Category:
1970s

Raisin Pudding Cake

Family Circle Magazine - Jan 1976

Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 22, 2024 - Comments (5)
Category: Advertising, 1970s

The Judge who wanted to be fully informed

Nov 1976: Roxbury District Court Judge Elwood McKenney, presiding over a cocaine possession case, announced that he would need to try cocaine himself before he made his ruling... in order to be able to make an informed decision. He recessed the trial until he had done so.

Palo Alto Times - Nov 2, 1976



Judge Elwood McKenney



About a month later, McKenney abandoned his decision to try cocaine, saying that all the publicity about it had distorted his intent.

But he then proceeded to rule that the Massachusetts statutes forbidding the possession of cocaine were unconstitutional.

Obviously his ruling must have been dismissed or overturned at some point, otherwise cocaine would now be legal in Massachusetts. But I haven't been able to figure out when that happened.



Boston Globe - Dec 11, 1976

Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 18, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Drugs, Law, Judges, 1970s

People-Passing

More accurately, coed-passing. By the mid-1970s it was considered "sort of traditional" at many college football games.

What it involved: "a group of fellows sitting behind a coed suddenly picks her up and begins bouncing her — like a sack of potatoes — over their heads to the next row. And up she goes, maybe 75 rows."

So it was like crowd surfing, but entirely involuntary on the part of the coed being flung overhead. And more dangerous, I would think.

According to Wikipedia, "Iggy Pop may have invented crowd surfing at 1970's Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival." I wonder if the idea of crowd surfing spread from music festivals to football games, or if it was the other way around.

Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania) - Sep 30, 1976

Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 16, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Fads, Sports, 1970s, Women

De Dik Voormekaar Show



The Wikipedia page.

TV version of the popular radio program with André van Duin and Ferry de Groot in which the various characters were portrayed on screen by hand puppets in the first season (1977-1978) and full body costumes in the second (1978-1979).







Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 14, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, 1970s, Europe

Queen Kong

Queen Kong, the movie, was released in 1976 but was never shown in the UK or US due to the threat of legal action from the producer of King Kong (the 1976 remake). It had a limited release in Italy and Germany.

The plot as summarized by wikipedia:

The main character Ray Fay plays the damsel in distress, which tends to usually be played by women. He is kidnapped by film director Luce Habit to star in her new African jungle movie. He then finds himself the attraction of an amorous giant female gorilla that pursues him across London.

Wikipedia also says that Queen Kong acquired a cult following in Japan.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 13, 2024 - Comments (4)
Category: Movies, 1970s, Parody

Squash Your Wife

Similar ads from the 60s and 70s: "Electrify your wife," "Recipe for boiled wife," and "Beat your wife tonight... at bowling."

Clearly this was a theme that appealed to ad execs of that time.

New York Magazine - Mar 7, 1977

Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 12, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Advertising, Wives, 1970s

Using frog croaks to predict the weather

In 1975, Chinese meteorologist Chang Chi-tsai came out with "Chang's law" which codified the relationship between croaking frogs and the weather:

If frogs croak on a fine day it will rain in two days.
If frogs croak after rain it will be fine weather.
It will continue to rain if frogs do not croak after successive overcast days.

Previously we've posted about how to use gnats to predict the weather.

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Jan 19, 1975

Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 09, 2024 - Comments (2)
Category: 1970s, Asia, Weather

Organ Orgy

The entire playlist is here.

The Wikipedia page of the organist.

BONUS: I am reminded of a clip from THE SIMPSONS, seen below.



Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 04, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Music, 1970s

Follies of the Madmen #584



Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 26, 2023 - Comments (0)
Category: Hygiene, Advertising, Myths and Fairytales, 1970s

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