1970s
Leggy Dolls
Somehow, Barbie doesn't seem so anatomically impossible anymore.
More info here.
More pics here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 25, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Toys, 1970s
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
How a sardonic adult western ever loaned its name to a sappy kids' cartoon will remain forever a mystery. Whose brainstorm was that? In any case, please revel in the ghastly animation.
And if this happens to be a potent nostalgic item for you, you can buy the recently released complete series at Warner Archives.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 23, 2013 -
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Category: Music, Spies and Secret Agents, Television, Cartoons, Psychedelic, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Are You Ready for Self-Hypnotism?
A self-help book from the 1970s. Among the problems it promised to cure:
- How to use self-hypnosis to cure your slipped disc, backache, headache, low back pain, even the painful torticolis or "wry neck" that has defied medical science
- How to conquer a condition we call "loneliness" but which our subconscious mind knows to be a genuine starvation of our love needs
- Even if you've been smoking for twenty-five years you can give it up overnight—and actually enjoy the so-called "withdrawal" period
- An entirely new and different way of controlling overweight—on a self-hypnotic diet that requires no dieting
There was also an audio version, available on vinyl, which is still for sale on Amazon.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 20, 2013 -
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Category: Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, Self-help Schemes, 1970s
Captain Kronos
The Captain's "flesh-colored" tights often make him appear bare-legged in a tunic miniskirt, especially in that scene when he's on horseback.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 20, 2013 -
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Category: Horror, Movies, Superstition, 1970s, Fictional Monsters
Win an Elephant
Remember when Bart Simpson won a radio contest and had to choose between a live elephant and lots of cash--and he chose the elephant?
I wonder if that happened back in 1970, when this contest ran?
I wish I could find a better scan to read the fine print. But the first sentence seems to promise the winner a real beast if desired.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 17, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Television, Cartoons, 1970s
The Shark From Jaws
Actually, it's the shark from Jaws 2, but I assume Spielberg used something similar for Jaws. For full body shots of the shark, he used an animatronic model called Bruce.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 13, 2013 -
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Category: Movies, Robots, 1970s
Pre-internet Underground Book Distribution
Original ad here.
Gather around, children, and you shall learn of an ancient time, before the internet. A day of paper fanzines and weird information obtained only via books delivered by snailmail.
The main purveyor of such good stuff was the Loompanics catalog. Alas, they were driven out of business in 2006. The current website using their domain name is a shell and a scam by cybersquatters.
Over one hundred Loompanics books have been tagged as a Goodreads collection. You can get a small sense of what they were all about there.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 11, 2013 -
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Category: Drugs, Avant Garde, Books, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Columbia Records Posters: 1970
My scanner could not capture this image in one pass, so I had to do it clumsily in four. But you get the idea. This is an inner record sleeve from a 1970 album. Click on any segment to see what Columbia Records thought was groovy back then.
"O. C. Smith"?!?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 20, 2012 -
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Category: Music, Pop Art, 1970s
The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
If anyone can explain to me what the hell this song is about, its logic and mythical allegory, and why it was included on Johnny Cash's Xmas album The Christmas Spirit, I'd be grateful. Any easy answers regarding too much drug and/or booze consumption by Cash will be rejected as too facile.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 14, 2012 -
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Category: Drugs, Holidays, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Children, Parents, 1970s
Woodsy Owl
Woodsy in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s. The newest look is horrifying, in my opinion, like some creature from THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 02, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Authorities and Experts, Government, Nature, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Fictional Monsters
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