1960s
The Varitone Sax
A more-or-less failed and forgotten 1960s experiment in electrifying the saxophone.
Two good articles here and here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 13, 2015 -
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Category: Music, Technology, 1960s
The Strange Change Machine
You know, why isn't "mad scientist" an encouraged career path for kids anymore, like it was in the 1960s? I think the foreclosure of this option says a lot about our joyless and grim culture.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 02, 2015 -
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Category: Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Toys, 1960s
Groovy Gasoline
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 27, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Motor Vehicles, 1960s
Beatnik Wedding
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 25, 2015 -
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Category: Fashion, Husbands, Wives, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
King Zor
"There has never been a fighting dinosaur like King Zor before!" True, but probably only because this toy was unique!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 23, 2015 -
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Category: Toys, Dinosaurs and Other Antediluvian Creatures, 1960s
The Front Line: Supermarket Checker
Soldiers in the war on shoppers! I mean, soldiers helping shoppers!
Look at how much more intelligence was needed for this job then, compared to this age of scanners and credit cards.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 20, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Work and Vocational Training, Retailing, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #262
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 17, 2015 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Products, Death, Insects and Spiders, 1960s, Australia
Launched in a sea of beer
In 1968, the General Dynamics shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts denied the rumor that it was going to launch the USS Milwaukee by floating it out in a "sea of beer," but company officials admitted they had been considering the idea. They figured that it would "add distinction and excitement to the float-out."They calculated that it would have required 68 million quarts of beer to achieve the float-out, and abandoned the idea because "we just couldn't figure out what to do with 68 million non-returnable empties."
Nashua Telegraph - Sep 10, 1968
Portsmouth Herald - Sep 26, 1968
USS Milwaukee
Related: The Banana-Launched Ship, 1941
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 16, 2015 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, 1960s
Personalized Dolls
Introduced in 1965 by New York toy manufacturer Jet Party Favors.
The dolls were said to be popular with "grandparents who desire reminders of grandchildren living in other cities, ... narcissists who want dolls depicting themselves as youngsters, necrophiles who want dolls of deceased relatives, and teen-age girls who mail their doll-like images to boy friends stationed overseas."
Source: Newsweek - Feb 22, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 13, 2015 -
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Category: Toys, 1960s
SURFER BOY by the Supremes
The Supremes as the Beach Boys? To me, that's far enough off their baseline to be weird!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 10, 2015 -
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Category: Music, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1960s
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