1960s
Purple Earthquake
Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 06, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s
Huey Smith and the Clowns, “Popeye”
The musician's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 29, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Comics, 1960s, Dance
Is it marijuana or alfalfa?
Peter Hlookoff had an unusual strategy to avoid being convicted for possession of marijuana — he always carried a container of alfalfa with him.His reasoning was that alfalfa and marijuana smell similar (so he claimed). So if the police ever arrested him for possession of marijuana he could claim that it was actually alfalfa they had smelled (or seen him smoking).
This strategy was put to the test in Dec 1967 when the police raided his apartment and arrested him for smoking pot. During the subsequent court case his defense led to the magistrate arranging for a court employee to smoke marijuana so that its smell could be compared to alfalfa.
Victoria Times Colonist - May 10, 1968
Unfortunately the courtroom experiment was cancelled before it took place, and the magistrate ended up finding Hlookoff guilty. He didn't buy Hlookoff's follow-up argument that if, perhaps, it had been marijuana he was smoking then someone must have (without his knowledge) put marijuana in his alfalfa container.
The Vancouver Province - July 3, 1968
Hlookoff's roommate, Marcel Horne (a professional firebreather whose stage name was 'El Diablo'), later wrote an autobiography in which he revealed that, yeah, they were absolutely smoking pot when the police raided their apartment:
We were rapping away very stoned, when we heard someone coming up the stairs. The next thing we knew two cops in uniform walked into the room. Peter tried to drop the roach but the cop saw him. I was too stoned to think properly so I just lay there watching the nightmare. The cops put us up against the wall and frisked us. "Who does the marijuana belong to?" We both answered, "What marijuana?"
image source: Annals of the Firebreather (1973), by Marcel Horne
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 27, 2024 -
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Category: Drugs, Smoking and Tobacco, Law, 1960s
Hear how to handle your boat
Released in 1961 as part of the "Carlton Hear How Series."The series started off with fairly mundane topics such as how to handle your boat, how to be a better bowler, how to take better photographs, etc. But as sales lagged (surely because of the dull topics) Carlton introduced more controversial topics such as "Hear how to achieve sexual harmony in marriage" and "Hear how to tell your children the facts of life."
The strategy didn't work, and the series was discontinued after 1961.
More info: bsnpubs.com
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 26, 2024 -
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Category: Boats, 1960s
You’re the Judge
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 23, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Domestic, Food, Advertising, Teenagers, 1960s
The Poetry of Hy Sobiloff
Something tells me Sobiloff should have stuck to his other careers.From his encyclopedia entry:
Sobiloff, whose poetry was respected by many of his better-known contemporaries for its fresh, honest, unpretentious qualities, was also widely known as a filmmaker, industrialist, and philanthropist... While praising his work, both Aiken and Tate come close to representing the poet as a primitive, particularly by their use of words such as "folk" or "unaware..." Less positive were Kimon Friar's judgments of the collection, as presented in Saturday Review: "Sobiloff's poems are monolithic, his lines lack cadence, there is no melodic progression within a single stanza or between stanzas. Instead, we have staccato and precise descriptions of objects, but with little of the poetic realism of a William Carlos Williams or of the subtlety of Wallace Stevens."
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 21, 2024 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Poetry, 1960s
Drunken Hog Pile
Intoxicated animals is a favorite WU theme, going back, I think, to entries in Chuck Shepherd's NOTW.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 16, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Inebriation and Intoxicants, 1960s, Alcohol
Electric Vibro Chin Massager
House Beautiful - Oct 1966
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 12, 2024 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1960s
The Conqueroo
No Wikipedia entry, but here's an interview with one of the founders.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 11, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Music, Psychedelic, 1960s
Miss Moon Maid of 1965
More fotos and text at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 09, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Comics, Space Travel, 1960s
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