@@raallen1468 Rare occasion indeed. From as far back as I can remember paying attention to such things (1967) until the end of the old Bell System, I can remember our family having phone trouble ONCE, In the mid 1970s the mic on the phone receiver stopped working. (Turned out that a contact broke). The phone was dated 1950! (It was a Western Electric Model 302). It took the repairman seconds to replace with a new mic right off of the truck. (I still have this phone - I "inherited" it from my mother).
I want to thank Recollection Road for the many trips down memory lane. I'm 72 yo and can relate to a LOT of what I've seen on your channel. Simpler times when things were so much better. Thank you a thousand times for the fond memories.
I had a Kodak Instamatic. I also still have in very good condition I might add, my 1959 Barbie. Its on the shelf in my closet inside the original black patent case. My doll has the bubble hairdo. She was always well taken care of because back then you only got one toy, doll etc.
I think in the late 1960's The Ford dealership gave the Poloroid Swinger camera ; when you bought a new car , or w/ a trade-in. But , like anything else ; soon after no more * Film* 😣
@@lilysandoval7706 I remember getting a Polaroid Swinger for junior high graduation. (1966) There was a little canister with an applicator inside a couple inches long and the most foul smelling liquid that had to applied to the photo to keep it from turning brown.
I was born in 1955, and remember all of these products from advertising. My family, parents and grandparents had many of them. Thanks for the great memories. God bless you and yours always and thanks again for all you do!
@@loveisall5520 I was also born in 1955 and remember all of these products. My poor mom never had a Mixmaster or Kitchenaid, and she passed away last year at nearly 91. Would have been helpful with the dozens of cookies she made over the years!
@@karenh2890 My mother had the ubiquitous early-fifties Mixmaster in b/w until Daddy gave her a KA in the seventies. It was a superb machine; shame the Chinese Sunbeams are so lousy. Actually, those old Mixmasters were far better at cake batters than cookie doughs; my mother did most of her dough by hand other than creaming any sugar with butter, PB, etc. Maybe all that hand work helped your beloved mother live so long!
I was born in 55 too, I bought the 104 camera in 67 for a river rafting trip to the Green River in CO for a Boy Scout trip. and still have it, don't think there's film available though. Our family had the Hoover vacuum cleaner, I remember when my Dad brought in in the house. I remember the neighbor girl having the Barbie doll.
Got my first transistor radio when I was 12 in summer of 1966. At a company picnic both the boys and girls raced for it. I won the boys and my sister won the girls. Huge impact on my life as I could plug in earphones and listen in bed. Got hooked on the amazing music coming out. Also had a cheap Kodak film camera. For the price the photos were not bad. We had the rotary phone until well into the 70's. Amazing how today's phones replaced music players, cameras, phone books, maps, physical movies and books, and bulky hardwired phones.
My uncle was a pilot and he carried Zenith Transocenic radio that you can listening all over the world. It cost $250.00 new in 1960. In 1960 you can buy a used nice car like Chevy Bel Air for that price. The Bel Air is much better than piece of Junk American Brand Car made in China SUV that sold for 12K during these day!
They're valuable now because we didn't save things back then, thinking they might go up in value. The only one who has childhood toys to this day is the baby of our family!
My friend has 3 of everything one he opens and he saves the other two I'm so envious of him All the good stuff I wish I had We both have the collectors gene you buy something for 3 dollars now it's worth 300 Give me strength ☺️
I agree about the quality, but not everything was necessarily affordable. I was one of five with a mom who stayed home. Money was always tight, but at least my dad had a reliable job with Pac Bell.
Yeah, I owned and used many of these products. The black&decker drill, rotary phones, Hoover sweepers. All quality products back then. Not cheaply made.
I still have 2 electric appliances from the 70's that are still going strong. A Hamilton Beach blender and a hand mixer. I replaced the blade on the blender once. Had a Dewalt cordless drill recently, used it a couple of times and it already died. Had a Sears Kenmore washer and dryer and got 30 plus years out of them. The replacement model whatever name it was, got about 4 or 5 years out of it. Crap made now is built to break.
