Quoted from LTG:Reminded me of roller skating at a roller skating rink. Hit a wad of gum and you are going right down face first.
LTG : )
A guy was always at the door collecting gum in this ceramic roller skate at our rink back in the day. Lol
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Dont know...heres his story...
https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/hobbydb/subjects/pete-atkinson-designer
That story says he copied what he saw other people doing in a magazine, hardly a solid claim for inventing something. People were ripping off the axles and wheels from their sisters roller skates and nailing them to 2x4's before 1957, fairly well documented. Cool story, awesome work, don't want to take anything away from the dude but he didn't invent the skateboard.
Too bad Grosso bit the big one, he woulda given us the low down.
I guess the toy company giving him a fortune for it, is how he sees it.
Im not here to argue what happened 60 years ago in England, with his revenue.
Are you OK with that?
Quoted from mooch:Hmm... Notice anything strangely familiar about Milton Bradley’s Haunted Treasure Hunt game?
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Is that the Psycho house on the box lid?
Quoted from Mike_J:Is that the Psycho house on the box lid?
Nope, the Old Sea Captain’s house is one story taller than the Psycho house. I noticed that on the box lid art the Captain is missing his right eye, but art on the game board shows his left eye missing. Spooky! But the main odd thing here is that the game is a re-theme of Milton Bradley’s Operation. Why would they do that? And where’s the Wish Bone?
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FA49DC69-1383-4C16-9784-15A6926B988C.gifQuoted from mooch:My parents and grandparents all kept their shoe shine stuff in a cool wooden box. It looked like something you would bring to the airport to make a few quick bucks shining shoes. I’ve still got some polish and a brush, but I just stash it in a cabinet. No cool box.
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We had that same box! Ironically Kiwi was just down the road from me.
Quoted from mooch:My parents and grandparents all kept their shoe shine stuff in a cool wooden box. It looked like something you would bring to the airport to make a few quick bucks shining shoes. I’ve still got some polish and a brush, but I just stash it in a cabinet. No cool box.
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To get some extra money for the roller rink I would shine my step dads shoes.
Kiwi black looks familiar.
I remember playing this there too. As well as taxi pinball, pole position and ghost and goblins.
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illegal use of the scooby doo mansion on the box art? 
Quoted from mooch:I noticed that on the box lid art the Captain is missing his right eye, but art on the game board shows his left eye missing.
What, you can only wink with one eye?
No eye patch...
Quoted from mooch:My parents and grandparents all kept their shoe shine stuff in a cool wooden box. It looked like something you would bring to the airport to make a few quick bucks shining shoes. I’ve still got some polish and a brush, but I just stash it in a cabinet. No cool box.
I still have a box 
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For some reason I hear Billy Batts saying, "Now go home and get your shine box".
LTG : )
Quoted from DanQverymuch:What, you can only wink with one eye?
No eye patch...
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How about a good ol’ wooden magazine rack?
C1C4B89E-2B4A-4A0C-8CD6-A2177D612DE3 (resized).jpegMany of you still have your childhood toys. Too many moves when I was a kid cleaned out my toy box.
I still have my dad's shoe shone box, though. But I'm retired, don't work in an office, and have not been to church in years. I used to wear New Balance shoes and gave to those up for Walmart cheapies. It sits here collecting dust. I should get rid of it.
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I was in 6th grade when a sample box of CC came in the mail in 1963. CC arrived when Elvis was still King. It must have been summer time. I recall the weather being nice. The Beatles were still a few months away.
And I recall falling in love with CC. I remember the sample size box said that Captain Crunch would be made for 1,000,000,000,000,000 and on and on for entire small page of the ad flyer that was in the box. It was a lot of zeros.
Quoted from mooch:How about a good ol’ wooden magazine rack?
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No but I keep a basket next to the throne... does that count?
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Whoa! I also clearly remember getting that sample box of Cap’n Crunch. One of the greatest things ever to arrive unannounced in the mailbox!
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I was in 6th grade when a sample box of CC came in the mail in 1963. CC arrived when Elvis was still King. It must have been summer time. I recall the weather being nice. The Beatles were still a few months away.
And I recall falling in love with CC. I remember the sample size box said that Captain Crunch would be made for 1,000,000,000,000,000 and on and on for entire small page of the ad flyer that was in the box. It was a lot of zeros.
Capn Crunch is the GOAT!
I spent a whole year dreaming of this!!
Now I watch Oak Island!
( I actually made a time capsule with my Capn Treasure, and buried it under a tree 47 years ago....)
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Reminds me of these Vodka Martini freeze pops. These are really good! 
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I spent a whole year dreaming of this!!
Now I watch Oak Island!
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That thing looks awesome! What did you put in it? Only thing buried in my backyard was a deceased hamster in a cigar box coffin.
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When I was about 3 years old. Midwest Federal had a commercial on TV. They planted a dollar bill. And a tree grew with dollar bills for leaves.
