Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

[roccobass]

 

[Richland123]

 

[notJaco]

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Hey! Where’s the water?

 

[SubHuman]

Hey! Where’s the water?

It’s dehydrated in a separate box…you just add water.

 

[notJaco]

I loved Bazooka Joe and sent away for the toys too!
We had to chew a lot of bubble gum to order the item.
It took 16 long weeks to get shipped and we checked the mailbox everyday.
Wow talk about anticipation.
Now if Amazon Prime is a day late on a next day shipment I’m complaining! Great memories.

Regarding Amazon... broke my coffee pot in the morning. Wife ordered another around 1pm. It was on my door step at 7:30 that night. Thanks Amazon!

 

[dwm74]

I loved Bazooka Joe and sent away for the toys too!
We had to chew a lot of bubble gum to order the item.
It took 16 long weeks to get shipped and we checked the mailbox everyday.
Wow talk about anticipation.
Now if Amazon Prime is a day late on a next day shipment I’m complaining! Great memories.

From the back page of comic books, we sold seeds or greeting cards to all the neighbors so we could redeem our sales for a set of walkie-talkies. They finally arrived at the end of the summer and were actually decent quality. But yeah, waiting for them became week after week of disappointment at the mailbox. Everything back then had the standard 'Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery' attached to it. And we thought that was fast!

 

[Winslow]

From the back page of comic books, we sold seeds or greeting cards to all the neighbors so we could redeem our sales for a set of walkie-talkies. They finally arrived at the end of the summer and were actually decent quality. But yeah, waiting for them became week after week of disappointment at the mailbox. Everything back then had the standard 'Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery' attached to it. And we thought that was fast!

Seeds, greeting cards, and the GRIT newspaper!

 

[GonePlaid]

Seeds, greeting cards, and the GRIT newspaper!

Remarkably, still exists as a magazine.

 

[tubedude]

The venerable Johnson and Smith catalog. They supplied juvenile delinquents with such fun items as smoke bombs, waterprroof canon fuse, onion gum, brass knuckles, cigarette loads, X-ray specs, and more. They got all my lunch money.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

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Yup. The 7 foot monster ghost was a balloon, a white plastic sheet, and a length of fishing line to hang the aforementioned from a doorway. I also had a "spud gun" from them that you stuck into a potato and then fired the little chunks with air pressure.

 

[Richland123]

Sears Super Raceway

 

[roccobass]

 

[dwm74]

Had this model as a kid...

 

[Richland123]

 

[StereoPlayer]

I still have my Pioneer reel to reel. 10” reels.

 

[roccobass]

 

[Stinsok]

Seeds, greeting cards, and the GRIT newspaper!

I sold Grit papers!

 

[Winslow]

I sold Grit papers!

The place where I grew up was not exactly conducive to paper routes, so I sold seeds.

 

[Stinsok]

The place where I grew up was not exactly conducive to paper routes, so I sold seeds.

We lived way out in the country. I had to pedal about 4 miles down a dirt road to reach the nearest community. I guess everyone felt sorry for me and bought them

 

[Richland123]

The place where I grew up was not exactly conducive to paper routes, so I sold seeds.

We're you selling guitar seeds?