Cult Figures and Artifacts
The Great Mao Zedong Mango Cult
Read the full BBC article here.
Purchase your souvenir here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 13, 2023 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Souvenirs, Mementos, and Tchotchkes, Fruit, 1960s
Satanic Cult Awareness
Official US Government Publication. Read it here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 02, 2022 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Government, PSA’s, Religion, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Studies, Reports, White Papers, Investigations
The Santa Claus Statue in Santa Claus, Indiana
I thought that in the midst of summer heat (for some of us) we could use a little wintertime.
Here is the town's official page for the statue.
But Roadside America has a much more interesting tale. More details at the link.
It was purposely built on the highest hill in Santa Claus by businessman Carl Barrett, who wanted to antagonize his arch-rival Milton Harris, who was building his own attraction a hundred yards down the road. It was dedicated on Christmas Day 1935, less than a week after Harris had opened Santa's Candy Castle.
Barrett felt that Harris was commercializing Christmas. In contrast, Barrett claimed that the Santa statue had been built with the pennies of American schoolchildren. That may have been true, but he also claimed that the statue was built on the spot where a meteor had crashed (he hinted that this was a sign of divine guidance), and that it was made of solid granite. In fact there was no meteor, and the statue was later found to be made of concrete.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 03, 2021 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Holidays, Regionalism, Rivalries, Feuds and Grudges, 1930s
The Science of Mental Physics
Source of ad.
Read the whole text here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 26, 2021 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, New Age, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, 1930s, 1940s
The Singing Ringing Tree
A snippet, then the whole film.The Wikipedia page, where we learn:
The TV series, partly due to its foreignness as both fairy tale and for the unfamiliarity of its German production, was 'indelibly carved on the psyches'[7] as 'one of the most frightening things ever shown on [UK] children's television'.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 26, 2021 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Horror, Movies, Children, Foreign Customs, 1950s
Chattanooga Choo Choo, Brazilian Style
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 08, 2020 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Music, Foreign Customs, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, 1940s, South America
Let’s Have a Party - The Piano Genius of Mrs. Mills
This well-done documentary is a lot of fun.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 16, 2020 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Twentieth Century
Learning To Play The Shenanigan
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 30, 2019 -
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Category: Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Authorities and Experts, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Humor, Music, Foreign Customs, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Jon & Robin
Their Wikipedia page.
Many more songs here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 19, 2019 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Regionalism, 1960s
Crater Critters and Kin
Between 1959 and 1977, an Australian company based in Melbourne called Rosenhain and Lipmann (commonly known as R&L) designed and manufactured unique and innovative toys that became hugely popular both in Australia and overseas.[1] R&L started out making snap-together items that worked like tiny plastic model kits that didn't need any glue and were issued in a clear glassine bag, inside Kellogg's cereal boxes. Between 1959 and 1977, over 70 different sets were released and it is estimated that about one billion R&L toys were delivered around the world.
Quote from Wikipedia entry.
Explore all the sets at this great site.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 31, 2019 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Food, Freebies, Come-ons and Loss Leaders, Twentieth Century
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