Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

[Richland123]

~Fancy.~

We had a set of World Book Encyclopedias that came from the Piggly-Wiggly.

I also have a set of World Book Encyclopedias from the late 1960s like these along with this device. The World Book Cyclo-Teacher. I am living large.

 

[Skeezix]

Oh yeah... we had all of that World Book stuff.
Spent many rainy days with them.

 

[Richland123]

 

[roccobass]

 

[the harp unstrung]

^^^For $37.50, I’d give it a whirl…

 

[the harp unstrung]

 

[Richland123]

 

[notJaco]

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My first was from Montgomery Ward. $15.

I don't see it anymore...not around here

 

[wmhill]

 

[ArtGuy9516]

 

[Richland123]

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A Roman Army Knife. So, this is where the Swiss Army Knife came from.

 

[Richland123]

My first was from Montgomery Ward. $15.
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I don't see it anymore...not around here

This is what my first guitar looked like but with a different whammy bar. My mother bought me an Audition guitar (made by Japanese Guitar Company Teisco) in 1966 at Woolworth's for $35.00 for my 10th birthday. Considering that minimum wage was $1.40, that was a quite a bit of work she had to do to pay for that guitar. I greatly appreciate my mother for buying me my first guitar and my drum pad, sticks, and drum instruction book at age 10.

This Audition guitar is what I started to learn on in 1969 and played in my first band in 1970.

I traded that guitar in toward my first new bass guitar (an Epiphone short scale bass) in 1971 like in the bottom photo. I still have the Epiphone bass and case.

 

[Bassball Fever]

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Somebody chopped Tinker's left arm off and put it in the back seat.

 

[notJaco]

Somebody chopped Tinker's left arm off and put it in the back seat.

WT...etc

 

[FilterFunk]

Somebody chopped Tinker's left arm off and put it in the back seat.

Good eye! I totally missed that.

Now I can't unsee it...

 

[Richland123]

 

[roccobass]

 

[Winslow]

^

 

[roccobass]

 

[wmhill]

I had one of these back in the day. The 800s were being phased out for the new JCM900s, and the old stock was being used up. The chassis was configured for a combo, so they reconfigured the head cabs to accommodate it. The "upside-down" 800. I wish I had it back.