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Well done Vladd, they were very inventive!
I notice this implement quickly removes those "back aches" peculiar to ladies (as it says in the blurb)
 
This was the first 'music system' that I ever had:

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A full six buttons and one volume dial. Hi-tech '77 style.
 
'77?!? I would have thought '67. Or maybe it was state-of-the-art portable in '77.

By '77, I had a Sony 7 inch reel to reel stereo tape deck, patched into the turntable and integrated reciever/amp.

Aahhhh piracy was so easy in those days. Borrow an LP. Listen to it and copy it at the same time. A 1200 foot 1.5 mil tape would hold an entire LP on each side. I could squeeze three LP's onto two sides of an 1800 foot 1 mil tape.
 
dannymcg said:
I noticed the article refers to Britains air giant, The Brabazon, this amazing plane would be so big it could take one hundred passengers across the Atlantic!
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I seem to remember that there was an ‘exploded diagram’ of the Barabazon in an Eagle annual in the late 50s. Very impressive. I seem to remember it had bunks for the passengers much like sleeper trains.
 
Dave said:
Why has no one commented on the pink rabbit's foot key fob? Were pink rabbits also "a genuine thing back in 1955"?
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I went a-looking Dave, and I did indeed find reference to a dyed pink rabbits foot in 1956, however this was in a blog article that also uses the N word (common in those days it seems) so I'm not sure that I should post a link
 
Actually, YouTube has lots of pink rabbits. Even using safe food dye, I'm not sure that it is a humane thing to do, so I won't give them any promotion with a link here.
 
The foot was actually from an elephant during an under-cover operation.
Sure ain't using that disguise again!
 
pyan said:
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I remember my grandfather inventing a tv remote, a bit earlier than this.
It worked some of the time but failed on the fine tuning.

Basically it was a long stick with a rubber bung on the end.

(PS note how they've cut the right hand side off the TV (and her shins/feet) in the photo; ie where all the knobs and dials are. Presumably the other half of the "universal remote" fits over these and twiddles and pushes them on the tv itself)
 
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