Remember how the used car lots looked when you were kid?

Enjoy.

Did you buy any books from the Scholastic Arrow Book Club in your grade school class? I had a few of these.
A knee-slapper from The Arrow Book of Jokes and Riddles:
Q: “What did Tennessee?”
A: “The same thing Arkansas.”

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My favorite Campbell’s Soup when I was a kid was Turkey Vegetable. So delicious! I loved the shell macaroni in it. Long gone, discontinued decades ago. Andy Warhol evidently had a can of it in 1962.

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I had that Paul Bunyan book. I was fascinated by the blue bull on the cover as a young kid.

Choose Your Own Adventure books were my early 80’s fun as a youngster.

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Worhol sure got a lot of mileage from the can of soup painting.

Wizzers were endless fun…until your sister’s hair got tangled up in one. And even that was kinda fun

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I loved those books. I also have an old one from the attic a little different concept. “POP-UP BOOK” From 1979 but barely has made it this far.

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We have Whizzers.

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And we have Wizzers.

Interesting.

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Maybe from my grandparents childhood.
Took a ride in a 1928 Ford Tri-motor today.

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When I was a kid the first thing I would do when visiting the local library was to see if a new Danny Dunn book had come in. Great series that my son and grandson also enjoyed reading. I wonder if they still hold up today. Probably boring to most kids.

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One favorite little book I had as a kid was Droodles by Roger Price. It was a collection of odd drawings with funny captions. The cover was “Man in a Mailbox Signaling for a Left Turn.”

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I remember reading many of the Chip Hilton books and also reading the Gil Thorp comic strip in our local newspaper.

Gord

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I have loaded my Grandaughter
with every pop up book I could find.
They are her favorites and thrill her everything we read through one.
Grandpa relieving his childhood!
We have a packed closet and 8 bins of
toys to grow through.

My first pop up book was Jethro Tull's first album, Stand Up.

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Chip Hilton was written by Claire Bee who is considered one of the greatest basketball minds.

I've still got my copy of the pop up Stand Up, too.
Jethro Tull's first album was "This Was". Not as good as Stand Up, but it has its moments.

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I had this Apollo moon landing pop-up book when I was a kid. It had a Command Module that sprung up on a wire, and a big pop-up Lunar Module.

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Wow, thanks! I had that last one too, and loved that popup of the LEM!

Speaking of the LEM, I always marveled how going down to the moon's surface was labeled just an "excursion" for these heroes.

I've said as much before: I love how this thread tickles brain cells that have been idle for decades!

Grandma took to the Neil Armstrong museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio several times as a kid. So when I got the chance I was able to take my children and it was still as kool as always.
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Another thing I had was this punch-out and put-together Lunar Module that was free from a Gulf gas station.

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Keeping on the moon theme:

Grew up right by the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. Loved going there as a kid. Cleveland had some really great museums.

I never got to this place (World of Syd and Marty Krofft) as a kid, even though we lived less than 20 miles away. One of my biggest regrets.

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Had to look that up. Man that pinball ride looks awesome.

You don't know what you are talking about. We did not land on the moon. It was all hoax. Haven't you seen Capricorn 1?

Is no one going to ask what is wrong with that propeller?

Yes, I can still smell the pages! : )

What for? It was shot with a wide angle lens

Clackers. Banned in my junior high school before the week was over. And because they started exploding, they went wherever the Lawn Darts went.

Sid and Marty Croft show at the Hollywood bowl starring the Brady bunch kids.

I think this is just the trailer, but I thought I saw the full show out there too.

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Action "Traction" park. My parents said it was too dangerous. Guess they were right...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park

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In that middle pic it looks like the blades are bent forward.

Every pic I ever took that was digital with aircraft prop in it. The prop looks bent. Not a photography kinda person, my thoughts are a digital camera scans lines progressively. Not the whole pic at one time. So as the the camera scans the prop is still turning something 2500 rpm. The prop moves a bit between each scan line.
I could be totally off base here, just my thoughts.

Watched an episode of The Machines that Changed America last night that included the story about this.

What problem?

It was straight when we took off and straight when we landed. All the pics out the window it looks like it was crazy bent.
Either a digital photo thing, or that sucker really bends when in motion.

Yup, consumer cameras use a CMOS sensor with a "rolling shutter." A pro CCD sensor camera would not have this artifact, as the entire frame is captured at the same instant.

This gif shows how the rolling shutter causes this effect.

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I always looked forward to the old man filling up the Chevy BB at Sunoco back in the day. Anyone else collect these? They had two different books and my brother and I completed both.

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I never saw one of those.

However, I made my own Mercury toys . It was always a fun time when my dad decided he would work on the washing machine.

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I had one those mercury switches, too! I was fascinated by the mercury rolling around inside it. I think the one I had came from an old thermostat.

When I was a little kid, my bedtime was 9pm. One night, I saw that a TV show called Naked City came on right as I was going to bed. The show’s title convinced me that adult programs with naked people were on TV after my bedtime. I would get up to ask my Mom for a drink of water or use the bathroom to get a glimpse of the Naked City show on the TV. But I never did see any of those naked people.

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Fond memories for me as well. I remember my older brothers were allowed to ride their bicycles to the different Sunoco Gas Stations and was able to load up on the booklets. Me and my younger brothers weren't allowed to ride that far, so one day my mom load us up in the car and took us to the various gas stations in order to get the stamp books. My mom would have us wait in the car and she would go inside and ask the attendant if she could get some of those books. Ofcourse I think it helped that my mom was a good looking woman. LOL They were so fun to collect.

I recently got on eBay and found the bigger book, along with about 4 packs of player stamps. They were all in mint condition (I think the book was still wrapped in it's original shrink wrap). The seller ended up living in a city near me and he recalled getting the items from a closed down gas station. Upon checking the back storage area (closet) they found a bunch of the books and stamps.

I had to buy it and it proudly sits with the rest of my nostalgic childhood memories.

I never saw that show but I do remember Benny Hill on very late night possibly PBS....
Women in lingerie, topless, and naked running around.

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I used to love going to 7eleven after a little league game and getting a slurpee with the baseball coins.

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Canadian sketch comedy show, "Bizarre" was always good for at least one nudie scene.

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They also gave us Super Dave Osborne, who I thought was hilarious on Letterman

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Track 3, "Bouree" so good. I would occasionally hear it on classical radio as a kid, and it took me 10+ years of humming it to music store guys before I finally figured out who it was.