1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #127
Yes, I drive a cartoon.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 29, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Cartoons, 1960s, Cars
Branded!
This TV theme song and imagery has stuck with me since childhood. It's undeniably powerful still, I think.
But who knew that the armed forces today still do the same thing? Read about the Canadian response to the conviction of a twisted soldier.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 20, 2010 -
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Category: Crime, Public Humiliation, Rituals and Superstitions, Television, 1960s, Armed Forces
Follies of the Mad Men #125
1) Our food product is so dense and indestructible that it can serve in place of a football.
2) It is not sold on merits of taste, but simply as a "bulking-up" agent.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 12, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Sports, 1960s
Boredom at Work: The Empty Life
This is like some episode of MAD MEN created during the actual era. "He makes friends with every ten-dollar tramp that comes along..."
Excellent!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 28, 2010 -
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Category: PSA’s, Work and Vocational Training, 1960s, Mental Health and Insanity
Station Wagon or Limousine?
Posted By: Nethie - Sun Aug 22, 2010 -
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Category: History, Mass Transit, Motor Vehicles, Cars, Transportation, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #119
Mad Men, here's a secret: music is the realm of emotion and poetry and piercing observations, of romance and satire, of history and dreams.
So when you create a song that is full of boring statistics about a boring object, you look like an idiot, and so does your product.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 19, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Music, 1960s
The Swing Wing
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 17, 2010 -
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Category: Toys, 1960s, Brain Damage
Strange Change Time Machine
If you ever wanted your kid to grow up to be a mad scientist, this is the toy you bought him or her.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 27, 2010 -
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Category: Toys, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
Where Are You Planning to Stick That Doll?
Lower image is the outer back cover.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 13, 2010 -
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Category: Medicine, Books, 1960s
Worst Art-house Movie Ever?
The site where I found this clip explains:
"The now-infamous 'cup and sea' sequence from director Turge Babonet's 1968 film, THE HORRIBLE HORROR -- which prompted writer Cleveland Amory (TV Guide. May 12, 1968) to comment on the state of European cinema, 'You have to be on LSD to understand it'. Babonet's Dutch-language drama was ambitiously rescored and subtitled for US distribution, but its story of tragically depressed cod fishermen held no appeal for American audiences."
However, many folks believe Turge is a hoax.
Look at this purported list of Turge's films, and tell me what you think.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 07, 2010 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Movies, Performance Art, 1960s, Europe
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