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[bpetersxx]

Prelinger Archives part 2

The archives are great for commercials also

Some great commercials are for Tide laundry detergent
Ajax cleanser with elves and a SOS scouring pad opera on one
of Gary Moores game shows

 

[drmitch]

Lotsa cool things,Veggie! Like the toys, I just found a 1972 Clue game. TV and Hi-Fis are awsome! Bet the rest of your house is too!

 

[coldspot66]

Does anyone remember "Mr. Machine"? He was a clear color and you could see all the gears that made his legs, arms, and mouth move when you wound him up. You could also take it apart and reassemble him too! There is a GREAT commercial I have on VHS.......if I could only find it!!!!

 

[rchris]

My favorite is the Talking Show Projector. Had one of those at the tender age of 6. I am trying to remember some of the titles it came with.

I also "dug" the Dippity-Do (which was popular when people still said, "Can you dig it?"). I used to be drawn to the color, but when I would open the lid, there was that wonderful smell.

 

[jmirawm]

Prelinger archives link !

Thanks for sharing that link Louis! I have had more fun today! Looking at the futurama and many commercials!

 

[veg-o-matic]

Coldspot: If you look in the second picture between Barbie and the Suzy Homemaker SuperOven, you'll see Mr. Machine. He's not the original one, but still quite cool.
veg

 

[kenmore1978]

Mr. Machine

Oh, yes, I well remember Mr. Machine, my cousin had one. Anyone ever have a "Think-A-Tron" that used little punched hole cards?

 

[bethann]

Hey Veg!

Check your spam folder!

 

[retromom]

Here's one

NIB Dial-A-Brew 2!!! I can't seem to find the "original" Dial-A-Brew with that funny thing on top of the filter, so this is as close as I can get.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11652&item=6147231682&rd=1

 

[coldspot66]

Kenmore 1978

OMG I had a Think-a-tron! Does anyone have one of these? I completely forgot about it.

I also remember "Mr. Kelly's Car Wash"!!! hehe

 

[veg-o-matic]

Mr. Kelly's Car Wash

When I was a kid, I would have killed for one of those! I still have the commercial on tape somewhere.

Oh yeah. That's another one of my collections...

veg

 

[retromom]

Toys and more toys......

Loved the commercials for Mr. Machine, but never got one (or a Lite Brite. Give a Show projector was fun. We spent many a day trying to make the room dark enough to show the slides!

Where's your Creepy Crawlers and Incredible Edibles? We used to burn our fingers on those darned things!

Terrific collection. Lots of memories

 

[kenmore1978]

If it's Mattel, it's SWELL!

Like the Vac-U-Form and the Power Shop.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Hi Veg, you have some very fun things there! Love your displays, they are super cool!

Laura is wonderful, I love watching color shows on a roundie. Did you get the electrolytic caps replaced?

 

[rickr]

OHHH It's all coming back!!

Oh Kenmore1978, I had both of those when I was a kid. What fun they were! The Vac-U_Form,and the Power Shop. Both Christmas gifts from my parents.(not on the same Christmas though) I had forgotton both of those great toys from my childhood of the 1960's. WHOA!! The memories are flooding back now! Do you remember the "Tumble Stones" (something like that) It was from the late 1960's or early 1970's. It had like a record player motor on it and a drum you filled with three stages of grit and water. Coarse,medium,and fine. The thing ran night and day for weeks at a time. After about a month of that drum tumbling the rocks,you washed them off,and they were all as pretty as polished granite.(maybe the rocks that came with the toy were granite??) Then you could make jewelry and other things out of the polished rocks.
It was pretty cool too!
Rick

 

[kenmore1978]

more memories

Mouse Trap (Ideal)

Krazy Klock (Ideal)

I don't think my cousin and I EVER actually played the games, we just kept setting up the mechanism to trip it.

Rock'em, Sock'em Robots (Marx)
"You knocked my block off!"

 

[veg-o-matic]

Well! Looks like we've opened the floodgates of Boomer memories!

I didn't have Creepy Crawlers or Incredible Edibles, but I did have the Mattel Fright Factory, which was in the same line. I remember one of the things you could make was a disgusting warty tongue, that you actually stuck in your mouth! Between that and the fact that the cooker actually heated up, it would NEVER be allowed on the market today.

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Making toys "safe" has taken all the fun out of them, I think. Look at all of us--WE survived.
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I did have the Johnny Toymaker set pictured. Well, not that exact one, but, you know what I mean. Seems that Topper always came up with toys that were a *little* cooler than the others, but they never seemed to work quite right.

Oooh. Power Shop. Never had one but always wanted one. Bet they go for plenty on ebay--like Creepy Crawlers and Incredible Edibles.

And how about the ORIGINAL Hot Wheels? All that orange track and those purple connectors! There's a whole generation of men who could see those two colors and not think of anything BUT Hot Wheels.

Motorific? It was cool then, and it's cool now. My dog likes to watch the car race around the track.

So do I!

I STILL (after 20 months) have some stuff packed away from when we moved in. I'll try to dig out my Tressy collection, my banks, my advertising radios...

Oh, and Robert, yep, I finally got the lytics replaced in Laura. I stopped when I hit the one that fixed the problem, as I am extremely clutzy and didn't want to tempt the fates.

 

[retromom]

Tressy...

Was that the doll whose hair you could pull out from the top of her head to make it long, then turn a knob on her back to make it short again? I was telling my daughter about a doll like that but due to my age, couldn't remember the name.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Yep. Well, Tressy was the first one. She came out in (I think) 1963 and was Barbie-sized.
When American Character went out of business in 1968, Ideal, among others, bought some of their patents. Within the next year or so, Ideal put the basic Tressy mechanism into a bigger doll, Crissy.

Oh, I have some of *them*, too...

 

[doityrselfguy]

Speaking of old toys....

From the late '70s: Slime! That cold, clammy green concoction that came in a small green plastic garbage can? Later, there was pink Slime with purple rubber worms in it. Practically every nine year old like me at the time had to have it!