1960s
Follies of the Madmen #394
Sexy female pigs discuss sending one of their own kind to the slaughterhouse.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 11, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Death, Food, 1960s
The Wonderful World of Chemistry
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 04, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Products, Technology, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #393
Our soft drink is equivalent to a life-endangering catastrophic event.
Source of B&W ad here (scroll right).
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 03, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Disasters, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1960s, Weather
The Spilhaus Space Clock
This clock gives info on 19 different variables.For complete info, visit here.
The inventor's Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 24, 2018 -
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Category: Nature, Science, Technology, 1960s, 1970s
Starlit Stairway
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 19, 2018 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Regionalism, Television, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Dr. George W. Crane’s H-E-L-P Formula
A nugget of applied psychology wisdom from the 1960s: How young women could avoid date rape, according to Dr. George W. Crane, a well-known psychologist and newspaper columnist — "Girls, if you can keep your escort talking, you can ward off assault, even by a vicious rapist! So ply him with questions! Keep him talking! Praise some of his good points but always fade out of your part of the dialogue with a question mark!"Crane's logic was that, "A man cannot engage in gay conversation and meanwhile be sexually passionate! For these are opposing actions!" He offered the H-E-L-P formula as a mnemonic to help women keep the 'gay conversation' going. The idea was that they should quiz a potential assailant about Hobbies, Entertainment, Literature, and Politics, in that order.
There's more about Crane on Wikipedia. Apparently he developed the first computer dating organization. There's also this:
Mansfield News-Journal - Mar 21, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 17, 2018 -
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Category: Psychology, 1960s
Early Uber
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 16, 2018 -
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Category: 1960s, United Kingdom, Cars
Progressive Schooling
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 13, 2018 -
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Category: Children, 1960s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
Women in Tubes
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 12, 2018 -
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Category: Miniature People in Ads, Surrealism, 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back
Paean to an outhouse.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 11, 2018 -
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Category: Architecture, Domestic, Music, Excrement, 1960s
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