COOL YOUR JETS

If you like chrome and space jets you'll love these gleaming fin taps! Sent in by reader MJ of Southcoast Base, I could see these bad jet boys on my bath no probs! I'd feel like Bruce Wayne in bubbles!

You?

http://usa.lefroybrooks.com/products/ranges/1950-belle-aire/?utm_content=buffer0f954&utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

TERRANOVA47'S 1938 SPEED CARDS

Here is a set of WD & HO WILLS cigarette cards from 1938/39, SPEED

All 50 cards in a generic album.

Enjoy,

Terranova47

WILL O'S TV21 MACH-X

I'm having great fun matching up the old tv 21 adverts to their actual products.

Here's my Mach-X.

 More to come!

Will Os

UK

BUBBLE TROUBLE: AUSTRALIAN TARHEEL 007 SPY BATH MYSTERY

 This item has always baffled me ever since I saw it years ago. Its been on the blog for a decade now and my memory was jogged when I saw another bottle of James Bond Lotus Esprit Spy Bath Bubbles online.

The mystery is the maker's name Australian Tarheel.

I know about American and Japanese Tarheel - makers of plastic toys in the Sixties and Seventies - but who are Australian Tarheel?

There are very few instances of this bubble bath online so information on the company - if indeed it is a different company to the Tarheel we all know as the American purveyors of Project SWORD toys.

So readers, anyone know of Tarheel of Australia or any more about this bubble bath?

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/james-bond-007-1977-lotus-esprit-471661693

THE HANDI TELE-REST

 I had to chuckle when I saw this.

The height of technological advance in the Sixties or Seventies!

Its one of those so-called fancy goods that filled little shops at one time. Remember those shops stuffed with crucial rubbish?

Now you can get them on Ebay still boxed! Its as if you can reach across time!

Yes, the Handi Tele Rest allowed hands-free phone calls before you knew you wanted one.

Essentially a plastic coat hanger, it fitted all phones no problem and matched the colour.

I never saw one of these must-haves at home when I was a kid or even in the office I first worked at in 1978.

Did you readers?

PONDERING PONDEROSA: BONANZA TOYS

 

I clearly remember having some Bonanza toy figures as a kid, getting them one Christmas. Maybe Little Joe, Hoss and a horse. They were brilliant toys with soft plastic accessories. Very Marx like the Best of the West.

Westerns like Bonanza were such a huge part of TV in the Sixties and Seventies. High Chaparral became my favourite of them all.

Did you have any Bonanza toys? Did you like Westerns on TV?

WEEKEND BY MACKINTOSH

 

As with most things that have gone I hanker for them even more. 

So it is with Weekend chocolates, Mackintosh's wonderful trays of delights that could be eaten any time but often on a Saturday night when my parents cracked open a box.

Every single one of the chocs was terrific. The fudge, the chocolate cherry cup, the chocolate cracknel, the wrapped raisin fudge and the fabulous nougaty montelmar. Even the lemon jelly slice would be welcome back!

I would love to have all this weekend to make up my mind again!

What a delicious Christmas Day they would give me.

You too?

A Catalogue of Rare Treasures 1959

As usual, while looking for something else, I came across this amazing catalogue of kits and toys from 1959.

From the Box Art Den site, is this entry for Hobbies Are Fun 1959, which seems to be a catalogue covering the products of various companies, not just kits. 

It includes the giant insect kits by Hawk and ITC, including some that do not seem to have been released. Shown in full colour, including photographs of built-up models. Very exciting stuff.

Aircraft, missiles, ships, cars, figures, firearms, paint-by-numbers and mosaic sets, the Matchbox die-cast line is up to 60 models, plus the Models of Yesteryear and Major Packs, model railways, and tools. 

Among the kits are the Hawk Beta-1 atomic-powered bomber; Revell Westinghouse Atomic Power Plant; Precision Cruifix; Revell Dr Seuss models; Comet flying models of the Snark and Regulus missiles; and the first releases in the Bachmann Birds of the World series. 

Filled with wonderful weirdness.

https://boxartden.com/collections/gallery/index.php/Vintage-Model-Kit-Catalogs-1950-1999/Hobbies-Are-Fun-1959

Paul Adams from New Zealand