@@samanthab1923 O my Sheila and I can still picture the transistor - Radio , small but we'll made ; O! And the steam- iron that always made perfect creases , when making my own dresses . What a pleasure .
My dad still has his silver drill! Still uses it too. He has had to rewire that thing 6 ways to Sunday but it still works. He won't part with it. I learned how to use a drill with that thing. I loved watching the blue sparks inside the housing unit while it was running.
I still listen to a transister radio and love it. Didn't have color tv until mid 0970s, but you bet I had an instanmatic. Wait a couple of weeks and see which picture came out good. Wish I still had rotary phone. I am legallly blind now and unable to use the so-called smart phones of today. I say so-called because I hear my wife having trouble with it.
That's the one thing I miss about the old landline phones-you could get mad and slam down the phone for a dramatic hang-up. Hanging up on someone on a cell phone is less cathartic.
When I was 14 in 1960 I got a transistor radio for Christmas, we could not afford the one with a speaker so mine had a permanently wired ear plug. During my two tours in Vietnam as a Marine Infantrymen I like many Americans in the combat zone carried an Instamatic camera. They were as common as hand grenades and saved many a memory for the folks back home. GySgt, USMC, retired Vietnam 65-66/70-71
My oldest cousin had a Kodak Instamatic camera. I got a Minolta camera around 1980 that also used those film cartridges. It lasted for years and years. My mom had a Sunbeam mixmaster that sat on our kitchen counter, also for years and years.
A few years ago, I bought a Kodak Instamatic 104 exactly like the one I had at 12 years of age. It is in the original box, and is lightly if it was ever used. It has the bulb with it as well.
We had a '104. Still laugh about some slides... there was no exposure control so these weren't well suited for slides. Sis took a picture of cousin striking a betty boop pose but face was blown out from the flash. Sis drew in a cartoon face on the slide.
I remember the Sony Trinitron TV for two reasons. First the colors for the times were fantastic, and it weighed a ton. Literally it was able to cause a hernia, you picked it up wrong. Oh yes the good old days.
@@samanthab1923 Your investment equates to $1 a year or breaking that down even further, that's a penny every 3 and 1/2 days. If you ever decide to become an investment advisor, let me know. You'll put Wall Street out of business. 👍
Kodak released the Instamatic 100 in 1963, the 104 came out in 1965. The difference was the 100 used a pop up flash shield using an Ag1 flash bulb and the 104 used a new for 1965 a flash cube
@@cwilson6990 ,I remember when BOYS were REAL boys, and GIRLS were REAL girls, and they knew what public restrooms to use, no confusion and no MENTAL ILLNESS
Born 1965 in Chicago. Loved those Christmas toy catalogs! I could spend hours going through them. Matt Mason astronaut, Corgi Batmobile, Ben Cooper Batman playsuit...
@@Marcg-b4n I used to play a game with catalogs when I was a kid. I used to imagine I could have 1 toy off every page and I'd go through the toy section and circle the item I wanted. It did kinda help my parents out to see what I liked. 😁
Many of these things lasted way after the 1960s. I was given my mother's 1963 Kodak Instamatic 104 in the early 1970s and used it into the early 1980s!
I remember the jingle for the Polaroid Swinger, and the price "It's only nineteen dollars and ninety-five.🎵" As soon as my older sister got her first pay from an after-school job, she bought one of them. I kept using up the batteries for my 10 transistor radio, because the New York City area stations played lots of great Motown and rock music back in those days. My mom used an Electrolux, which I thought worked just as well as a Hoover. And I wished my mom had one of those mixers. It was hard work kneading bread and stirring up hard doughs by hand. About dolls - I think the older Barbie dolls had sweeter faces (and slightly more realistic figures) than the new ones from the late 1970's and 1980's on. I wished I hadn't given away my Beatle dolls!
