Twentieth Century
Strange Beauty Queens
This blog has a fine post with many fotos on our theme of oddball beauty contests.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 03, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Twentieth Century
The Mystery of Ambrose Small
Master Weirdist Charles Fort once made a jest involving two mysterious vanishings: "Was somebody collecting Ambroses?"One of the Ambroses involved was the famous Ambrose Bierce.
The other was much less-known: Ambrose Small.
One would think that after so many years, all had been said about Small's disappearance. But I can't find any reference to this further extension of the case as seen below.
Original article here.
More on the Small case.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 22, 2018 -
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Category: Crime, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Death, Twentieth Century
The Girl Gershwin
A forgotten figure today, Dana Suesse was once dubbed (by the New Yorker magazine no less) as "the Girl Gershwin," a label that probably did her more harm than good. In her era, her talents, in a woman, were certainly and unfairly considered "weird" on some levels.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 07, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Women, Twentieth Century
Behind the Burly Q
Trailer is Safe For Work. Link to book or DVD below.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 27, 2018 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Entertainment, Public Indecency, Sex Symbols, Books, Documentaries, Twentieth Century
Alice in Dairyland
I can see having a beauty queen to represent the dairy region. But what's the Lewis Carroll connection? The website is not forthcoming. Does she have surreal adventures or not?
Source.
Home page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 18, 2018 -
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Category: Agriculture, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
The Wiere Brothers
Their Wikipedia page.
And in 1962, reduced to playing the state fair circuit.
Newspaper source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 15, 2018 -
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Category: Comedians, Twentieth Century
Virginia Slims Clothing
Dress in the tribal garments of your tobacco goddess.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 20, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Tobacco and Smoking, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Women, Twentieth Century
Propellor-Driven Snowmobiles
This notion goes way back.The Russians tried them at the start of the 20th century, with the Aerosani.
Here's one from the 1930s.
And finally, one from 2016.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 08, 2018 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Nature, Weather, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Alois Swoboda
His Wikipedia page tells us:
His course did not use apparatus or exercise equipment. Claims in Swoboda's courses included the ability to regrow lost limbs and heal a heart damaged by a heart attack.
Article in POPULAR MECHANICS to be found here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 03, 2018 -
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Category: Body, Bodybuilding, Diseases, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Exercise and Fitness, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Twentieth Century
Mystery Illustration 73
What was this pleasant little old lady famous for?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 26, 2018 -
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Category: Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
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