1970s
The Decimal Shopping Game
When the UK made its switch from old-style currency to decimal currency, this board game was issued to help familiarize people with the new mode.Currently, a copy is for sale at UK eBay, where more pix await your inspection.
Board Game Geek has just a placeholder entry.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 08, 2022 -
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Category: Boredom, Games, Money, 1970s, United Kingdom
Hair Rental—You know it makes sense
These hair rental ads ran for about five years in British papers. So I assume the company must have done decent business.I've heard of wig rentals, but for some reason the idea of toupee rentals seems weirder.
Sunday London Mirror - Mar 11, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 06, 2022 -
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Category: Business, Headgear, 1970s, Hair and Hairstyling
American Airlines’s Luxury Fleet
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 02, 2022 -
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Category: Luxury, Elitism, Specialness, Indulgence and Pampering, Advertising, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #548
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 28, 2022 -
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Category: Sex Symbols, Fantasy, 1970s, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
Allan Bryant, “Space Guitars”
Let us all know how far you get before tossing in the audio towel.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 23, 2022 -
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Category: Space Travel, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
TV INTROS TO 18 SHORT-LIVED SITCOMS OF THE 70s
Wow, what a bunch of bizarre stinkers from an odd decade.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 20, 2022 -
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Category: Success & Failure, Television, 1970s
Les Baxter’s “Goliath and the Barbarians”
Space-age Bachelor Pad meets Sword and Sandals. What could be better?
If you dig the first track, embedded here, go to the Internet Archive listing for the album, click the Spotify option, and you get the whole thing.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 19, 2022 -
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Category: Movies, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s, 1970s, Europe
Underground Smog Shelter
Despite living on a hill that was relatively free of smog, millionaire Bill Bounds built an underground smog shelter where he could "breathe air filtered by activated charcoal."
"Bill Bounds at the entrance to his underground smog shelter"
Lansing State Journal - Dec 5, 1971
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 18, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Urban Life, 1970s
Whore to Score
How times have changed. Now, "whore" is practically G-rated.The album cut below retains "whore."
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 15, 2022 -
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Category: Censorship, Bluenoses, Taboos, Prohibitions and Other Cultural No-No’s, Music, 1970s, Swears
1970s Flight Simulator
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 11, 2022 -
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Category: Toys, Simulations, Make-Believe, Cosplay and other Pretend Situations, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
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