1960s
Honor system at police donut shop
The Index-Journal (Greenwood, South Carolina) - Aug 10, 1960
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — At the police headquarters coffee shop, the Police Relief Assn. reported in its monthly publication: "The honor system of paying for doughnuts and rolls accounted for a loss of only $15.64 during May."
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 21, 2015 -
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Category: Police and Other Law Enforcement, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #267
It's funny, because women don't know which end of a lathe is up!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 08, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, Tools, Hair Styling, 1960s, Women
Dig Yourself
Sound advice--no pun intended.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 06, 2015 -
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Category: Music, Self-help Schemes, 1960s
Hoover at Christmas
Does any woman want housework gear and appliances at Christmas? And how do you get the new stove wrapped and under the tree?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 05, 2015 -
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Category: Family, Holidays, Appliances, 1960s
In a Long White Room
How this easy-listening, faux-psychedelic ripoff ever avoided a plagiarism suit with Cream's "White Room" is a mystery for the ages. Maybe lawyers were stunned into inaction by the gonzo brilliance of the lyrics
"We will tuck each other in, and dream about trains/You'll call me 'Beauty' and I'll call you 'Brains.'"
Trippy, man!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 03, 2015 -
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Category: Music, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Psychedelic, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #266
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 28, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Business, Advertising, Products, 1960s, Cars
Mystery Illustration 13
Which corporation--still around today--felt that this technological monster symbolized all the services they provided, back in 1969?
The answer is here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 25, 2015 -
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Category: Technology, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1960s
The First Do-It-Yourself Novel
Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta was the first-ever do-it-yourself or interactive novel. It was published in French in 1962, and an English translation followed a year later. The novel came in a box, as a set of looseleaf pages. Readers were instructed to "shuffle them like a deck of cards" before reading, so that chance would decide the order of events in the narrative.
image source: Newsweek - Oct 28, 1963
In 2011, Visual Editions came out with an elegantly boxed new edition of the work (available on Amazon). As well as an iPad version of it that automatically shuffles the pages.
Jonathan Coe, reviewing the new edition for the Guardian in 2011, offered this summary of the book's plot:
Coe noted that the British Library had two copies of the original novel, "both, I'm sorry to say, diligently bound by over-zealous librarians (though at least each copy has the pages bound in a different order)."
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 20, 2015 -
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Category: Literature, Books, 1960s
Jerry Lewis & Miss Cartilage
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 16, 2015 -
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Category: Humor, Surrealism, Sex Symbols, 1960s, Dance
Morris Cleveland’s Homemade Steam Vehicle
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 14, 2015 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Inventions, Regionalism, Technology, 1960s
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