American Bricks kicked butt on either of them.

http://www.architoys.net/toys/images/AMBRICK8.JPG

Maybe I'm biased because my older brother lost many of the parts of the Erector Sets, so I couldn't do as much. But I spent hours and hours with American Bricks.

transistor radio

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...10-23-2004.jpg

How well could you draw on this little invention of the devil?

I had a professor at college who rigged it up with servos and connected it to a computer.

I also participated in World's Largest Etch A Sketch, shown here on YouTube. 3000 of the top computer graphics professionals can barely draw a straight line with one when controlling it communally with red and green popsicle sticks.

God those things hurt!!!!!

But it seemed like a few years that you couldn't hardly go anywhere without hearing them exactly as you describe.

Then if others were like me, even when we used to do ok, we would decide to do them super fast, knowing all the time what was in store.... smiling at our accomplishments and cringing at the same time.

:o

Bicycle turn signals... I got a set, and probably signalled with them about 10 times.

Riding my bike to the store to get a tube of Flicks.

Getting together with a couple of kids in the neighborhood, and letting mom know, "We're going on a bike hike."

Seeing Mount Ranier in the distance, never knowing how much I would miss it when I moved away.

There's more, but this thread will be here when they come back to mind. ;)

White Bucks

Sputnik Satelite.........October 1957

How many of you had one of these? Or lusted after one? I paid $75 for my first calculator, and it looked pretty much like this one:

http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houghton/EDE..._1datamath.jpg

Did you prefer Royal, Underwood, or.......

Yeah, and it would eat $2.00 worth of batteries per hour. We've come a long way.

I've still got the slide rule (and leather tooled case) my Grandfather gave me. I pull it out occasionally to scare the teenagers.

It's quite remarkable to remember that we got to the Moon with a room full of "A" type personalities estimating to the least number of significant digits for the entire trip.

Slip stick

He/She has more_______than Carter has pills.........

Which, in turn, led to the term Beatnik...

When you came in from riding your bike did anybody watch TV on one of these?
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Remember Herter's

The Milkman.........

:eek: Yeah, once we got back with the tubes tested at the grocery store and put them all back in.

Some of those things took a good five minutes for the vacuum tubes to all come up to temperature before the picture would clear. Put off enough heat to help heat the house in the winter.

The back panels were a real thrill for curious little boys. Some of the set back panels were basically uninsulated wiring boards with live voltage at various points.

Guess how I know.:eek:

Note the Crocs (shoes). Guy was WAY ahead of his time.

http://tingilinde.typepad.com/photos...zed/rocket.jpg

Those blue seatbelt straps are gonna leave a mark when he lights that puppy up.

OK. I clicked on Last Page. Am I gonna come back tomorrow and find that this isn't the Last Page********************???

I never had one of these. Did you?
http://www.h-spot.net/watches/trafalgar.jpg

Another mathematical memory for me...

For the woodworker with limited space.......

http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/mad118id.jpg

Spy Vs. Spy, Snappy answers to stupid questions, and
Alfred E. Neumann for president.

This is the cover from the month I turned 16.

:eek: You were 16

The trademark of Pat Boone:)

Check the price.:D


http://www.televideos.com/_borders/Y...st_Concert.jpg

Ummm, Flicks! We used to always buy those at the local movie theaters--or sneak them in for the movie! I loved those things.

"heh, heh--wanna walnetto?" <whack, whack, whack! [by an old lady's purse]>

And the wonder of all mechanical calculators, the Kurta Calculator. I used to spend hours with that old pepper grinder. My parents were into car rallying, so it got used a lot. My Dad and I even won the first rally that we did together. That shocked the rest of the drivers, to be beat by a team that missed the drivers' meeting and had a 10 year old for a Navigator.

I did the cards in the spokes, but a few months back I spied this on eBay and had to have it.

I had no idea what it was, and bought it for the box... It is a metal contraption that hooks to the fork and holds a plastic flap in the spokes.

Plus, it has my name on it. :D