The Girl Gershwin

A forgotten figure today, Dana Suesse was once dubbed (by the New Yorker magazine no less) as "the Girl Gershwin," a label that probably did her more harm than good. In her era, her talents, in a woman, were certainly and unfairly considered "weird" on some levels.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 07, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Women, Twentieth Century

Follies of the Madmen #369

Not the kind of iconography that would be favored in today's ads.

Source.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 16, 2018 - Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Stereotypes and Cliches, Tobacco and Smoking, 1970s

Bandido

Why does no one write folk-rock songs about bandidos these days? "I'll clean my wound with tequila..."



More on singer Karen Lawrence.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 22, 2018 - Comments (4)
Category: Ethnic Groupings, Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1970s

The Ritz

Department of HAS NOT AGED WELL.




More in extended >>

Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 20, 2018 - Comments (2)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1970s, LGBT

The Candy Tangerine Man

Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 16, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Exploitation and Grindhouse, 1970s

Cool Breeze

"Cool Breeze is cold business!"

Extra points for the lead actor's extra-juicy name: Thalmus Rasulala.

Wikipedia entry.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 14, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Crime, Movies, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1970s

Follies of the Madmen #323

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 14, 2017 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Excrement, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1930s

Pass That Peace Pipe

"Why can't we all just get along?"

"Pass that peace pipe, bury that tomahawk/Like those Chichamecks, Cherokees,/Chapultepec's do..."

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 17, 2017 - Comments (4)
Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, Native Americans

Win A Houseboy Contest

In my physical copy of LIFE magazine for December 20, 1963, this ad occupies page 89.

In the scanned copy at Google, there is an entirely different ad on page 89. The image you see here is my scan of the paper copy.

I have no explanation for this. Did LIFE print regional issues with different ads?

In any case, I could find no other complete representation of this ad online. (There's a scan of the top part alone, for some reason.)

Thus does WU contribute to the world's stock of knowledge.

Posted By: Paul - Thu May 18, 2017 - Comments (6)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Ethnic Groupings, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s

A Word to the Wives

Posted By: Paul - Sat May 06, 2017 - Comments (0)
Category: Domestic, Family, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s