Twentieth Century
Native American Endorsements
A good, short essay, with many examples (but not including the two videos below), can be found here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 16, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Candy, Cereal, Twentieth Century, Native Americans
Follies of the Madmen #551
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 29, 2022 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Robots, Women, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #550
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 19, 2022 -
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Category: Fashion, Shoes, Advertising, Public Indecency, Twentieth Century
Miss Anthracite
No chance of this beauty queen title being reinstated in today's, ahem, "climate."I find a reference to Miss Anthracite as early as 1928.
A few years later, there was a controversy.
She soldiered on through the 1940s.
The fifties saw no lack of interest in the contest.
The seventies certainly saw a stunning winner. But after that references peter out, as the romance of coal tapers off.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 30, 2022 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Twentieth Century, Mining
Follies of the Madmen #546
Many more images in this campaign here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 09, 2022 -
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Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Advertising, Women, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #545
Sleepwear for hungry insomniacs.Several others in this series here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 28, 2022 -
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Category: Fashion, Food, Sleep and Dreams, Advertising, Twentieth Century
The Great Virgil and Julie: The Spirit Cabinet
His magic encyclopedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 21, 2022 -
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Category: Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #543
Wonder Bread gets you sex.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 11, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, Twentieth Century, Sex
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 46
Two links to the Wikipedia pages of the Themersons, husband and wife team of avant-gardists.Small essay here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 31, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Movies, Twentieth Century
The Nine LaFalce Brothers
There have been any number of family singing groups. Many pop bands feature two brothers. The Beach Boys added cousins. Sister groups were popular in the forties and fifties. And finally, the famous Trapp Family featured ten children and two parents. But I do not believe any other act than the now-forgotten LaFalces had nine brothers onstage together.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 29, 2022 -
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Category: Family, Music, Twentieth Century
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