Actually, the Electrolux canister vacuum of the time was superior to anything made by Hoover. It was of much higher construction quality, more like a commercial Kirby than a consumer model, and was also significantly more expensive. It also had a two-stage compressor, so it generated higher vacuum than almost anything else on the market.
We had many of those items in the 60s. My mother had a big B&W camera early 60s but switched to a color instamatic with a flash cube by the mid 60s. She used a kitchen mixer almost daily whether it was mashed potatoes, cakes, or something else. My sister definitely had Barbies and many accessories. I remember the rotary phones but I used the exact AT&T one with a touch pad well into the 90s and as a second phone after that! My father traveled a lot and got us little transistor radios one time. I don’t remember the brand but I listened to baseball games with it all summer long.
I remember getting my first transistor radio...probably Christmas 1967. Got my first camera in 1969, but I don't remember the brand. Most likely Kodak. I wanted to be able to take pictures of my baby sister. I was 14 when the youngest was born!
I enjoy this channel because even though im young ish (40) my parents and grandparents passed a lot of these very items down to me when i moved out on my own, many in mint condition then and many still in use today!
I had a cheap transistor radio in the 70's and took it camping. I hung it on a bush so everyone could hear it. That night it drizzled freezing rain and the next morning my radio had a covering of ice. I hung it on a stick by the fire to thaw. I almost waited too long to retrieve it, because the plastic on the back had started to sag where it had softened by the fire. But, I turned the switch and it came on and worked just like it was supposed to. The only problem was the battery cover had to be cut off, as it was melted to the body. So, I used a small piece of cardboard and some tape to hold the batteries in! It looked funky, but worked so I never threw it away or got a new one.
Great video! I'll toss in the Kenner Easy Bake Oven, hula hoops, slot cars and those sports, car, and airplane coins you got in Shirriff products. Dang what a decade!
I had a used Instamatic 104 when in grammar school in the '70s. I either lost it or it broke. I told my morning school bus driver.....a few days later, as I entered the bus he handed me a new one! What a great memory and a kind gesture.
I lived through the introduction of most of these innovative, breakthrough items. My first film camera was my mother’s old Brownie. It was the rage years before the Instamatic came out. It was a small cube and yes, brown. It took good pictures too.
Was that Brownie a hand me down. My generation got to use 1960s cameras in the 1970s,80s and even 1990s as hand me downs. Those products worked so well and for so long.
@@bighands69 Yes, it was my mother’s camera when she was a kid. She was born in 1927 so it was from around 1937-1938. I think it was made from Bakelite, forerunner of plastic.
@@kellycoleman715 Plastic gets a bad rep in the modern world because most people's experience is with cheap horribly made plastics. Bakelite is a dense plastic that can produce a nice finish.
I still have my Kodak instamatic in the original box with the K-mart price sticker still on the box. Always took excellent pictures. I used it until I could no longer find film for it. My first vacuum cleaner was a Blue Hoover upright.
My grandmother bought me a Lady Remington. I used it for 20 years! I purchased a new retro touchtone phone a few years ago. I like the way the receiver feels in my hand. It's solid! I purchased a Eureka canister vac paying $5. a month when I first got married. It had a few repairs over the 40 years of good service. Still in good order when I passed it on.
I have a Kodak Instamatic 104 in my collection, In absolutely mint condition. I also have a Western Electric (Bell) 500 (and it's predecessor, The Western Electric (Bell) 302) 👍😊👍
My neighbor almost got killed by one. He was using it on wet ground and it shocked him so bad he couldn't let go of it. He finally got away from it and pitched it
I had many Hoover vacuums from 60’s-80’s. Many Kodak instamatic cameras. My mom had the Sunbeam mixer. I had a couple transistor radios but not as nice as the Braun. I played Barbies with friends in the 60’s. Chatty Cathy was a Christmas gift for my sister one year. My mom hid the gifts in the car trunk. It was very cold. On Christmas Eve my family went to church and I stayed behind to play Santa. Chatty Cathy was frozen. When my sister came home and found her doll she was still partially frozen. She would say mooooooooma! As she thawed her talking speeded up. lol We had a red rotary phone in our family room. When the touch tone came out we had a yellow in the kitchen and rust colored in the den.
