1960s
Miss Yashica Gold Venus
20 year old Lova Moor, Cabaret performer at the Paris ''Crazy Horse Saloon'' was elected ''Miss Yashica Gold Venus'' under the sponsorship of the well launching on the French market of the new Electro 35 Mecanicor Camera produced by Yashica.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 12, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Photography and Photographers, 1960s
Fire Chief Speaker Hat
No longer just $3.98.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 11, 2023 -
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Category: Toys, Firefighting, Arson, Wildfires, Infernos and Other Conflagrations, Fossil Fuels, Carbon Footprint, and Climate Change, 1960s
HemisFair 1968
These types of ancient festivals seem all but extinct, making them seem weird to our 2023 eyes. Will they ever happen again?The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 09, 2023 -
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Category: Regionalism, Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations, 1960s, Nostalgia, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Win A Diamond Doorknob
Dr. Pepper celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1960, and in honor of this ran a contest with the unusual prize of a diamond doorknob. Specifically: "a doorknob of special design encrusted with 50 small diamonds and a huge two-carat, blue-white diamond mounted in its center. As the grand award the diamond doorknob will be attached to a $25,000 Swift Home having a family-size Refinite-Shedon swimming pool in its backyard and a new Rambler station wagon in its driveway."
Edith Dillion of Roanoke, VA eventually won the prize. Reportedly she sold the house but kept the doorknob. And perhaps the doorknob is still owned by the Dillion family.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 04, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1960s
Boogaloo in Apartment 41
You've never lived till you've heard a Mambo version of "Day Tripper."
Tracklist:
1. Strangers In The Night
2. Mia’s Boogaloo
3. Day Tripper
4. Cool Jerk
5. Way Out Mambo
6. Boogaloo In Apt. 41
7. Yesterday
8. Tijuana Grass
9. Ozzaboo
10. These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 25, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Cultural Borrowings, Appropriations, Overlays and Transformations, 1960s
Ballads for the Age of Science
The whole playlist is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 21, 2023 -
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Category: Education, Science, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Children, 1960s
‘The Girl With Whom I Would Most Like To Go Skiing For Two Weeks in the Cairngorm Mountains’
Dec 1966: Instead of simply being called 'Miss Cairngorm Mountains,' or something similar, June Fletcher was awarded the oddly specific title of 'The Girl With Whom I Would Most Like To Go Skiing For Two Weeks in the Cairngorm Mountains'.
Lincolnshire Echo - Dec 2, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 21, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Sports, 1960s
Gamma Goochee
A YouTube commenter explains:
According to the notes to "Great Googa Mooga" (Ace CHCD 830) Gamma Goochee Himself was a dental technician named John Mangiagli from southern California. Each year, he would spend his summer vacation making and promoting a self-produced record. This disk was the only one that even came close to charting in the US. The backup singers were his pre-teen nieces. Strange song, even stranger story behind it..
Hear another song by Mangiagli at the link (non-embeddable).
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 19, 2023 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia, Music, Outsider Art, 1960s
People who know… buy Bigelow
The carpet for when you just got back from the clown convention and feel like lying on the floor.
Or for topless, indoor sunbathing.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 17, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Interior Decorating, 1960s
The Great Mao Zedong Mango Cult
Read the full BBC article here.
Purchase your souvenir here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 13, 2023 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Souvenirs, Mementos, and Tchotchkes, Fruit, 1960s
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