HadleyH said:Never came across something like this before! 1930s ostrich wearing a throat warmer!:fing28:
He needs a coat to match.
http://craftandhobby.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ostrich.jpg
HadleyH said:Never came across something like this before! 1930s ostrich wearing a throat warmer!:fing28:
Shangas said:Are you thinking of the 1950s "Duck and Cover" advertisements? It was supposed to protect against a nuclear blast...only...it didn't.
And I suspect that it would've been equally useless against a conventional bomb-blast.
LizzieMaine said:This wasn't just a Golden Era thing -- I can remember seeing those classifications in ads well into the 1980s. It was especially common for health-care job listings -- "Elderly Woman seeks female nurse/companion," things like that.
Shangas said:Are you thinking of the 1950s "Duck and Cover" advertisements? It was supposed to protect against a nuclear blast...only...it didn't.
And I suspect that it would've been equally useless against a conventional bomb-blast.
Maybe survived unscathed then, but just about everyone ended up suffering from long term effects of being exposed to the large amount of immediate radiation and long term exposure to residual radiation. Don't make light of the effects, there are many who suffer still from the after effects, and every year to this day, new names are added to the roster of the nuclear bomb victims who died of various post exposure issues, at the annual memorial services held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Atomic Age said:The "duck and cover" drills were developed because the Army discovered that more people were killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by flying debris than from heat or radiation. In addition, there were several cases where someone standing behind a wooden fence survived unscathed, where someone 20 feet away in the open, was vaporized.
In the early "low yield" days of atomic warfare, the duck and cover strategy made a good deal of sense. But those drills didn't make it very far out of the 1950's.
Doug
Miss Scarlet said:In England if you're pregnant you get free dental care because of the whole loose teeth thing. I've not known any pregnant women to have taken prenatal vitamins. I hope we're not all malnourished in England.
Miss Scarlet said:In England if you're pregnant you get free dental care because of the whole loose teeth thing. I've not known any pregnant women to have taken prenatal vitamins. I hope we're not all malnourished in England.
LaMedicine said:Maybe survived unscathed then, but just about everyone ended up suffering from long term effects of being exposed to the large amount of immediate radiation and long term exposure to residual radiation. Don't make light of the effects, there are many who suffer still from the after effects, and every year to this day, new names are added to the roster of the nuclear bomb victims who died of various post exposure issues, at the annual memorial services held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Chas said:Back to topic - weird= those dog movies i.e. "Dogway Melody".
I googled it, but couldn't find anything except the "Keep on Truckin''" comic by Robert Crumb...Veronica Parra said:
-- Truckin'. (Not to be confused with truck driving. Look it up if necessary.)
LizzieMaine said:A lot of people at the time thought those were creepy. I'd also add the "Baby Burlesks" comedies -- shorts where toddlers were dressed up in bizarre costumes and put thru parodies of grownup movie stories. A toddler swaying around dressed like Mae West with a dubbed voice murmuring double-entendres is just -- ick.