GOOD VIDEO, HAD SOME OF THE PRODUCTS LIKE THE PHONES AND RADIO .THE BEST THING TO ME ABOUT THE 60S, WAS GAS LAWNMOWERS. THIS HELPED ME EARN EXTRA MONEY. GOD BLESS
The great feature of the instamatic 104 was the introduction of the flash cube so you didn’t have to change the flashbulbs each time you took a picture. It rotated after each exposure and only had to be changed every fourth flash.
Flash bulb cameras were still being made in the 70's, into the very early 80's. My niece purchased one in 1980 and we used that camera until the mid 80's when stores stopped selling flash cubes.
Funny thing about the Instamatic Cameras. You would see people using them in concerts with the flash. The flash only went 10" or so and was useless in most cases. But, the camera had two shutter speeds, one for flash and one daylight. So even though the flash didn't add to the picture, the slower shutter speed did increase the chances of a better photo.
I remember the sunbeam mixer, which both my mom and grandmother both had. Coppertone suntans lotion was used on myself and family, especially the coconut oil, which I think was later! My sister had a Chatty Kathi doll, which ironically was my sister’s name! ( Kathi that is ). Lol! Thank you for the memories!
Great Video as Always Instamatic Camera ! Dad had one , I still Have my Chatty Cathy Doll Blonde one , So Expensive for my parents , was my Christmas Present in 1961 it present my Stocking & Babies I do have Original 59 Barbie hmm maybe need to Auction her & all Early Ones , In Thier Original BOXES Transistor Radio still have mine Kids today Don't Know what missed growing up in 60s Drill my Dad had one , The Rotary Phone never had a Push Button Phone till 80s We never Had A Color TV till 1970 too expensive 🙂
Had a sony trinitron tv ...recieved it as a gift in 1972 and it lasted for 28 years!I collect vintage barbies and have over 500.Harder to find now and more expensive then all the dolls I picked up in garage sales in the 70s and 80s.I do have a number one head on a number 2 body.....she is far from perfect but I love her!!!
I was given a Barbie for Christmas in 1963 or 1964 that had molded hair and came with three wigs, one blonde, one brunette and one red haired. When I did a little research a few years ago about it, I found out that it was only produced for approx. 6 months. Boy I wish I still had her now!
Born in 1968 and remember many of these items back in the 70s. My mom's favorite cameras were a Kodak 126 and 110. I remember the flash cubes one had to attach to the cameras. Rotary and push button phones were used in our home up through the 80s.
I remember all of these things except the Hoover. Everyone had an Instamatic. When we visited England in 1966 we visited Stratford-upon-Avon. I happened to be standing across the street from Shakespeare's house and watched the endless stream of tourists coming out. Virtually every one had an Instamatic. i wish the lens had been better.
@@coloradostrong No, but I am sure I met some of her family! We also met, at Jane Austen's house, a woman I am sure was a direct descendant of Lady Catherine de Burgh. I am so glad we traveled before everything became so regimented and endless "thou shalt nots." For example, when we left LAX our family and friends came to see us off and escorted us out to the plane! There was NO Security and all we had to do was show our tickets.
It’s funny I remember being little in the 60’s & both my mom & aunt coming home from the hairdresser with frosted hair! That was it no more brown. Both in their 80’s now & way blonder 😂
And, after taking the last photo, did you bring it to Fotomat for your film to be processed in 24 hours or less? Those Fotomat booths seemed to be in every supermarket parking lot back in the 70's. My friend worked in one (there was only one person to the booth), sometimes until late at night. Scary back then...would be impossible now...
My grandmother still has the old phones. It's the only style that accommodates the silver handle covers. Yes, she has modern phones, but according to her, a conversation is more interesting when holding the silver handle. 🤔
Loved those flash cubes!,, i used to put the used ones in the ice bucket in the freezer. In my family, we didn’t need a Chatty Cathy doll… we had my sister, who never stopped talking on her princess rotary phone.
