1960s
Hair Fertilizer
Les Hoten's miracle cure for baldness: mix together chicken manure, fine sand, and potash, and rub it all on your head. It's guaranteed to work!
Sources: The Lodi News-Sentinel - Nov 27, 1967; and The Daily Courier - Sep 28, 1967.
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 07, 2015 -
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Category: Hair Styling, 1960s
Miss Pickle of 2014
Here is a new post that joins two previous ones: my post with the video about the PICKLE INDUSTRY, and Alex's post about MISS KANGAROO.It appears that at least since 1964, the union known as the Pickle Packers International has been choosing a woman to be "Miss Pickle."
The first foto below comes from THE DAILY EGYPTIAN for October 30, 1964. The second foto comes from the BUFFALO COURIER-EXPRESS for June 24, 1967, while the article comes from the TUSCALOOSA NEWS for May 7, 1967.
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Finally, we come to Miss Pickle of 2014, who seems more like a cartoon company mascot than a beauty-queen.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 27, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Celebrities, Food, Pickles, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1960s
Gaytime Raspberry Roughs
Alas, in this less-innocent year of 2015, anyone soliciting a "gaytime raspberry rough" and expecting an ice cream treat is likely to get something different than they anticipated.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 17, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, Public Indecency, 1960s, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
Walking in the streets
Here's another idiotic fad of yesteryear (the early 1960s) — teenagers walking in the streets: "Not only do many students shun the sidewalks completely but they are walking four and five abreast, completely taking up one lane of the road."
Source: The Holland Evening Sentinel - Feb 21, 1963.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 16, 2015 -
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Category: Fads, 1960s
The Gospel Singing Jubilee
Those suits! Those hair-dos! Those pop arrangements of venerable tunes! It's Lawrence Welk for Bible-thumpers.
Some background.
Three more segments below the jump, and even more on YouTube..
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 16, 2015 -
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Category: Kitsch and Collectibles, Music, Religion, Television, 1960s, 1970s
Susanne Wenger, White Yoruban Priestess
Interview with Susanne Wenger from Jeremy Weate on Vimeo.
You know all those campy old films where explorers find a leopardskin-clad white woman ruling an African tribe? Well, while not quite the same, here's the story of Susanne Wenger, who gave up European life for Yoruban culture.
And given that Wenger was once quite a looker, maybe the Hollywood version is not so far off.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 11, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Religion, 1960s, Africa, Europe
Prince Monolulu
His Majesty in typical garb.
The Prince comes on at the 16-minute mark.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 04, 2015 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Eccentrics, Fashion, Television, 1950s, 1960s
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
"Multi-instrumentalist" was the term for Rahsaan Roland Kirk. But generally the term does not refer to simultaneous playing.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 27, 2015 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Music, 1960s
The Little Foxes Club
I can't find too much information on the "Little Foxes Club," whose mission was to promote African-American female beauty. In 1958, they had a beauty contest in Detroit.
Original article here.
And they were mentioned in this 1966 cheesecake photo.
Original article here.
I can only imagine the loud controversy such an organization would bring down upon itself in these times.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 24, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Ethnic Groupings, 1950s, 1960s, Women
Beatnik Beauty
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 19, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
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