Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

[SoonerBill]

I don't remember how much the little bottles of paint cost.

I don't either. I had a pretty decent sized collection.

 

[SoonerBill]

By the 70s we needed a parent to buy it.

Might have been a local thing. I never had to.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Testors plastic model glue in the metal squeeze tube. (.15 cents!!!)

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Used it a lot. I had a pretty good sized book case of models.

Me too! Had all the WWII planes and the latest (1950s 1960s) fighter jets (F86, F100, F104 etc) and a large collection of ships (USS Missouri, Nautilus sub, Fletcher class destroyers, USS Forrestal carrier, PT109 etc).

I had a few planes. Mostly cars. I've been a car guy since I knew what a car was.

My model collection was cars (mostly AMT 1/25). My basement work table looked like an automotive wrecking yard, with parts separated into different piles. I liked the AMT 3 in 1 models because you got extra parts to build the car as stock, hotrod or custom. Those extra parts would end up on different cars. Also, after building a car, I would have it on my shelf for a while, then take it to the basement, dismantle it and use the parts to build it into something else.

I enjoyed many hot summer hours down in the cool basement creating model cars my way.

Our very own Paul Boyer (TB member) knows a thing or two about the subject.

Paul Boyer | Finescale Modeler Magazine

 

[zontar]

I had an Emenee.

Did you have a guitar?
Including the organ.

 

[SoonerBill]

Our very own Paul Boyer (TB member) knows a thing or two about the subject.

Paul Boyer | Finescale Modeler Magazine

COOL!!!!!!!

 

[Jeff Scott]

COOL!!!!!!!

Paul used to be the editor of the magazine, then he retired.

 

[Richland123]

 

[Major Seven]

Our very own Paul Boyer (TB member) knows a thing or two about the subject.

Paul Boyer | Finescale Modeler Magazine

I blew up a few with firecrackers like my friends were doing but I stopped because most weren't worth sacrificing for the brief thrill.

 

[Major Seven]

Did you have a guitar?
Including the organ.

Sounds like the Monkees playing a Beach Boys song.

 

[dtripoli]

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I think I still have some of these.

Customer profit sharing bonus of 10 cents? Oh gee thanks...but it's only good at their store?
Just give me the dime and I'll use it wherever. How old is the "bill" from the 1880's?

 

[Matt-J2]

Customer profit sharing bonus of 10 cents? Oh gee thanks...but it's only good at their store?
Just give me the dime and I'll use it wherever. How old is the "bill" from the 1880's?

From what I just read online, you're supposed to save up a bunch of them(they come in multiple different amounts. denominations? etc) and then use them to buy a snowblower. Preferably when they're a line of people behind you.

 

[Richland123]

 

[zontar]

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[fretter]

 

[Richland123]

 

[Richland123]

 

[Major Seven]

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Still have some of those.

 

[Solipsistik]

I mean, we do our gigs with an actual Hammond B and a Leslie cabinet. You don't see much of that anymore.

 

[buldog5151bass]

A jazz club I go to has had a few organ trios. The last one had this.

I was speaking to the keyboardist after the show. He said his Hammond usually stays in the studio.

 

[SoonerBill]

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There was a restaurant here not that long ago that had the internet go out so often that they kept those and a machine and used it!