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The first automat in the U.S. was opened 1902 in Philadelphia. The automat was brought to New York City in 1912 and gradually became part of popular culture in northern industrial cities.
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Added: 16th July 2007
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Posted By: Cliffy |
 
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A demo of the Astro Base Scout Car in action. The Scout Car has cams on it which will automatically fire the missiles when the cam hit a certain point. You had better duck because you never know when they will fire! See Part 1.
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Ideal
Car
Toy
classic
Vintage
Cool
Added: 14th August 2007
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Posted By: dezurtdude |
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A demo of the Astro Base Scout Car in action. The Scout Car has cams on it which will automatically fire the missiles when the cam hit a certain point. You had better duck because you never know when they will fire! See Part 1. This is posted twice by your Bozo from Phoenix (me) posted it to the 1930's.
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ideal
toys
space
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Astro
Base
Added: 14th August 2007
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Posted By: dezurtdude |
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Opening Intro for the 50's Television show "Your Hit Parade". Your Hit Parade was a popular radio and television program, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes and broadcast from 1935 to 1955 on radio and telecast from 1950 to 1959. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or groups.
Each Saturday evening at 8pm, a hit parade of the more popular and bestselling songs of the week were presented. The original format involved a presentation of the top 15 tunes. Later, a countdown with fanfares led to the top three finalists, with the number one song for the finale. Occasional performances of standards and other favorite songs from the past were known as "Lucky Strike Extras."
Listeners were informed that "Your Hit Parade survey checks the best sellers on sheet music and phonograph records, the songs most heard on the air and most played on the automatic coin machines, an accurate, authentic tabulation of America's taste in popular music." However, the exact procedure of this "authentic tabulation" remained a secret. Some believe song choices were often arbitrary due to various performance and production factors. The show's ad agencies never revealed the specific sources or the methods that were used to determine the top hits.
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music
Added: 11th October 2007
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Posted By: Naomi |
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Vintage ad suggests men buy their wives washing machines for Christmas
The copy reads:
Here is the opportunity for every man whose wife hasn't a modern new electric washing machine to do his duty and enable her to solve the Monday problem for years to come. Be a real Santa Claus to the wife -- get her a new Model 20 Automatic -- the electric washer on which you save 1/3...
i better NOT get one of these for Christmas!!
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vintage
washing
machine
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Added: 22nd December 2007
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Posted By: Teresa |
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This is a fascinating 1984 commercial for Canon typewriters. This one has computer-like features to automatically line up decimals and make changes. In other words, it's heralding the very technology that will soon render it obsolete!
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Canon
typewriter
commercial
Added: 8th May 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Automats were a type of make-your-own-meal cafeteria. Customers bought individual items by placing coins into slots next to the food you wanted. The coins unlocked a glass lid and you helped yourself. Automats were all the rage for a while--especially during the 1950s.
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Added: 6th September 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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the unique stove seen here is a circa 1920 Westinghouse Automatic Electric Range... the box above the burners on the stove as well as the clock sitting atop it was part of the original equipment: a mechanical device which apparently allowed for the "modern convenience" of pre-setting a specified time for the oven to turn on and off.
"The Westinghouse Electric Range will enable you to shop or play or rest when you please, with the comfortable certainty that you will never find your dinner scorched or dried out, and that the finest flavors will be retained.
Results are not only certain, but uniformly good, since the range, because of exact heat regulation, will always duplicate its happiest previous effort.
The Westinghouse Automatic Electric Range is doing this kind of cooking for thousands of women, in kitchens that stay cool, at a cost for current more reasonable than you might expect, and with considerable savings in food weight."
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westinghouse
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Added: 6th November 2008
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Posted By: Teresa |
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