Cars
Have you put a price on your wife lately?
If you have, it's probably best not to tell her.
Newsweek - Mar 20, 1950
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 01, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Wives, 1950s, Cars
Miss Drag Strip
Apparently, there were several "Miss Drag Strip" contests around the nation, so these two photos might not go together--but they are illustrative of the genre!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 07, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Regionalism, 1950s, Cars
Von Hutch The Mad Martian Pinstriper
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 01, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Space Travel, 1950s, Cars
Follies of the Madmen #594
Squished passenger and allusion to an insect's posterior: winning strategy?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 30, 2024 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Mental and Physical Unease and Discomfort, Advertising, 1960s, Cars
Follies of the Madmen #593
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 22, 2024 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Destruction, Movies, Advertising, Fantasy, Twentieth Century, Cars
Special Driver Gloves for Signalling
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 02, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Signage, 1920s, Cars
Fireball Jungle
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 15, 2024 -
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Category: Hygiene, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s, Cars
Wrong turn leads into coal mine
That's a serious wrong turn!I had to look up the meaning of a "pit prop." It's a post that holds up the roof of a coal mine.
Brantford Expositor - Jan 8, 1963
I asked Microsoft's AI image creator to illustrate the news story. After a few false starts, this is what it came up with. Not too bad.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 06, 2024 -
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Category: Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Incomprehension, 1960s, Australia, Cars
The Recording Rosary
Damon Doherty invented the "Recording Rosary" so that people could pray the Rosary while driving. As a traveling jewelry salesman he found that "Rosary beads sometimes became tangled in the gear shift as he prayed his way from city to city." So he invented a solution (Design Patent 167,827).I'm not Catholic, and know very little about praying the Rosary, but I've got a few questions about his invention.
First, is it considered okay to multitask while praying the Rosary? So it's okay to pray the Rosary while driving a car?
Second, the second article below notes that his Recording Rosary was "an actual Rosary of legitimate material." What are the 'legitimate' materials that Rosary beads can be made out of?
Boston Globe - Feb 22, 1953
Omaha Our Sunday Visitor - Mar 15, 1953
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 14, 2024 -
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Category: Religion, Patents, 1950s, Cars
Vector Portraits by Andrew Bush
"Photographs made while travelling 50 to 70 mph in Los Angeles and other parts of the Southwestern United States." 1989-1997.More info: andrewbush.net
via Vintage Annals Archive
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 11, 2024 -
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Category: Photography and Photographers, Cars
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