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When I was a kid my bike was my freedom. I would have been devastated if I lost/had my bike stolen.
But I doubt parents these days tell their kids to be home for supper after breakfast.
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I've only come across d titles nib. If people think pinball is a expensive hobby, try nib nes games. And a lot more rarer.
Quoted from Jackontherocks:I still have the boxes and instructions for all my games are they worth more, just curious to know. They are not sealed as I have played them all. Always wondered how some of these games are worth so much and we know they don't work on the system from time to time without blowing into them or whatever remedy we have all tried.
Absolutely. Box and manual average 3 to 5x the money then loose carts. And that's average titles. Generally the top loader is a more reliable system with less blinking. Qtip in rubbing alcohol to clean contacts. There's repop labels available now so watch out. They're taking $5 games and slapping labels on them to appear like they're $200 games. A collector friend bought a Flintstones last year for $250us and went to play it and it was skate or die 2.
Check pricecharting.com for values on any video games and systems. Loose, cib, nib prices, auction results and listings.
Quoted from RCA1:and lead paint, and leaded gas, and no seatbelts, no bike helmets, no cell phones, riding the open bed of a pickup truck............................
Ahh.............. to be a kid again..........................................
Yeah, what a soft society we live in these days.
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Bought a box of vintage toys at a estate sale for $10.00
WWF game i remember and I've been hooked on Spiral Score for 15 minutes now. Kinda pinball related with the plunger. Gotta see if the baseball game still works next.
Quoted from Dee-Bow:I remember watching Casper the friendly ghost stills on that lil white camera.. don't worry about the baseball game..jusy send us a pic of you with that gun holster on Jay!
You gotta at least buy me a drink first. I'm not that easy 
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Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Only 1 thing worse than a tube of sticks......
Aykroyd is the best. Highly underrated imo.
I also got tons of Disney books and anyone remember these? 45 record books? I must have a 100 of them. $5 for the whole box!!!! I hear cash register bells. Lol.
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So I went to a large collectibles estate auction yesterday. Mostly carnival glass and antique furniture. My 7hrs of standing around was rewarded when some toys came out. Paid $20.00 for all of them. Robie Sr lost a hand but all the battery compartments look clean. Going to hit the dollar store tomorrow for some C and D batteries.
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Picked these up from a yard sale yesterday for $3 each. I've been hunting for a Simon for a while now but this radio shack ARCADE will hold me over and I'm a sucker for handheld arcades. The Tandy Space Explorer is a dig dug clone. Both have empty and clean battery compartments so when I get some C batteries hopefully they still work.
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I was born the same year (1978) and I remember my older brother had one for a short period. Maybe he borrowed it from a buddy. Not sure.
I see a space explorer sold for $57 earlier this month on eBay!
I also picked these up for $1 each at the same sale. Can't wait to play some rocket hockey
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As a kid, around 11 or 12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were the last toy i can remember buying before moving on to better things. Mostly pinball and women! I was at a auction today and i scored some original tmnt! They're missing their weapons but I had that nostalgia feeling and just had to have them 
Somebody else must have had the same feeling cause I got into a bidding war and and paid way too much. Haha
20190720_203833.jpgWe had gravel roads at our summer cabin where the corners would dip down. Every summer there would be 2 or 3 kids who would flip their trike rounding those corners. Once one of the back wheels leave the ground, they roll. I remember one kid in about 86 hurt themselves bad enough they had to be air lifted to a hospital. That was pretty much the last summer I saw trikes around the cabin and beach.
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Marbles are getting crazy collectible these days. Guys are paying big bucks at auctions I attend for a small bag or pail of marbles. The new ones look like the old ones so not sure what makes them valuable?
Funny story. When I was 4 or 5 I stuck 2 steelies in my nose and couldn't get them out. My mom freaked and took me to emergency. They went thru my mouth with a little tool of some kind and pushed one out of my nose from behind. Once one was out i shot the other one out 
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Quoted from VectorGamer:Aware me on another pinball forum besides Pinside
I'm not sure what site he's referring to but up here in Canada we have pinball revolution and maaca. Plus there's always pinball owners. Haven't been to any of them in ages.
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Me and my older brother used to shake out heads at all the stuff we and our parents would sell at garage sales. He had all the 70s marvel and dc figurines. All the star wars ships and figurines. Sold for next to nothing probably.
