1970s
Lullaby from the Womb
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Category: Body, Pregnancy, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Accidentally launched from cannon
This would qualify as a bad day at work.
Kenosha News - Oct 17, 1972
The best illustration I could coax out of Microsoft's AI image creator. It got the general idea of a mechanic and a human cannonball machine, but it positioned the guy wrong relative to the cannon.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 18, 2024 -
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Category: Accidents, 1970s, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows
Instant “Boot-look”
1971 Sears Fall and Winter Catalog
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 09, 2024 -
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Category: Fashion, 1970s
Debbie Merritt, the half-baked girl
It looks like Debbie Merritt didn't just burn. She got absolutely fried.When the ad says that this was a "medically supervised test," does that mean a doctor sat there and watched as she roasted herself?
Ladies' Home Journal - June 1970
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 26, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, 1970s, Skin and Skin Conditions
The Midnight Parasites
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 24, 2024 -
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Category: Aliens, Cryptozoology, Death, Surrealism, Cartoons, 1970s
Raisin Pudding Cake
Family Circle Magazine - Jan 1976
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 22, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, 1970s
Living With Lesbians
The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 21, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Sexuality, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1970s
The Judge who wanted to be fully informed
Nov 1976: Roxbury District Court Judge Elwood McKenney, presiding over a cocaine possession case, announced that he would need to try cocaine himself before he made his ruling... in order to be able to make an informed decision. He recessed the trial until he had done so.
Palo Alto Times - Nov 2, 1976
Judge Elwood McKenney
About a month later, McKenney abandoned his decision to try cocaine, saying that all the publicity about it had distorted his intent.
But he then proceeded to rule that the Massachusetts statutes forbidding the possession of cocaine were unconstitutional.
Obviously his ruling must have been dismissed or overturned at some point, otherwise cocaine would now be legal in Massachusetts. But I haven't been able to figure out when that happened.
Boston Globe - Dec 11, 1976
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 18, 2024 -
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Category: Drugs, Law, Judges, 1970s
People-Passing
More accurately, coed-passing. By the mid-1970s it was considered "sort of traditional" at many college football games.What it involved: "a group of fellows sitting behind a coed suddenly picks her up and begins bouncing her — like a sack of potatoes — over their heads to the next row. And up she goes, maybe 75 rows."
So it was like crowd surfing, but entirely involuntary on the part of the coed being flung overhead. And more dangerous, I would think.
According to Wikipedia, "Iggy Pop may have invented crowd surfing at 1970's Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival." I wonder if the idea of crowd surfing spread from music festivals to football games, or if it was the other way around.
Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania) - Sep 30, 1976
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 16, 2024 -
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Category: Fads, Sports, 1970s, Women
De Dik Voormekaar Show
The Wikipedia page.
TV version of the popular radio program with André van Duin and Ferry de Groot in which the various characters were portrayed on screen by hand puppets in the first season (1977-1978) and full body costumes in the second (1978-1979).
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 14, 2024 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, 1970s, Europe
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