1960s
Armored Velvet
This stuff sounds like having a shag carpet sprayed onto your walls. Might have been a cool effect for a bachelor pad.Unfortunately I can't find any pictures of what it looked like, so I can't tell how awesome/disgusting the stuff really was. I bet the fibers would get easily torn off, and then how would you patch it?
It seems to have disappeared from the market sometime around 1970.
The Deseret News - Oct 18, 1967
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph - Aug 10, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 16, 2016 -
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Category: Interior Decorating, 1960s
King Louis Narcisse
A type of extravagant preaching that seems less prevalent today.
His Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 16, 2016 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Ethnic Groupings, Religion, 1960s
A Day in the Life of a Kitchen
"Little space capsules of ice cream and cookies!"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 08, 2016 -
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Category: Domestic, Appliances, Family, Wives, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
Tricycle operator deemed reckless
It'd be interesting to know what the ruling was in this case, but I haven't been able to find any follow-up articles. The answer is probably hidden somewhere in a court archive.The story reminds me of that more recent case of the aunt who claimed that her 8-year-old nephew's "exuberant hug" broke her wrist, so she sued him for $127,000 in damages. (Yeah, I know, she had to sue for insurance reasons. Perhaps this 1961 case had a similar motive.)
The Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, Missouri) — Jan 27, 1961
STEPHENVILLE, Tex. (AP) — Eddie Jones, 3, was described as "a reckless and incompetent tricycle operator" in a $50,000 damage suit in district court Tuesday.
The petition, filed by Homer Wolfe against Eddie's father, Ed Jones, alleges that Wolfe's wife, Bertha, was employed as a maid in Jones' home when she was struck by a tricycle last Aug. 26. The petition alleges she suffered extensive injuries and mental anguish.
"Little Eddie, who was on his tricycle, gathered a full head of steam and without a warning yell of any nature propelled his tricycle with great force into the body of Bertha Wolfe while her back was turned," the petition charged.
The plaintiff contends that the senior Jones knew that his son "was a reckless and incompetent operator of the tricycle."
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 05, 2016 -
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Category: Lawsuits, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #270
Message: Colt 45 habit produces stupefied oblivion to everything but next drink.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 05, 2016 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Advertising, 1960s, Alcohol, Brain Damage
Predictions for 2016 from 1966
In 1966, Margaret Thorne, a member of the Junior Historian Club of Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley, West Virginia, published some predictions for the year 2016 in her local paper. Here's what she envisioned for the year we've now arrived at:The growth of suburbia: "the only land untouched by suburbia will be the national and state parks and forests, that our ancestors were foresighted enough to conserve and a few farms of enormous size in the midwest."
Work: "the vast majority of the people will be seated in front of man's ingenious invention, the computer."
Food: "People will take a pill for breakfast that will supply them with needed nourishment. Algae, a very simple plant, which can be grown in great vats and will multiply rapidly, can be made into very appetizing morsels."
Fuel: "More sources of fuels must be found and methods for bringing the natural resources to the surface. Someone must find ways to captivate the sun's radiation and make it work for us. The sun will need to be our major fuel in the years to come."
Water: "Our water supply will need to be taken from the seas as our lands get drier and drier."
Not bad, all in all. The food-in-pills and ubiquitous spread of suburbia were misses. But she scored on the increasing importance of computers, and she kind of anticipated the development of fracking and growth of solar technology, as well as the water scarcity (which is certainly true here in California).
The Raleigh Register — Apr 25, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 01, 2016 -
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Category: Predictions, Yesterday’s Tomorrows, 1960s
Juicy Case
Mr. Adams dared to be different. All it got him was a divorce.
The Daily Standard (Sikeston, Missouri) — Sep 16, 1960
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 29, 2015 -
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Category: Divorce, 1960s
A Woman’s Best Friend
Is this deliberately suggestive? Or do I just have a dirty mind?
Source: Newsweek - Sep 1964
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 27, 2015 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
Santa Claus Is Dead
How would it be for you if your car had killed Santa Claus?
Source: Kansas City Times - Dec 9, 1969
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 23, 2015 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s, Christmas
NASA Presents: Space Food!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 22, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s
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