1970s
Combination Pillow and Crash Helmet
"The device thus formed is useful as a courtesy pillow for the comfort of airline passengers, and doubles as a crash helmet which may be put over the head of the passenger when he is forewarned of an impending crash landing."More info: Patent No. 3,538,508
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 23, 2023 -
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Category: Patents, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #576
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 22, 2023 -
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Category: Celebrities, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Sports, Advertising, 1970s, Women
Touch, The Generation Gap Musical
This dated abomination seems to have all but vanished from the annals of stage history, so far as googling can determine.
Enjoy the whole performance, thanks to the capacious memory of the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 21, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Theater and Stage, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
No more queues in grocery stores
We got the computerized food scanners, but we've still got checkout lines. What happened?
North Bay Nugget - May 29, 1974
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 18, 2023 -
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Category: Technology, 1970s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Wate-On
Based on the strange clothing and the thing that looks like an asteroid in the top right corner, I think the two people are supposed to be futuristic space travelers of some kind. Why they're in an ad for a weight-gain product, I don't know.
Sports Illustrated - June 5, 1978
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 17, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Space Travel, 1970s, Dieting and Weight Loss
What a Wonderful Thing Is Me
If the music doesn't put you to sleep, you will learn all about your various parts.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 13, 2023 -
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Category: Music, PSA’s, Cartoons, 1970s
Soul Dracula
The group's page at Discogs.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 09, 2023 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Horror, Music, Cemeteries, Graveyards, Crypts, Mortuaries and Other Funereal Pursuits, 1970s
Phil A. O’Fish
In the 1970s, McDonalds introduced many of its well-known corporate mascots such as the Hamburgerlar, Mayor McCheese, and Ronald McDonald. It also debuted Phil A. O'Fish who, for some reason, disappeared less than a year after being introduced.I wonder what Phil did wrong to get dropped so quickly.
More info: Smithsonian Magazine
Washington Court House Record-Herald - Mar 18, 1976
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 05, 2023 -
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Category: Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1970s
Disco Body Shaper
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 05, 2023 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Advertising, 1970s
Clipboard Gun
The justification for this clipboard gun was that it would allow police officers to approach stopped vehicles looking as if they were holding a clipboard, not a gun.The problem that I see is that it wouldn't take long for the public to realize that the clipboards were actually guns. In which case, even if a police officer was genuinely only carrying a clipboard, everyone would assume it was a gun.
More info: Patent No. 4,016,666
Posted By: Alex - Tue Aug 29, 2023 -
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Category: Police and Other Law Enforcement, Patents, 1970s, Weapons
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