1960s
Wacky Races and You
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 29, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Destruction, Motor Vehicles, Cartoons, 1960s
Office Machine Symphony
Full explanation here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 27, 2013 -
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Category: Music, Technology, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Mexican Batwoman
Read more about this 1960's movie classic at The Schlock Treatment
Posted By: Alex - Sun May 26, 2013 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #205
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 22, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s
The Hunger Show, 1969
Back in October 1969, a group of "antipopulation protesters" staged a "hunger show" (aka "starve-in") outside of San Francisco. The plan was to inflate a 100x100-foot plastic pillow, inside of which 300 of them would spend a week without food, only water. As they sat there, feeling hungry, they would have to watch "slides of pork chops and peas and carrots" and listen to taped sounds of restaurant noises. Also, sandwiches would be taped to the exterior of the plastic pillow, and non-participants outside would stage a pie-eating contest.Participants were free to leave the pillow at any time, "but they can't return — they've died."
Organizer Stephanie Mills offered a slightly cryptic explanation of the goal of the protest: "People are just being too chicken, too chicken for their own good. We've got to encourage them not to be chicken."
The hunger show lasted half a week. Then it started to rain so they gave it up, saying, "We came here to suffer from hunger, not exposure."
[Pacific Stars & Stripes - Oct 9, 1969]
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 21, 2013 -
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Category: Food, 1960s
Irish Car: The Shamrock
Why there is no Irish car industry today. From Wikipedia.
Shortly after production began, however, design flaws became apparent. Although the car was big and heavy, it used a relatively small Austin A55 1.5 litre engine, which limited performance. The A55 also provided the transmission and suspension. Another problem was that the rear wheels were shrouded by body panels and a rear wheel could not be removed (for puncture repair for example) without dropping its axle..... Production of up to 10,000 cars a year was talked about but as few as ten complete cars were produced during the six months before production ceased. After the factory closed, the unused parts were dumped into the local lake, Lough Muckno.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 16, 2013 -
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Category: Regionalism, Success & Failure, 1950s, 1960s, Europe, Cars
GI Joe in Space
After his old-school sedate debut in 1967 (first video), GI Joe's outer space adventures turned decidedly weird in the 1970s, thanks apparently to the influence of Stanley Kubrick.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 15, 2013 -
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Category: Movies, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Toys, 1960s, 1970s
Least Successful Dance “Craze” Ever
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 11, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Fads, 1960s, Dance
Super Green Beret
Read all his adventures here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 09, 2013 -
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Category: War, Comics, Teenagers, 1960s
Briefly Married
Could this have been the shortest marriage ever? And does this kind of thing (dropping dead at the altar) happen often enough that it's no longer weird? [Source: The Day - Apr 3, 1967]
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 09, 2013 -
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Category: Death, Husbands, 1960s
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