I came along later and had all the lego, gi Joe, dukes of hazard, transformer, wrestling figures. At least i sold my toys to buy a Nintendo. My brother probably got nothing.
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:Now we’re talking. I was into Transformers just as they were coming out - I think I was 6 years old. I was REALLY into them for about 3 years and then they started to run out of ideas
Those initial Diaclone toys were just incredible
Me too. I remember it being a big deal at school when they released the 6 green construction transformers and you could join them all together to form a super robot.
I picked up this lunchbox at a sale a few weeks back for $10. Has its original thermos in it.
20191104_091532.jpgQuoted from Rdoyle1978:Hell yes! I worked my 7 year old butt off to get those ONE at a time; I think they were $10 each or something . I could never find “Hook” which is the main guy everyone attaches to. My parents surprised me with it one day out of the blue (maybe it was Easter or I got a good grade or something - they didn’t normally just do that). And man I could FINALLY build that whole huge guy. Brought him to school (1st grade) and everything.
My son (who is not really as into transformers) has a newer Devastator which is easily 2 feet tall. Pretty damn amazing
I don't think I ever got all 6 or 7 needed. The twin brothers a block over were the first to get them all. I remember it was the first house I went in where the furniture was covered in plastic. Don't think I ever went back after that. Funny what items trigger certain memories.
My favorite/worst transformers story is I saved my $2/week allowance to buy Megatron. Finally saved $28, opened it up and I broke the gun handle off without ever getting to transform him. That probably ended my transformers love and I moved on to something else.
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Quoted from jamesmc:1969 Apple Krate that was restored 20 plus years ago. These were fun to ride as a kid. Fun to ride today at Newport and Carlsbad beach bike trails as long as it's a few mile ride. I'm 6'2" but still have fun with it.[quoted image]
Thanks for sharing. Motivates me. I have a similar model and after I finish house renos this winter I'm totally going to start that project. Screw the shuffleboard next in the queue for restoration. Haha
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Anyone ever win a Madball out or one of there games?
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I've definitely never seen that before. Any redemption style game where you got to manually work something I've always been attracted to. I still drop a loonie or two into crane games when I walk by them and see something I want. I also like watching coins go around in circles on those donation wishing well things at the mall.
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Quoted from BMore-Pinball:Who here is old enough to have had the old metal Tonka trucks?[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]
We have a bunch around our yard. Wife likes to buy them at yard sales when they're under $10
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I always wanted a rectangular trampoline. Just can't get the height on the round ones. We lived in a house with a outdoor pool for a few summers and the neighbors had a round one. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough space to get it close but that would have been epic.
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Quoted from gliebig:I bought a set of illegal lawn darts (the pointy kind)from an antique shop last year.
Funny that you can buy firearms but pointy lawn darts are a no no.
I bought my set at a church garage sale!
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I may consider selling mine after seeing this. I have a box and both yellow circles. Wonder what i could get for them?
http://bid.schmalzauctions.com/4-LAWN-DARS-2-YELLOW-2-RED-i36762420
*edit* link doesn't work for some reason. Search schmalz auctions, item# 237 on today's auction
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Hopefully you guys can help me out. There's a nib 1:18 diecast of the dukes of hazard general Lee I'm following at a auction by me. Current bid is $280 Canadian.
Fair value At current market or crazy high bidding?
I really have no clue. Just caught my eye.
Quoted from bob_e:2 made by ERTIL. 1st one from 2002 and the next one from 2006.
Prices all over the map... mostly do to condition of the box.
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Thanks. It's this one. Prebids already at $280 and live sale isn't till Saturday. I'm curious to see how much it goes for.
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I was suspended 2 days for bringing dad's playboys to show and tell in grade 5
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Thanks. It's this one. Prebids already at $280 and live sale isn't till Saturday. I'm curious to see how much it goes for.
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One day out and price is up to $360
Quoted from mooch:My favorite Colecovision game was Mr. Do!
I can still hear the game’s little song playing in my head.
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Great game. My favourites were Burger Time, Jumpman Jr. and The Heist. Had to have the super action controllers
Was going thru my manual collection the other day and found my Coleco Jumpman Jr
20200809_204158.jpgWhat are you guys thought about opening a item or leaving it sealed? I have 175 NFL Mcfarlanes and wish i didn't open them but at the time didn't care and liked the looks of them on my shelf.
