1950s
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This 1959 Film About The Bed Of The Future Tried So Hard To Be Secretly Horny
What was the bed of the future supposed to look like? If you went to a British movie theatre in 1959, you may have seen this high-tech bed of tomorrow displayed in a short film. before the main feature. But this bed wasn’t just about getting a good night’s sleep. There were also some suggestive nods…
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7 Fake Journalist Names The U.S. Government Used To Spread Propaganda During The 1950s
Back in the 1950s and 60s, the American government’s foreign propaganda arm, the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), invented fake names for journalists to plant stories in newspapers. In 2016, I wrote about Guy Sims Fitch, just one of the pseudonyms that was used globally. But I recently stumbled upon a few more names that might…
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Was This The Plexiglass Car Of The Future In 1952?
If you’re a fan of olde-timey futuristic cars you may have seen the photo above pulsating through your streams this weekend. Is it really what people of 1952 thought cars of the future would look like? Not exactly. But it’s still really cool!