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A mint in the box Remco Whirlybird. Remco made many variations of this whirlybird. This is the Monkey Division variation. Monkey Division was a line of toys Remco made and touted it as their "Guerilla War" line of toys. The had helmets, guns, rifles, bazookas, etc. Another wildly popular 60s toy put out during the Vietnam era. Toys glorifying war began to wane when the reports of scores of soliders getting killed filled our TV screens and the "Living Room War" we viewed on the news became unpopular, also it was more fun to make Love not War and the hippie era was ushered in. Parents began to object to toys glorifying war. The set also came with 25 soldiers, a tank, a jeep and truck. The whirlybird also carried all the stuff and had a working cargo hoist too. You are looking at a rarity. The soliders etc. are not shown but are still in their original package. I've often wondered how some of these toys these toys remain unplayed with? Perhaps it is old store stock and I've also heard that sometimes parents would leave the room of a deceased child the way it was when they passed. That is kind of creepy to me.
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whirlybird
helicopter
toys
classic
Added: 14th August 2007
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Posted By: dezurtdude |
 
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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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toys
vintage
classic
ad
Spiegel
Added: 18th August 2007
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Posted By: jimmyjet |
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Wonderful song from the 1950s. Don't you love Bobby Helms' endearing twang?
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Helms
Added: 4th October 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Here's a Canadian commercial from 1971 advertising Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yes, it was still Kentucky Fried Chicken then (not the lamentable KFC acronym) and, yes, Canada used to be that overwhelmingly Caucasian back then.
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Kentucky
Fried
Chicken
commercial
Added: 16th October 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Here's a blast from the past: From 1918, a suffragette's banner insinuates that President Woodrow Wilson is a hypocrite for saying that Germans were not democratically represented under Kaiser Wilhelm's rule while ignoring the fact that American women couldn't vote.
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Added: 21st November 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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On June 5, 1973, Canadian radio personality Gordon Sinclair delivered this stirring, pro-American editorial. He had written it in 20 minutes. Simply titled The Americans, it followed his noontime newscast on CFRB in Toronto. The response was overwhelmingly positive. Radio stations in Buffalo, New York asked permission to play the broadcast, which was granted. Soon afterwards it swept across the United States. Sinclair's verbatim editorial was made into this recording (with the Battle Hymn of the Republic playing in the background). It reached #23 on the Billboard charts, making the 73-year-old Sinclair the oldest living person to have a Billboard top 40 hit! At Sinclair's request, the proceeds from its sales went entirely to the American Red Cross. When President Ronald Reagan made his first official visit to Canada in 1981, he asked to meet Sinclair. Reagan told Sinclair that his editorial always cheered him up when he was feeling down.
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Added: 24th November 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Robin Williams plays a Russian circus musician who defects from the Soviet Union while on a visit to the United States. This clip shows how overwhelming a supermarket can be to someone use to having shortages all their life!
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Moscow
On
The
Hudson
Robin
Williams
Added: 26th November 2007
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Posted By: Cliffy |
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This address, by President Franklin D Roosevelt, given on December 8, 1941, is regarded as one of the most famous American political speeches of the twentieth century. Roosevelt's speech had an immediate and long-lasting impact on American politics. Thirty-three minutes after he finished speaking, Congress declared war on Japan, with only one Representative, Jeannette Rankin, voting against the declaration. The speech was broadcast live by radio and attracted the largest audience in US radio history, with over 81 percent of American homes tuning in to hear the president. The response was overwhelmingly positive, both within Congress and the nation.
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of
infamy
speech
president
franklin
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roosevelt
attack
on
pearl
harbor
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1941
Added: 6th December 2007
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Posted By: Guido |
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This became a Christmas classic after it was first released in 1957, and has received frequent airplay every Christmas since then. It has gone on to sell 100 million copies. This version was re-recorded by him in 1965 and yet again in 1967 on different labels. Then in 1970 he recorded an entire album titled 'Jingle Bell Rock". In 1983 he was back in the recording studio and released his last recording of this song on the Black Rose label.
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bell
rock
bobby
helms
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classics
Added: 22nd December 2007
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Posted By: Babs64 |
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