1960s
Silence Class
I wonder if it was possible to fail silence class. Perhaps by asking too many questions.
(left) Latrobe Bulletin - Feb 19, 1968; (right) Tampa Tribune - Feb 18, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 03, 2018 -
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Category: 1960s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
Granny’s Mini-Skirt
Released in 1968. Sung by Irene Ryan who played Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies.
The Tenessean - Mar 5, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 29, 2018 -
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Category: Music, 1960s
The Baileys of Balboa
The Wikipedia page, which says:The show was primarily developed for the network because its president, James T. Aubrey, insisted that Gilligan's Island, which premiered the same season (and which he personally loathed), would have been a better show if it had centered on the exploits of a charter boat captain operating in a marina, and had his old friend Keefe Brasselle produce his version of the idea in order to prove his point.
Raquel Welch in this clip.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 26, 2018 -
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Category: Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Television, 1960s
Stereopticon
Let us know when you bail. The visuals start after 45 seconds.
“Stereopticon treats sense data or phenomena as the root of structured
thought. It is not in the line of experimental films which present
visual and audial phenomena as matter directly perceived. Instead
Stereopticon delineates its own structure by means of a moving interposed
view point and counter viewpoint : by continuous motion it implies or
circumscribes a complete cosmology. The structure is musical and circular,
rather than dramatic and linear, and is constructed of six movements and mood cycles...”
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 24, 2018 -
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Category: Movies, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Sound Effects—U.S. Air Force Firepower
A 1962 release that included tracks such as:• Sonic Boom: F-104 "Starfighter"
• F-100's Fire Mixed Loads Of Rockets At Ground Targets
• Mass Napalm Attack By F-100's (Ground Bursts)
• Nuclear Bomb Explosion, Yucca Flat, Nevada
• 20 MM Vulcan "Gatling Gun" Type Aircraft Cannon
You can peruse the full list of tracks at discogs.com.
The Akron Beacon Journal - Oct 4, 1962
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 23, 2018 -
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Category: Military, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Wrong Williams
September 1969: 50 policemen and 100 members of the Republic of New Africa black separatist group waited at the Detroit airport for the expected arrival of the group's leader, Robert Williams. Authorities in London had tipped off the police that Williams was on the plane, and the police wanted to arrest him on a 1961 kidnapping charge.But it turned out to be the wrong Williams on the plane — not Robert Williams, the black separatist, but instead Edward Williams, "a neatly-dressed somewhat amazed English businessman."
(Edward) Williams later commented, "When I saw the honor guards and the crowd, I thought you perhaps did this all the time for foreign visitors."
Detroit Free Press - Sep 8, 1969
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 25, 2018 -
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Category: 1960s
Do-it-yourself dress
Created by designer Betsey Johnson in 1966 and modeled below (for Life magazine) by Lauren Hutton.Minneapolis Star Tribune - July 10, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 24, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, 1960s
Resurrecting Peter Lorre
In 1964, police managed to thwart the dastardly scheme of the "Covenant of the 73rd Demon" (a group of teenage boys) to resurrect Peter Lorre. The actor had died on March 23, 1964, and the boys' plan was found out three months later.Wilson said an "order" signed by one of the boys and passed on to other cult members indicated the cult planned to exhume Lorre's body and restore life to it. Lorre was one of the cult's idols, the officer said.
The "order" did not explain how the boys planned to restore life, and the youths would not tell officers about it.
The Lawton Constitution - June 25, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 20, 2018 -
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Category: Celebrities, Death, 1960s
Howie
Will Hutchins prefigures Jim Carrey in DUMB AND DUMBER.
Three subsequent parts of the episode separately on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 17, 2018 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Impact Therapy
Shamokin News Dispatch - Aug 31, 1968
LONDON (AP) — Dr. John Tracy says if you can't cure it any other way, hit it.
Tracy explained in today's issue of the Practitioner Medical Journal that he uses sandbags to bash his patients into shape. He calls it "impact therapy."
Tracy says that repeated blows with a 20-pound sandbag, carefully timed and judged, send pressure waves through joints that cure aches and pains.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 13, 2018 -
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Category: Health, Medicine, 1960s
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