The Sunbeam "Radiant Control" toaster, seen at 5:47 was BY FAR the best home toaster ever made. It was the only toaster to make consistent toast every time no matter how long between slices. forget 29.99! I'd pay $199.99 if they were made today!
If you haven't seen it, Technology Connections has a couple of great videos on how those toasters worked. Here is a link to one of them: ruclips.net/video/bLk1cjZ4ll0/видео.html If you have never watched TC before, turn on closed captions, and watch allll the way to the very end. The instant I saw that toaster, I knew what it was!
@@61rampy65Oh yes, I have seen it, and he deserves credit for explaining this feat of kitchen greatness! I'm a big fan of his channel. I might have even commented(or responded to a comment at least) on that video particularly. I grew up with one, my sister STILL has one (Lucky) LOL
We still have a rotary phone (not connected of course) and the grand kids are kinda fascinated by it. There is something so satisfying about the feel as you turn the rotary with your finger...
Mom had the original Sunbeam Mix Master right up till it caught fire in the mid sixties. I loved my Kodak Instamatic 100 and later the one with the flash cubes. The reflectors from flash cubes were perfect for crafting Christmas ornaments. Recycling well before it became fashionable.
I got a dark brown haired Chatty Cathy doll for my fifth birthday in 1965. A Barbie in 1966. A Kodak Instamatic in 1972. (I also think the Polaroid Instant Camera came out in the 60s, too. I remember my Uncle had one when I was 8 in 1968. And in the early 80s, as a young military wife, remember going to the Ma Bell phone store to pick out a rotary or push-button phone whenever we moved. Those were the days when you were charged by the minute to talk to someone long distant. I do remember well the Coppertone little girl with her dog, too. So cute! Some days, in this fast paced world, I long for those simpler times. They were good days back then.
I have one of those instamatics & a Polaroid Land Camera. (Model 195). I was fascinated by the cubes the way they shattered when used. The Polaroid was sought after 40 years ago !! Persons frequently approached my father offering to buy it bc it was more versatile as a manual focus.
I've got to admit if you had a row with someone on a rotary phone it was so satisfying slamming the receiver down doing on a mobile phone just doesn't have the same effect in
I had a KODAK Instamatic back in the late 60's . It used 126 film cartridges so your hands never touched the film. They found that the " Magicube " rotating flash cube was so close to the lens that with portraits you often got " Red Eye ". KODAK remedied this with the Magicube extension which raised the flash about two inches above the camera lens.
I had the very same doll in front with the striped suit and black hair and sunglasses! Still wish I had it, $26K who would have thought. I also had one of the first Shirley Temple dolls. Had it for years, my sister threw it away without me knowing.
I 100% KNOW it is. I worked retail until 2019 and the "Barbie" line BY FAR out sold every other doll line (even when there were fads like "Cabbage Patch" or "Bratz" - "Barbie" still leads.
@@jamesslick4790 I never understood why a parent would buy a Bratz doll for their kid. They looked like little trollops. I guess pretty tame by todays standards.
@@mayorb3366 Maybe "tame" today, but even my daughter said they looked like "sluts"(She was 12 when they came out.) I laughed, Hell, I HAD to laugh! Because she was RIGHT! A little more than 3 decades (and MANY "Barbies"!) later, she is now a middle school English teacher, LOL.
One year, my little sister got a Chatty Cathy for Christmas, and loved it. In fact, she played with it so much, that my New Year's Day I was ready to shove it where the sun doesn't shine. That was an annoying toy. And although my Mom has a cordless phone system in the house, the kitchen still has the black, wall-mounted rotary phone with the 7 mile long cord.
My original Barbie had the nearly black ponytail, whereas my sister's Barbie had the red bubble cut. She later got a Midge with a brunette flip, and a black haired Ken doll. My Barbie came with the strapless zebra print bathing suit. I later got the solid red one for her. Our grandmother sewed a lot of custom clothes for our dolls -- unique outfits that we couldn't buy anywhere. Oh, to be young again!
