Retro Product Fail #12: The Inflatable Bubble House
It's been a while since I've written a post for my Retro Product Fail series , but when I saw this scanned Playboy article from 19...
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Showing posts with label Retro Product Fail. Show all posts
Land of the Lost TV Series #7: Pink Lady (also known as Pink Lady and Jeff)
So I was doing some research into television variety shows of the past (in lieu of Maya Rudolph's flopped variety special on NBC a fe...
The Most Awful Knitting Idea Ever Conceived
I've been knitting since I was 10 years old, so trust me when I say I've come across some horrendous knitting patterns in that ti...
Retro Product Fail #11: A Tale of Two TV-Themed Restaurants
All images via MewDeep on Flickr I think most folks know that Tonight Show host Johnny Carson had a successful clothing line at one poi...
Retro Product Fail #10: The World of Sid and Marty Krofft
Found on FlickRiver, credited to King Power Cinema It just doesn't seem right to see the word "fail" in the same sentence ...
Retro Product Fail #9: Space Food Sticks
I was going through a 1971 Family Circle that I bought at a flea market when this ad piqued my interest. Hmmm...I'd never heard of S...
One Ad Too Good Not to Share: The Portrait Pillow
Via MewDeep on Flickr Sweet dreams are made of this...the Portrait Pillow was apparently the young woman's answer to blow-up dolls f...
Retro Product Fail #6: The Beatles Apple Boutique
On this day in 1967, the first Apple retail store opened. Not Apple as in iPads and iTunes, but Apple as in Beatles! Even though the Apple b...
Retro Product Fail #5: The Egg Cuber
I came across this thing-a-ma-bob on Flickr, photo set courtesy of Andrew Huff . According to a YouTube video, the egg cuber was made in 197...
Retro Product Fail #4: Sea Monkeys
Hey, hey, we're the sea-monkeys, Go Retro says our ads monkey around That's because we're really just brine shrimp Letting all t...
Retro Product Fail #3: Paper Dresses
"Paper clothing, apparently, is here to stay" reads a Time magazine article from May 1967. Uh-huh. Well, it's now 43 years lat...
Retro Product Fail #2: The Epilady
Pop quiz time! Do you know what the item pictured above is? a. A vibrator b. A torture device c. A massager d. A body hair removing pr...
Retro Product Fail #1: Sun-In
Of all of the beauty products I saw advertised in the pages of Seventeen magazine as a teen and that I actually bought, I wanted Sun-In hair...
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