1960s

Check Out Sexy Ron Paul Being Don Draper On a Bicycle

Ken Layne · 05/23/13 11:29AM

Who's the sexy Air Force dude on the beach cruiser? Oh and who's that cute little blond boy? This photograph of "the America we lost" shows Doctor Ron Paul and his son, board-uncertified ophthalmologist Rand Paul. If you're wondering how these two become so nutty in the 21st Century, all the clues are in this seemingly innocent photograph.

Next Month's Playboy Will Only Cost 60 Cents

Richard Lawson · 09/13/11 10:23AM

No need to hoard your allowances, all you curious young men who, somehow, haven't discovered the internet. The opportunity to see naked ladies in the October issue of Playboy will only cost you 60¢.

Old School New York Was Charming, Boring

Brian Moylan · 08/10/11 03:23PM

Here's a vintage 1962 filmstrip about all the technology and innovation in New York City. How exciting and Don Draper! Too bad most of the video is about an insurance company changing offices. Wake me up when we're in the bankrupt '70s.

Saturday Shorts: Intervals

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 04/17/10 02:00PM

Street scenes repeat themselves by variations in Peter Greenaway's early experiment with rhythm and editing. In a triptych of identical footage, flashes of strangers set in black and white surroundings gain distinction and lose their places when the music changes.

Saturday Shorts: La Jetée

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 04/03/10 02:00PM

One moment from childhood defines a man's entire existence as he time-travels from post-Apocalyptic Paris to save humanity, hunted by the scientists who sent him, and haunted by his strange memory of a gunshot and a girl on the pier.

The Monkees' Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 03/24/10 10:45AM

The Monkees are a little too happy to be in the desert. Nominally shilling Kool-Aid, the band sings the drink's praises between apparitions of sugar-crazed children and Bugs Bunny's cameo mirage. Amidst the madness, one wonders, where is Peter Tork?!

Saturday Shorts: The Secret of Wendel Samson

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 03/13/10 03:00PM

A young man's struggle with sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realizes he must either break out or break down.

Surf Wax Suburbia

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 01/29/10 12:00PM

Despite her instinctual pleasantness, the 1960s housewife still daily encountered enemies of her pursuit of domestic perfection and blissful tidiness. One worthy foe: evil black scuff marks left by heeled shoes. The lady's greatest weapon: floor wax surfboards.

One More Thing: Who is Your 1960s Crush?

ian spiegelman · 08/17/08 06:01PM

Okay, clearly I am going to milk this crush theme until I'm asking you all to post daguerrotypes of pre-Victorian stage performers and ballerinas. But we're not there yet! The 1960s is recent enough for all of us to have seen lots and lots of its movies and TV shows and to have developed childhood-or childlike-crushes on its many attractive stars. So, who's your fave? Mine after the jump. If you can pull yourself away from Michael Phelps for two minutes!