My Dad owned two tv and stereo stores. We were the first on our block to own a color tv. It was a Zenith. My sister and I had a 19” Zenith B&W tv with a remote.
I remember the Kodak Instamatic 104 camera..my wife had one and I had it's successor the X-15 Instamatic. The 126 film cartridge format was great..just open the camera back, pop in the cartridge, close the camera back then fire away. The 126 cartridge even was used in a SLR camera: the Kodak 126 Reflex which was a finely crafted jewel of a camera. Too bad the 126 cartridge went away.
My Kodak Imstamatic and I went to Alaska in 1972 and took 40 24-pix rolls of film. Some of my best shots were taken through the bar car windows on the Alaska Railway's train going to and from Fairbanks and Anchorage. Still have all those prints!
I recently cleaned out my parents house and found a brand new Kodak Instamatic camera still in the box, never used. Only thing missing is the flash cube. Have no idea what happened to that.
I believe the flash cubes were a consumable. I once had a Kodak 127 camera that took little flash bulbs. At least it didn't use glass plates and sit on a tripod.
@@cmonkey63 Yes, a flashcube had four single-use bulbs (one on each face). Once you had gone through all four flashes (assuming that they all actually fired, which was not always guaranteed to happen!) you threw the cube away.
I can still remember the smell of the flash cubes on those old cameras!
How many people remember getting excited when the phone company came to the house to install a new phone .. man simple times but great memories.
And, in the rare occasion, you needed service, the repair guy worked for the local phone company; probably a neighbor.
@@raallen1468 Rare occasion indeed. From as far back as I can remember paying attention to such things (1967) until the end of the old Bell System, I can remember our family having phone trouble ONCE, In the mid 1970s the mic on the phone receiver stopped working. (Turned out that a contact broke). The phone was dated 1950! (It was a Western Electric Model 302). It took the repairman seconds to replace with a new mic right off of the truck. (I still have this phone - I "inherited" it from my mother).
@@raallen1468 of course he worked for the phone company, they owned the phone.
@@stevek8829 Bingo.
We were good friends with a life long Ma Bell guy. Worked on the break up. Just died in fact
I want to thank Recollection Road for the many trips down memory lane. I'm 72 yo and can relate to a LOT of what I've seen on your channel. Simpler times when things were so much better. Thank you a thousand times for the fond memories.
I hear you, Mikey.
I’ll be 70 in October.
@@dr.OgataSerizawa I can relate as I just turned 76 . Great memories ❤️
Most of those products worked right into the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
I could listen to this narrator all day! What a wonderful speaking voice!
Totally agree, his voice reminds me of an actor named peter coyote.
@@lindagregory6877 He does sound a lot like Peter Coyote!
@@lindagregory6877 rip
I still use my 1977 Sunbeam Mixmaster and have the beaters and bowls it came with! It was a engagement gift from my family and a terrific one.
I had a Kodak Instamatic. I also still have in very good condition I might add, my 1959 Barbie. Its on the shelf in my closet inside the original black patent case. My doll has the bubble hairdo. She was always well taken care of because back then you only got one toy, doll etc.
I think in the late 1960's The Ford dealership gave the Poloroid Swinger camera ; when you bought a new car , or w/ a trade-in. But , like anything else ; soon after no more * Film* 😣
Very good.
@@lilysandoval7706
I remember getting a Polaroid Swinger for junior high graduation. (1966)
There was a little canister with an applicator inside a couple inches long and the most foul smelling liquid that had to applied to the photo to keep it from turning brown.
@@dr.OgataSerizawa was it sold in the stores ? A-pa got 1 , as a promotional when he traded his Ford ; for a new one .
Is the film for the camera , still available ❓
I was born in 1955, and remember all of these products from advertising. My family, parents and grandparents had many of them. Thanks for the great memories. God bless you and yours always and thanks again for all you do!
