1960s
Telemeter: 1960s Pay TV
Pay TV in the 1950s and 1960s? Yes, it was a thing, as the article below explains.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on the topic.
Here's a good article on the Canadian version.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 24, 2020 -
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Category: Regionalism, Technology, Television, 1950s, 1960s
What’s New at the Zoo?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 22, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1960s
Apollo 11 Cuisine
I'm formally a day late with this entry--but yet, the Apollo 11 astronauts were still on the Moon 51 years ago today! Eating their ham-salad sandwiches.Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 21, 2020 -
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Category: Anniversary, Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s
The Wreck of the City of San Francisco
One weird thing about this once-famous train crash: no perp was ever found.
Even with this lead, from a contemporary account.
Rather reminiscent of the One-Armed Man from the 1960s TV show THE FUGITIVE.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 15, 2020 -
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Category: Death, Destruction, Unsolved Mysteries, 1930s, 1960s, Trains
It’s Tough to Be a Bird!
A definite Disney-Does-Monty-Python vibe in the closing credits.The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 05, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Humor, PSA’s, 1960s
Cranberry Candles
Make mayonnaise candles a holiday tradition...
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 03, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, 1960s
B. Brock and the Sultans
B. Brock and the Sultans were a Beatles knockoff band whose one-and-only album, released in 1964, included a cover of 'I want to hold your hand.' But to drive home how like the Beatles they were, almost all the other songs on the album included the word 'beetle' — ‘Beetle Walk,’ ’30 LB Beetle,’ ‘Feed The Beetle,’ ‘Fast Beetle,’ ‘Mexican Beetle,’ ‘Little Brown Beetle,’ and ‘Do The Beetle’.More info: The Lost RPM
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 02, 2020 -
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Category: Music, 1960s
Forty Commercial Minutes from 1969
An absolutely fascinating time capsule of absurdity, sincerity and mendacity in a vanished era.Note how much pop culture had infiltrated advertising, such as the YELLOW SUBMARINE-style animation in several cases.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 28, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #481
Isn't it the offending husband who is usually the spouse assigned to sleep in the tub?
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 26, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
High School Fitness
Imagine trying to institute such a program in a high school today!And of course, nothing said of what the girls are doing.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 19, 2020 -
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Category: Education, Exercise and Fitness, 1960s
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