1960s
Driftwood Collection
Whenever I come across stories about collectors of unusual items, I always wonder what happened to their collection after they died. They went to all that trouble to collect it, and then usually relatives end up tossing it all.
Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter - Nov 9, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 04, 2017 -
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Category: Collectors, 1960s
French Key Ring Craze
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 03, 2017 -
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Category: Fads, 1960s, Europe
Woody Woodpecker, Deconstructed
Thanks to Mark Evanier, who explains.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 28, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Cartoons, 1960s, Parody
Queen of the House
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 27, 2017 -
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Category: Domestic, Music, 1960s, Parody
Too Many Tigers
In favor of species extinctions.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 25, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Music, 1960s
Paperbacks from Hell
For Halloween or Xmas, what could be a better gift? A brilliant art and history book about the crazy-ass horror novel covers of yore?
Read a review here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 24, 2017 -
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Category: Horror, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Books, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Village of the Giants
"From a novel by H. G. Wells!" Yeah, right....
The Wikipedia page.
The full movie, via MST3K.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 22, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Juvenile Delinquency, Teenagers, Science Fiction, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #329
Tony the Tiger is a protective deity against the occult forces of Friday the Thirteenth?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 13, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Food, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #328
As you can see, this ad appeared in the April issue of EBONY magazine, thus rendering any possible connection to Halloween, the time of ghosts, utterly irrelevant. What is the excuse for the pun, then? Because Herb-Ox represents the ghost of a cow? It's utterly arbitrary and unseductive and not germane to the product. Yet some ad guy obviously thought it was genius.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 11, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Superstition, 1960s
Wild and Wonderful
From the Wikipedia entry:Dick Vosburgh of The Independent commented, "Critics found it hard to accept that it had taken six writers to fashion the wafer-thin tale of a jazz flautist whose marriage to a French film star is threatened by the jealous tricks of Monsieur Cognac, her neurotic, alcoholic French poodle."[5] In his obituary for Tony Curtis in 2010, Dave Kehr dismissed the film as "disastrous," noting that Curtis was rebuilding his reputation after an earlier affair with Kaufmann, his co-star in Wild and Wonderful, and subsequent divorce from Janet Leigh.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 03, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Dogs, 1960s
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