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1950's

Winky Dink and You



The voice of Betty Boop launched a thousand TV screen scribbles and parental curses....

Have fun playing with your "winky dink" at home!

Full story here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Jan 31, 2012 | Comments (6)
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Disasters, Television, 1950's

Johnson Smith Catalog Item #18

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"Junior, why is the cat glowing?"

From the 1950 catalog.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Jan 30, 2012 | Comments (4)
Category: Hobbies and DIY, Johnson Smith Catalog, Science, Experiments, 1950's

Follies of the Mad Men #174



I'll bet you never knew popcorn came in special hepcat/hipster/beatnik varieties.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Jan 28, 2012 | Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1950's

Peeping Tom




If this vintage clip whets your appetite (moderately NSFW), you can view another famous film on the same theme in its entirety on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Jan 24, 2012 | Comments (3)
Category: Movies, Strippers, Stripping and Strip Clubs, Voyeurism, 1960's, 1950's

Snake-Handling Sect

This photo feature ran in a lot of newspapers back in July 1953. But the Woodside Community Mission church seems to have disappeared soon after. I can't imagine why.

Posted By: Alex | Date: Mon Jan 23, 2012 | Comments (6)
Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Religion, 1950's

What’s It To You?





A great combo of mad science and rampant consumerism. Half an hour of better living thru chemistry.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Jan 15, 2012 | Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Design and Designers, Domestic, Technology, 1950's

Johnson Smith Catalog Item #17

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What a shame bow ties are not much in style these days. Imagine how popular you would be, when flashing the "Drop Dead!" message!

"Is that a giant drycell battery in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

From the 1950 catalog.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Jan 07, 2012 | Comments (2)
Category: Fashion, Johnson Smith Catalog, 1950's, Pranks

Who’s Right?



This is more agonizing and excruciating than Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Jan 06, 2012 | Comments (1)
Category: PSA's, Annoying Things, Husbands, Wives, 1950's

The Crawling Hand



If you like the trailer, the entire version--as filtered thru MST3K--is online, with part 1 below:

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Dec 31, 2011 | Comments (4)
Category: Body Modifications, Horror, Movies, 1950's

Torchy the Battery Boy





My brain will never fully recover from viewing this.

Information here.

PS: do not confuse Torchy the Battery Boy with Bill Ward's Torchy.

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Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Dec 26, 2011 | Comments (5)
Category: Puppets and Automatons, Sex Symbols, 1950's
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