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Happy Halloween 2024!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 31, 2024 -
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Category: Body, Head, Holidays, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal
Headache Hanger
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 15, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Medicine, 1910s, Head
Suction-Cup Scalp Nipples for Holding a Wig in Place
The illustration shows adhesive anchoring, but he does say suction cups are an option!Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 20, 2023 -
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Category: Wigs, Hairpieces, Fake Eyelashes, Implants, and other Prosthetics, Patents, 1920s, Head
Hanes Legs
A collection of seemingly unattached body parts.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 16, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s, Head, Legs
Glacier Rub
I guess you can't keep a good (?) idea down. Particularly poignant product name in an era of climate change.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 08, 2019 -
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Category: Body, Head, Business, Advertising, Nature, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Bear Grease for Bald Men
Wikipedia says: "Bear's grease was a popular treatment for men with hair loss from at least as early as 1653 until about the First World War." They obviously know nothing about Canadian Kelly Chamandy, who was still peddling the stuff in the 50s.When he finally came home for good at the end of the war, Kelly Chamandy was bald as an egg. Taking the advice of his Cree friends, he began massaging rendered bear fat into his scalp and, lo and behold, his hair began to grow back! The state of his pate, his Syrian peddler heritage, and his wilderness experience gave him a brilliant idea which led to his entrance into an ancient, unconventional, and all-but-forgotten industry: the bear grease market.
Big article on Chamandy here.
1953 Maclean's article here.
BTW, here's some bear fat for you.
Foto source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 28, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, North America, Twentieth Century, Hair and Hairstyling, Head
Chester Greenwood, Inventor of Earmuffs
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 06, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Regionalism, Nineteenth Century, Head
Follies of the Madmen #371
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 25, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1950s, Head
George Barris’s Bob Hope Golf Cart
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 23, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Motor Vehicles, Sports, Golf, Outsider Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Head
Follies of the Madmen #333
To me, this ad at first seems to imply that people used whisk brooms on their scalps when they had dandruff. Then I got the meaning that they were always whisking the shoulders of their clothes. But in any case, a liberal application of Listerine--to the scalp, not the shoulders of the clothes--solves everything!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 06, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1940s, Head
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