1960s
You Are What You Eat
This entire documentary about hippies, titled YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, is not embeddable, but is available on YouTube. After viewing these two clips, you'll know if you can take the entire 70-minute production.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 07, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Punch and Judy: The Opera
The Wikipedia page for the opera.The work caused great controversy with members of the audience, because of the violence of the plot and the nature of the music. Benjamin Britten was reported to have left the premiere at the interval.[3]
The composer's Wikipedia page.
Birtwistle's music is complex, written in a modernistic manner with a clear, distinctive voice, with sounds described as of "sonic brashness".[10]
Your reactions solicited.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 31, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Avant Garde, Myths and Fairytales, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #572
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 30, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Junk Food, Wimps, Milquetoasts and Cowards, 1960s, 1970s
The Baroque Beatles Book
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 28, 2023 -
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Category: Humor, Music, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1960s
Nudist Crossing Ahead
1965: The police ordered Bernard Patenaude to taken down his "Warning, nudist crossing ahead" sign, claiming that it was an illegal form of traffic regulation. (If that's so, wouldn't those "Slow, children at play" signs found all over the place also, technically, be illegal?)
Hartford Courant - Sep 14, 1965
Alliance (Neb.) Daily Times Herald - Nov 2, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 27, 2023 -
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Category: Signage, Nudism and Nudists, 1960s
Chimera Car
Genetic engineering has gone too far!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 25, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Surrealism, Dogs, 1960s, Cars
Follies of the Madmen #571
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 24, 2023 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Advertising, 1960s, Alcohol
The Jackson Illusion Pepper
The 1960's fad for smoking banana peels is well known. Less well known is a similar late-60s drug fad called the "Jackson Illusion Pepper." An explanation from Drugs From A to Z: A Dictionary by Richard R. Lingeman (1969):
More info from The East Village Other (Apr 1-15, 1967):
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 22, 2023 -
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Category: Drugs, Smoking and Tobacco, 1960s
Chickenman
The Wikipedia page explains everything.Do not confuse with Super Chicken, below.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 22, 2023 -
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Category: Radio, Television, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Superheroes, Cartoons, 1960s
Sideburns for Girls
The Fresno Bee - Jan 14, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 15, 2023 -
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Category: Fashion, Hair Styling, 1960s
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