Dan wrote:
A neighbor and I sent away for the "Monster Ghost".
"Make him obey your commands even when you are secretly hiding as far as
100 feet away"
"A real terror, giant sized---"
which, when it arrived, turned out to be...
A white balloon
A white garbage bag
Two glow in the dark circles
A string.
Didn't read as many comic books after that one.....
Thanks for the memories!
Stanley Anderson wrote:
When I came to your site, I quickly scrolled down the list to see if you had
the item I dreamed and fantasized and longed for, but never got -- The
Polaris Nuclear Sub. And there it was, just as enticing as ever. I used to
plan all kinds of adventures I would have at the beach with it. Oh, I was no
fool. I knew that for $6.98 it probably wouldn't be able to go very deep in
the water. I knew that water pressure increases the deeper you go, so I
wasn't counting on more than, say, ten or twenty feet at the deepest.
Besides, I would mainly want to be just below the water's surface so that I
could use the "real periscope" to spy on people in the water or on the sand.
It still sounds good to me.
Valor wrote:
I was Robbed!
Hey!!! I actually bought one of those sea monkey sets. When I poured
it out I swear it looked like sand. Well The experience has left me a
cold untrusting adult addicted to the X-files because of thier motto. TRUST NO ONE
John M wrote:
Mr.Conley, I love your devotion to pop culture! I have been a collector
for many years! Some of your WWW project brought wonderful memories of who
I was, growing up in the nifty fifties! My mom put up with the sea monkeys
and the seahorse sets that came in the mail! I never got to order the
squirrel monkey though...
100 pc. Toy Soldier Set:
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Todd wrote:
i work for an ad agency and, while designing our web site, one of the
ideas that i had was to pick a few people in the agency and let them
tell a story about why advertising appealed to them, or how advertising
has had an effect on them. i submitted my own story, and i'll include
it here so you can better understand why i am doubly excited by your
page:
"Advertising was such a prevalent force in my development that, in
staying power, it has beaten out a lot of other things competing for
memory space. Play-Doh has ousted Plato for mental real estate.
As a kid I was definitely a sucker for a sort of "PT Barnum" brand of
advertising. Every time I picked up a comic book I was practically
threatened into sending away for x-ray glasses or invisible ink. But
the one that nabbed me was a huge, full page ad for a "footlocker"
filled with about12 zillion green toy soldiers. And, not knowing the
actual value of 12 zillion green toy soldiers in a footlocker, I
figured you couldn't beat the price ("it's true, mom, you really
can't") blazing across the ad bigger than a punch from Batman. When
they arrived--allow 6-8 of the longest weeks of your life for
delivery--I discovered that the "footlocker" was actually a cardboard
box painted like a footlocker, and the 12 zillion soldiers was more
like a hundred of the tiniest little marines I had ever squinted my
eyes at. But I played with them all the time, and I think I only
swallowed about a half dozen accidentally."
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Mark W wrote:
Great stuff man. Thanks a lot. You brought back great memories.
David L wrote:
What a great site! The "Major Matt Mason" ad took me way back! Thanks!
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