I picked up these KFC cups a while back. I love Looney Tunes and think I'd like to display them without the bags. They're not a big ticket item but part of me says, "keep them sealed"
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Quoted from zombywoof:I remember Looney Tunes promo glasses at Hardee's, but I'm sure other chains had them, too.
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I've got the 90s KFC ones
20201010_071745 (resized).jpgQuoted from OLDPINGUY:3 weeks, 5 minutes at a time, they all are getting cleaned, checked, and stored.
This is like 8 family members toys going back to the 50s.
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Nice collection of games Art. What's the Arnold Palmer game?
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The two lots of WW2 comic books went for $100 and $50 respectively. The Hot Wheels set went for $50! Wow.
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Forks work better. Made my hair stand up as a child.
Had a singer friend who had a hot/live microphone. If your hands or lips touched the top part of the Mic, you'd get a good shock.
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Quoted from Rezdog:Hey Dirk I might be out of line here but you may want to add this to your toy chest. I find it’s always a good idea to have a roll or two handy just in case...well you know, so you don’t have to shit in your hand : )
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Lol. Fake poop trick only works once or twice but always good for a giggle.
Same with fake lotto tickets. We've gotten a few friends and family over the years with them.
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Two millennium Falcons and no bids yet? Hopefully it stays that way38801724_1.jpg
One of the NHLs toughest, if not toughest SOBs, Dave Semenko card. He became a realtor after his career ended and sold our house in 1989.
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The A-Team van. When I was a kid living in Winnipeg we drove down to North Dakota for a weekend in a blizzard. I remember getting that van and also the A-Team helicopter.
How did they mess up the art so bad on the Dukes board game? Look at Daisy. Ughh.39030014_1.jpg
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Quoted from BMore-Pinball:kids across the street had this and I was very jealous
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They pop up for sale every few months around me. Usually for outrageous asking amounts but I have seen a couple for a hundred bucks or less.
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I don't remember Crazy but loved both Cracked and Mad Magazine. It was always a rush to get to the Mad magazine before my brother to get to bend the back cover into whatever picture it was.
Quoted from mooch:Wait a minute... Jocko is the same dude as Scoopy the Carnival Straws clown.
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That's next level investigating!
Couple pinballs up for auction Saturday so was looking at what else was available. I had the Galaxian tabletop and Wayne Gretzky overtime hockey. The robot boxes are awesome! I would have been begging my parents non stop if I saw those on the shelf.39138172_1.jpg39138170_1.jpg39138296_1.jpg39138192_1.jpg39138193_1.jpg39138068_1.jpg39160443_1.jpg
Quoted from mooch:That story reminds me of this flashing strobe light I used to have. I brought it out at parties for fun. But most people couldn't stand the thing for more than a minute or two.[quoted image]
No rock or punk band I played in didn't have one in the bass speaker
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Quoted from mooch:Can you remember your very first non-kiddie Rock-n-Roll record that you chose on your own to buy at the store? Mine was a Beatles 45: “All You Need Is Love.” (1967)
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I'm different because I was a head before done with being a kid. I was six and bought Twisted Sister I Wanna Rock with some money I got in a Christmas card. I can also remember buying the Ghostbusters single around the same time
Quoted from mooch:Dirk— you posted a Fisher Price radio music box way back at post #1204. I had that same one as a kid, now long gone. You made me buy another one!
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Speaking of Fisher Price, I just dug these out the other day. No hammer, so I'm using a pen to annoy my wife in the other room
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Quoted from kyle5574:Nice find on the Beatnik! Is that the pink or the red?
https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Beatnik_Bandit
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g25616442/rarest-most-valuable-mattel-hot-wheels/
I wish it was pink. That would be a awesome find for free!
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Sounds like we need a Yard Sale / Swap Meet / Thrift Store Finds thread.
I've thought about that for years as I'm always finding cool stuff that don't fit in this thread like new toys, signs, games...
Never had a sister or bought a Barbie before today but $5 for 19 of them seemed like a good buy. I think they're all never ones. Throw them in a tote and someday they might be worth something, or maybe not. More about the deal for me anyway. A young six or seven year old girl got to the box before me and bought all the Ken dolls. Lol
20210612_140324.jpgQuoted from mooch:When I was in high school in the 70s, on the last day of school the students would dump out all the stuff from their lockers, turning the halls and stairwells into a sea of papers and junk. Here’s a video of high school kids in Arizona creating a similar mess. But none of us ever stuck around to clean it up. I’m sure we pissed off the janitors big time.
