I never could figure out the clever twist. Same for a lot of those wire puzzles, too.

The first combs I used as a kid were the hard plastic kind that suffered teeth getting broken off. And then these soft plastic combs hit the market with their unbreakable teeth.

I stumbled onto this one in my attic the other day. I have been living in this house for 43 years. This is not my comb. This one reminds me of the ones I first saw in the 60s.

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I used a hacksaw !!! But a gas-Axe solve the puzzle too !!!

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Reminds me of National Lampoons Vacation-remember when you would fill up in the back of car-who thought of that

It did make it easier when filling up, you could pull up on either side of the pump.

Every once in a while pumps have long enough hoses to pull up on either side. I know the Costco's I've been to all have the long hoses.

If you wanted to be cool in the 70s, you had the handle of one of these sticking out of your back pocket.

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Still have mine(red) and use it everyday. It developed a little bit of a curve from sitting on it and no, I don't keep it in my back pocket anymore.

I have not seen one of those in years.

I was really into this cereal. Collected all of the goofy characters. I believe there were also “Fruity Freakies”. Just think - for a brief time, my dog and I were eating food made by the same company!

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Now What could be wrong with this Candy today, in so many ways....Orange is a terrible color for candy.
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Along with licorice pipes and twizzlers, we could buy babies like these but made of licorice; You can guess what we called them.

I had completely forgotten about this.

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https://www.oddrods.com/

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I had totally forgotten that there were magnets in addition to the figurines!

Yessss!! OddRods were the best! I still have a few.

The Sony Walkman

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Before the Sony Walkman

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All to be replaced by

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I owned a Sony Walkman just like that one. You actually had to slide the case out so that an actual cassette would fit inside. Really, for the time, a marvel of engineering. The sound was incredible, I really was a cool kid with that thing!

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I just bought this Bluetooth speaker a couple weeks ago. Has a working cassette deck and radio; also runs off of 6 “D” cell batteries. I didn’t put on any of the stickers, I think it looks perfect without them.DEA894B6-9C5A-4662-BF50-15FA76E85E1C (resized).jpeg

From 30 Years ago....Bananas in Pajamas! Kind of a Skill Roll Game. Flip the Disk.
I gave it to my younger brother, and it went everywhere!

I enjoyed a lot of the Tomy Windups.

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I was about to say that, “there’s no way that’s 30 years ago”….but then I thought about it.

One of my favorite action figures ever-
PUNK TROLL- is also now 30 years old.

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Just solved this puzzle last night after going nuts over it for four days.

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It was in the early 70s when I saw my first microwave oven. It was in the vending area of the aircraft hanger on the navy base I was stationed at. This would have been in 1971.

It was branded Litton. It had 6 push buttons. Button #1 started the cooking and lasted for 30 seconds. Button #2 was for a minute--something like that.

This is a later model as I am having no luck finding any pics of an early 70s microwave. In early 70s dollars, these things were costing $600.00 to $700.00. Lot of money back then.

Some people would not use them. They were afraid the microwaves would taint your food. And then there was the "don't stand by a microwave that is operation if you are wearing a heart pacemaker".

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Amana's ( long defunct company ) offering was called a Radarange.

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Hard to believe it was 50 years ago when I saw that first microwave oven. And yes, there was a time before there were microwave ovens.

And today? They are everywhere.

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Amana still exists, and produces Amana brand appliances. It's part of Whirlpool.
"If it's not an Amana, it's not a Radarange."

I remember when the Litton Microwave came to be installed.

My mother was scared, and a Great Aunt was visiting....
I remember her cooking on an ancient stove when I was little...

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As you posted, the first Microwave made for home use was the Amana Radarange, 1967. Just under $500 ($4,400 today - less than half a new pinball!) Litton's technology advancement of a new magnetron feed reduced costs to the $350 -$400 range and change microwaves to the shape we see today. The 500 model is shown below, you posted a 560 and the in between versions look close to what you posted.

Here is some irony now: Today's microwave ranges from $60-$100 (pro model ) to $250-$300 (Premium/LE), a decline in price of over 1,400%. Anyone know what a 1967 4-player pinball cost new compared to $10K today?

Also, microwaves have been around a lot longer than the 1970s, first patented in 1945 and first used in the public in 1947 in a Speedy Weeny vending machine in Grand Central Terminal, New York.

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Thank you. The 500 you pictured is the first microwave I saw and used. I never knew model numbers. You speak as if you used to engineer them or sell them.

No, I had a research project on the use of the microwave as a Faraday Cage (they do act as a Faraday cage but really only effectively in their licensed range of 2.45 Ghz) and got a dose of history along the way, the kind that doesn't come up in conversation very often so your post brought back some memories! We also had the 560 model in our house (I believe). They called this series "Meal in One". They introduced a smaller counter top services in the early 70s as well called the "Minutemaster" 400 series.

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Several years ago a friend of mine won a live auction in the boondocks for a comicbook (Detective #100) about VG+. I traded him some X-men at that time for it but made the mistake of trading it myself. Wish I would have kept that comicbook as how often do you see a Detective #100!

There was a hilarious episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" featuring these...

My First Cellphone:

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https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/what-were-your-favorite-childhood-toys/page/127#post-6514170

I am reasonably certain that this was part of my young life but I don't remember it

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Sometimes when I got a soda or float from a hamburger stand when I was a kid, it would come in a cup that said it was a “Hum-Dinger.”

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Does anybody still play croquet?
I once saw a croquet set in my Grandpa’s garage when I was a kid in the 60’s.
I had my uncle set it up in the yard and I played a game with my cousins.
But no adult in my family was interested.
It seemed like croquet went out of style long before I showed up.

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We found a croquet set left in a home we moved into, in 1967.
The neighborhood right around us had at least a dozen boys our age.
(lots of stick ball, and a backyard big enough for a playfield)

Anyway, we didnt know how to play croquet so we just went for it like golf.....
Long distance smacking!

Put a Wooden ball through some sliding glass doors!

3 months newspaper delivery tips, and a walloping was the result.

Last time I saw croquet.

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Whenever we go camping
I always bring along a croquet set, along with horseshoes.
Though truth be told the croquet ends up being more of
a field obstacle course, trying to navigate trees, bushes, rocks, gullies and streams.

My Mom made me ants on a log as a snack. I failed the tradition of them by never making them for my kids.

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The park around the corner from me put in croquet fields a few years back. Everyone dresses in solid white, not a hint of color anywhere and nobody under 70.

The “Ants on a Log” snack looks good to me. My Mom repeatedly made “Hot Dogs Baked in Crescent Rolls” for parties. I couldn’t stand these. I liked hot dogs and crescent rolls separately, but somehow this combination made me nauseous.

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Dude, them's "pigs in a blanket"!

I think mooch might be a bot...

I always thought “Pigs in a Blanket” were breakfast sausages wrapped in pancakes.
Those are delicious!

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Here’s a fun 15-minute film:

That was totally great...I watched the whole thing! You and I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the same era if I remember correctly - that really captured the look and feel of the early 60s. Details like the TV (I think we had the exact one) and "Six to Eight Weeks Later"...
Took me right back there, good memories and bad. Thanks, @Mooch! I needed that this morning...

Yep, me too