Kevin's Space 1999 Clock

Hi,

Found a clock like the ones seen all over moonbase alpha, so I made a suitably styled case for it.

Therefore, in my judgment, we do not try....

Kevin

UK

The Las Vegas Dice Clock

Hi Woodsy

I just saw your post about the gondola music box. I do not recall my family having anything along these lines when I was little, but here is another souvenir item from a bit later.

My late Mother found a Las Vegas dice clock, similar to this example from Pinterest, at a flea market/car boot sale here in Auckland, back in the 1990s. The body was heavy orange plastic, which curved back to provide a stand.

The movement was a simple battery-powered type. The really great thing about it was that the numbers were all dice, glued to the clock face.

I do not recall ours having the radiating lines from the centre, but I can not find it to take a photo, hence this shot from the inter-net. Type in Las Vegas Dice Clock, and a huge number of different designs appear, in various colours.

Ours did need to have its movement replaced after a few years. But I just loved it - my favourite clock ever. Just so much fun, even if they were probably produced by the million for the Las Vegas souvenir market.

Anyone else got something like this?

Paul Adams from New Zealand

CLOCKING OFF

Clocks used to be on everything.

Framed pictures, big radio's, even on the back plates of cookers. They were on the sides of buildings too and of course on everyone's wristwatches, which we all wore.

That's because when I was growing up people could tell the time. 

You know, clock time using hands that moved in a circle and numbers around the clock face.

Not so now. Modern kids tell digital time but nothing else. Not clock time.

Gone are the knotty problems we had involving the location of the big hand at quarter to 3 or where both hands should be at midnight.

Now it's what numbers appear on the screen of the fitbit or the smartwatch and continual questions about what time is it if they can't afford fit and smart tech, which many kids can't.

I can imagine a time when a generation emerges which no long requires old style clocks at all and they no longer appear on, well, anywhere.

Like the TV and the landline telephone, that third cornerstone of domestic information is on the wane, as this generation boots out the technology of their Grandparents straight into the skip.

In the not-too-distant future no-one will ring up on the landline to tell you to watch the News on the telly as long as you check its 6pm on the star-shaped wall clock.

Is it just me or do you feel the ground beneath your feet beginning to weaken?

KIDS CLOCKS BACK THEN

I love this clock money box.

The rocket graphic is superb.

I saved the image from Ebay years ago.

I've been trying to recall what clock I had as a kid. It was without doubt not as interesting as this rocket one. It will have been tin and wind-up with a really loud bell alarm.

Later the tin clocks got bigger and two bells appeared on top like bike bells!

What clock did you have as a kid?