In case someone hasn't seen Dazed and Confused, they portray this to a tee. Last day of school in 1976.
Quoted from cottonm4:In early 70s when I was in the military, I took a disc jockey job at our newly remodeled enlisted club with a real nice dance floor. On Friday and Saturday nights the girls hit the club. And they liked to dance. And disco was dancing music. I'm not much of a dancer but I liked the girls so worked real hard at learning how to dance to disco. It paid off in other dividends . So, I learned to like disco.
But at home with the stereo: Jethro Tull, The Stones, The Doors, and all of the others that made my head spin with the earphones on. Moby Grape. The Seeds. I really like just about all kinds of music.
Damn I wish i expierenced the 70s besides being born in them. I would have killed it during the disco era. Lol. I love dancing and singing. Always have. Was in choirs and school plays thruout childhood even though growing up a head. While I don't care for the music, we still have a dozen or so songs on the playlist.
Quoted from swampfire:There is no disco without cocaine, and there is no cocaine boom in the 70’s without disco.
I’m glad I only tried that stiff a few times back in the day. I can barely afford my craft beer habit.
Cokes fine. Cheap party drug. It's the rock that ruins the party. Turns everyone into hermits. Ruined half my friends in the 90s and almost took me down. Thankfully I came out on the better side due to a woman
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I love yard sales. I love finding things from my youth or cooler stuff before me. Today I found three of my favorite hobbies from one lady.
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I've never owned a nicer NES. Original owner and she had a daughter. This thing looks barely played.
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Quoted from dmacy:Wonder how many moms “used” those ET fingers for their own enjoyment.
My mom didn't have a ET finger but I was horrified when I found her toy drawer looking for Xmas presents 
Quoted from mooch:I remember the first time I saw a Big Mac in a big red box at McDonalds in the 70s. Before then, all the burgers I ever got there came wrapped in paper. It made the Big Mac look like a Big Deal.
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When I was a kid in the early 80s McDonald's came in Styrofoam containers. I remember always dumping my fries out in the lid side. Good times
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Quoted from smalltownguy2:We had some kid-free adult time at the cabin this weekend, so we broke out the Jarts. They are fun!
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I was throwing some lawn darts this past weekend also! Great way to kill a hour or two outside
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Cool looking board that looks like a record
Quoted from dirkdiggler:I found IQ 2000 Rock Trivia for a buck at a yard sale yesterday. I was always a fan of the original IQ 2000. Can't wait to play a few games later
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Anyone help me out with pricing? Would like to bid on few of these but unsure of current values. All working. Ends in a couple hours. Really want DK Jr and Qbert.
Current bids in Canadian dollars.
Donkey Kong Jr $47.50
Zazzon $27.50
Qbert $27.50
Galaxian $40
Pac Man in box $90
Pac Man missing battery cover 25.00
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Ah malls. I was a mall rat as a teen. I could hang out in the food court and smoke with my friends and play arcades. Malls were judged by the quality of their arcade.
The mall closest to me, had a Sears and Eatons on one end, a Safeway in the middle and a Woolco on the other. When walmart came into Canada in the early 90s they bought out all the Wolco stores. Within 2 years they built their own stand alone building up the block and that was the start of the end of that mall. Sears and Eatons closed its doors at the end of the 90s and half the stores bailed. It completely shut down in early 2000s and was demolished in 2006. They built high rise condos in its place and you'd never know a huge mall with a giant concrete parking lot and parkade ever existed there.
Z.jpgIt was also a treat whenever we went to West Edmonton Mall. Used to be the largest mall in the world. They had 2 HUGE arcades. Circus Circus was in the middle of one of the food courts and Wizard's Castle at the entrance to Galaxyland. My mom would just leave me there with a few bucks and go shopping for a couple hours. Best babysitter ever
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Grade six or seven we did line dancing. Learned Cadillac Ranch and the bird dance which is helpful at weddings. Couldn't stand it at the time because I hated country music.
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Quoted from mooch:My grandparents had a thermometer/barometer/humidity gizmo much like this one hanging on a wall in their house back in the 60s.
