1960s
Follies of the Madmen #295
So that's where corporate executives come from! It's something in their breakfast cereal as kids!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 01, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Children, 1960s
Post Toasties
Here's an ad campaign over the course of a decade or so that shows the Mad Men flailing around blindly. Whom do we appeal to? Kings, Indian Chiefs, housewives, nursery-rhyme characters, despotic sea captains, or cartoon animals? Or, in the end, the anti-hippie conservatives embodied by Andy Griffith and his fancy-neckwear disparagement?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 30, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, 1950s, 1960s
1960’s Beatnik Glossary
Contributed by "hotsauce269".
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 28, 2016 -
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Category: Languages, Slang, 1960s
Mrs. Living Corpse
June 9, 1966: After being buried alive for a week outside of a drive-in theater in Denison, Texas, Lottie Howard married "Country" Bill White. Both of them were "buried alive" practitioners. After she was disinterred, the two left on their honeymoon.
Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram - June 19, 1966
Update: Looks like the marriage didn't last long. Two years later Country Bill got served with divorce papers — while he was buried alive. The papers were dropped down the six-inch pipe he used for air and food.
Wilmington News Journal - Mar 28, 1968
But Bill rebounded pretty quickly from his divorce. Just a few months later he was buried alive with a "34-year-old grandmother" and a go-go dancer. However, they each had individual compartments in the coffin, evidently to prevent any buried-alive hanky panky.
The Indianapolis Star - June 21, 1968
And here's a picture of Bill from 1978, looking a bit rougher around the edges.
The Benton Harbor News-Palladium - May 19, 1978
As far as I can tell, Bill kept doing his buried alive stunt until the late 1980s. In 1981 he set an endurance record for the longest time buried alive (140 consecutive days in a plywood box, 6 feet long by 3 feet wide). This record seems to have been beaten in 1999 by Geoff Smith, who spent 147 days buried in a coffin under the beer garden of his local pub. Though it's hard to know for sure because Guinness doesn't maintain a record for longest time buried alive (because of their policy of not encouraging unhealthy or life-endangering acts).
In 2005, the New Bedford Standard-Times ran an article about Bill, but that's the last media reference to him I can find. If he's still alive, he'd be around 82.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 23, 2016 -
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Category: 1960s, Weddings
Ted V. Mikels, RIP
Obituary here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 19, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Eccentrics, Horror, Movies, 1960s, Blood, Dismemberment, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
Paul Starr, Space Agent
More info at the YouTube URL of this clip, as well as here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 18, 2016 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, Science Fiction, 1960s
Styled in California
My personal choice is the pants with different-colored legs worn by the young lad.
Can you say "sunburst terry twosome" three times fast?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 09, 2016 -
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Category: Fashion, Regionalism, Advertising, 1960s
Shore Dinner
It's worth clicking through to appreciate the expressions on the people, at larger size.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 07, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Cannibalism, Food, Myths and Fairytales, 1960s
Signal 30
In 1959, the Ohio State Highway Patrol produced a 27-minute film showing graphic scenes of fatal traffic accidents. The footage was accompanied by a soundtrack of the cries and moans of the victims. They called the film "Signal 30" — referring to the patrol's radio code for fatal accidents.The film was shown at many high schools, in an attempt to scare kids into being good drivers. Some judges also made people with traffic violations watch it "to atone for their violations." It got some dramatic reactions from viewers. For instance:
Another woman had to be carried from the courtroom and given oxygen after she watched a truck driver burning to death in the color-and-sound film.
The film is now on YouTube, so you can find out how you would react to it. (I actually haven't had the courage to watch it yet.)
Massillon Evening Independent - Jan 20, 1960
Asbury Park Press - Aug 10, 1962
More info: wikipedia.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 05, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Movies, Documentaries, 1960s, Cars
Mystery Illustration 32
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Why all the same mask? The answer is here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 03, 2016 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Dinners, Banquets, Parties, Tributes, Roasts and Other Celebrations, 1960s
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