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Neon Boneyard
Here's a Flickr set from one person's visit.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 15, 2009 -
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Category: Museums, Regionalism, Signage, Advertising
Trik Trak
Who wouldn't want one?!?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 12, 2009 -
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Category: Toys, Advertising, 1960s
I’m Back!
Hello Weird Universe readers. Some of you may remember back in May when I was posting weird things I found in old magazines, and maybe a few of you were wondering what happened to those posts. Being a college student, I had to go home over the summer, and my parents still don't have an internet connection (technically they have AOL, but that doesn't really count), so I had no way to post anything on Weird Universe for a few months. When I got back to Chicago, it took a while to get settled in, and I finally decided I should start posting again. I will try to post a few things a week from now on.I feel I should start with one of the most bizarre juxtapositions ever to appear, well, anywhere:
(from the April 1953 issue of Popular Science)
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Sat Oct 03, 2009 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, War, Advertising, 1950s
Follies of the Mad Men #74
This little film is simply the most brilliant surrealistic, dadaistic piece of cinema of the second half of the twentieth century. Opening with a full minute of a young woman wandering an autumnal landscape, it evolves into an anti-capitalist treatise featuring a world where decorative refrigerators rule mankind. And it's all done without dialogue. Forget Bunuel and Dali! Westinghouse and the Jam Handy Organization rule!
Considering it was made circa 1968, one has to ask: what were they smoking/dropping, and where can I get some today?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 02, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Interior Decorating, Drugs, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #73
Why do I get the sense that this "game" is just one card away from turning into a full-fledged orgy?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 29, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Games, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #72
This one's just for Patty, who registered discontent with our exclusive concentration on the female form!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 27, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Mad Men #71
An ad which inevitably causes the viewer to ask, "Is that a barber pole in your Jockeys, or are you just happy to see me?"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 11, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Fashion, 1950s, Genitals
Mother Takes a Holiday
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 10, 2009 -
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Category: Domestic, Marriage, Family, Children, Husbands, Teenagers, Wives, Movies, Documentaries, Advertising, Products, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Vintage Canadian Anti-tobacco Ad
One of the more creative anti-smoking ads....
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 06, 2009 -
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Category: Addictions, Death, Tobacco and Smoking, Advertising, Fantasy, 1970s, North America
Dutch Cider Ad
And now, gratuitous male flesh in a silly advert, for those WU readers who might appreciate it.
Link to article about ad.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 22, 2009 -
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Category: Advertising, Men, Europe, Alcohol
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