1960s
Solon Bushi
In the old days before "cultural appropriation," a Black R&B group could sing a "Japanese folk song."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 19, 2020 -
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Category: Music, Foreign Customs, 1960s, Asia
Family Planning, Disney Style
Or: Donald Duck's Vasectomy
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 18, 2020 -
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Category: Family, PSA’s, Birth Control , Cartoons, 1960s
Strange Personal Checks
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 04, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Food, Money, Pranks and Revenge, 1960s
Nobody Loves the Hulk
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 22, 2020 -
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Category: Music, Comics, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #493
Yak, yak, yak on the phone all day about makeup! Those gals!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 18, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Cosmetics, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Women
Home Monitor of the Future
This 1964 ad envisioned a hand-held device that would allow people to run their home by remote control:Someday, you may be able to run your all-electric home and keep an eye on your youngsters by fingertip control
As far as we know, the amazing device you see above hasn't been developed as yet.
But it wouldn't be surprising if something like it were in the works. In this modern age of ours, only a short step separates the dreams of the moment from the realities of tomorrow.
Newsweek - July 1964
For once, the future actually delivered, since a smartphone can do everything imagined in this ad, and more.
Interesting that the gadget has controls for 'lawn care,' 'food prep,' etc., but not for turning the lights on.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 17, 2020 -
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Category: 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
To Be Alive
Moments of surreal or bizarre imagery in a nice little film about enjoying life.
One weird addendum: you are seeing only one-third of the film. The film was meant to run on three screens simultaneously, with different imagery on each screen, although sometimes, I think, they synchronized.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 15, 2020 -
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Category: Movies, Documentaries, Philosophy, Surrealism, 1960s
Help, I’m a Rock!
Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 08, 2020 -
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Category: Music, Nature, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1960s
Rodney Fertel’s Gorilla Campaign
1969: Rodney Fertel ran for mayor of New Orleans on what he called the "primate platform". He promised that, if elected, he would "Get a gorilla for the zoo." This was his primary campaign issue. He campaigned by standing on street corners, sometimes dressed in a safari outfit, sometimes in a gorilla suit, handing out miniature plastic gorillas to passers-by.
Rodney Fertel with a baby gorilla
Fertel lost the election, receiving only 310 votes, but he kept his promise by donating a pair of West African gorillas the following year to New Orleans' Audubon Zoo, at his own expense.
Incidentally, Rodney was the former husband of Ruth Fertel, who founded Ruth's Chris Steak House. Fertel's son has written a book about his parents titled The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir.
More info: nola.com
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 03, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Politics, Strange Candidates, 1960s
I Took a Trip (On a Gemini Spaceship)
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 02, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Outsider Art, 1960s
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