Lets take a trip down memory lane.

[Brandy]

How about these things ??

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Those were great! loved looking through them had a whole box of discs for one...

 

[Brandy]

 

[DeltaV]

Did this ever work or were you just hearing the other dude in the open air?

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We used waxed paper Dixie cups and ran a (thinner) string through the cup bottom. It works like a diaphragm...acts to amplify the string (voice) vibrations.

Dixie cups, circa 1960s:

 

[Dibbons]

Middle foto is my rolling-eyes Mi-Ken (Made in Japan) pendulum clock that hung in my bedroom as a kid. I have the key, but the pendulum and weight (if there was one) is missing. Would like to find the missing parts somewhere, someday so I can give it to my first grandchild due to arrive this summer. I don't have the instructions, but the last foto is something I found on-line that sounds about right.

I've been calling it a clown, but now that I look at it again I ask myself: "What exactly is it, an elf?" The first video is not mine, something I found online youtube:

 

[The Rebel]

It's amazing what we remember 30+ years ago but can't remember what we did 5 min's ago, LOL! I still remember my bike lock & HS locker combo.

 

[DeltaV]

 

[DeltaV]

 

[Daves69]

 

[Slopinjim]

Every adult I knew had one of these:
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I remember eating plenty of THESE :
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Pretty sure that's what my grandparents house smelled like.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Middle foto is my rolling-eyes Mi-Ken (Made in Japan) pendulum clock that hung in my bedroom as a kid. I have the key, but the pendulum and weight (if there was one) is missing. Would like to find the missing parts somewhere, someday so I can give it to my first grandchild due to arrive this summer. I don't have the instructions, but the last foto is something I found on-line that sounds about right.

I've been calling it a clown, but now that I look at it again I ask myself: "What exactly is it, an elf?" The first video is not mine, something I found online youtube:



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Start a search on ebay, might be able to find one. Possibly buy a similar one and rob the pendulum from it.

 

[Dibbons]

Exactly what I've been doing, before I take it to a watch maker/repair tech.

 

[beanhead]

Great thread Kern! You're just a couple of years older than me but I had or at least remember almost all of them..here's a few more-







I'm shocked they still make these..do today's kids even know who the Flintstones are?!

 

[Photon440]

We used waxed paper Dixie cups and ran a (thinner) string through the cup bottom. It works like a diaphragm...acts to amplify the string (voice) vibrations.

Dixie cups, circa 1960s:
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When I think of Dixie cups, I think of ice cream and wooden spoons.

 

[Brandy]

Who remembers 'Ice cream socials?" The church would put them on and they would get ice cream in paper boxes and open the boxes to slice the ice cream in 1" thick slices and put them on paper plates with a piece of sheet cake. You would then be paired up with a girl and told to sit down and talk to each other.....lol. The girls hated it...the boys just wanted the ice cream and cake.

 

[Brandy]

My Mother and I were in Stetsons Hardware store one day when I was about 13-14 years old. We overheard a customer asking for directions to a neighbors house. The directions went like this..." Well Mrs-------, you take 426 North for around 6 miles and you'll come to a 90* hairpin turn to the right, then in a little ways you will cross a little bridge, after that in about 200 yards or so you will pass a green and white house on the right with three big Maple trees in the front yard that has several of those Slinky things hanging from the branches. The street you want just after the Slinkys on the left." Our house was the one with the Slinkys...

 

[hunt2elk]

It's amazing what we remember 30+ years ago but can't remember what we did 5 min's ago, LOL! I still remember my bike lock & HS locker combo.

I'm the same way and figure it is because those were very special times in our lives.

 

[Kern Dog]

I forgot about Weebles! I used to call this fat guy Weeble in Junior High. Years later we actually became friends.
Check these out:



Remember this store ?

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[Kern Dog]