1960s
Political Poster Dress
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 28, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Politics, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Two-Way Stretch
As we all know, Chuck has a recurring theme about how the Brits coddle their prisoners. Apparently, this motif goes back at least as far as 1960, the year that the Peter Sellers film TWO-WAY STRETCH premiered. In this film, Sellers and gang receive deliveries from the milkman and newsboy, keep a cat, steal the warden's ciggies, and generally make their stay quite enjoyable. Until the tough-guy guard known as "Sourkraut" shows up. See some moments below.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 09, 2009 -
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Category: Movies, Prisons, Stupid Criminals, 1960s, Europe
The Leader of the Laundromat
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 29, 2009 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Parody
Follies of the Mad Men #60
Okay, we get it. Your product has an odd name that might lend itself to a double entendre. Such a campaign worked for Smucker's Jelly & Jams, of course. But the problem lies with the verb "sniff." If the ad had read "May I hold your Klompen Kloggen," all would have been good smutty fun. But although you can indeed hold the unlit tobacco, you can't "hold" the delightfully aromatic pipe smoke (the selling point). So the copywriter is forced to use "sniff."
But sniffing some private portion of another individual (the inescapable connotations of "May I sniff your BLANK...) conjures up all sorts of canine or rutting behavior, not sexy but animalistic. One pictures this pretty woman burying her nose in some guy's armpit--or elsewhere.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 24, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Tobacco and Smoking, 1960s
Please, Mr. Custer
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 19, 2009 -
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Category: Humor, Music, 1960s
Narcotics: Pit of Despair (Parts 1 & 2)
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 19, 2009 -
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Category: Addictions, Drugs, Pop Culture, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #57
This hideous creature is giving me the whim-whams. It's a total juju fetiche. I cannot imagine how any ad man thought this frightful apparition would sell towels. You just know that it's going to scoop out some housewife's eyes with the spoon and scramble her brains with the whisk, all while beating the courageous but small family dog with those wooden legs.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 10, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1960s
The New People
A TV series about plane-crash survivors on a weird island? Must be Lost, right?Well, not in 1969. Back then, it was THE NEW PEOPLE.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 10, 2009 -
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Category: Fads, Pop Culture, Television, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Do the Twist!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 05, 2009 -
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Category: Aliens, Design and Designers, Graphics, 1960s, Dance
Lotti Golden
In Look magazine for September 9 1969, there's an article about an aspiring young singer named Lotti Golden, who wanted to be just like Dylan. Never having heard of her before, I got curious and did some research.She did go on to release a couple of albums. This blogger discusses her career and offers a compressed audio file of one whole album. This fellow does the same.
But overall, poor Lotti is so obscure she doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry, and her records never made it to CD.
In 1982, she tried again with a group called Warp 9, purveyors of "new wave funk." You can hear two samples of their stuff here.
If you listen to the clip below, you might see why she never made it big. This song is like five different disparate songs jammed into one.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 03, 2009 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
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