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Had both of those Polaroid cameras.
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Books of comic strips in this format…
And the king’s nose isn’t tge size of the rest of his head.
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Oh, and the price.
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And the king’s nose isn’t tge size of the rest of his head.
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Oh, and the price.
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Yes!! I may still have some of those boxed away somewhere!
Wizard of Id and B.C. are the ones that jump to memory.
Notice also the small size of the house. Nice middle class people lived in small houses like that. You can tell by the landscaping, the kids, that it's a nice neighborhood. Nowadays it'd be a 2500 SF McMansion and they'd both be working two jobs to try to pay for it.
True. Many years ago I had a conversation with a stripper at the Men's Club in Dallas. She said she made so much money that she had a vacation home in Florida and was working on her masters degree!
There are still a couple of strip clubs here in Tulsa, although I haven't been to one in decades.
My daughter used to work behind the bar at one. She said it was the best gig, and always felt safe at the end of her shift as security would always ensure that all the girls got escorted to their respective vehicles and made sure they were not accosted by the drunken loons that hung around at 3 or 4 in the morning!
I guess he’s not so interesting anymore.
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Decades ago I made some charitable donations to tuition funds.
Yesterday's ugly is today's chick magnet.OK, it was butt-ugly, but (1) if you were driving it you couldn't see how fugly it was, and (B), you could carry all yer bass gear in the back.
Old Daisy BB Guns (Check out the prices!)
I checked it out, the 99 Target Special released in 1959, and this ad says that's a new model, so I plugged that year and $14.95 ino the BLS inflation calc and got $162.54.
Interesting to think about is how we talk about ads being everywhere today, and everything is commodified, but that's all right here in this ad as well. The name Daisy is repeated over and over, they play on dad's nostalgia, it's targeted right at kids and encourages them to show their dad and have them buy the product, etc. It's not exactly the same, but the periodicals were the handheld media of the day and always had ads like this. They've always been trying to Sell You More Stuff.
Anyway, I just think it's interesting the way sales/marketing tactics have changed, both with the times/culture, and with the technology.
