Sports
The Texas All-Girl Track Club, 1964
Source: Sports Illustrated - Apr 20, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 25, 2014 -
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Category: Sports, Hair Styling, 1960s
The SkiBee
Invented by Detroit resident Donald Steeg, circa 1970. The SkiBee had an eight-horsepower engine with a 24-inch propellor that served as a propulsion unit for motorized skiing. Anyone who was willing to wear this thing on their back, could enjoy skiing without having to find a slope to go down. During the summer, it could also be used as an outboard motor on a boat.
[Hutchinson News - Feb 6, 1970]
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 26, 2013 -
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Category: Inventions, Motor Vehicles, Sports, 1970s
Donkey Lifting
Instead of lifting weights in Ukraine, they lift donkeys. [nydailynews]
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 22, 2013 -
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Category: Sports
East German Rally, 1950
"Rally posters contrast U.S. girl wrestlers with pure and healthful communistic sports."I wonder how many people at this rally were thinking that the U.S. girl wrestling looks a lot more fun.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 20, 2013 -
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Category: Sports, Wrestling, 1950s
Mutton Busting
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 10, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Sports, Children
Uphill Skiing
Instead of going down the slope, you go up it, using a parachute to drag you. The inventors of this sport call it "wind mountaineering". And they're trying to raise money to help them commercialize the idea. Their site is upski.com.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 05, 2013 -
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Category: Sports
Mono-Ski
Not quite an explanation for the famous Charles Addams ski cartoon.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 17, 2013 -
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Category: Disabilities, Sports, 1940s
Global Warming Solved
Nike recently filed a patent application for "a golf ball that includes carbon dioxide absorbents in order that the golf ball may reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to aid in alleviating global warming."So if we all just play more golf, that global warming thing should be reversed in no time! [via Mother Jones]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 09, 2013 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Sports
Football Meat Loaf
I don't think that shaping the meat loaf like a football makes it look more appetizing. And I don't understand at all the pairing of chewing gum and meat loaf.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 22, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Sports
Donkey Baseball
Donkey Baseball (which is, as the name implies, baseball played while riding on donkeys) became a popular fad in the 1930s. But it wasn't always fun and games. There was one case of a donkey baseball fatality. In 1934, William Beck fell from his donkey three times in the course of trying to make first base. The fourth time he fell, he fractured his spine and died. [Gettysburg Times - Aug 6, 1934]
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 14, 2013 -
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Category: Death, Sports, 1930s
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