speedy Gonzalez”
A gesture towards better relations between Mexico and the USA.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 14, 2011 -
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Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #133
The problem here is the product, first of all. Who wants to smell like a hillbilly? We all know what hillbillies smell like: manure, chewing tobacco, unwashed linens and athlete's foot. Given this product to tout, all the advertising guy could come up with is a Daisy Mae-type figure totally emasculating the wearer of this cologne. Good going!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 09, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Regionalism, 1960s, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
Flintstones Rock Out
Did you ever wonder what the theme song to The Flintstones might sound like if it had been performed by, oh, say, a group that echoed The Association ("Along Comes Mary," etc)?
Well, here's your chance to fulfill your fantasy!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 05, 2011 -
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Category: Music, Cartoons, 1960s
Henry Gibson, Redux
Race Relations Poem from Swindon Viewpoint on Vimeo.
I'm so pleased to see that people have continued to channel the spirit of Henry Gibson.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 02, 2011 -
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Category: Poetry, 1960s
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Click on text for a version more readable.
To watch an episode of this bizarre cult show, start with Part 1 here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 28, 2011 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Television, Weird Names, Surrealism, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #132
What does this ad teach us?
1) Your friendly neighborhood car mechanic is a whining, moronic crook.
2) Your new car purchase can undermine the local economy.
3) If and when you do need your new car serviced, by any surviving garage, it will undoubtedly be sabotaged.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 24, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1960s, Cars
Goodbye Pussycat…
It is perhaps some small comfort that Ms. Satana will now be spared seeing Kim Kardashian's proposed reprisal of her role in the Tarrantino remake of her signature film, expected out in 2012. For connoisseurs of the original, here's the title sequence, with music courtesy of The Bostweeds.
(Image from AmpedAsia.com)
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Mon Feb 07, 2011 -
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Category: Movies, Obituaries, 1960s
Winky Doll
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 03, 2011 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Stereotypes and Cliches, Toys, 1960s, Asia
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