I love these vintage Spanish Thunderbirds postcards I stumble across on Todocollecion.
Here's the Thunderbird 1 and for some reason the great Jeff Tracy himself [why not Scott?].
The cards have that crinkle-cut edge that most of the postcards had back then from Spain. I have some from my folks when they left me behind with my older Sister in the Sixties and early Seventies!
The famous lemon squeezer is clearly visible on the launch bay wall!
Do you have any old postcards? Any Thunderbirds or TV-based ones?
No but oddly, I went into my local Spar shop in 1985 and they had a bin full of framed Zero X card prints! I did buy one!
ReplyDeleteSuperb Kev! is it in show in your man cave?
DeleteNot sure if I've still got it. It was the same shot as the Engale postcard and I might have that somewhere!
DeleteEngale Marketing were a real force at one time Kev eh. They were ahead of the game really, producing SiG in the 80's before the resurgence of Thunderbirds. Do you reckon they helped spark the resurgence?
DeleteThey certainly kept it going before the tv reruns revived it in the early 90's. I loved their "Thunderbooks" shops in Blackpool and Preston too.
DeletePioneering. I visited the Blackpool shop a number of times and bought a few things. I also had a postal subscription for Toy Shop newspaper, which was just ace. Did you ever read it?
DeleteNo, I never came across that. I went to the opening of Thunderbooks2 in Preston. They had a red Yugo parked outside decorated as a Spectrum saloon!
Deletefab. What a great opening it must have been. Do you think those days were the heyday of interest in Gerry Anderson collactables?
DeleteDid you take any snaps of the opening?
DeleteNot sure the heyday wasn't the 60's. I did take loads of photos but they were on slides (I was into that at the time) and I didn't keep them. There's lots of photographic records I've not kept, which I regret.
DeleteNot too many I'm afraid, but one quite interesting by Valentine's of Dundee, a three-folded TB2 birthday card with punch-out TB2 model and IR-badge still intact.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds vintage and extra cool Arto!
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