I was also born in '55, and you are so right.
@@loveisall5520 I was also born in 1955 and remember all of these products. My poor mom never had a Mixmaster or Kitchenaid, and she passed away last year at nearly 91. Would have been helpful with the dozens of cookies she made over the years!
@@karenh2890 My mother had the ubiquitous early-fifties Mixmaster in b/w until Daddy gave her a KA in the seventies. It was a superb machine; shame the Chinese Sunbeams are so lousy. Actually, those old Mixmasters were far better at cake batters than cookie doughs; my mother did most of her dough by hand other than creaming any sugar with butter, PB, etc. Maybe all that hand work helped your beloved mother live so long!
I was born in 55 too, I bought the 104 camera in 67 for a river rafting trip to the Green River in CO for a Boy Scout trip. and still have it, don't think there's film available though. Our family had the Hoover vacuum cleaner, I remember when my Dad brought in in the house. I remember the neighbor girl having the Barbie doll.
@@mikemiller659 my grandmother has one of the Kodak cameras with the auto wind feature. Still have it!
My grandfather gave me my first Braun transistor radio in 1961. I remember listening to it for hours.
Same, and my first electric shaver was Braun, as was the coffee maker I purchased yesterday! 😀
Got my first transistor radio when I was 12 in summer of 1966. At a company picnic both the boys and girls raced for it. I won the boys and my sister won the girls. Huge impact on my life as I could plug in earphones and listen in bed. Got hooked on the amazing music coming out. Also had a cheap Kodak film camera. For the price the photos were not bad. We had the rotary phone until well into the 70's. Amazing how today's phones replaced music players, cameras, phone books, maps, physical movies and books, and bulky hardwired phones.
and phone booths!
Luckily mobile phones haven't replaced music players in my household. I absolutely love old school CD's and vinyl records.
My uncle was a pilot and he carried Zenith Transocenic radio that you can listening all over the world. It cost $250.00 new in 1960. In 1960 you can buy a used nice car like Chevy Bel Air for that price. The Bel Air is much better than piece of Junk American Brand Car made in China SUV that sold for 12K during these day!
There's something about listening to low-fi AM music on a transistor radio with its tiny speaker that brings back fond memories...🥹
I wish I could start my life over again and buy these things Retro Rules☺️
They're valuable now because we didn't save things back then, thinking they might go up in value. The only one who has childhood toys to this day is the baby of our family!
My friend has 3 of everything one he opens and he saves the other two I'm so envious of him All the good stuff I wish I had We both have the collectors gene you buy something for 3 dollars now it's worth 300 Give me strength ☺️
Advice Never take it out of the box😂
@@markmadonia2867 Well, you can't take it with you in the end.
I have one of those old model Sunbeam mixers. It has 2 glass bowls, beaters and dough hooks. The cord is cloth covered. It still works!
I grew up with a slightly newer model mixmaster. I'd trade my wife's kitchenaid for a like-new one in a heartbeat. (sadly, we wore the mixmaster out)
Still have one new in box.
@@maybenot7202 hmmm...
I think my dad still has ours. It was mustard yellow.
Mine does too!
As always a huge THANK YOU for the look back :) . I simply love this channel!!!!!
Everything , in those days were affordable ; and of the Highest - Quality 👍💖‼️💯
I agree about the quality, but not everything was necessarily affordable. I was one of five with a mom who stayed home. Money was always tight, but at least my dad had a reliable job with Pac Bell.
@@karenh2890 and Robert Kennedy was assassinated , for convincing his brother; to bring relief ; to those suffering in impoverishment. The poor .
Yeah, I owned and used many of these products. The black&decker drill, rotary phones, Hoover sweepers. All quality products back then. Not cheaply made.
Quality products were made in the USA before the Government made it profitable for manufacturers to move to China.
Nice to see "Made in United States of America" on that drill. Words not seen so much these days.
