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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Mark,
Are you sure your 1st TV wasn't a Philco, which was sold in Firestone stores?
Some of the 1st soft drink machines I remember took a nickel and a penny for a 6 1/2 ounce Coke.
My Grandparents lived 2 blocks from the original Barq's bottling plant in Biloxi, Ms. GrandPa and I would walk to it with a case of empty bottles and get a full case of root beer and cream sodas for 90 cents. Good memories! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | AAAArgh
My wife and I remember them all, and moved to California to escape the bourghous nature of them and find a new life, we found over half of them still existed there in California and learnsd to live off of green stamps. We never did get a Packard but my brother's guitar player in his bluegrass band collects them.
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Location: North Texas | Collecting empty bottles was the main source of income back then. Hooking a wagon to the bike made it all possible. I think Royal Crown Cola came out with the first 16oz. bottle. It was huge.
At school we had drills for civil defense. Getting under the desk was supposed to save us in case an A-bomb went off near the kickball field. After watching the old news reels from the two blasts in Japan, I remember thinking: " I don't believe this desk thing will work".
Packards were nice cars. They are still collected. I knew a man in So.Cal. who had about 100 of them. As far as cars go, I thought the Mark II Continental was, and is, one of the coolest looking buggies ever made.
They played the National Anthem at the end of the broadcast day, and then the test pattern came on. It's hard to imagine, in todays world, not having any TV late at night. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Old is when you type this really witty post about growing up in Wisconsin in the 50's and then you forget to hit the "Add Reply" button (like I did yesterday.)
Cholloway, I think it actually said Firestone on it. I remember the Philco brand, though, we had one of those refrigerators. Always wondered how those desks would protect us from the bomb. Turns out we had more to fear of McCarthyism than the Commies. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | 23 out of 25 and while I remember the other 2 I am not sure if I actually "lived" them or just remember them.
How about "Mr. Machine"? |
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Location: NJ | I had a "Mr. Machine" as a kid.
A few years ago, I was looking to find one to attempt re-creating it in AutoCad (I have NO idea "why") . . .
. . . a former co-worker who bought/sold vintage toys found one on eBay . . . for 400 bucks . . .
. . I "passed". |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Wasn't that a little boxey robot that moved around and pumped his arms? Seems like he also had a catchy jingle. Wanted one, but a $20 toy that used batteries wasn't in Santa's budget. My 3 brothers and I would have wrecked it in 5 minutes anyway. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | yeah....catchy theme song that I can partially remember....
dum de dum, dum de dum.....
greatest toy you've ever seen....
and his name is "Mr. Machine"
Toy was clear and you could see all the gears moving around and turning while it walked around. Awesome stuff back in the 60's! |
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Location: NJ | No batteries.
Had a big, self-contained "clockwork" module that fit into the gearing. You wound it up with a big key that stuck out his back. He had a clear plastic body that "clamshelled". You could take him apart, put him back together(maybe), and see how the gearing worked.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Cliff, do you remember all the lyrics to the theme song? |
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Location: NJ | No.
. . . I do have SOMEWHAT of a modicum of "a Life" . . |
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Location: SoCal | "Modicum" may be a bit of an exaggeration ...... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | "Dream" is open, Cliff...you can probably use that word! ;) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | And here you can get Mr Machine for $150, if the Jones just won't go away... |
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Location: NJ | Anybody remember OddOgg ?? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | That's how I developed my amazing hand/eye co-ordination.....rolling that damn ball into the frog's mouth! |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Mr Machine and OddOgg both were the inventions/designs of Marvin Glass who also invented/designed "Mousetrap" and "Rock'em Sock'em Robots" among other favorites of our youts! :D |
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| Between this thread and the fond memories thread you guys are going to end up getting a visit from Tim and his band. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Jeff, what the hell is that thing? :confused: :D ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's not old. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Whuuut?
Whut did you say?
Youts?
Whut's a yout? |
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Yikes! Why did I click here? ;)
I had better start learning to play some more tunes. ( before I die, or my kids laugh even harder.)
Do you guys remember the hunt for the winning bottle caps? What brand was it? RC?
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Location: closely held secret | How about when the landscape was littered with aluminum razor blades from the pull tabs of pop and beer cans?
Or (more appropriate for this crowd) earning money by gathering up the cases of empty beer bottles from the drive-in on Saturday and Sunday mornings? |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | 26. Erector sets
27. Crystal radios |
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O/T OLDER THAN DIRT QUIZ...
