1970s
The Devil’s Daughter
Full film follows.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 05, 2014 -
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Category: Family, Horror, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Superstition, 1970s
The Seagram’s Nightmare
Does this bout of insane tedious bickering make you want to purchase Seagram's liquor?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 23, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Dreams and Nightmares, 1970s, Alcohol
The Great Mull Air Mystery
In 1975, a pilot in a small plane makes a mysterious unscheduled night flight, and goes missing.
Several months later, the pilot's body is found, close by the air base from which he took off.
His plane is found even later, sunk in the ocean.
Did he jump from the plane in mid-air? No injuries consistent with that.
Did he escape the downed plane and swim to shore? No traces of sea water on the corpse.
Read the details here of this still-baffling enigma.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 13, 2014 -
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Category: Tragedy and Pathos, Unsolved Mysteries, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
G. G.‘s Barnum Room
Every hepcat knows the name of the Peppermint Lounge, famed in 1960s lore. But not as many folks recall that the same space was transformed in the 1970s into the Barnum Room, the only club with transvestite trapeze artists above the dancers.
Read a period essay about the club here.
See fantabulous fotos here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 11, 2014 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Public Indecency, 1970s, Gender-bending
Mario Manzini, Escapologist
Do we believe the video, or the newspaper report?
Source of news report.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 28, 2014 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1970s
Andy Rolan, The Donkey Man
Read everything in two columns up till the break, then everything after the break.
BREAK
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 12, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Regionalism, 1970s
The Bald-Headed Men of America
Apparently there have been several instances of the formation of clubs to serve as fraternal organizations for bald men.The New York Times has this 1896 report.
Then comes this account in 1920, also from The New York Times.
Then comes this report from 1954.
But sometime after that, the original group must have gone under, because in 1972, John T. Capps, III founded the Bald Headed Men of America. They were profiled in a PBS documentary from 1989, as partially shown below.
Apparently, they are still going strong.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 01, 2014 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Hair and Hairstyling
Enjoy the Experience
This 2-disc compilation of "homemade recordings" is pure caviar for all WU-vies. Listen to more at the link below, then buy your copy--which features many other "hits"--soon!
YouTube playlist here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 21, 2014 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, Music, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Know the language of drugs
From the Huron Daily Plainsman - May 28, 1971.The Northwestern National Bank evidently thought it was important people know the correct terminology. Click the image for a larger version.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 27, 2014 -
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Category: Drugs, 1970s, Slang
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