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Kitty · Post by **Kitty** » Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:50 pm

donnie wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:09 pm
My humble apologies. I stand corrected, and hereby recommend the oatmeal box method.

That's what I thought!

donnie · Post by **donnie** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:51 pm

From the New Ideas from the Inventors section, March 1951. This is a second-degree burn waiting to happen.

Kitty · Post by **Kitty** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:20 am

I could be 100% wrong, but I think I saw something like this on antiques roadshow one time!

donnie · Post by **donnie** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:45 pm

Kitty wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:20 am
I could be 100% wrong, but I think I saw something like this on antiques roadshow one time!

Ulp. That would mean they actually manufactured this thing?

Here's another rather odd one:

Kitty · Post by **Kitty** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:28 pm

Basically a primitive-type self-serve soft-serve machine! I haven't seen those in a while.

donnie · Post by **donnie** » Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:48 pm

From an article on homemade TV cabinets in the August 1950. It's amazing how small those screens were.

Kitty · Post by **Kitty** » Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:36 pm

Wait til they get the remote control.... They'll really flip!

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