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Laurel and Hardy -This is your life was a very special moment as they were beginning to loose the amount of public appearances as the years caught up with them. Early 1950s Laurel and Hardy took several months off, so they could recuperate. They then traveled to Europe and undertook a successful series of public appearances in short ...
Does anyone remember sandcastle flags? When visiting the beach, there were several shops on the beach front selling buckets spades and of course the set of flags. Normally the sandcastle flags came in a set of six. Today we discover why were these flags of a certain design in the Uk. Maybe your flags that you purchased were ...
A B C D F G H I K L M N O P R S T W Shirley Temple lifts America's Depression-era spirits with The Little Colonel, Curly Top, and Heidi. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons hit new heights, Mickey Rooney launches into the spotlight in the popular Andy Hardy film series. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, the first fully animated feature, makes history in 1937, while over at Universal, Frankenstein, ...
B C D F G P S // // single-plungerdly invents the pinball craze, while Bumper and Contact take the game two steps into the future. At the penny arcades, fortune telling machines like Mystic Pen and An Answer from Beyond promise Depression-era patrons a rosier future, and pitch-and-bat baseball games like All-Star Baseball let li'l sluggers live out their big league dreams. ...
Vintage memorabilia The older i get the more i love vintage collectibles and old memorabilia WHERE CAN YOU FIND VINTAGE AND RETRO COLLECTIBLES TODAY? Well it's easier than everto collect old vintage memorabilia . Join the collectors forums and web sites Keep watch on items on ebay Subscribe to newsletters and site feeds Visit local auctions Join and online of offline clubs Amongst the top ...
Vintage Postcard Collecting Along with tea cards and football stickers, postcard collecting is another collectible many kids have pursued at one point or another in there childhood. Ask and collector of postcards and they will tell you there are several things you must know beofre becoming a serious collector. Postcards can go for hundreds or even thousands ...
Tin ToysA tin toy, or to be pedantic a tin lithograph toy, is a mechanical toy made out of tinplate and normally painted by chromolithography to resemble primarily a character or vehicle.Tin toy robots are a highly collectable type of tin toy. Classics like the Mr Atomic Robot, and Robby the Robot from the movie ...
Meccano had the tag line - "your hobby is for a lifetime" and for many it was. It was always rewarding, but a lot more work than Lego - Today we take a nostalgic look at Meccano. For over 100 years it's been around pleasing sons and fathers alike. But how did it all start. ...
LUDO means "I play" in Latin and thus is a great board game for all the family to play together. Ludo is made for 2 to 4 players and the aim is to race their four tokens from start to finish according to dice rolls round the board and home first. Traditionally Red, Blue, Green ...
Any one remeber the great Zoom ice-lolly of the seventies by Lyons Maid? Or how about the Strawberry and Vanilla ice-lolly caled Fab. Remember Jubilee lollies or the Space 1999 ones? If you were a boy and you wanted to be a man, then you would opt for the Cider Quench a real mans ice-lolly, ...
