Europe
RIP Fratello Metallo, Heavy Metal Monk
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 20, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Religion, Europe
Heidi Bruhl
German pop of the Sixties. Was it as weird then as it is now?Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 08, 2024 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Europe
George Carl—“French Pantomimist”—on The Ed Sullivan Show
Prime time humor was really different, way back when.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 23, 2024 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Humor, Television, 1960s, Europe
The Letkiss
One of the weirder life-of-a-mayfly dance trends of the 1960s.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 19, 2024 -
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Category: Fads, 1960s, Dance, Europe
A New Sound from the Japanese Bach Scene
Just what you'd expect: Bach played on Japanese instruments. Player is embedded below the Tracklist.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 18, 2024 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Asia, Europe
Rebecca Horn, RIP
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 17, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Performance Art, Europe, Twentieth Century
Atomic Car
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 27, 2024 -
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Category: Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s, Europe, Cars
Miss Sopot, Communist Poland’s First Beauty Queen
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 21, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1950s, Europe
French vs. American vacuum desire
Different takes on vacuum desire from the 1950s. The French ad is more blatant, but the American ad has pink octopus arms extending from the vacuum and promises that "Only $69.95 fulfills your longing."
1958 French ad for the Samy vacuum cleaner
source: periodpaper.com
Aspirateur de conception révolutionnaire tout plastique alliant la légèreté et la robustesse … A la portée de tous par son prix le SAMY est vraiment l’aspirateur de DEMAIN!
Translation:
A revolutionary all-plastic vacuum cleaner combining lightness and robustness... Within everyone's reach due to its price, the SAMY is truly the vacuum cleaner of TOMORROW!
Life - Feb 9, 1953
via The Vacuum Cleaner by Maud Ellmann
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 02, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Appliances, 1950s, Europe
Weird Masks by Damselfrau
The creator's home page.
An interview, plus more pics.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 17, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Costumes and Masks, Europe
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