Featured Just a really cool find today wanted to share, I know we're gonna have fun with this one

In a way yes and a scant few of us were ever hurt.

 

Somewhere I have a 6’ x 6’ sheet of very soft very heavy asbestos for covering uneven surfaces, or anything, while welding. I’ll never give it up.
I handled hundreds of feet of asbestos wrapped pipe in the Navy.
I’ve done my own vehicle brakes since 1969.
We played with mercury and ate our crib rails covered in lead paint and got into God knows what.
All that...and we’re still here.
Probably because we DID do all those things.
Note: I’ve never smoked.

 

My "put up until I was old enough" gift was a big finger painting set. Years later I found it and I think I had a little tear in the corner of my eye when I realized the paints were dried up. I had wanted to get my hands on that sooo bad when I was 4 or 5 yrs old! Now I wonder what my mother had done to my aunt that year to elicit a finger painting set for me for Christmas!

 

This tells you that the copyright was approved in 1956. Can be made for 95 years after that:
according to this found on Google
"All works published in the United States before 1923 are in the public domain. Works published after 1922, but before 1978 are protected for 95 years from the date of publication. If the work was created, but not published, before 1978, the copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years.Mar 11, 2014"

The zip code tells you that is was made after 1963.

Were you able to find any numbers on the first or last pages of the instruction book?

 

I do the same thing. I spot things that I know are a good deal, but have so much stuff that I am now being much more selective. If I spy another person who appears to be picking, I will point things out to them. If they know nothing about it, I give them a lesson. Show them what to look for. I do the same thing if I happen to be in a thrift store.

 

Yep and all those plaster casts and bandages were badges of honor to be worn very proudly. Trees and rope swings over the creek were often our biggest "down fall"

 

Evidently not something too bad or you would have received a drum set.

 

I didn't know kids played with 'stuff' anymore. They sit, walk, sleep twiddling their thumbs.

 

Ah, I agree! But if you really look at it objectively, it is only those of us who have actually survived that crow over it not having killed us.............the "other faction" has no voice in this discussion....................

 

There was nothing on there regarding numbers the booklet has has the address but no zip code the only numbers on there was the copyright date.

 

Don' forget stare at their cell phones/tablets too

 

If one walks into someone or something while on a cell phone that is an.................
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Optical Contusion
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Yes....mine.

 

Ahahahahahahahaha

 

That would be the people whose Social Security check is delivered to the crib where they have their head stuck between the bars? No, not funny for those who did not make it, but when I see some of the strollers out there today, I do wonder how any of us survived.

 

I was going to add the heads bent over, the ears bud-ful, but got too lazy. To follow on from remark above, don't know how some of us lived when we were wheeled around in strollers with only 4 wheels. Also don't know how many of the twiddlers get hit by cars, hit other cars, or fall down stairs, after their parents took such care to get them old enough to have a phone.

 

Sorry I know I'm very late to the party on this one! But I was so excited when I saw it! I got one for Christmas back about 1968... I used it ALOT! LOL.. enameled dozens of pennies....and heated up lots of marbles to make them craze. Unfortunately, no one told me to let the enameled item cool off naturally, although I suppose it was in the directions - but what kid ever reads directions? I had a lot of fun with it... never burned the house down! I don't even remember being burned! I can't remember my folks ever being around. In fact, I use to take it to the little girls house a few doors down that I baby sat at. She was probably 8 or 10 and I was probably about 15. I believe I still have it down in the basement somewhere... I expect it still works. My art interests have led me other places; but who knows...maybe some day I'll introduce my grands to it. I bet one could buy on line supplies these days... Thanks for the memories!

Cheerio Leslie