16 Hilarious And Bizarre ’50s And ’60s Pageants That Simply Boggle The Mind!

8. Perhaps in one of the most bizarre beauty pageants, Cindy Carol became ‘Queen of the Anti-Triskaidekaphobia,’ which means ‘fear of 13.’

9. Sunny Austin, a 21-year-old woman, posed with a lamb and a toucan after she was named “Queen of the Pet Festival” in 1964.

10. The Wool Bureau and National Knitted Outerwear Foundation crowned Jeanne Davis of Alabama the 1952 “Sweater Queen.”