Children
Weird 1915 Kite
What was this home handyman in Popular Mechanics smoking?
Original plans here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 21, 2013 -
Comments (4)
Category: Recreation, Toys, Surrealism, Children, 1910s, Face and Facial Expressions, Fictional Monsters
Mutton Busting
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 10, 2013 -
Comments (9)
Category: Animals, Sports, Children
Googoosha
A music video from the daughter of the dictator of Uzbekistan. "We have ways to make you dance!"
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 21, 2013 -
Comments (1)
Category: Music, Children, Parents, Foreign Customs, Asia, Europe
Major Mudd
Major Mudd, one of the TV heroes of my youth.
Any WU-vies want to share memories of their own lesser-known regional TV icons?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 20, 2013 -
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Category: Regionalism, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Television, Children, 1960s, 1970s
Johnny Seven O.M.A. Gun
Wow. Able to give the parents of 2013 seven kinds of frenzied PC headaches with one toy!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 14, 2013 -
Comments (6)
Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Guns, Toys, Advertising, Children, 1960s
Little Nemo in Slumberland
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Surely one of the most enjoyably odd of the classic newspaper comic strips was Winsor McCay's famous LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND.
Many of the strips are finally available online at this site.
Of course, if you desire glorious hardcopy, there are plenty of books too.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 02, 2013 -
Comments (0)
Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Surrealism, Children, Books, 1900s, 1910s
Apaches
Kids are so perishable!
Get the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 31, 2013 -
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Category: Accidents, Death, PSA’s, Children, 1970s, Europe
Welch’s Family Wine
I'm sure this product, with its lookalike packaging, offered many kids a handy excuse for sampling booze. "But Ma, I thought I was drinking Welch's grape juice!"
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 23, 2013 -
Comments (7)
Category: Advertising, Children, Teenagers, 1950s, Alcohol
Special Delivery
Perhaps reviewer GE_Pretzel said it best:
Subject: A sedative masquerading as a bus safety film
There are few films that can surpass or even equal the mediocrity of Special Delivery, a horrendously cumbersome safety film for schoolbus operators that fails to captivate. Instead of simply attempting to discuss the fundamentals of schoolbus safety and procedure in a concise, forthright manner, the film's creators place the necessary educational elements within a dry, unengaging story involving Mickey Miller, a recalcitrant little boy who has developed a strong distrust of the local schoolbus and its driver, Bill Marshall. It appears that Mickey has been reading far too many James Fenimore Cooper novels, as he wears a feathered headdress and continually shoots toy arrows at the schoolbus, a vehicle that he refers to as the "white man's stagecoach." Mickey is miffed when he isn't allowed to board the bus because of his age, but shortly after he reaches "age more than five," he and his older sister Millie are taken on a special bus ride by Bill in an effort to gain the young boy's respect. After a mishmash of schoolbus operation information is conveyed during the trip, Mickey alters his attitude and begins to take well to Bill. At the end of the film, however, Bill humiliates a diminutive boy who isn't allowed to ride the bus by calling him "Shorty" right in front of all of the other children. If Bill is striving to establish a rapport with his future passengers, he certainly isn't doing a good job. This lengthy production is quite a chore to watch.
It should be a crime to wear garish horn-rimmed glasses like the ones Millie sports throughout the film.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 10, 2013 -
Comments (3)
Category: PSA’s, Children, 1960s, Mental Health and Insanity, Bus
Banned LITTLE RASCALS: “Little Daddy”
Wikipedia explanation.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 05, 2013 -
Comments (6)
Category: Censorship, Bluenoses, Taboos, Prohibitions and Other Cultural No-No’s, Movies, Racism, Children, 1930s
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