Some auction sites list these from 1965, but the data for the one shown is unknown.

Addams Family was originally a 1938 magazine comic in the New Yorker, about an eccentric and macabre family who seems entirely unaware of that fact. In 1964, there was a black and white TV adaptation, and there have also been movies, games, musicals, and other tie-ins to the comic. The characters are still household names today: Morticia Addams, Gomez, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsley, and The Thing, a disembodied hand.

The family as they first appeared in the 1938 cartoon, and the somewhat more famous mansion in the TV intro.

Here is a circa 1965 model from the post image, constructed in recent times.

Skeletons: $1.00, with a free 10 day trial. Your money back if not horrified.

One has to wonder how many people ordered them just before Halloween, and returned them 10 days later.

Ad for Hellraiser II, the second installment in the Hellraiser franchise of films. The series created Cenobites, not the word but the monster, a species of demonic beings who also appeared in graphic novels and other media. The lead Cenobite and primary antagonist was Pinhead, summoned to the earth by a puzzle box.

The rise of lady schlock-horror hosts such as Vampira (lemmy thread) led to many imitators in TV markets all across the US. In the late 1950s, Suzanne Waldron had a similar camp-movie TV show, hosted by her character Tarantula Ghoul. There is no known footage of her show that survives today.

She also had a novelty song that got quite a lot of airplay and is still known today: Graveyard Rock (youtube). It all begins about 12 O'clock, when the graves all open and we start to rock! I never had such fun since the day I died, and they pumped me full of formaldehyde!

Waldron died tragically young at age 50 after a bout with cancer.

Crossover marketing between Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson) and Coors.

According to Peterson, the Coors family was very religious and deeply uncomfortable with both Peterson's "Mistress of the Dark" occultish branding, and her notoriously ample cleavage. The company insisted on arranging Elvira's long hair to minimize said marketing assets in the ad campaign.

Elvira ran a weekly shlock movie TV series, and her character had its own movie and many other spinoffs and marketing tie-ins to other products.

Before Elvira, there was Vampira (lemmy thread).

This was a circa 1975 game/kit from Milton Bradley for children to make shrunken heads.

The heads were desiccated apples, and the kit included dehydrating powder. After Before (see correction from catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone in thread) desiccating your apple, you would carve eyes and other features into it, a bit like a pumpkin. Then the kit supplied hair, eyes, bits of cloth, and other items to affix to it, to fashion your very own shrunken head.

The master of horror cinema himself, Vincent Price lent his non-shrunken visage to the box.

Star Trek was a TV show that ran from 1966 to 1969, and has spawned ongoing TV series, movies, books, toys, graphic novels, games, etc, set in its universe. Even a Barbie. The show's 60th anniversary was a few weeks ago. The model was for the NCC-1701 Enterprise - not to be confused with NGC 1701, a galaxy numbered for the show's ship.

The show crafted several versions to use for filming, from a small 100mm model to a large 3.4m version. The large model could only be filmed from one side, due to lighting cables entering from the other. The film stock was reversed to simulate the other side of the ship.

The original 3.4m studio model is a "living cultural object", and was itself a character in the show, voiced by Majel Barrett. The artifact was donated to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, who has an online exhibit detailing what their world class conservationists did to restore and preserve it. Here is the display of the restored late 60's studio model.

In the 1970s, a write-in campaign from Trek fans convinced NASA to name the first Space Shuttle test vehicle after the show's ship. It was not capable of space flight, but it was used for 5 atmospheric flight tests. Many NASA engineers and scientists developed an interest in real life space exploration from watching the TV show as children. This is most of the show's cast in front of NASA's Enterprise in 1976.

Almost every online version has been remastered, but this TV intro looks original (youtube). This is what the studio model looked like in the show.

Lastly, here is a modern symphony orchestra in Prague (youtube) doing the famous Star Trek theme.

Ad for asbestos place mats. The company delivers to the whole continent, so don't feel left out of the cancer fun, Canada and Mexico! The company, founded 1858, went bankrupt in 1982 after asbestos claim payouts. The branding was later purchased, and still exists, now selling asbestos-free products.