Hmm… it actually looks kind of cool.
Maybe I need one.
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I have that exact barometer, sitting in a tote in my garage Bought it at a yard sale for 50 cents because I thought it looked cool and reminded me of my grandparents who had one similar hanging in their hallway.
Quoted from mooch:When I was a kid, my Mom always had a glass olive jar full of rubber bands.
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I still keep my rubber bands downstairs in a jar. Glass is better then plastic.
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Quoted from mooch:Those posters look cool but neither is authentic.
Blondie’s own website says the Feb 3, 1977 Blondie poster is a “fake gig flyer.”
http://archive.blondie.net/gig_list.php
The Zappa one has a bogus date for the concert. Zappa was touring the US East Coast in Nov 1972. Nowhere near California.
https://fzpomd.net/wazoo/pics/bogus.html
Good eye. I wasn't interested in them anyway. Well for $5 I am but nothing more. Looks like new laminate. Downside of a auction is people just bid blindly on stuff that interests them. There's a Wayne Gretzky rookie card ungraded at $550 already. By hammertime I bet it will over a grand before fees and taxes for a card that could be a fake.
Quoted from Azmodeus:One trip to frank and sons. Los Angeles area collectible swap meet. Amazing place. You can spend your money on what you want or just enjoy looking at it.
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Wish there were some flea markets by me. Downside of living in middle of nowhere. There's swap and shop on the radio but not what it used to be.
Would love to checkout the Rose Bowl flea market someday. Or better yet the 127 yard sale that goes thru 6 States.
Just a update on the fake concert posters.
Blondie sold for $50 and Zappa sold for $25 before fees and taxes
Quoted from Azmodeus:This is apparently artist Paul Williams from San Francisco. I am having some trouble finding good info on him but I will.
Cool stuff I’d like to see it collected in a book.
Mom did a pretty good job. Scrap book is large. 24" x 20" London, Paris Amsterdam, Madrid. Kept a map of all cities plus whatever they did or visited. Bunch of Spain tourism posters and these London playbills.
My parents liked Madrid so much that they stayed there for 3 months before heading down to South Africa.
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I also found these booklets. Pretty cool. The one shows construction of the park.
Dad said mom and him were living in Vancouver in 68 and drove down for a week
Quoted from girloveswaffles:That must have been one long drive!
I've always wanted to drive the coast. Been to Seattle and Portland but never Cali. Someday
Quoted from thekiyote:So, it's so weird, but yoyos never died, they just went underground (kinda like the pinball community), and youtube kinda revolutionized it, as you could now upload and learn other people's tricks. In a lot of ways, new yoyos are very different than those old ones, but still a heck of a lot of fun. Those old ones are still a massive collector's item, though).
I may have been obsessed with them for a while. This was a wall I had in my old place (maybe represents a tenth of the ones I actually own...)[quoted image]
Coca colas sold for $30 cdn and the Mickey mouse lot sold for $10.
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Christmas 82. Still haven't found the box shot. Think it had frogger on it.
Christmas 84 we got a C64. My dad had a associate in the States and when he travel on business the guy would burn floppy disc's full of games. We had every Atari, Coleco, Intelivision, arcade game released.
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I remember having to go backwards and thru black/blind levels. Basically the first adventure game? It was a big deal in grade school when someone figured out how to finish it. I can remember drawing out screen shots to figure out where not to go.
Quoted from zr11990:Pitfall was probably one of the best Atari 2600 games.
My favorites were Warlords and Breakout for paddle games and Pitfall, Donkey Kong, Frogger and Elevator Action for joystick games
AstroJax definitely ain't no future yo yo. Gotta admit it's mindless fun tho just twirling them around now that I know how it works. Makes me want to youtube it. Well...
Cheap on fuel but a little hard to control
Quoted from bob_e:Zero Emission? I don't think so... methane for one.
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20220309_143512.jpgGot three summers in a house with a pool growing up. Best house I ever lived in. We moved to a small town after that house for a few years then moved back to the city. I met a girl Jenny in grade 9 art class and she invites me over after school. We get off the bus and I say I lived around here 3 years ago. It was a couple blocks walk and we're heading straight towards my old house. Sure as shit, she walks up the driveway and opens the door. Blown away. She had the occasional party thruout the high school years and was cool to party in a home I lived in as a kid.
