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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Later to be used as band lighting…
Evergleam aluminum Christmas trees. Made in Manitowoc Wisconsin. They often had the rotating colored light seen above in front of them.
These were very common when I was a child in Wisconsin.
More information and photos here: Ever Gleaming
These were very common when I was a child in Wisconsin.
More information and photos here: Ever Gleaming
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I really like the shape and angled pickup design in that Standel Bass!
From the Standel Wiki page…
“From 1961 to 1967, Standel had a short period as a manufacturer of stringed instruments. Bob Crooks made several attempts to market a Standel guitar. The first attempt resulted in 10 prototypes made by Semi Mosely. Joe Hall built the next line of guitars, a run of Mosrite-inspired double-cutaway guitars and a basses that featured an aluminum casting that housed the pickups, bridge and tailpiece. In 1967 Sam Koontz and The Harptone Manufacturing Co. designed and built a product line of 10 semi-hollow body and arch-top guitars, five acoustic models in six-string and 12-string variants and two basses: a semi-hollow body and the first production acoustic bass.”
That looks a bit like our lint trap for the washing machine discharge hose.
Man, I'd forgotten about those.
These were also used to illuminate those asbestos snow sprayed natural trees.
Two things I haven't seen in a very long time - popcorn strings and construction paper link chains for Christmas trees. Do any of you still do this?
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Two things I haven't seen in a very long time - popcorn strings and construction paper link chains for Christmas trees. Do any of you still do this?
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Not anymore, but we did this when we were young. We interspersed cranberries with the popcorn.
