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Spaced Out Space Ship: 1970
Submitted by cmcnabb on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 11:37pm.
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My brother and me in our "Spaceman Spiff"y space helmets, Christmas 1970. View full size.
Space Odyssey?
Submitted by JohnHoward on Sun, 07/29/2012 - 6:34pm.
I think the Spaceman Spiff was in jest(?). So I wondered what the inspiration for them actually was. The movie 2001 was two years past in 1970 so that's not likely.
They seem NASA-ish in styling, so maybe they were inspired by the moon walk just a year before.
Pass the Space Food Sticks, I'm hungry!
Dining Room Lamp
Submitted by Rute Boye on Sun, 07/29/2012 - 3:08pm.
I think every household in the 1960s must have had a dining room lamp like that one. They typically had a retractable length of wire contained in a sheet metal ball (visible in the shadow of flash on the wall) that would allow you to pull the lamp all the way down to the table or most of the way up to the ceiling.
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