Bins have always been the most practical of things.
That's rubbish bins. Not binoculars.
All the bins we have in our house nowadays are quite boring. Useful, yes but boring.
Not so bins of the Sixties and Seventies!
Now these were crucibles of art, receptacles of design and a pleasure to chuck stuff into.
My own bin was like a large metal beaker and it was decorated with vintage cars. It was a great looking thing and fitted right into the toys and die-cast cars in my room.
Other metal bins around the house were all the same shape, again like mine and decorated with bright paisleys, African animals, Greek warriors, golds, swirls, stripes and birds.
I'd recognise them anywhere and sometimes see them in vintage retro shops.
I wonder what I threw in my bins? I'd love to rummage through it now!
Did you have memorable bins readers when you were a kid?
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Postscript!
Brian's Land of the Giants Bin
The waste-bin in in my collectibles room, purchased in 2010.
Brian F
New Jersey
USA
We had some old green office bins. My Dad was a spray painter for Quicks. He resprayed the bins with lovely metallic colours outside and gloss white inside. I still have one, I'm sentimentally attached to that bin!
ReplyDeleteWhat was Quicks Kev? Send us a pic!
DeleteQuicks was a national Ford dealership. Will have to snap the bin!
DeleteI had a metal Planet of the Apes bin when I was a kid.I just sent you a pic of the bin in my collectibles room,I think youll like it.
ReplyDeleteWow, a POTA bin! Respect! Not sure where we would have got something like that in the UK.
DeleteSome of them haven't gone - we had a tin bin in our bedroom for the whole of our childhood with cave-paintings on (Lascaux probably?), and I saw it for sale brand-new in a discount store about three years ago, I guess there's a whole-sellers warehouse full of them somewhere!
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ha ha, great bin art Hugh. Were they like these on Worthpoint? https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/pair-fantastic-vintage-retro-lascaux-500395877
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