1960s
Fox in Socks Audio
From a 1966 vinyl record, featuring the voice of Robby the Robot.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 06, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Languages, Pop Art, Surrealism, Books, 1960s
Professor Turned Clown
Discontented with the life of a professor of economics, Dr. Charles Boas became Onions the Clown.
I'm sure this thrilled any living parents who might have helped pay for years of higher education.
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 05, 2014 -
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Category: Clowns, Eccentrics, 1960s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
That Formfit Feeling
What exactly is she feeling? Insanity? Hysteria?
And here she looks like a vampire craning its neck back, about to bite a victim.
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Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 01, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, Underwear, 1960s
The Texas All-Girl Track Club, 1964
Source: Sports Illustrated - Apr 20, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 25, 2014 -
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Category: Sports, Hair Styling, 1960s
RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK
More info here.
And on the co-feature.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 22, 2014 -
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Category: Celebrities, Eccentrics, Movies, Superstition, Foreign Customs, 1960s, Russia, Facial Hair
The Wave Hairdo
It was all the rage in 1962.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 08, 2014 -
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Category: 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
An engineer in 1964 looks to the future
From the Hattiesburg American - Feb 18, 1964
He got all this correct!
An automated home is the closest to being a reality. The rest of it—not even close.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 06, 2014 -
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Category: Predictions, Yesterday’s Tomorrows, 1960s
Wrapped in coil
Problem: how could advertisers make a new cooling line for an air conditioner interesting?Solution: wrap the cooling line around a young model, take a photo, and then distribute the photo to newspapers, which dutifully ran the image back in September 1966.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 03, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
Group Photo Mystery
Why are these lads all assembled for this photo opportunity?
Answer after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 03, 2014 -
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Category: Photography and Photographers, Teenagers, 1960s
Raincoat Respirator
Another example of an attractive woman (Gail Andrews) modeling a strange piece of equipment.In this case, the equipment was a "raincoat respirator" invented by John Emerson of Cambridge, Mass. and displayed at a meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in October 1960. It was an oversive plastic bag "much like a huge raincoat" attached to a modified vacuum cleaner motor. It helped patients breathe.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 31, 2013 -
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Category: Medicine, 1960s
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