1960s
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Essay detailing history of the piece here.The creator's Wikipedia page.
Let us know when you bail.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 31, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, 1960s, Mental Health and Insanity, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Follies of the Madmen #560
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 29, 2023 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Body, Cryptozoology, Health, Advertising, 1960s, 1970s
The Littlechaps
Read an extensive history at the link, with many scary pictures.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 22, 2023 -
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Category: Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Family, Horror, Jobs and Occupations, Toys, Dolls and Stuffed Animals, 1960s
The Hurricane Party of 1969
Based on the press coverage from 1969, it sounds like the couples who remained in the path of Hurricane Camille to have a "hurricane party" certainly deserved to become Darwin Award winners (bestowed on them in 2000 by Wendy Northcutt in her Darwin Awards book)."The last time I went up to try to get them out, the water was just over the sea wall. They were having a good time and they wouldn't leave. That's the last anybody saw of them," he said.
Orlando Evening Star - Aug 19, 1969
But digging deeper into the story, thirty years after the hurricane people began challenging the tale of a "hurricane party." According to the debunkers, there was no party, and the people who stayed had been told by the apartment manager that the building could withstand a hurricane because it was a designated Civil Defense shelter.
One apartment resident who survived the hurricane continued to insist that the people on the third floor had been having a party. But this woman also claimed insanity as the reason she killed her 11th husband. So not the most credible witness.
More info: Hurricane Camille party in 1969: Fact or fiction? -- Hurricane Party
image source: Acts of God: the Old farmer's almanac unpredictable guide to weather and natural disasters
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 21, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Dinners, Banquets, Parties, Tributes, Roasts and Other Celebrations, 1960s, Weather
Running Bear
The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 18, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Music, 1960s, Native Americans
Follies of the Madmen #559
That endless red-carpet SFX is pretty impressive for the 1960s. Plus, an eight-track player!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 16, 2023 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Special Effects, 1960s, Cars
Mad Drums
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 12, 2023 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1960s
Clown Cushions
The Australian Women's Weekly - Mar 23, 1966
Click to enlarge
via Undine
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 11, 2023 -
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Category: Clowns, 1960s
RIP Jerry Samuels, aka Napoleon XIV
An obit is here.His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 11, 2023 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Mental Health and Insanity
Miss Paramount Week
This beauty prize is plenty weird on its own. Most beauty queen titles are not delimited by a timeframe. Of course, the winners of the most famous contests generally reign for a year. A week seems a short splurge. But this winner, actress/singer/model Sandy Warner, also notches up another claim to WU fame. She was the cover girl for many of Martin Denny's exotica albums. Read about her at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 10, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, 1950s, 1960s
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