So I planted all my change in the back yard. Unless someone went over it with a metal detector. There is a fair amount of silver coins still there.
LTG : )
Quoted from mooch:That thing looks awesome! What did you put in it? Only thing buried in my backyard was a deceased hamster in a cigar box coffin.
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I Threw In some Baseball cards...Shouldnt have put a Mickey Mantle in there, Some silver coins, like Lloyd,
Pictures of my family and Dog, A love letter from my Girlfriend then....Her dad was on Oak Island with Kellyco,
and I note about me.
The Hollow under a tree, was dug by a wild rabbit, that had lived and nested there.
Concrete got poured over it later...
Capn Chest went in a clear box, and that went into metal box and duct tapped to hell.
Quoted from pinworthy:No but I keep a basket next to the throne... does that count?
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How many laps are there in the Toilet Bowl ? Is this the Toliet Bowl 500 or 400? 
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:I Threw In some Baseball cards...Shouldnt have put a Mickey Mantle in there, Some silver coins, like Lloyd,
Pictures of my family and Dog, A love letter from my Girlfriend then....Her dad was on Oak Island with Kellyco,
and I note about me.
The Hollow under a tree, was dug by a wild rabbit, that had lived and nested there.
Concrete got poured over it later...
Capn Chest went in a clear box, and that went into metal box and duct tapped to hell.
A rabbit hole in a tree hollow? Concrete poured over the top.
That M.Mantle card might be down there just waiting for you to go dig it up. Maybe it will have a better fate than the '58 Plymouth Fury that Oklahoma placed in its time capsule.
Just think. You might could get rich
Quoted from cottonm4:That M.Mantle card might be down there just waiting for you to go dig it up. Maybe it will have a better fate than the '58 Plymouth Fury that Oklahoma placed in its time capsule.
Just think. You might could get rich
The Cap’n Crunch treasure chest might be worth more than the Mickey Mantle card. 
6A661FFE-1394-412B-82F5-ADFED9B00578 (resized).jpegQuoted from Rezdog:Super Sugar Crisp tasted awful but had the best toys. What a horrible cereal. I’m dry heaving now as I post this
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Damn! I LOVE Sugar Crisp, but I never got any of those cool prizes.
Quoted from mooch:Anybody got a penny in a bottle?
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Mine is sitting on the shelf right next to me! I got it at Thomas Edison's home in Florida nearly 40 years ago. Penny is dated 1986. Lost the cork though. Never did figure out how that penny got in there!
Quoted from bob_e:the original NERF ball
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I "stole" a NIP original Nerf Football in an online auction lot back in September of 2019, where they had no idea what they had and didn't even list it in the lot contents! $12.
A guy on eBay wants $400 for his! He might get it, too, I remember seeing one sold for $300 not long after I scored this one.
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Almost as good as when, a year later, the same sort of thing happened at the same auctioneer, I shanghaied a kinetic art sculpture that originally retailed for like 2 grand, for ten bucks!
Quoted from mooch:The Cap’n Crunch treasure chest might be worth more than the Mickey Mantle card. [quoted image]
Well hell, I'm reading how OLDPINGUY wrapped everything up. That CC chest might still be in pristine condition, too.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Capn Chest went in a clear box, and that went into metal box and duct tapped to hell.
OLDPINGUY might make enough to make the digging worth while. It all depends on how much concrete was poured and how deep he buried the treasure. It would defiantly be a story for the grandkids.
Better yet, make them a treasure map and get out of their way
Quoted from onemoresean:This was my daily diet in the 70’s
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Slurpee and pinball. Had a lot of fun at the 7/11 stores.
Ever see an electric “smoking stand?” I saw one in the living room of my uncle’s Wisconsin farmhouse in the early 1960s when I was a little kid. It looked old even then. I remember trying figure out what the heck the electric ceramic thing on the top was, but I was afraid to ask anyone about it after messing with it. I found out decades later that the top has two ashtrays, a canister for your smokes and a really cool electric lighter held in a ceramic housing. Pretty neat gizmo for the time.
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Here’s a perfect balanced menu for a day in the 60s.
7136435E-FA9B-48B0-BAE9-AFC08C705460 (resized).jpegSince we're on to cereal, I have to link in this classic explanation of "Kaboom" cereal.
The saddest cereal ever made.
Quoted from mooch:Ever see an electric “smoking stand?” I saw one in the living room of my uncle’s Wisconsin farmhouse in the early 1960s when I was a little kid. It looked old even then. I remember trying figure out what the heck the electric ceramic thing on the top was, but I was afraid to ask anyone about it after messing with it. I found out decades later that the top has two ashtrays, a canister for your smokes and a really cool electric lighter held in a ceramic housing. Pretty neat gizmo for the time.
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Those are Art Deco designs from the 30s. They are beautiful.
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