Domestic
Anti-Bulbsnatcher Device
This post is partially a tribute to the end of the incandescent bulb, after its long and glorious reign.For many years, GE conducted an ad campaign to discourage people from moving lightbulbs around from one fixture to another in a lazy manner, instead of always having a closetful of replacement bulbs. If only GE had invested in the patent which follows these ads, for a device that would not allow a bulb to be unscrewed with breaking it.
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 22, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Inventions, Patents, Technology, 1930s
House of Tomorrow: 1969
Watch the video below the screenshot.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 09, 2023 -
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Category: Architecture, Domestic, Hobbies and DIY, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
The New Domestic Landscape
Fifty years ago, a group of designers, showcased at MOMA, tried to predict the way we'd live.As usual with these efforts, there were more misses than hits.
More pix here and here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 29, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Museums, 1970s, Europe, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Billy Edd Wheeler: Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back
A romantic tribute to outhouses.The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 17, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Hillbillies, Country Bumpkins, Ruralism and Flyover Country, Hygiene, Music, 1960s, Nostalgia
Follies of the Madmen #563
Obviously whatever this gal was cooking smelled so hideous that she needed to conceal the odors.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 01, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Food, Advertising, 1960s, Smells and Odors
Follies of the Madmen #562
New kind of carpet is immune to elephant manure. Don't ask where that elephant's trunk goes in the final scene.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 20, 2023 -
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Category: Animals, Domestic, Advertising, Public Indecency
The Wonderful World of Tupperware
Say it ain't so, Ma! How have the mighty fallen....
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 15, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Advertising, Documentaries, 1960s
Glenda Lawrence, “America’s First Space Housekeeper”
Now that NASA has selected a new crew for the Moon mission, I hope they have not neglected to fill this role.
Glenda Lawrence America's First Space Housekeeper. She Will Be Preparing Food For The Apollo 11 Astronauts Armstrong Aldrin And Collins Whilst They Are In Quarantine.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 04, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s
Wailing-Activated Rocking Cradle
Mister Muzzey had a good idea way back in 1962 and was actually ahead of his time--his patent also references a baby monitor to transmit the cries to the parents' room--but I wonder if his device ever went into production? As you can see below, there are modern versions today.
Amazon link.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 03, 2023 -
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Category: Babies, Domestic, Inventions, Patents, Parents, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Mole Man of London
For some reason I recalled recently the odd case of William Lyttle, the Mole Man of London, who dug out a warren of tunnels under his home.Lyttle, originally from Ireland, inherited a 20-room property in the London borough of Hackney. In the mid-sixties he dug out a wine cellar under his home. Having done so, he said that he had "found a taste for the thing" and kept on digging, for some forty years.[2] He created a network of tunnels, wide and narrow, on several levels. Tunnels led in all directions, some of them up to 18 metres (59 ft) in length, and reaching as far down as the water table.[3] One excavation connected with the Dalston Lane tunnel, and the railway line.
I was intrigued to learn that 3 years ago, his derelict house had been renovated and repurposed! Read about it, with many pics, at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 24, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Eccentrics, Caves, Caverns, Tunnels and Other Subterranean Venues, United Kingdom, Twentieth Century
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