The Singing Wastebaskets

Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 07, 2020 - Comments (0)
Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Surrealism, Junk Food, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults

Follies of the Madmen #494

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Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 28, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Slavery, Bondage and Indenture, Nineteenth Century

Follies of the Madmen #493

Yak, yak, yak on the phone all day about makeup! Those gals!

Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 18, 2020 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Cosmetics, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Women

Follies of the Madmen #492

Is Miss Fixit a nurse or a child--or both? I'm confused....



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Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 01, 2020 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Hygiene, 1950s, Love & Romance

Twenty Minutes of 1960s Hygiene Commercials

If all these products had been properly employed, Americans would have had perfect lives!

Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 23, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling

Follies of the Madmen #491

"Our gum will alter your irises!"

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Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 16, 2020 - Comments (5)
Category: Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Junk Food, 1910s, Eyes and Vision

Have a Good Day, Dear

The office as deathtrap.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 15, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Antisocial Activities, Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Business, Death, Destruction, 1970s

Follies of the Madmen #490

Our televised brainwashing will turn honest citizens into criminals.



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Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 07, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Crime, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Television, 1950s

S&H Green Stamps Motorboat Redemption

Folks of a certain age recall "trading stamps," tokens with a certain value given out to shoppers when they made a purchase.

This site has a nice summary of the phenomenon, with lots of pictures of pages from the redemption catalog.

Here's an ad from 1968 which reveals you could get a Chrysler motorboat with Green Stamps.

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I got curious about how many books of stamps that might take. So I did some very rough calculations, fudging the different years, etc.

This site reveals that a similar boat cost about $1500.00 when new in 1969.

In the catalog at the previous link, an Admiral Color TV demands 150 books.

Here's the likely price in dollars of such an item, as seen below.



So the boat cost six times a TV, and might, I'm guessing, demand 900 books of stamps. However, I also read that each filled book was worth $1.20, so that would require 1,250 books!

That's a lot of weekly shopping trips to your local IGA, since you got only a handful of stamps with each purchase. I wonder how many people ever took advantage of the offer.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 28, 2020 - Comments (5)
Category: Boats, Business, Loyalty Programs, Shopper Incentives, Coupons and Other Discounts, Television, 1960s, 1970s

Follies of the Madmen #488

Induces gagging sensations of sipping tobacco-flavored drink.



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Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 20, 2020 - Comments (0)
Category: Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1960s, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust