1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #119
Mad Men, here's a secret: music is the realm of emotion and poetry and piercing observations, of romance and satire, of history and dreams.
So when you create a song that is full of boring statistics about a boring object, you look like an idiot, and so does your product.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 19, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Music, 1960s
The Swing Wing
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 17, 2010 -
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Category: Toys, 1960s, Brain Damage
Strange Change Time Machine
If you ever wanted your kid to grow up to be a mad scientist, this is the toy you bought him or her.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 27, 2010 -
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Category: Toys, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
Where Are You Planning to Stick That Doll?
Lower image is the outer back cover.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 13, 2010 -
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Category: Medicine, Books, 1960s
Worst Art-house Movie Ever?
The site where I found this clip explains:
"The now-infamous 'cup and sea' sequence from director Turge Babonet's 1968 film, THE HORRIBLE HORROR -- which prompted writer Cleveland Amory (TV Guide. May 12, 1968) to comment on the state of European cinema, 'You have to be on LSD to understand it'. Babonet's Dutch-language drama was ambitiously rescored and subtitled for US distribution, but its story of tragically depressed cod fishermen held no appeal for American audiences."
However, many folks believe Turge is a hoax.
Look at this purported list of Turge's films, and tell me what you think.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 07, 2010 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Movies, Performance Art, 1960s, Europe
Latitude Zero
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 29, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Cryptozoology, Geography and Maps, Movies, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Paranormal, Surgery, Science Fiction, 1960s, Asia, Weapons
Follies of the Mad Men #111
If only those coupons had been reedeemable for lung surgery.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 24, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Tobacco and Smoking, 1960s
Logic By Machine
Watch those tape drives spin!
Part 1 is the upper window.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 11, 2010 -
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Category: Technology, Computers, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Follies of the Mad Men #107
You know, even in 1969, despite the prevalence of hype connected with "flower power," I don't think anyone was going to believe that automobiles were pro-nature. And aren't flowers kind of a sissy image for a muscle car anyhow?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 02, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Nature, 1960s, Cars
Space Secretary
[Click on any of these images to enlarge.]
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 04, 2010 -
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Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Work and Vocational Training, Space Travel, 1960s, Women
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