1960s
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2019
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 17, 2019 -
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Category: Government, Foreign Customs, 1960s, Europe, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Madmen #418
Nothing said about the quality of the men (or women) attracted by Colt 45.
Source of ad.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 16, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, 1960s, Alcohol
Emergency Life Pack
Debuted in 1961, from the Survival Life Pack Company.Looks like you can still pick one up on eBay for around $199.99. (Though just the food/water, not the suit).
El Paso Times - Sep 22, 1961
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 14, 2019 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s
Psychological warfare in Vietnam
February 1966: Congressman Craig Hosmer unveiled his strange plan for victory in Vietnam. He suggested air-dropping playing cards, plastic cutouts of women and dogs, and owl hoots onto the Vietcong. His idea was that these would trigger the superstitious nature of the Vietnamese and cause them to surrender — with no shots fired.Some of his suggestions may actually have been done. I’m not sure.
Hosmer also suggested dropping yellow dye on the Vietcong “to identify them upon infiltration into South Vietnam.” He noted, “Dyeing the Vietcong could, in the end, prove more effective than killing them.”
Sydney Morning Herald - Feb 7, 1966
Craig Hosmer (Esquire - Jan 1967)
Arizona Republic - Feb 9, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 10, 2019 -
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Category: Military, War, 1960s
Nippon Girls
How did the Japanese react to the Bossa Nova craze and other pop music trends of the Sixties?
I'm glad you asked!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 01, 2019 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Asia
Can man fly by flapping his arms?
John Seney, an engineer at the Du Pont laboratory in Seaford, Delaware, had an ambitious plan (which he called 'Project Daedalus') to study buzzards and thereby figure out a way to allow a man to fly by flapping his arms — with the help of 36-foot wings strapped to them.Seney's project received quite a bit of media attention for several years in the mid-1960s, but I can't find any report indicating that he ever got to the stage of a test flight.
"Leonardo, the buzzard, is chased in Seaford, Del., basement laboratory of John Seney, 50-year-old scientist who is using the buzzard in his human flight experiments. Pursuing the bird is Stephen Moore who is helping Seney, and if the experiments get off the ground, will see Moore get off the ground with human-propelled wings. That's why they have named the buzzard Leonardo — after Leonardo da Vinci who had dreamed of flying like a bird."
Sarasota Journal - Dec 30, 1964
Baltimore Sun - Feb 21, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 26, 2019 -
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Category: Flight, Experiments, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #414
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 25, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Technology, Sex Symbols, Appliances, 1960s
Pagan Island
The IMDB entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 23, 2019 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Sexuality, Stereotypes and Cliches, Foreign Customs, 1960s, Love & Romance
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 20
It seems many of the public sided with Khrushchev's tastes for old-fashioned stuff in this case.
Source for article.
More pix at this link.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 20, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #413
Thousands of microscopic ballerina feet beat your carpet clean.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 17, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Surrealism, Appliances, 1960s
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