1960s
The Man Called Flintstone
Fred Flintstone as James Bond. Nuff said!The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 05, 2019 -
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Category: Spies and Secret Agents, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Cartoons, 1960s
B. Prosperous
Continuing our ongoing theme of strange corporate mascots:From 1960-1962, B. Prosperous was the mascot of the Eastern Trust Company. He demonstrates a popular trend among mid-twentieth-century mascot creators, which was to slap a human head and limbs onto some inanimate object and call it a mascot.
Montreal Gazette - Mar 22, 1961
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Category: Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1960s
Bimbo Jr., the water-skiing elephant
Bimbo Jr. wasn't the only water-skiing elephant around, but in the early 1960s she gained some fame as the youngest water-skiing elephant. She was 5 at the time.However, her career as a water-skiier eventually came to an unusual end. In 1969, a car collided with the trailer that was transporting her. She survived, but her owner, Ted De Wayne, claimed that the experience caused her to forget how to water-ski, so he sued the driver for $10,000. He was awarded $4,500.
It's been reported in various places that the case was heard by Judge Turtle. But this isn't true. The judge's actual name was Julius Title.
Bimbo water-skiing in San Diego - Mar 20, 1961.
Bimbo water-skiing in Santa Monica - Apr 28, 1962 (via LA Public Library)
Salem Capital Journal - Feb 26, 1972
Orlando Evening Star - Feb 25, 1972
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Category: Animals, 1960s
Calvin and the Colonel
From the Wikipedia entry:
"The series was an animated remake of Amos 'n' Andy... and featured the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll[1] from the radio series (in fact, several of the original radio scripts by Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher were adapted for this series). Using animals avoided the touchy racial issues which had led to the downfall of Amos 'n' Andy."
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 18, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Racism, Stereotypes and Cliches, Television, Cartoons, 1960s
Skin Tight, Pin Striped, Purple Pedal Pushers
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Category: Fashion, Music, Public Indecency, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #427
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 04, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Crime, Fashion, Sexuality, 1960s
The Prix Guzman
Wikipedia explains:The Prix Pierre Guzman (Pierre Guzman Prize) was the name given to two prizes, one astronomical and one medical. Both were established by the will of Anne Emilie Clara Goguet (died June 30, 1891), wife of Marc Guzman, and named after her son Pierre Guzman. This prize was a sum of 100,000 francs, to be given to a person who succeeded in communicating with a celestial body, other than Mars, and receiving a response.
Did the Apollo 11 astronauts really "communicate" with another world to qualify for the prize?
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Posted By: Paul - Fri May 31, 2019 -
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Category: Aliens, Certificates, Diplomas, and Other Testaments of Achievement, Communications, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s, Europe, Nineteenth Century
How to become a computer programmer—in 1969
The ad below ran in Esquire (and many other publications) in 1969. The pitch seems reasonable enough until you consider that home computers weren't introduced until the late 1970s. So how were people going to learn programming without a computer to practice on? According to the ad copy, students were expected to "train by mail."I wonder if anyone ever actually learned programming in this way?
Esquire - Jan 1969
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 30, 2019 -
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Category: Advertising, Computers, 1960s
Superthunderstingcar
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 29, 2019 -
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Category: Evil, Humor, Parody, Inventions, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Science Fiction, 1960s
Evil Brain From Outer Space
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 26, 2019 -
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Category: Aliens, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Science Fiction, 1960s
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