The heat resistance of asbestos has been known for thousands of years, but the severe health issues only began to be realized around 1898, led by doctors in the UK. Even then, these matters are not like flipping a switch. It wasn't until the 1920s that much headway was made to regulate it in the UK. The US was slow out of the gate and took another 10 years to follow suit.

For quite a while, there were many consumer products proudly touting their asbestos content, from stove liners to place mats to tea kettles. Most, but not all, countries now have bans in place to eliminate citizen exposure.

Here is an ad for asbestos wiring, showing a vintage movie projection room in Portland, OR.

Fluoroscopy is a moving-picture X-ray. Developed in the late 1800s, it has valid medical applications to this day. Using it to fit shoes began in the 1920s, when the risks of ionizing radiation were not well understood.

You and a salesperson peer into viewing ports to watch your bones moving in the shoe as you wiggled your toes! Very occasional use was probably not too awful, but radiation damage is cumulative, so frequent use was another story. Salespeople had cumulative exposure risk from proximity to poorly shielded devices. One salesperson rad injury required an amputation. They were fascinating to use, and children would do it just for fun.

US scientific orgs such as ACXRP issued warnings as early as 1931. Pennsylvania banned them in '57, and Switzerland in '59. By '70 they were mostly gone from the US, Canada, and Europe. A few hung around into the early '80s, illegally or inadvertently.

A 1938 unit at the US National Museum of Health and Medicine.

Most of the alleged photos I found of people using one failed an AI checker. The photo below passed, but... it's getting harder to know for sure. I'm tryin' here!

This was a toy released by Hotwheels (lemmy thread) to commemorate the success of NASA's 1997 Sojourner Mars Rover.

Sojourner was a milestone in planetary exploration beyond the earth+moon system. Planetary missions before it were orbiters or stationary landers limited to studying things directly next to them. There was a Soviet moon rover in the 70s, very advanced for its day.

Newer rovers are far more capable than Sojourner, but it was the first of its kind, and gave invaluable experience to scientists and engineers designing newer vehicles to explore our solar system. There are Mars helicopters, a planned ESA rover launching in 2028 to search for biosignatures, and an upcoming octocopter to explore Titan, which has tried to survive in the face of staffing cuts and proposed 47% reductions to NASA's science mission budget.

This is the actual Sojourner as photographed from its Pathfinder lander. The lander is also included in the Hotwheels pack.

Vehicle being prepared in a JPL laboratory in 1996.

Edited to add Lunokhod link.

A 1940 wartime voting advocacy ad, put out by the Penn Mutual Insurance Company. 1940 was before optical tally systems, so you have to give the 'X' some allegorical license (don't mark your ballot like that!!), but the ad copy resonates well, 86 years on.

Here's a 1924 ad from Met Life Insurance, The text certainly sounds more anachronistic than the 1940 ad, but the message of encouraging voter turnout remains.

The following was an early 1980s ad by an organization called Ground Zero (wikipedia). While they were not primarily a voting advocacy group, they did dabble in it. Their primary mission was to raise awareness about nuclear weapon risk. It was started by a White House Security Council guy who was involved in the SALT talks in the 70s and 80s.

Related -> ad for the Suffragist, and related info (lemmy thread), and reminder that within living memory of the oldest among us, half our population didn't have a right to vote.

Edited because I cannot proofread

Fantasy Island was a US TV series that ran from 1977 to 1984, staring Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as Tatoo.

Tatoo would call out De Plane! De Plane! (youtube) Guests would disembark, who paid to live out a fantasy. Those could be dark, dangerous, or romantic, and often unfolded unexpectedly. Someone who achieved great fame wishes to be anonymous again, a man wants one last dance with his deceased wife, a soldier revisits WW-II to prove his brother was not a coward, or a husband wants to die to get an insurance payout to support his family. Most held some lesson for the wisher.

De Plane was a 1951 Grumman G-44 which once belonged to Johnathan Livingston Seagull author Richard Bach. The ownership sequence is fuzzy, but at some point, De Plane was used by drug smugglers. It was confiscated by feds, auctioned, used by a different drug gang, and confiscated again. It hit the airshow circuit for a while, and was ultimately bought by an unknown party in 2016.

De Plane then, and in 2008 repainted to minimize its link to the show. Presumably so people would stop pointing at it and yelling, "De Plane! De Plane!"