30 Weird Old-School Randoms With a Bit of Context
Neill Lynskey
Published
11/05/2024
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Funny
History is vast because it contains, well, everything that ever happened.
We all learned about the big moments in school, and most of that is pretty boring. But the things they probably didn’t show you in school can get pretty strange, fascinating, and funny.
Old ads that seem to encourage hitting women, a band of people wearing only tires, and Soviet children standing around a lightbulb like possessed demons are just a few of the weirdest snapshots from history that we’ve found.
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1. Hefty Girls Wanted for Police Force (must be fairly good looking). Ad of the London Metropolitan Police, 1930s.
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2. Dumferline skating rink band, c. 1900.
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3. Ford Manx concept car from 1975.
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4. A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
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5. Underwear ad.
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6. Liberace takes a bubble bath, 1978.
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8. Guinness Book of World Records x Hostess Ad.
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9. White Castle Employee Guidelines, 1940s.
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10. A means of communication between driver and passenger, 1970.
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11. Experimental Dutch bike.
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12. Soviet children in Siberia standing in-front UV light baths during winter, 1980s.
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13. Ad for mayonnaise cakes.
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14. Wife of photographer E.F. Buchan of Worthington Minnesota.
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15. Buster Brown shoes, circa 1905.
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16. 1958 ad for Tunies Tuna Hot Dogs!
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17. Teenagers Weekly, 1963.
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18. Start your stamp collecting journey with HITLER HEADS! (1951)
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19. Can you compete with your daughter's little girl look?
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20. An Ad For Coffee.
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21. Master butcher Török Sándor with two of his sons, and prize 420 kilogram Mangalica pig. Törökszentmiklós, Hungary, 1922.
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22. Mister Merry’s Play Lighter
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23. “Black and White Minstrels”, 1991.
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24. The house band for the Michelin Radio Hour, 1928.
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25. Medieval Art depicting Apollo killing Ganymede by piercing his eye!
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26. News clipping from the New York Daily Mirror, c. 1950s.
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27. NY Times Dec 21 1924 - Hitler Tamed By Prison
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28. Joe E. Brown attends an adult baby party in the opening scene of Broad-Minded (1931) .
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29. William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building, dressed as The Chrysler Building at the Society of Beaux Arts Architects ball.
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30. Whiskey Vending Machine, 1960.
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