1960s
Mystery Illustration 55
Who? What? When? Why? Huh?
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And after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 24, 2017 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, 1960s
Art Arfons and the Green Monster
Love that rocketship design!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 18, 2017 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, 1960s, Cars
Italian Caveman Rock ‘n’ Roll
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 17, 2017 -
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Category: Movies, Music, 1960s
Infraphone
The Infraphone, invented by Douglas Reddan circa 1960, used infrared light to allow people to communicate wirelessly at distances of several hundred yards. You had to aim your infraphone at another infraphone, which you did by looking through a sight on top of the unit. Then you could talk into the device, just like using a phone.It's an interesting idea, but I can't really think of a situation when this would provide an advantage over using a radio walkie talkie. Maybe because the signal can't be intercepted as easily? But then there's the awkwardness of having to aim the device. Articles about it frequently suggested it could be used as a wireless intercom.
Eugene Guard - Nov 14, 1960
Palm Beach Post - June 4, 1961
Popular electronics - Feb 1961 (via RF Cafe)
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 12, 2017 -
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Category: Inventions, Telephones, 1960s
The Beachcomber Bar, UK
Anglo Hula: less is not more.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 11, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, 1960s, Dance, Parody, Europe, South Pacific
JFK as Angel
Source of text.
Regretably, the only image I could find has this watermark hiding some of the details.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 09, 2017 -
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Category: Religion, Statues and Monuments, 1930s, 1960s, Europe
The Snobs and The Upper Crust
You can't keep a good idea down.
The Upper Crust.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 02, 2017 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Parody
Egg Massage
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 29, 2017 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Eggs, 1960s, Europe
Conditioning experiment on Soviet child
I ran across these intriguing images in an old copy of Newsweek - March 28, 1960.
Unfortunately there wasn't much explanation about them. The caption read: "Psychological sputnik: Year-old Soviet child rigged for conditioning experiment."
An accompanying article, about the visit of Soviet psychologist Alexander R. Luria to the U.S., didn't refer to the images at all. But offered this hint:
Luria's own goal and the goal of Soviet psychopedagogy, is important, too: Increasing the learning ability of Soviet children by 25 per cent.
"Think of it," he said, "such a finding would be worth billions of dollars. It is no less important than a sputnik."
So the images must be showing some kind of weird Soviet experiment to boost a child's IQ.
The kid would be too young to be Putin. Though there is a slight resemblance.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 27, 2017 -
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Category: Psychology, 1960s
Moon Cheeze
July 20 was the anniversary of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. Back in 1969, the Fisher cheese company, located in Armstrong's home town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, capitalized on that achievement by coming out with "Moon Cheeze." It seems to have been just regular American cheddar cheese. Only the packaging was special. It came in a container shaped like the state of Ohio. Apparently it was so popular that they kept making it for years.
Palladium-Item - Jan 19, 1969
Pensacola News Journal - July 18, 1969
Bonus: Armstrong making pizza in 1969. That looks like mozzarella, not Moon Cheeze.
via I have seen the whole Internet
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 21, 2017 -
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Category: Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s
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