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Old 08-29-2011, 04:46 PM   #106
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I remember when chemistry sets had real chemicals that you could do real damage with and have a grand old time. Chemistry sets these days contain little more than baking soda and other innocuous stuff.
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Old 08-29-2011, 05:08 PM   #108
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In the New York City market, I watched Just for Fun and Wonderama, both with Sonny Fox. And The Three Stooges with Officer Joe Bolton.
I remember when I thought the Three Stooges were funny.


Oh, wait. That was earlier today. Never mind!

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Old 08-29-2011, 05:08 PM   #109
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I remember when chemistry sets had real chemicals that you could do real damage with and have a grand old time. Chemistry sets these days contain little more than baking soda and other innocuous stuff.
Here, here! and school's actually did proper science, not show videos of the experiments because of 'Health and Safety'!
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Old 08-29-2011, 05:15 PM   #110
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I know what a party line was. Shame they didn't party.......or did you?


I read all the way to the back cover and scratched my head. Some sort of advert for a breakfast cereal. Cherrios. Forty years later, you can buy that crap in Australia now.
I remember the Charles Atlas ads and the ads for novelties like "X-Ray" glasses and teeth-blackening chewing gum!
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Old 08-29-2011, 05:20 PM   #111
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Old 08-29-2011, 05:22 PM   #112
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Is this what you're talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
That's the beast! Unfortunately, I was just a kid and viewed it as a gimmick and didn't see the musical potential of the instrument.
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I remember the mechanical horse outside Ben Franklin's that gave kids a 5 minute ride for a penny. Haven't seen one of those in quite a while. And there were arcade games like pac man that only cost a quarter to play. Do arcade games even still exist today? As late as the early 90's (when I was in college) that same quarter would buy you a postage stamp.
Meijer still has pony rides for a penny, but I don't think they are five minutes long.

Arcade games still exist, but they are a lot more than a quarter a game!
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Old 08-29-2011, 06:43 PM   #114
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Meijer still has pony rides for a penny, but I don't think they are five minutes long.

Arcade games still exist, but they are a lot more than a quarter a game!
Well to be honest I never did time exactly how long they were but it seemed long back then while at the same time all too short.
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Old 08-29-2011, 08:07 PM   #115
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I remember when chemistry sets had real chemicals that you could do real damage with and have a grand old time. Chemistry sets these days contain little more than baking soda and other innocuous stuff.
I didn't know that either. The experiment I used to do all the time changed the water to some color (blue?) and then changed it back to clear again.
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Old 08-29-2011, 08:09 PM   #116
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That's the beast! Unfortunately, I was just a kid and viewed it as a gimmick and didn't see the musical potential of the instrument.
I saw The Beach Boys ca. 1971, and Mike Love played the theramin for Good Vibrations!
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I remember Sea Monkeys!

And Triple-S Blue stamps as well as S&H Green stamps, books and books of them in the kitchen draw, saving up for some 'must have' kitchen appliance.


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I remember the Charles Atlas ads and the ads for novelties like "X-Ray" glasses and teeth-blackening chewing gum!
They still had those in comic books when I was a kid along with the ad for Sea Monkey's and the ones for the plastic figurines of revolutionary and civil war soldiers.
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Toy soldiers, before they had moving parts and accessories.
'Slinkies' made of metal rather than plastic.
Toy chests full of 'stuff that could put your eye out,' 'dangerous if swallowed,' and politically incorrect.


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Old 08-29-2011, 11:44 PM   #120
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