1960s
The Alkoholomat
Don't drive drunk on the holiday--or any day! The penalty could be worse even than ending up as an item in NOTW!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 04, 2016 -
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Category: Humor, Inventions, 1960s, Europe, Alcohol, Cars
Follies of the Madmen #286
Lots of goofy stuff here.
First commercial: who's the publisher for that special Mom propaganda book?
Second and third commercials: love that trippy 2001: A Space Odyssey sequence as we fly thru the aspirin particles.
Fourth commercial: once upon a time, hairy chests were okay.
Fifth commercial: this woman has ingested so much iron that her bare feet are comfortable on metal stirrups.
Sixth and seventh commercials: life in a circus-acrobat household.
Eighth commercial: multivitamins promote blue balls.
Ninth commercial: children are iron-vampires.
Tenth and eleventh commercials: psychedelic scrumpcheroo!
Twelfth commercial: hey, a rerun! Or is this a flashback from dropping too many Chocks?
Thirteenth and fourteenth commercials: Charley Chocks, pusherman.
Fifteenth commercial: Chocks and chopsticks!
Sixteenth commercial: And you thought the Archies were too fake!
Seventeenth commercial: interplanetary Chocks colonialism!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 18, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Drugs, Psychedelic, Children, Elderly, 1960s, 1970s
An Airplane Trip by Jet
Real meals! Plenty of leg room! A separate lounge in the front of the plane! What weird alternate world is this?!?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 15, 2016 -
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Category: Air Travel and Airlines, 1960s
The Easy Woman: 1963
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 12, 2016 -
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Category: Sexuality, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Women, Mental Health and Insanity
Our American Crossroads
The weird part of this documentary is the puppet diorama and its turntables. A strange form of presentation.
Of course, this documentary also represents about the first two-thirds of the famous poster by Robert Crumb.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 10, 2016 -
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Category: Futurism, Comics, Documentaries, 1960s, Cars, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Dean Jones, Singer
Like Shatner, Nimoy and other actors, well-known Disney star Dean Jones fancied himself a singer as well. The opening bellow of this first track reminds me faintly of Jim Morrison.
What do you all think of his talents in this arena?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 04, 2016 -
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Category: Celebrities, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s
Co-Star Records
There were fifteen of these uniquely bizarre records.
The whole story is here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 30, 2016 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Celebrities, Hobbies and DIY, 1960s
Central Premonitions Registry
The Central Premonitions Registry was established by Robert Nelson in New York in 1968 (following the establishment of a similar agency in the UK the year before). It provided a place where people could send in premonitions or predictions about the future. These would then be filed away for future reference, to see if they came true.The Registry claimed to have a three-fold purpose: to identify people with genuine psychic gifts, to see how many premonitions actually came true, and also to serve as a warning system to prevent disaster in case they received "a flux of dreams that seem to refer to the same pending event."
As far as I know, the Registry never actually gave a heads-up about any looming disaster.
Eventually the Registry made its way online, but its website was abandoned around 2008. A copy of it is preserved in the Wayback Machine.
Cincinnati Enquirer - Mar 18, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Sun May 29, 2016 -
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Category: Predictions, 1960s
To Gleep, Or Not To Gleep
Many times, outsiders seeking to chronicle the language of a tribe are lied to. I suspect this was the case with this 1963 article on campus slang. While many of the terms are well-documented, I can find no online references to the act of "gleeping" and suspect some researcher was getting his leg pulled.
Or maybe the reporter felt it would be a prank to make something up and insert it and see if anyone noticed.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 29, 2016 -
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Category: 1960s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia, Slang
The Pretzel Bikini
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 28, 2016 -
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Category: Fashion, Food, Pop Art, 1960s
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