1960s
Follies of the Madmen #299
Not sure what the slugger prowess of stews has to do with running an airline. Nowadays, they could use a baseball bat for drunk-passenger control.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 15, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Sports, Air Travel and Airlines, 1960s
HUH? (Boolya Botten Booten Baby)
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 12, 2016 -
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Category: Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia, Music, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #298
Explanation here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 07, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, 1960s, Alcohol, Moral Panics and Public Hysteria
Space Age Bridal Creation
March 1962: Arlette Dobson and John Richard took a stroll along London's Park Lane while modeling a "space age bridal outfit."I'd like to see a wedding with the bride and groom wearing these outfits, and the bridesmaids in Gianangelli's lunar bathing suits.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Mar 10, 1962
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 06, 2016 -
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Category: Fashion, 1960s, Weddings
Mystery Illustration 34
This wordless packaging was designed in 1968 to hold a very common consumer item. What was inside?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 05, 2016 -
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Category: Design and Designers, Graphics, Products, 1960s
Seven Warning Signals of Cancer
Nice photo. Though the connection between Sophia Loren and warning signals of cancer completely escapes me.The ad ran in magazines and newspapers in 1967 and '68, such as here: Broadcasting - Dec 2, 1968.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 03, 2016 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
Anti-Hero Hostility Dart Board
In 1967, artist Robert Cenedella came out with the "Anti-Hero Hostility Dart Board," featuring "photographic images of some of your favorite anti-heroes." Consumers could choose between an "LBJ, Lady Bird, Humphrey, Castro, Hochi Minn, De Gaulle, Nasser, Nixon, Bobby Kennedy, Reagan, or Sigmund Freud" dart board.In a later interview, Cenedella said that, "For a few dollars extra, you could put a relative or an ex-wife there." He added, "I had more success in doing these gimmicks than I did at my art."
The following year, Cenedella discontinued the dart boards, citing his concern that the nation had become too violent.
As far as I know, Cenedella's Hostility Dart Board was the first commercially sold, political-themed dart board. But nowadays they're fairly common. Zazzle.com, for instance, has a bunch of them.
La Crosse Tribune - June 12, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 30, 2016 -
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Category: Politics, Products, 1960s
Why Can’t My Teacher Look Like Mr. Novak?
I like the bits of "Monster Mash" stuff that are gratuitously inserted.
Of course, students lusting after teachers is now the stuff of prison sentences.
Understand the central reference here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 30, 2016 -
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Category: Education, Music, Television, Sex Symbols, Teenagers, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #297
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Maybe some Canadian WU-vie can explain the subtext of this ad. Three men hold up photos of hockey players while looking benignly but perhaps jealously at the fourth fellow who is smart enough to have a beer in his hand instead, with his own hockey photo (program book?) resting on a tabletop.
Huh?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 28, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Regionalism, Sports, 1960s, North America, Alcohol
Survival Experiment
November 1961: As an experiment in survival, Portland radio announcer Bill Davis spent a week confined in a windowless fallout shelter with his family... and his mother-in-law.They survived, although Davis's wife admitted, "There were problems."
One of the problems was that four days into the test an earthquake struck Portland, and the Davis family, cut off from communication, thought it was a nuclear attack.
Medford Mail Tribune - Nov 1, 1961
Medford Mail Tribune - Nov 10, 1961
Medford Mail Tribune - Nov 9, 1961
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 27, 2016 -
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Category: Family, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, Experiments, 1960s
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