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Your forgiven if you think we have mispelt monopoly only if you have never heard of the Totopoly board game. Apart from the name sounding similar the likeness ends there. Totopoly is a great game based on the events leading up to, and during, a horse race. Originally made in 1938 by Waddingtons, the game is ...
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 H I L M N O P R S T W Max and Dave Fleischer's Mr. Bug Goes to Town bows on Dec. 7, 1941. Walt Disney brings Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi to animated life. Alexander Korda's Thief of Bagdad dazzles audiences with state-of-the-art special effects and Sabu, Mickey Rooney's Andy Hardy series marches on, Elizabeth Taylor rides National Velvet to box-office glory, and Disney ...
B D F G H M P R S // // The Voice-O-Graph lets amateur crooners save their performances on a cardboard record, Drive Mobile puts gamers behind the wheel, and Monkey Climb. well, it has climbing monkeys. Two popular sports get arcade makeovers in Basketball Champ and the puck-bowling pioneer Shuffle Alley, while pinball gets its first set of flippers in Humpty Dumpty. ...
Top of the Form was produced bt the BBC in the UK. Its a programme that began on Saturday 1 May 1948, as a radio series and eventually made it onto the television as a childrens programme. The Childrens quiz series ran from 1962 to 1986 with various presenters including Bob Holness famous for his quiz Blockbusters ...
While ABC TV premired TV's very first children's circus variety series , NBC TV and The Bonamo Candy Co. created and produced their own circus program, that featured an enchanted buffoon. "The Magic Clown" debuted on NBC TV as a Sunday afternoon series on September 11, 1949. Set against the backdrop of a traveling circus, illusionist, ...
Children's Theater! remembered by Kevin Butler Local: WNBT/WRCA/WNBC TV Ch.4 NYC Weekday evenings:1949 -1951 Saturday Mornings:1951-Saturday June 17,1961 Host / Narrator / Interviewer / Producer / Creator: Ray Forrest. During a car pool trek from Ridgewood, N.J.to NYC in 1949. WNBTV Ch.4 Producer Jack Riber told radio and tv broadcaster Ray Forrest that the station execs wanted to present a daily children's tv sereies for ...
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 ...
