(Topic ID: 157159)
Mojave Desert, NV
Ever decorate your wall with a traffic sign? Not one you bought, but one you “found.” My Dad had a STOP sign from his younger years hung in our basement. No clue how he got it. I once found a city bus stop sign lying in the grass near its damaged pole. That ended up in the basement, too. To throw off the traffic sign detectives, both signs were given away to neighbors when we moved.
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Ironic how a sign that says STOP, still gets stolen.
Quoted from mooch:Ever decorate your wall with a traffic sign
I do it legally now, thanks to my Cameo.
Jeep 1 (resized).pngRR 1 (resized).pngdouble side, border, flash (resized).pngI pulled a few boxed card games and board games out of the basement:
The Beatles Flip Your Wig Game (complete with all four band member pieces).
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Alfred Hitchcock's WHY Mystery Game (a lot rarer than CLUE).
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Unopened All in the Family game (guess we never got around to playing this one).
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Gidget Fortune Teller Game (pretty sure this one belonged to my younger sister).
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NEMO Astrologer Game (you ask questions and it supplies answers based on your sign).
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Quoted from littlecammi:The Beatles Flip Your Wig Game (complete with all four band member pieces).
You may flip your wig when you hear what that game is worth!
Quoted from littlecammi:Not really toys, but do any of you remember the small metal ashtrays
Nope, never saw those, but I had a pretty sheltered, rural childhood...
Quoted from cottonm4:These 4 were my musical heroes. I read somewhere George C. Scott called them 4 little punks. I was not too happy with hearing that.
But now that I am closer to the end of life instead of the beginning of life, they look like 4 little punks
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My Mom signed up for the Capitol Record Club in 1962 when we got a new stereo cabinet. They sent some good records— Peter, Paul and Mary... Dean Martin... The Kingston Trio. And then one day... BOOM!
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I am a few steps away from remembering some ... toy I really wanted in the early 70s but I was so young, and I bet the promo was really short ... geez. There's no way I'll find it by reaching for it... it will need a few more... adjacent suggestions to tease it out.
Quoted from mof:Am I nuts, or for a while there, did gas stations have some cool toys?
I am a few steps away from remembering some ... toy I really wanted in the early 70s but I was so young, and I bet the promo was really short ... geez. There's no way I'll find it by reaching for it... it will need a few more... adjacent suggestions to tease it out.
They did indeed! Here's a couple I remember (They weren't local, so I never actually got any of them).
The ARCO arc:
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Sinclair dinosaurs:
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Quoted from mof:Am I nuts, or for a while there, did gas stations have some cool toys?
I am a few steps away from remembering some ... toy I really wanted in the early 70s but I was so young, and I bet the promo was really short ... geez. There's no way I'll find it by reaching for it... it will need a few more... adjacent suggestions to tease it out.
Had a few of these worked for Citgo for 22 years.
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Quoted from zombywoof:They did indeed! Here's a couple I remember (They weren't local, so I never actually got any of them).
The ARCO arc:
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Sinclair dinosaurs:
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Quoted from mooch:Phillips 66 sold a toy yacht in the mid-60s.
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I still have trouble wrapping my head around going into an antique store and the shelves are filled with plastic stuff. It just don't seem right.
I remember carrying a PEZ dispenser as a pre-teen personal accessory. I had a Dino for a while, later followed by a Sylvester. However, these old-school characters have been discontinued and replaced by more relevant cultural icons such as Brown Poop.
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Quoted from bob_e:ET's light up finger
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Thats what your big sister told you huh?
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That makes me nervous. Does it seal really well against the bottle?
I imagine my kid swigging it up like in the picture, having it dribble out of the bottle and drip everywhere (him oblivious), me yelling from across the room "hey watch your mess!", him swinging it down real quick, putting it on the counter, and then having it fizz up and spew out the top. A trail of soda drips all across the carpet ending in a still-fizzing puddle of soda and ice cream, dripping down the cabinet and on to the kitchen floor.
At some point during the process of becoming an adult I developed to ability to see into my son's future like that. Dad vision. Anybody else got that?
Quoted from kyle5574:That makes me nervous. Does it seal really well against the bottle?
I imagine my kid swigging it up like in the picture, having it dribble out of the bottle and drip everywhere (him oblivious), me yelling from across the room "hey watch your mess!", him swinging it down real quick, putting it on the counter, and then having it fizz up and spew out the top. A trail of soda drips all across the carpet ending in a still-fizzing puddle of soda and ice cream, dripping down the cabinet and on to the kitchen floor.
At some point during the process of becoming an adult I developed to ability to see into my son's future like that. Dad vision. Anybody else got that?
There’s a newer product called Fizz Cup which looks like a much less messy version of Fizz-Nik.
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Ah well hell, You need one of these, too 
I stood in line for 2 hours to see Jaws in 1974. But I was too old for toys and I do not remember seeing this.
Quoted from cottonm4:Ah well hell, You need one of these, too
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I stood in line for 2 hours to see Jaws in 1974. But I was too old for toys and I do not remember seeing this.
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Quoted from HFK:I had that Jaws toy and loved it. One of the few games you could play with friends or by yourself.
Forgot about that one. Dug it out to give to Nephews. They'll love it!
When the first Kennedy half-dollar coins came out in 1964, my parents excitedly saved a bunch of them in a plastic bank that looked like a big half-dollar. But they eventually decided to cut it open and spend them all. I kept one coin in this fabulous fancy plastic snap case.
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My OCD thanks you 
I forgot about that Jaws game too. Now I know where the plastic fish skeleton that is still kicking around 46 years later came from!
Quoted from EdisonArcade:Dug it out to give to Nephews. They'll love it!
Are you sure you want to give it to your nephews? Brings hundreds of simolians on eBay...
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