Twentieth Century
The Venice Surfestival
This celebration ran for a number of years. And of course, there had to be a queen each year.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 22, 2024 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Parades and Festivals, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #589
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 06, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Junk Food, Wild West and US Frontier, Twentieth Century
Bad Wig Bandits
Bad hairpieces are a definite theme for bank robbers. The first such I find is from the 1950s. The latest is from 2020. When will the next Bad Wig Bandit strike?The newspaper piece below was too long to reproduce in its entirety, but you can read about Frank Sprenz here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 27, 2024 -
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Category: Stupid Criminals, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century, Hair and Hairstyling
The Fifth Dimension Sings “The Declaration of Independence”
Was this the secret origin of SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 26, 2024 -
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Category: Law, Music, Politics, PSA’s, Twentieth Century
Miss Grey Cup
Read about this beauty queen title here, with lots more pictures.What's great though is the local titles of the individual beauty queens competing for the overall title. Nothing evokes femininity like "Winnipeg Blue Bomber" or "Calgary Stampeder."
CANADA - NOVEMBER 25: In training: Entrants in the Miss Grey Cup contest worked out at the Toronto Women's Club yesterday. Left to right are Miss B.C. Lion Debbie Kushner; Miss Calgary Stampeder Sherri Brooks; Miss Hamilton Tiger Cat Angie Balogh; Miss Montreal Concorde Lynda Mercier; Miss Winnipeg Blue Bomber Kim Walls; Miss Saskatchewan Roughrider Leslie McNaughton; Miss Toronto Argonaut Suzanne Housego and Miss Edmonton Eskimo Betty Jandewerth.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 18, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Odd Names, North America, Twentieth Century
RIP Günter Brus
This video is a little gross, but hardly much by contemporary horror cinema standards.From his Wikipedia entry:
Brus was a co-founder in 1964 of Viennese Actionism (German: Wiener Aktionismus) with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. His aggressively presented actionism intentionally disregarded conventions and taboos, with the intent of shocking the viewer. At the Kunst und Revolution event at the University of Vienna in 1968, Brus urinated into a glass then proceeded to cover his body in his own excrement, and during the performance Brus also sang the Austrian National Anthem while masturbating. Brus ended the piece by drinking his own urine and inducing vomiting, and was subsequently arrested. Through this piece and his other performance works, Brus hoped to reveal the still fascist essence of the nation. This performance created a public outrage at the time and the participants were dubbed by the media as uniferkel or "University Piggies." Sentenced to 6 months in prison after the event and subsequent public reactions, he fled to Berlin with his family and returned to Austria in 1976.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 14, 2024 -
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Category: Misbehavior, Rebellion, Acting-out and General Naughtiness, Performance Art, Outrageous Excess, Europe, Twentieth Century, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
The Belgian-Colombian War
A short essay here has a few more details.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 13, 2024 -
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Category: War, Europe, South America, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Love & Romance
Mystery Gadget 108
This is not an iron lung machine. So then, what's going on?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 18, 2024 -
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Category: Technology, Twentieth Century
Pigeon Drones
Read all about the wartime practice of mounting cameras on pigeons.At Wikipedia.
And at Public Domain Review, where there are more pictures.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 17, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Inventions, Photography and Photographers, War, Twentieth Century
Vintage Advertising Cars
Yes, we will always have the Wienermobile.And a few other similar vehicles.
But on the whole, we are sadly lacking nowadays in novelty vehicles to brighten our lives.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 15, 2024 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Advertising, Twentieth Century
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