Those were tame compared to the “Real Negro President Born In Hawaii and Educated at Harvard” that America bought in 2008. “Comes Complete with Facsimile Wife and Authentic Children.”
What a gyp.
48
X ray specs and Spanish fly. Wanted both, knew they were a scam. Never bought either.
14
Honor House was the company that always advertised in the back of Boys’ Life magazine. I spent a LOT of paper route money there!
8
A baby pet racoon!? That’s hilarious!
7
Sea monkeys and jumping beans…
14
100 US army soldiers & a footlocker for storage. Thin, flat green plastic in a small cardboard box. I used them as ‘live’ targets for my regular green army men and run-overable material for my tank models. Mission accomplished.
10
Those little monkeys were really mean little critters, and unbelievably strong. And the could bite, and I mean BITE, harder than a small alligator.
DAMHIKT, about either the monkey or the alligator.
7
I recall, “plans for solar/wind-powered clothes drier”. I never bit but it ended up being a clothesline DIY set of instructions. It was in the back pages of popular science mag.
6
My sea-minkeys were my only frends ……. til I got in congeres and could give awayu money ……………
8
Fashionable Men’s Stainless Steel Tie Clips:
Two for $5 plus postage and handling.
Turned out to be two large paper clips in an envelope.
3
Nope. I was more an Edmund Scientific kinda kid.
6
I ordered 100′ of underwater
cannon fuse and it arrived.It
was real.1968, I was 14.
5
Yes, I bought the “Spy Camera”. I suppose getting ripped off as a kid is part of the learning process.
6
Used to go to Port Huron and buy the cigarette stink sticks and cigarette explosive loads at a novelty store that sold all that crap,nearly killed my dad a few times,he got really paranoid and would glare at me whenever he would light a smoke. Good times heh heh.
7
I remember these ads in comic books back in the 50’s and 60’s, never bought anything from them though. Mostly bought all the novelty stuff from a local novelty store called Fun & Fancy, you know the typical stuff like rubber barf, rubber dog turds, fart in a can etc. My dad had a rattle snake in a can which when you shook it sounded like a rattle snake, I think he got it as a gift from one of his brothers who thought it was funny. The best place for all novelty items now is from Archie McPhee’s in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle.
3
RADIOATIONMAN HAM/CB/AM/FM/SSB – I had that fuse too. Aside from using it as actual fuse, I used to take short lengths and bury them in the old man’s cigarettes… later on in college, someone else’s! Funny as Hell when they’re high and their cigarette starts goin crazy!
3
I ordered one of those one-way mirrored space helmets. It actually worked pretty good. Had a lot of fun playing with it.
5
@Geoff the Aardvark– yeah, I had one of those stores when I grew up. Didn’t need comic books! Hand buzzer, dollar bill changer, underwater crystal garden, whoopie goldberg–er, I mean cushion! HEY BENITO! REMEMBER THE HOBBY SHOP ON VIA?
2
Not as good as the Army Surplus Store. Man those were great.
3
I got the Joe Wieder muscle building powder. No muscles. Didn’t even gain an ounce.
1
“Leave it to Beaver” had a couple of episodes about these ads. One was about the pet alligator they bought (which brought us the first toilet shown on TV). Another was about a movie projector.
The only ad I was ever really interested in was for a machine that would allow you to cut your own records. Never did get it. I think something told me that it couldn’t really have been that good for the price they were asking.
2
And no one even mentioned the Charles Atlas 98 pound weakling ads when the skinny nerd guys always was losing his girlfriend or by getting beat up by great big bullies until he buffed up by becoming like Charles Atlas. Those were classics.
2
Fortunately, I never had the money to buy any of that junk.
2
@The Real
I had hundreds of toy soldiers when I was a kid. I got a set from a Veteran who had a collection of older metal ones. But I myself bought many bags of the plastic green US Army soldiers.
I would set up a bunch in the basement, and shoot them all down with a bb gun. My friends, brother, cousin, father, and uncle would all get a turn. Some of the metal ones, made I think of soft lead, would get beheaded in these attacks, either from a direct BB hit to the head or from falling over onto the concrete floor.
Within the bags of plastic US Army soldiers were little plastic tanks, much too small when compared to the size of the soldiers. My father explained they were OK, as the Germans created small scale radio controlled “tanks” full of explosives. He saw them himself somewhere in Europe. The Germans would send them into allied lines and explode them remotely. I recently saw a picture of some captured ones and I’ll be damned if they didn’t look just like those little plastic ones we used to get in the bags of US toy soldiers.
Toy soldiers were fun for lots of kids, but I bet now liberals have either outlawed them or at least convinced people that they are not “appropriate” for today’s kids.
