1940s
Tica Ti Tica Ta
The ballad of the "two gay senores."
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 07, 2010 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Music, 1940s
Easy Does It
The amazing lives of gals full of "pep and ginger."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 06, 2010 -
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Category: Documentaries, 1940s, Women
Turkey Feather Wedding Dress
More pix here, courtesy of LIFE.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 03, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Fashion, Marriage, 1940s
The Walls Keep Talking
How many Big Band songs recounted literal horror stories worthy of Stephen King? Probably just this one.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 29, 2009 -
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Category: Horror, Music, 1940s
Two Girl Hitchhikers
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 27, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Underwear, Law, Sexuality, 1940s, Cars
Follies of the Mad Men #74
[From Good Housekeeping for December 1949.]
"Subliminal" is not the precise word I want here. Not when the coded message is in big red letters.
"Subtextual?" "Off-topic?" "Suggestive?"
In any case, promoting the maxim "husbands beat wives" in a women's magazine was one way of keeping the girls in line, I guess.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 25, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Marriage, Food, Violence, Husbands, Wives, 1940s
Alternate History of VJ Day
If the history books had been written a little differently, the iconic shot of a woman getting plastered straight from the bottle might be gracing your "Greatest Generation" tributes.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 20, 2009 -
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Category: Holidays, War, 1940s, Women, Alcohol
Pepsi-Cola!
(from the June 1946 issue of Popular Science)
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Sat Oct 17, 2009 -
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Category: Advertising, Products, 1940s
30 Dumb Inventions
This has been making its way around the internet over the past few days, but it is still interesting. The Life website has a photo gallery of 30 dumb inventions. Most of them are just terrible, like an external baby cage for your (high rise) apartment window or a phone answering robot (who just happens to be mute), but this one in particular just strikes me as a great idea: Illuminated tires.
If these were actually available, which doesn't seem likely, I would definitely buy some. They just look so cool, especially on vintage cars like the one pictured above.
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Tue Oct 06, 2009 -
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Category: Technology, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Globetrotters Costume Party
Here is a history of The Globetrotters Club, which is still in operation today.Shortly after their founding, in 1947, they threw a costume party, pictured here.
I hope such events are still part of their activities.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 20, 2009 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Pop Culture, Travel, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Dogs, 1940s
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