Gay Bob

"He comes dressed in mucho macho plaid shirt blue jeans that open with a smart snap to reveal his private parts......He lives in a closet....."

But this wasn't the first 'gay' doll.......

THIS was.....

Airwick Magic Mushroom

Sexing All Fowl

Exactly the kind of book you want to fall out of your backpack in public........

XXX Adult Records of The '70s

Donny & Marie's Super Energy Drink Recipe

Actual Swedish Magazine

The Electronic Secratary - America's First Telephone Answering Machine

The Electronic Secretary (1949) was the first telephone answering machines available in America (even earlier systems were used in Europe, but strangely forbidden in America due to resistance from AT&T and the FCC.)

They were used exclusively for businesses at this time. The original model recorded on wire and used a pre-recorded, professionally voiced 45 rpm record as the outgoing message. Succumbing to consumer demand, the Bell System companies and GTE rented this machine to mostly higher income residential customers by the early 1960s (the rental fees were big.)

In spite of it's availability (and the machines used cassette tape by the '70s), The answering machine was still fairly rare however and never really took off in America until the breakup and deregulation of AT&T in 1983 when they were finally sold direct to consumers outside of the phone companies.

Need A Typewriter?

Sometimes, there's a part of me that still misses using a typewriter.

I just like how it looks, each letter embossed into the paper rather than just photocopied from the office program on my computer.

And it's a delicious thrill for me to have my most formal paper correspondence look like crazed manifestos or ransom letters.....

And yes, typewriters are STILL being made. And you'll never guess for whom.

Eccentric old people?

Conspiracy nuts?

Nope.

They're made for prisoners.

So you're likely getting something SUPER rugged. And they come in clear cases (never underestimate those hardcore criminal minds.) And very few solid metal parts to get "creative" with.

And apparently, they are sold to the public as well.

http://www.swintec.com/clear-typewriters/10-2410cc.html

Feen-A-Mint Commercial

                         
                             


Feen-A-Mint.....sounds like mint-flavoured cocaine. But it was a women's laxative that came in a chewing gum as well as pills. But I remember this commercial for how tacky it was (how you ever noticed in '70s laxative commercials how people just randomly stopped everything to loudly talk about their "irregularity" problem?)

And the daughter here gets the gum while stuffy old mom takes the pills.

Frank N' Stuff Hot Dogs

Frank N' Stuff were Hot Dogs that had chili stuffed inside. They also came with cheese inside instead of chili.

Phone Sex

You MUST Have THIS: Mail Order Madness

The ULTIMATE DJ Turntable.....

.....circa 1930.....

Cricket Records

Someone once asked me about Cricket Records (as they always seem to turn up in any random box of musty old 45s and this label design is iconic, if the actual music garbage with modern kids)

Yes, they were a children's record label for 45 and 78 RPM records and they were an early product of Pickwick Records, a $1.98 budget record label of the '50s and '60s. In fact, Cricket was certainly the very last record label in America to regularly press 78 RPM records, well into the '60s (and by some reports, until 1968!)

Milk Brands

Foremost was once ubiquitous on the West Coast. Today Foremost is pretty much concentrated in the Midwest and on Guam.

Vitamilk was a Seattle based dairy.

"Homo" milk probably wasn't the best selling moniker for Oak Farm's main dairy product (or at least I'm sure the name never caught on.)

Before They Were Stars: "You're A Grand Old Flag" Sally Field (1965)

Today's Flag Day.....

Unbelievable McDonald's Ad From The '70s

"You don't have to get dressed up, there's no tipping...." REALLY?

.....and what's "Dinnertimin'"?

'70s Tupperware

In the 1970's, Tupperware came in four basic colours: Orange, Yellow Avocado Green and Brown.

No others.

The reason was because these actually were the basic colours of '70s kitchens.

Indeed it wasn't until 1980 when Tupperware added different colours to their kitchen lines. And initially, only one - Beige. Others were added a few years later. 

'80s Neon Sunglasses

Happy Gay Pride Month!

 

"L.A. Is My Lady" Frank Sinatra (1984)

The year was 1984 and Frank Sinatra had just released a long awaited new album.

This was a pretty big thing. Whenever Sinatra put out a new album, the world of music paid attention.

This album however would be Sinatra's last album of new material. 

This video has a ton of cameo appearances, including Van Halen, Donna Summer, Missing Persons, Michael McDonald, Cheryl Tiegs, Dean Martin, LaToya Jackson and of course, Michael Jackson.) When you get a call from Quincy Jones asking you to appear in Frank Sinatra's video, who is going to turn him down?   

The Utica Club

http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/2003/023.shtml

I'm back,

It's Memorial Day in America, the sacred time where Americans remember their fallen heroes by quaffing oceans of beer and eat tons of grilled food. And watch the Indy 500 on TV......

So for your drinking pleasure, I present you with The Utica Club Natural Carbonation Beer Drinking Song, a song best heard under the influence of several bubbly foamy alcoholic beverages. And this charming little 45 from '60s is presented to you on a scratch resistant Stereo MP3....perfect for tipsy music playing......

Utica Club was a beer they brewed in upstate New York. They still brew it (we all could go for a tasty round!)



http://www.saranac.com/page/family-brands

Enjoy!

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2003/01/365-Days-Project-01-23-the-utica-club-national-carbonation-band.mp3