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Once upon a time we couldn't live without it, now we hardly think about it at all.If it's vintage and in any stretch of the imagination technological, it belongs here.This is a safe-for-work collection of awesome old technology, so enjoy!Also available for your amusement: Yet Another Thrift Blog, my thriftstore finds!Welcome to the Slideshow, a collection of slides.A Typewritten Blog, blogging from a typewriter.You should buy my vintage-derived stuff on Threadless!Write me in Ask or Submit (anon is on) or the messenger!!
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Expo '86 tea set! With display platforms.
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Hop on the Disney Railway!
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Greetings, all. I'm in the process of moving -- still have the old place until the end of the month, but am in the new place as of yesterday so about to start transporting things from A to B -- so that's why I've been so quiet and will have to be for a little while longer. That and Comcast seems to have boned something because the modem at the new place isn't synching, so must call them.
Anyhow, found this Ace 'Cadet Liftop 302' from the 1960s yesterday. As you can see, the top is an amazing marbled blood red. Interesting putting papers together with something that looks like raw steak.
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Another competetor in the Tinkertoy, Lego/Elgo, and Lincoln Logs category in the 1950s was Fox Blox. A number of other people and companies are using this name in this spelling so finding more info on this is possible but in a sea of other results.
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Pulp fiction!
Sci-Fi books from STD flea market in Springfield MO
I got my fighting bonnet on and I mean business
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How we toted two dozen cassette tapes around back in the day, or stored all the music we really liked neatly.
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Tumblr LOVES cameras, and my lovely model is holding a Polaroid 420 camera. I had to figure out how to open -- then close, which was more challenging -- the bellows, but no equipment was harmed in the making of this photo. This was produced 1971-1977 and you could still get film for it until 2016. The flash unit is really interesting because what you see at the top right is just a holder for a FlashCube, which filters the light more evenly.
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Neat old projector at the thrift the other day!
A Brownie 500 8mm projector from the 1950s, which hopefully has a good bulb in it because that machine is the gold standard. And so clean!!
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Oh look, I found Pan's Labyrinth on HD-DVD!
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Recent purchase: the 1/2 & 1/4 key of a circa 1900-1910 typewriter.
For the record: I am against keycutting, but as someone pointed out to me... what if it is NOT a "perfectly-working machine"? Don't want beautiful pieces like this to go to waste. (Ignore the bit of lint. I cleaned the glass with a Q-tip and apparently a little floss got off.)
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That IS pretty awesome, and in its original box and shipping! I knew it had to be late 1960s to the 1970s due to the fact there was a ZIP code on the address (first used on shipping boxes in 1967), then the postmark confirmed 1969. "sausage rolls"??
Seems to basically be in the hotplate style of the era, but with serving trays that hinge down on its sides. I like how the sides attempt to look like wood window shutters, complete with engraving and handles; I found another photo in a different door style, LOL:
Branded by Gerber though made by Jaxton. I initially thought since you have dark wood on yours these doors were metallic and had heating coils inside, like a waffle iron, but I found a picture of yet another model with a different tray layout where it's clear this is just wood being used as bowls:
Thank you for sharing your baby food warmer with me!
@vintage-tech Here's the food warmer in the baby food box I mentioned in the tags!
My husband and I bought it a good while ago so I got some of the details messed up, my bad. The stamp on the box says '69 so I suppose that's where I got my 70s time frame from and the shipping label says Ohio to Mississippi.
The wood doors are thick and sound so nice and the plant patterns on the metal is so pretty <3 I'll never use it, but I just like to admire it from time to time
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Discovered this thing at the local antique shop. Early portable camera!
Sweet, a Polaroid 150! Not the oldest instant but one of the best.
Camera was made in 1957-1960 but you could still get film for it until 1992, which didn't have its finisher built into the film so you had to manually wipe the picture with an included tube of liquid to fix it.
Sweet that this one has a case and a Wink flash!
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And you know what you can cook on your Black & Decker "Sizzle Lean" grill? Sizzlean!!
Sizzlean was a cured meat product manufactured throughout the 1970s and 1980s and marketed as a healthier alternative to bacon. Swift & Co. originally produced the product and rolled it out to major United States markets in 1977. In 1990, ConAgra Foods acquired Swift from Beatrice Foods and continued to market the product until about 2005. Although the product contained less fat than bacon, it was still 37% fat by weight, causing complaints that the "lean" name was not accurate.
#technology#vintage#1970s#1980s#food#don't bring home the bacon#bring home the Sizzlean!#Move over bacon#there's something meatier!
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To the person a year or two ago that said they wanted to find 8mm film projectors in thrifts: today is a banner day for that.
16mm B&H Filmosound too!
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A quick reminder that the price difference between a Double Stack and a Bacon Double Stack alone is 30¢ ($2.89 and $3.19), while the price difference between having those in your Biggie Bag is $1.
Caught ya, Dave.
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Things I don't expect to find in a thriftstore: apple box labels. Uncertain whether this one was still glued to its apple box or glued to a prettier piece of wood (seems likely due to the seemingly stained wood), but it wasn't decoupaged on.
I prefer framing them, personally.
#yes this shall be dusted soon#because I'm moving so it'll be put into a box briefly#vintage#apple box label#technology
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Today's throwback is how in my neighborhood, Drug Emporium (1977-2001) became Longs Drugs (1938-2008), then the building became a Lowes hardware store. So this bag is not technically vintage yet since it's under 25 years old, but the chain is long gone [except in Hawai'i, where CVS kept the name on 50 stores].
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