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"Ruby Tuesday" Freakout Guitars (Spin-O-Rama,1967)
Freakout!!: The Great New Guitar Sounds Freakout Guitars (Spin-O-Rama, 1967)This super-cheesy whammy-bar fueled version of the Rolling Stones classic has always been a personal guilty pleasure of mine....
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Can't Get This Stuff No More: Discontinued Grocery Items of the '50s to the '90s
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Those Little $30 Chinese Tablet/Netbook Computers: Are They Worth It?
Photo: eBayYou've probably seen these little 7" inch Android tablets with sleek keyboard cases that resemble '80s/'90s day planners on eBay or Amazon. You can also buy these tablets on their own...
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Mystery Food: Deep Sea Finger Lobster
What was this?I saw this 1977 Sizzler ad on Pinterest and it gave me a flashback to this 1983 commercial.I’m not an expert at seafood (I’m actually allergic to it and I'm also revolted by the smell.)...
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Pluto TV
Imagine a digital cable/satellite type TV service with channels and shows you’ve never seen before with a great selection of movies that you can take with you and watch anywhere you have an internet...
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Portable And Car Audio Demonstration Cassettes
In the early days of portable cassette machines, late 1960s and early 1970s cassette decks often came with demonstration tapes. These were mostly public domain songs, such as "Little Brown Jug" and...
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The Ben Cooper Pac Man Halloween Costume (1982)
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Hospital Radio
Image: Sheffield Hospital RadioIt was an American idea that became a British institution that is almost completely unheard of in America. And one of the most overlooked ways radio has been...
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Dumpster Diving in The Internet Archive
If you love random free, old, fun and useful stuff. But can't find anything useful on the curb outside and you're tired of the disappointing and questionable crap on Craigslist.Or you're simply happy...
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The Last 78 RPM Records
"Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: DiscogsWhat was the last 78 RPM record?I've been asked this question now and then and to be perfectly honest, the 78 RPM speed is still with us....
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The S&H Green Stamps
If there was an American institution sorely missed now more than ever, it's the Sperry & Hutchinson Green Stamps. But there's a twist to the tale.For decades S&H Green Stamps were the nice...
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The Classic Public School Pizza Recipe
Long derided by snooty food critics entirely too old to be eating in school cafeterias anyway, The classic American Public School Pizza is a beloved treat of generations of American elementary school...
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Dick Tracy Wrist Radio (1947)
The Dick Tracy Wrist Radio was a crystal radio, powered by nothing by AM radio waves, an aerial and grounding wire connected to a grounded piece of metal (like a radiator pipe.) And a kid's...
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Special Request: "The Ballad of A Gentle Laxative (The Doxidan Cowboy...
From the mailbag....Hmmm...Not really knowledgeable about diamel, Rd. But when you mentioned the Doxidan Cowboy, you hit solid gold.Everybody sing!:When I’m irregularHere’s what I doI take Doxidan...
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The Disposable Paper Dresses of The 1960s
There's an essence of a woman who buys her dresses with her buckets of KFC (nudge-wink).Perhaps one of the most questionable products of the 1960s was the disposable paper dress.And it still looks...
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The Nylon Riots of 1945-46
In the aftermath of World War II, full time civilian manufacturing resumed. But not at pre-war levels at first. There was a lot of retooling to be done to get the factories, who had switched to making...
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The Complete Broadcast Day of WJSV, 9-21-1939
Vintage Zenith Wood Tombstone Radio, Model 10-S-130, Broadcast, Short Wave & Police Bands, 10 Vacuum Tubes, Made In USA, Circa 1936 - 1937 Photo; Joe HauptIf you were ever curious about how...
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The Great Kat - Worship Me Or Die! (Roadrunner, 1987)
Your blind date is here. Image: DiscogsI once saw a mail-order offer for this album in Metal Edge magazine back in 1988. The cover of this made me do the same double take you probably just did. So if...
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The Garfield Telephone
1986 ad for the Tyco Garfield Telephone The 1986 Tyco Garfield telephone perhaps would have been another '80s pop culture relic were it not for a phenomena happening to this day halfway around the...
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The Jupiter Ace Computer
The Jupiter ACE computer was a British-designed computer that was released in 1982 by Jupiter Cantab, a company founded by two ex-Sinclair Research engineers. One of the unique features of the Jupiter...
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