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Three GI Joe figures from the 1980s and the cover of the first (1982) G.I. Joe catalog. The figures are 3.75" tall. (The 12" figures came later.) The first 3.75" G.I. Joe action figures (Series One) were available in 1982 and consisted of seventeen characters. A new series was introduced every year thereafter. (It should be noted that the very first G.I. Joe figures came out in the 1960s.) The G.I. Joe animated TV series was launched in 1983. This was successful enough to warrant a second mini-series in 1985. Later that year, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero became a regular weekday program that ran through 1987. In 1987 an animated movie was made. A second series was launched in 1989 and ran through 1992.
I collected all of them
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Added: 2nd July 2007
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These were the first generation of women's "pant suits." And they were scandalous if worn to the workplace as most companies had rules prohibiting women from wearing pants at work.
TRIVIA: The brunette model is Veronica Hamel who went on to play Joyce Davenport on "HILL STREET BLUES" . .
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catalog
womens
fashion
veronica
hamel
Added: 15th August 2007
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Probably the earliest flight simulator ever made for kids and one of the greatest toys ever made! Made by the "Deluxe Reading" toy company in the early 1960's, and sold mainly in supermarkets. (You could also get them by mail-order from the old Spiegel catalog and other mail-order firms as well.) You controlled the steering with a yoke as your jet flew over moving terrain, (a rotating scenery cylinder,) controlling your airspeed as you lined up a "target," then fired (actual) rubber-tipped missiles by pulling the two missile-launching levers. Enough dials, levers, chrome and noise to delight any young fighter pilot! It was a blast knocking down my little green army men with the missiles! It used 4 'D' batteries.
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Deluxe
Added: 16th August 2007
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Here's an ad for Deluxe Reading's Jimmy Jet. It's a page from a 1966 Spiegel Christmas catalog. Here, the 'Jimmy Jet' sold for $9.98, the 'Super Helmet Seven' for $2.98, and the swivel seat for $5.98. Or you could buy the complete outfit for $18.77, saving a whopping $0.17! Can't beat a deal like that!!
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classic
ad
Spiegel
Added: 18th August 2007
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1918 had been a very good year, factories across the were running at capacity, wages were good and work was plentiful. With the war winding down, the future looked bright.
With news from the front and the celebrity hoopla over the latest Liberty Loan drive drawing all the attention, a small notice from the Surgeon General's Office warning of a spreading influenza epidemic was easy to overlook.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351.
More than one-fifth of the world's population suffered from some of the disease's deadly symptoms. The Influenza Pandemic claimed the lives of more than 21,000,000 people worldwide, including 600,000 in America alone. As the afflicted died by the thousands, the survivors lived in fear.
photos
The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/
Middle Tennessee State University
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history...
University of Minnesota
http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php
Tulane University
http://tulane.edu/
The National Museum of Health and Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/nm...
Oral Histories
Talking History - I Remember When
Professor Charles Hardy III - producer
http://www.talkinghistory.org/hardy.html
I can not recommend the above site too highly, one of the most outstanding websites for teachers and students of all facets of history
Music
A River Runs Through It
Mark Isham
http://www.isham.com/
Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copeland
Conceived and Produced by
Dale Caruso
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Influenza
Pandemic
WWI
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Death
Added: 25th September 2008
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Since 1942, Armed Forces Radio and later, Television Service (AFRTS) has been providing information, education, and most importantly, entertainment to U.S. military forces everywhere.
From broadcasts to the troops serving around the world in WWII, from Soul during the Korean War, Saigon throughout the Vietnam War, to stations in Europe and Iraq today.
Since 1942, through today, wherever American men and women serve, a bit of the "hometown" travels with them. Thanks to Armed Forces Radio and later the Armed Forces Network the entertainment that they held so dear is never really far away. In a way that is perhaps never realized at the moment, when we heard the music that we really never are Far Away From Home
Film Clips and Video Footage: Official and Amateur footage
Vincent Romano Archives
http://www.webalice.it/romanoarchives/
The Armed Forces Network
http://www.afneurope.net/
jnaz33
http://www.youtube.com/jnaz33
ReptilianGems
http://www.youtube.com/ReptilianGems
galtcitycouncil
http://www.youtube.com/galtcitycouncil
Jamie "RustyJms"
http://www.youtube.com/RustyJms
John "WolfieRed1"
http://www.youtube.com/WolfieRed1
Ecapsym
http://www.myspace.com/yagsi_ecapsym
Jay "MyEarbot"
http://www.youtube.com/user/MyEarbot
marcofrix
http://www.youtube.com/marcofrix
rusherecumbent
http://www.youtube.com/rusherecumbent
Audio Clips
OTRCAT
(pronounced 'oh-tee-R cat' - from Old Time Radio Catalog)
http://www.otrcat.com
music
nowhere to run - Martha and the Vandellas
going up the country - Canned Heat
somebody to love - Jefferson Airplane
sunshine of your love - Cream
papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
i can't get no satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
reflections - Diana Ross & the Supremes
war - Edwin Starr
we've gotta get out of this place - the Animals
changes - David Bowie
fat bottom girls - Queen
smoke on the water - Deep Purple
featuring the voices of
Don Wilson
Harry von Zell
avacadoazzurro
and of course ...
Bob Hope
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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War
Vietnam
Korean
WWII
Armed
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Home
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Added: 26th September 2008
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