Oog Bongo Walsco Fringo

Crazy eyes!


Source: Radio Electronics magazine - April 1952
     Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 08, 2015
     Category: Advertising | 1950s





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I wish I'd've had the inclination to stop & take a photo of the windowless, doorless Romani slum hovels we passed in Bulgaria with the 1.5 meter dishes out front & electric extension cords leading from the street lights.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/08/15 at 10:35 AM
Notice the transmission trends in two technologies where one adopts the other - namely the telephone and television.

Consider that for many years the television was a large bulky item that was never meant to travel. In that case it makes sense to deliver the signal by wire. Instead, the signal was sent out as a broadcast.

The telephone represents the opposite where it originally could have been portable and its signal delivered by broadcast.

I predict that in not too many years, even the current digital broadcasting of television will fade and telephones working with a wire will do the same.
Posted by KDP on 02/09/15 at 10:23 AM
The brass coils (I count 20) seen in the illustration are exclusively found in northern Thailand/Myanmar (Burma) among the Kayan people.
The gibberish and the ethnic stereotype in the ad are probably intended to mock South Africans, where the Southern Ndebele married women also wear neck rings - but not so many.
Posted by tadchem on 02/09/15 at 02:40 PM
BTW: Those 'crazy eyes' are one characteristic symptom of Grave's Disease - a thyroid disorder once called 'goiter' - which involves a swollen neck from glandular inflammation.
It would have been excruciating in combination with the neck rings.
Posted by tadchem on 02/09/15 at 02:44 PM
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