Those were tame compared to the “Real Negro President Born In Hawaii and Educated at Harvard” that America bought in 2008. “Comes Complete with Facsimile Wife and Authentic Children.”
What a gyp.
X ray specs and Spanish fly. Wanted both, knew they were a scam. Never bought either.
Honor House was the company that always advertised in the back of Boys’ Life magazine. I spent a LOT of paper route money there!
A baby pet racoon!? That’s hilarious!
Sea monkeys and jumping beans…
100 US army soldiers & a footlocker for storage. Thin, flat green plastic in a small cardboard box. I used them as ‘live’ targets for my regular green army men and run-overable material for my tank models. Mission accomplished.
Those little monkeys were really mean little critters, and unbelievably strong. And the could bite, and I mean BITE, harder than a small alligator.
DAMHIKT, about either the monkey or the alligator.
I recall, “plans for solar/wind-powered clothes drier”. I never bit but it ended up being a clothesline DIY set of instructions. It was in the back pages of popular science mag.
My sea-minkeys were my only frends ……. til I got in congeres and could give awayu money ……………
Fashionable Men’s Stainless Steel Tie Clips:
Two for $5 plus postage and handling.
Turned out to be two large paper clips in an envelope.
Nope. I was more an Edmund Scientific kinda kid.
I ordered 100′ of underwater
cannon fuse and it arrived.It
was real.1968, I was 14.
Yes, I bought the “Spy Camera”. I suppose getting ripped off as a kid is part of the learning process.
Used to go to Port Huron and buy the cigarette stink sticks and cigarette explosive loads at a novelty store that sold all that crap,nearly killed my dad a few times,he got really paranoid and would glare at me whenever he would light a smoke. Good times heh heh.
I remember these ads in comic books back in the 50’s and 60’s, never bought anything from them though. Mostly bought all the novelty stuff from a local novelty store called Fun & Fancy, you know the typical stuff like rubber barf, rubber dog turds, fart in a can etc. My dad had a rattle snake in a can which when you shook it sounded like a rattle snake, I think he got it as a gift from one of his brothers who thought it was funny. The best place for all novelty items now is from Archie McPhee’s in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle.
RADIOATIONMAN HAM/CB/AM/FM/SSB – I had that fuse too. Aside from using it as actual fuse, I used to take short lengths and bury them in the old man’s cigarettes… later on in college, someone else’s! Funny as Hell when they’re high and their cigarette starts goin crazy!
I ordered one of those one-way mirrored space helmets. It actually worked pretty good. Had a lot of fun playing with it.
@Geoff the Aardvark– yeah, I had one of those stores when I grew up. Didn’t need comic books! Hand buzzer, dollar bill changer, underwater crystal garden, whoopie goldberg–er, I mean cushion! HEY BENITO! REMEMBER THE HOBBY SHOP ON VIA?
Not as good as the Army Surplus Store. Man those were great.
I got the Joe Wieder muscle building powder. No muscles. Didn’t even gain an ounce.
“Leave it to Beaver” had a couple of episodes about these ads. One was about the pet alligator they bought (which brought us the first toilet shown on TV). Another was about a movie projector.
The only ad I was ever really interested in was for a machine that would allow you to cut your own records. Never did get it. I think something told me that it couldn’t really have been that good for the price they were asking.
And no one even mentioned the Charles Atlas 98 pound weakling ads when the skinny nerd guys always was losing his girlfriend or by getting beat up by great big bullies until he buffed up by becoming like Charles Atlas. Those were classics.
Fortunately, I never had the money to buy any of that junk.
@The Real
I had hundreds of toy soldiers when I was a kid. I got a set from a Veteran who had a collection of older metal ones. But I myself bought many bags of the plastic green US Army soldiers.
I would set up a bunch in the basement, and shoot them all down with a bb gun. My friends, brother, cousin, father, and uncle would all get a turn. Some of the metal ones, made I think of soft lead, would get beheaded in these attacks, either from a direct BB hit to the head or from falling over onto the concrete floor.
Within the bags of plastic US Army soldiers were little plastic tanks, much too small when compared to the size of the soldiers. My father explained they were OK, as the Germans created small scale radio controlled “tanks” full of explosives. He saw them himself somewhere in Europe. The Germans would send them into allied lines and explode them remotely. I recently saw a picture of some captured ones and I’ll be damned if they didn’t look just like those little plastic ones we used to get in the bags of US toy soldiers.
Toy soldiers were fun for lots of kids, but I bet now liberals have either outlawed them or at least convinced people that they are not “appropriate” for today’s kids.