20220310_102206.jpgQuoted from pinwiztom:is that a tornado in the background on the prairie?
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probably too far north and cold for those type storm systems to develop.
Anybody here been thru or near a tornado?
Myself only driven thru a few areas after the fact, when traveling thru Nebraska and Colorado.
When I was 3 or 4 yrs old one summer in the home in Aberdeen So.Dakota, that my parents were renting while going to school getting Masters in teaching;
A high wind and thunder storm came thru town and blew down a giant tree next door and if it would have fallen 10-20 degrees further to the west would have come thru my bedroom window. Or maybe it was struck by lightning and a big portion split off and nearly hit the house. Hard to remember that far back.
Damn. Good eye. The pic was the same summer as Black Friday in Edmonton July 31, 1987. We watched the tornado rip thru the industrial park on the Southside of Edmonton from my parents upstairs bedroom window. Just over that hill was pretty open and undeveloped still. I just threw out a whole bunch of pics my dad took of damaged and destroyed buildings. I remember baseball size hail, all the cars on the block having massive damage and the tree in our front yard getting hit by lightning
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And now, with satellites and internet, it is all in realtime. This is not history and you can feel the pain. It is still raw.
My dad had a subscription from 1978 to the early 90s. There was a huge stack in a downstairs closet. When my parents sold that house in 02 we took them all to the dump. Kinda wish i would have boxed them up and kept them.
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Here's my Comet/youth memory. Went to a new school for my grade 9 year. First week of school we're hanging out at the convenience store across the street from the school when some kid throws some bread for the pigeons hanging around. Him and his buddy are laughing. He put some Comet on the bread and poisoned/killed two birds. I immediately got in his face, he pushed me back and I one punched him. Broke his nose and got suspended for a week. Totally worth it. What a loser. Great introduction to my new classmates!
I used to keep a old 36" tube TV around to play old consoles on. I got so tired of moving that 60lbs, awkward beast around I finally thru it out. Also sold all my old consoles as I can get most of the games I actually want to play from Atari, Coleco and intellivision on modern consoles.
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Quoted from pinwiztom:When I lived in Bakersfield CA,
they had an iconic market in the neighborhood since the 30s until it closed shop in early 2010s
Green Frog Market
What made it kinda unique was their mascot neon sign
of a frog in a tuxedo that was tipping his top hat and was saying Howdy Folks
They only had one location most of its life span of the business
though they did open another branch about 2 blocks from my house
when they took over an empty Alpha Beta in a strip mall for about a decade in the early 2000s.
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That Howdy Folks sign is badass. Wonder what happened to it?
Beginning of 2017 I was at my heaviest weight. About 285lbs and everything was slim fit which sucked. Ate buffets regularly, fast food, etc. XXL was barely fitting. I'm now at 195lbs and just bought a size L t-shirt for the first time! I'm smaller now at 44 then I was in high school.
Quoted from cottonm4:Those whites had to be bitch. How many hours here and there?
I do puzzles blind/no picture help. Find it harder. Probably took about 12 hours. Would only be a few if I used the picture on the box as a reference.
Quoted from DarthPaul:So true, I remember in Grammer school there was always that one fat kid, the key word being one.
Used to be one or two chubbys every class year. Now I bet it is close to half. I see a lot of fat children. 3 of my brother in laws married fat. All their kids were fat growing up and still fat as adults and having fat children themselves
Quoted from Grayman_EM:You would think there would be a pinball or pinball arcade one? I also collect stamps and I have seen one for them.
There's a pinball one. A bunch of guys got it as gifts on the secret Santa thread this year.
I bought the mario one cause I like the mario bros franchise and it was only a buck
61nFEQE75YL._AC_SY580_.jpgQuoted from pinwiztom:Now are these new finds from yard sales or stuff that you already had pack rat stored away in the attic?
Found them in a box in the garage. They definitely weren't mine. All my childhood toys are long gone. Unfortunately my parents had a yearly garage sale and unused toys were sold
Remember when you'd win cool things at the fair? I can remember throwing darts at stars and winning beer posters with hot babes on them. Found these glass fair prize tiles today and the lady gave them to me. I'm sure there's 1000s of designs out there. I've never seen them before. Pretty cool
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Quoted from girloveswaffles:(... and I actually do have a copy of Duck Hunt in the box, It's just not sealed. )
Too bad it's not sealed. Pricecharting has cib Duck Hunt at $165. Sealed copy is $25000!
