Weird and Oblivious Old Album Covers - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Companies got away with some pretty racy advertising in the '70s—the cocaine paraphernalia ads uncovered earlier this month certainly showed that—and, as it turns out, selling stereo equipment could be just as ribald. Dangerous Minds dug up several ads (some of which are NSFW) that were likely featured in National Lampoon and men's magazines, and each one seems more sexual than the last. Apparently, selling stereo equipment meant you had to appreciate, and use, every breast pun or group-sex reference you could think of. Check out some of the ads below:
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There were vending machines for every conceivable foodstuff and everyday essential from between the 1930s and 1960s. 1. Buying flight insurance used to be so much easier. Here’s a machine selling air insurance at Newark Airport. 2. Just 25 cents a book, such a bargain. 3. Why pick apples when you can get them from a vending machine? 4. Not too certain what Ark Pie is, but I want some. 5. This machine actually sold already lit cigarettes for a penny. 6. Let’s hope this machine is selling hot dogs. 7. A coin operated perfume dispenser. 8. Only 10 quarters for flight insurance? That seems like a bargain. 9. Enjoy your music with this 45 rpm record vending machine. 10. Get all your grocery shopping done without having to talk to a single soul. 11. Forget your bikini? That's what this vending machine is for. 12. For the fishermen on the go. 13. Why bring lunch when you can have vending machine soup!? 14. That’s actually Harpo Marx surprising someone on Candid Camera from inside a Coca-Cola vending machine. 15. A vending machine selling Calpis, a Japanese beverage. 16. Lemonade vending machines in Moscow. 17. Instant books! 18. Pantyhose on-the-go in France. 19. A machine dispensing handy lightbulbs. 20. Not the most exciting vending machine — dispensing lumps of coal in France — but still useful once upon a time. 21. Cream cheese and jelly sandwich anyone? Two sandwich vending machines from circa 1945. 22. A vending machine for bouquets of flowers in Berlin. 23. You can have your tea however you like it. As long as you like it with milk and sugar. 24. A Macy’s vending machine that sold men’s shorts for only 97 cents! 25. A German “Feinkost” vending machine mounted on a shop’s wall, circa 1955. 26. Warm lunch vending machine at Zandvoort in the Netherlands. 27. Milk vending machine in U.K. from circa 1960. 28. Milk vending machine in London. 29. Coal machine distributor in England. 30. A new refrigerated vending machine called the “5 Star Microdine Hot Meal Service”.
Weird and Awkward Album Covers - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Weird and Oblivious Old Album Covers - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Weird and Oblivious Old Album Covers - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
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Weird and Oblivious Old Album Covers - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Weird and Oblivious Old Album Covers - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Photographs have always been used to record unique moments in time. The pictures documented here go beyond the norm by revealing the twisted and sometimes shocking culture of the human race. These photos encapsulate the disturbing mood, revealing tone and sometimes confusing values of yesteryear. 1. A ghostly apparition appears behind a young woman, who sits reading, oblivious to her spectral companion, circa 1925. FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 2. Horrifying (and nearly fatal) facial injuries to a German soldier in World War I. Universal History Archive/Getty Images 3. A foot of the elephant on the head of the artist, ca. 1938. ullstein bild / Getty Images 4. Salvador Dali holds up two seashells at his home in Cadaques on the Costa Brava, Spain, 1955. Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 5. A woman wearing a crab hat at the League, ca. 1950s. Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images 6. A photo from the Victorian era (no surprise there). Public Domain 7. The psychiatric unit of a hospital in Haute Savoie, France. BSIP/UIG via Getty Images 8. A Bagobo, with filed teeth, circa 1910. The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images 9. Distractions at the front; the 'human serpent', France, World War I, 1915. Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images 10. A photograph of Will Thomas, taken by William Hope (1863-1933), with a ghost in the background (that they apparently really wanted to include). SSPL/Getty Images 11. Max Factor takes precise measurements of a young woman's head and face with his "Beauty Calibrator" (1932). Beauty has never been so horrifying. FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 12. The New Year's festival of the Sylvester Klause at Urnasch in the Appenzell region of Switzerland... which is full of its own kind of horror. Francois LE DIASCORN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images 13. Opera singer at the New York Met, Marie Tiffany singing 'like a bird' with her head in a bird cage, 1930. General Photographic Agency/Getty Images 14. Giraffe woman of Burma in London, ca. 1930. Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images 15. When the circus visited a children's hospital (circa 1930), clown Charlie Smith didn't exactly make anyone feel better. FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 16. A silent, suffering inmate of an insane asylum. Jerry Cooke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images 17. Once again, Victorian portraits rule everything. Public Domain 18. Horatio Gordon Robley and his collection of severed heads, 1895. Public Domain 19. Lieutenant Herman with his ventriloquist dummy, circa 1870. Public Domain 20. This ghoulish encounter, circa 1863. Public Domain / Eugene Thiebault 21. Even the dead can be... useful. These med school students and their study subject in 1901. Public Domain 22. You don't believe in witches, you say? This group of “witches” in 1875. Public Domain 23. A clown in a burnt-out house, USA, 1975. Welcome to my nightmare. Jill Freedman/Getty Images 24. A patient undergoing treatment for mental illness in 19th-century Germany. Hulton Archive / Getty Images 25. Adr. Evtikhiev the “Wolfman,” 19th century. ihm.nlm.nih.gov / Via Flickr: nlmhmd 26. A midnight haunting over a baby’s crib, circa 1860. London Stereoscopic Company / Getty Images 27. Six skeletons smoking around the dinner table, circa 1865. London Stereoscopic Company / Getty Images 28. This playful clown from 1924. Hulton Archive / Getty Images 29. This deathly serious ghost, circa 1905. Historic Photo Archive / Getty Images 30. A man posing with his collection in 1850. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Good luck sleeping tonight! (via ViralNova and BuzzFeed)
Weird and Oblivious Old Album Covers - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
