Vintage Pulp

September 24 2014

RIGHT NUMBER

Sommer isn’t over quite yet.

In June we shared a Japanese poster for Elke Sommer’s 1966 comedy Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number and talked about the movie a bit. Today we have two even better Italian promos for the same film. In Italy it was succinctly retitled Un bikini per Didi, and the art is by yet another Italian talent, this time Tino Avelli, who we haven’t featured before. We’ll have more from him later.

Italy, Tino Avelli, Un bikini per Didi, Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number, Elke Sommer, Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, poster art, cinema

Vintage Pulp

October 20 2012

BUST OF PLENTY

Chestnuts roasting by an open fire.

After a few weeks of uncharacteristically normal models, the guys from Goodtime Weekly get back to business as usual with a photo from Ron Vogel and model who is—there’s no other phrase—enormously endowed. Autumn is here, after all, so perhaps she symbolizes the stockpiling of food for winter, the horn of plenty filled with inexhaustible gifts, the warmth sought on cold nights. Or maybe they just liked big boobs. Anyway, we said last week we’d try a few of the Goodtime quips in the real world, and, “Ahhh!” Ahhh haaah!” was usually the reaction. Or, “That’s, um—where did you hear that?” But a few went over well. So experiment inconclusive. We’ll continue testing during the next couple of weeks, because the American expat clique has a few Halloween related social gatherings coming up. When we’re done with this experiment we will know definitively whether Goodtime Weekly humor is timeless, or should simply be forgotten.

Oct 20: “Mother-in-law: A woman who arranged a match for her daughter and then intends to referee as well.”—Pat Buttram

Oct 21: “Bar bells are sometimes easier to pick up than bar bills.”—Sam Cowling

Oct 22: “The wife of an archaeologist says, ‘The older I get the better I look to my husband.’”—Phyllis Diller

Oct 23: “A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen.”—Ambrose Bierce

Oct 24: Cars are not the only things that can hit and run a man down; gossipers have done worse.

Oct 25: “A perfect husband is one who can understand every word his wife isn’t saying.”—Sig Sakowicz

Oct 26: “Some wives cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go,”—Freddie Flintstone

Goodtime Weekly Calendar, Pat Buttram, Phyllis Diller, Sam Cowling, Ambrose Bierce, Sig Sakowicz, Freddie Flintstone, nudity

Vintage Pulp

July 21 2012

CHECKERED PAST

You better check yourself.

Above, the Goodtime Weekly Calendar of 1963 for the week beginning July 21 with an image by Fernand Fonssagrives, a French photographer who published in Harper’s Bazaar and other magazines, and later made images of nudes with light patterns on their skin a trademark style. He was also married to Lisa Fonssagrives, who many think of as the first supermodel. See a few more Fonssagrives images here.

July 21: A smart wife has the steak on when her husband returns from his fishing trip.

July 22: I asked a beautiful girl, “Are you a model?” She said, “No, I’m full scale.”—Harrison Baker

July 23: “Women used to get undressed for the beach; now they do it to go to the supermarket.”—He-who Who-he

July 24: Figures come all sorts and shapes, but some come too big for short shorts.

July 25: “Do you know what keep me humble? Mirrors!”—Phyllis Diller

July 26: “Plenty of girls at a resort hotel are looking for husbands… and plenty of husbands are looking for girls.”—Sig Sakowicz

July 27: “A lot of women in the summer nowadays are just a bunch of stuffed shorts.”—Rod Brasfield

Goodtime Weekly Calendar, Fernand Fonssagrives, Harrison Baker, Phyllis Diller, Sig Sakowicz, Rod Brasfield, Lisa Fonssagrives

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

January 15

1919—Luxemburg and Liebknecht Are Killed

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Freikorps was a term applied to various paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. Members of these groups would later become prominent members of the SS.

January 14

1967—Summer of Love Begins

The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with between 20,000 to 30,000 people in attendance, their purpose being to promote their ideals of personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological preservation, and higher consciousness. The event is considered the beginning of the famed counterculture Summer of Love.

January 13

1968—Cash Performs at Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison in Folson, California, where he records a live album that includes a version of his 1955 hit “Folsom Prison Blues.” Cash had always been interested in performing at a prison, but was unable to until personnel changes at his record company brought in people who were amenable to the idea. The Folsom album was Cash’s biggest commercial success for years, reaching number 1 on the country music charts.

January 13

2004—Harold Shipman Found Hanged

British serial killer Harold Shipman is found dead in his prison cell, after hanging himself with a bedsheet. Shipman, a former doctor who preyed on his patients, was one of the most prolific serial killers in history, with two-hundred and eighteen murders positively attributed to him, and another two-hundred of which he is suspected.

January 12

1960—Nevil Shute Dies

English novelist Nevil Shute, who wrote the books A Town Like Alice and The Pied Piper, dies in Melbourne, Australia at age sixty-one. Seven of his novels were adapted to film, but his most famous was the cautionary post-nuclear war classic On the Beach.

January 12

1967—First Cryonics Patient Frozen

Dr. James Bedford, a University of California psychology professor, becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. Bedford had kidney cancer that had metastasized to his lungs and was untreatable. His body was maintained for years by his family before being moved to Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Arizona.