Recent thrifting scores....with pictures from my new camera!

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Since my shag is still on hold from WARDS....I figured I'll post about some recent thrift-shop and flea-market findings!

Now, anybody who knows me well knows that i promote and use old technology on a daily basis, such as VHS and Slide-Projectors, these finds will certainly aid me with my Retroaholic illments!

 


Let's start with last tuesday!


 


I had a dentist appointment that day, and decided to stop in the local Goodwill. as i was browsing the aisles, nothing caught my eye. new stuff, somebody took the turbo-tool off a Eureka Airspeed and left it on a shelf, about 20 feet away from the complete vacuum. I'm thinking to myself, "As usual, disappointment!". Then i spot this cord, sticking out of a leather briefcase, almost as seen below! 


 


P.S-I spy with my dated eye, something KENMORE! 

 

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I open the case, and to my surprise, I find a Kodak Carousel Slide-Projector! 

 

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I think to myself, "Alex, you already have a slide-projector!"...But the case is GENUINE KODAK! 

 

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As if the case didn't make me want it more,

It came with spares! 

 

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$28.95 for a bulb!? Thank goodness somebody else bought this for me! That was a LOT of money back then! 

 

 

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But then!

I open this little compartment....what could THAT be!?

 

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Why, nothing but the ORIGINAL REMOTE CONTROLLER!


 


All this, for $4.99! Did you even THINK i would leave without this? 

 

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In case you were wondering, of course this old thing still works! 

 

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I bought ONE of the original carousels to the machine. this box is labeled, "First pictures with Camera from Jack's", Guess somebody got a camera, and the projector to go with it! shame i didn't find any cameras, but that's for tomorrow's segment! 

 


If this Goodwill didn't benefit charity, I would've told the cashier that they were pricing a used item at more than it was when it was new! 

 

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That was a cool store Gold Triangle they had awesome things there

 

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This was my former slide projector, A Sawyer's model that somebody donated to a different Goodwill, with a baggie of their family's vintage slides! it's like those people who donate picture frames, but don't take out their pictures! why they do it, I don't know! It came in a UPS box, I want to write and mail the sending address to acquire about the slides, and hopefully mail them back, if not the entire projector, to the original family. The box said the projector was "broken", although it was nothing more than a jammed slide! the Kodak model works a lot easier with my custom slides than the Sawyers ever did! 

 

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That's all for tonight, but i have a lot more finds to post later on! 

 


Mark, mind telling me about Gold Triangle?

 

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Sure Alex, it was an in-between department store kind of like Service Merchandise. They had Grants, Leeds & Britts was somewhat a bit upscale not like Wards, Zayres, JM Field, Jefferson or Woolworths. There were so many department stores back in the 70's I can't remember them all.

 

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ah, the golden age of shopping! it sure didn't take much to go into debt back then, thanks Mark! 

 

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Anytime..it was so much fun back then being dragged around different places. You can probably find the commercials from department stores gone by on YouTube

 

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I've watched a few WARDS commercials in my day! I need to watch more, I'm known as the King of Wards by my friends! 

 


Anyhow, this is the last ad for tonight. Bell Telephone doesn't have to tell me twice, they can drop by and pop a rotary phone in my Kitchen any time they want! 

 


hope you guys enjoyed tonight's segment, as always, bought to you by DESOTO, the smart way to go places! 

 

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Wow, just realized the extreme sexism of that Telephone ad! oh well, Women had it easy, cook & clean, that's all! they didn't have to worry about bringing home a paycheck, that was the man's responsibility! together, they helped America along it's greatest point of prosperity! 

 


but, of-course, when both their work is done for the day, they can always sit down and enjoy a nice slide-show.....O.K, I cheated a bit, one more ad! 

 

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We had one of those in yellow with the short cord on it until mom dove for the stove & tore the entire thing off the wall! We got a newer one with a longer cord. Oh Alex we had a rotary wall phone in Orlando that had an automatic cord on it. Kind of large flat wall phone I think with a pin board attached to it.

 

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LOL! I have a 1984 dial-tone phone in the kitchen, I'll have to get a picture of it sometime! It's chocolate brown, with a super-long cord! You can answer the door without the phone exploding off the wall!