Still a cool find.
Anyone know if the dog in Duck Hunt has a name?
Quoted from DarthPaul:I didn't realize Duck Hunt came in a box, it was included with the nes in just a sleeve, which I still have.
I've never had Duck hunt by itself. Always mario combo or with track meet
20220726_162151.jpgI've had multiple power sets over the years. Before I rediscovered pinball I bought and sold video games. I think I still have Super Mario by itself but never Duck Hunt
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Quoted from mooch:I like the distinctive shapes of the old glass soda bottles.
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Top shelf of my dining room cabinet
20220815_001131.jpgQuoted from cottonm4:Never saw it before. Is that like the Kinetic Sand being sold today? Where you can squeeze it and mold it, etc?
You pour it in water and it harderns and can be molded. When you remove it from water it turns back to sand. I remember playing with in early grade school
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Quoted from cottonm4:That thing is in good shape. Looks like you got a couple of six shooters to go with it ( Oh, those are a lamp.).
Yup a lamp. Same sale. I liked the bullet pull chain
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I love Halloween. Never dress up but I get 4 or 5 bags of different chocolate bars and candies and 100 little Halloween bags and make up little pouches for the trick or treaters. Always carve at least 2 pumpkins. Hang strings of pumpkin lights up. We have three reserves around us so as long as it's not bitter cold we average between 70 and 100 kids. And tradition for us is when we turn the lights out around 8pm we watch JC's Haloween
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Quoted from smalltownguy2:At that price I'd take one too.
If you're in Canada, that's the price at The Brick. He snagged the 3 at his location and found me a extra one in Saskatoon. I'm gifting that one to a buddy of mine.
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Quoted from Luckydogg420:Well that brings back a memory. We used to get one ever year for Christmas [quoted image]
I thought about those also. Stocking stuffer every year. Went straight for the butter rum
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Quoted from mbeardsley:There are still A&Ws around in some places...this one is just a couple of miles from my work.
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A&W is a staple fast food chain here in Canada. Every city/town with at least 5000 to 10,000 people has one. Love me a mozza burger. Just too expensive now for what it is.
Quoted from LTG:Nothing like a cold frosty mug of A&W root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on a hot summer day.
LTG : )
Frosty mug of rootbeer and a side of onion rings was my go to as a kid in the 80s. They also had the drive in style restaurants up here where a waitress on roller skates would come take your order and bring your meal out to your car. Miss the good ol days...
Z(1).jpgQuoted from cottonm4:It's closed now, but the A & W in my girlfriend's town had orange telephone headsets at the horseshoe counter. You sat down, looked at the menu, picked up the phone and "called" your order in. I liked the Creme Soda.
Mmmn. Creme soda was good too. Tasted different then non a&w creme soda. Haven't had since I was a child. Too sweet for me now.
When the drive in restaurants fazed out the waitress they had a speaker to order and someone would run out to your car with your order. I also remember a tray that would attach to the driver's window? Maybe that was when they still had the waitress.
The closet town to me is 20 miles. Small farming community of 2500. They've had a A&W since the 90s and about 10 years ago got a Subway. I'd probably say Subway is the king of franchises in small communities. There's towns of under a 1000 people here in Saskatchewan with Subways. Haven't looked in years but Subway used to be the most popular/amount of franchises worldwide.
Quoted from Luckydogg420:I prefer DQ burgers and onion rings over most fast food places. They’re right on par with Harvey’s. (Although I think that’s just in Canada)
I love Harvey's but only get them when traveling to Edmonton. Frings is ingenious. Half fries/half onion rings.
Agree on DQ burgers. Less greasy and surprised at the size. 2 for $7 double cheeseburgers is my go to on the road
Quoted from girloveswaffles:The trick is to find one that still has the seat.
I found one years ago makeshifted into a stand-up. Should have bought it just for the boards.
Quoted from Azmodeus:You just inspired me to look through my old stuff. I will find something from grandma I hope.
I know I have a cool old watch from my uncle joe. Pictures to follow.
I kept my Grandpas Mason ring and cufflinks. He had huge sausage fingers and it doesn't even fit on my thumb. Lol. I was going to resize it but I'm not a jewelry guy so it sits in my wife's jewelry box
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