1970s
I’m Having Your Baby
"Having your baby is a way of saying I'm thinking of you."
No argument there!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 12, 2017 -
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Category: Music, 1970s, Pregnancy
Timothy Leary: While Birds Sing
Album info and track listing.
Let me know when you bail!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 09, 2017 -
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Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Music, Surrealism, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s
Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
A mashup no one ever asked for.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 07, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Comics, Cartoons, 1970s
Blinky the Friendly Hen
April 27, 1978: Artist Jeffrey Vallance bought a frozen chicken (a Foster Farms fryer) at a supermarket and then buried it at the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery, following a brief memorial service. He also installed a grave marker for the frozen bird, naming it "Blinky the Friendly Hen." He came to think of Blinky's grave as being like the grave of the Unknown Chicken, representing "all the millions of chickens who are slaughtered and sold as food."
According to kcet.org, "Ten years later, he would have the body exhumed so an autopsy could be performed by UCLA's head of pathology. The tenth anniversary exhibit on the life of Blinky, at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles, featured a 'shroud of Blinky,' and a recreation of the cemetery's viewing room, with a rubber chicken lying in state. Blinky was later reburied at the cemetery."
It seems that there were also an event to mark the 30th anniversary of Blinky's funeral. The 40th anniversary is coming up next year, so perhaps there'll be another event in Blinky's honor.
Vallance also wrote a book commemmorating Blinky.
More info: Black Acrylic blog
Bridgewater Courier-News - Nov 3, 1983
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 03, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Death, 1970s
Cycle Logic
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 01, 2017 -
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Category: Disasters, PSA’s, 1970s, Motorcycles
Mystery Illustration 40
Who was the celebrity groom who wore this amazing outfit to his wedding?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 28, 2017 -
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Category: 1970s, Weddings
Heaton’s Aerocommuter
Back in 1974, David Heaton spent $50,000 pursuing his dream of building an "aerocommuter" -- a two-person flying saucer that would "cost no more than a medium-priced American car," thereby allowing everyone to fly to work.He claimed to have all the engineering problems worked out, but it doesn't sound like one of these things ever managed to leave the ground.
Aiken Standard - June 6, 1974
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 27, 2017 -
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Category: Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
President Naa Hoo Woo of the USA
What a blatant instance of cultural appropriation!
Original foto here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 26, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, Politics, Officials, 1970s, Native Americans
Manure Glass
1973 saw the debut of Envirite (aka Glass-Dung, Manure Glass, or Pasture Glass), a promised-to-be revolutionary building material made out of glass and cow manure.It actually seems like it was a pretty good idea. The concept was that you could take old glass bottles, combine them with cow manure, heat both together in a furnace, and the manure would act as a foaming agent fusing the glass together into a versatile building material. So you'd be repurposing two waste products (old glass and manure) into something useful.
The problem, it seems, was actually getting architects and builders to use the stuff. I found a 1990 article that credited the "inherent conservatism of the building industry" with denying us our glass-manure houses.
Somewhere in here there's a joke about what people who live in glass-manure houses shouldn't do.
Lansing State Journal - July 25, 1973
Los Angeles Times - Aug 23, 1973
The Alexandria Town Talk - July 26, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 22, 2017 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #305
Australia offers the rest of the world its giant mushroom phallus.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 20, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, Public Indecency, 1970s, Australia
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