I still have 2 electric appliances from the 70's that are still going strong. A Hamilton Beach blender and a hand mixer. I replaced the blade on the blender once. Had a Dewalt cordless drill recently, used it a couple of times and it already died. Had a Sears Kenmore washer and dryer and got 30 plus years out of them. The replacement model whatever name it was, got about 4 or 5 years out of it. Crap made now is built to break.
I still use a Hoover upright.
@@samanthab1923 O my Sheila and I can still picture the transistor - Radio , small but we'll made ; O! And the steam- iron that always made perfect creases , when making my own dresses . What a pleasure .
My dad still has his silver drill! Still uses it too. He has had to rewire that thing 6 ways to Sunday but it still works. He won't part with it. I learned how to use a drill with that thing. I loved watching the blue sparks inside the housing unit while it was running.
Another great job! 👍🏽
Thank you
My dad had a Norelco triple head shaver. I had a Kodak instamatic with the cube flash (both 126 and 110) and oh' boy do I remember the Coppertone ads.
My dad got a Panasonic cordless shaver. It had one round head, and it was awesome to use, and so compact !!!
Never saw an electric razor. My dad still used straight razor blades. Still love the smell of Coppertone
I was born in 1968 and remember many of these items. Thank you for the trip down memory lane ☺️
My Mom had a Sunbeam mixer, still remember licking the cake mix or icing off the beaters as a kid!!!
Makes me think of that funny novelty song the late Alma Cogan sang titled "He Couldn't Resist her with her Pocket Transistor"! Haha!
I still listen to a transister radio and love it. Didn't have color tv until mid 0970s, but you bet I had an instanmatic. Wait a couple of weeks and see which picture came out good.
Wish I still had rotary phone. I am legallly blind now and unable to use the so-called smart phones of today. I say so-called because I hear my wife having trouble with it.
I have no problem with smart phones, but my sister called it her dumb phone...lol.
@@joycegreer9391 .
I had a black and white TV until 1983. I could still watch tv without color, but its nice to have it.
@@IrishAnnie I had a small B & W also for a long time. I do like color better.
i was fascinated with my dad’s flash cubes 🤣 he would let me keep the used ones, they were mesmerising and beautiful ☺️
You could slam a rotary dial phone down like a meteor hitting the earth and that phone would keeps working.
And it was a great feeling to violently hang up on telemarketers! That's the ONE "feature" that they CAN'T put into smartphones!
@@jamesslick4790 I don't remember telemarketers, but I do remember the obscene phone calls.
And you could make prank calls without the caller ID rating you out. 😬
Hanging up on someone by tapping “end call” isn’t nearly as satisfying as slamming the receiver down!
That's the one thing I miss about the old landline phones-you could get mad and slam down the phone for a dramatic hang-up. Hanging up on someone on a cell phone is less cathartic.
When I was 14 in 1960 I got a transistor radio for Christmas, we could not afford the one with a speaker so mine had a permanently wired ear plug. During my two tours in Vietnam as a Marine Infantrymen I like many Americans in the combat zone carried an Instamatic camera. They were as common as hand grenades and saved many a memory for the folks back home.
GySgt, USMC, retired
Vietnam 65-66/70-71
Thank you for your service, gunny 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank for serving.
My oldest cousin had a Kodak Instamatic camera. I got a Minolta camera around 1980 that also used those film cartridges. It lasted for years and years. My mom had a Sunbeam mixmaster that sat on our kitchen counter, also for years and years.
A few years ago, I bought a Kodak Instamatic 104 exactly like the one I had at 12 years of age. It is in the original box, and is lightly if it was ever used. It has the bulb with it as well.
I originally got the Kodak Instamatic 100 that used the single flashbulb. Careful --- they were hot when ejected!!!
We had a '104. Still laugh about some slides... there was no exposure control so these weren't well suited for slides. Sis took a picture of cousin striking a betty boop pose but face was blown out from the flash. Sis drew in a cartoon face on the slide.
Thank you so much Recollection Road for uploading this great video, I appreciate it!
I remember the Sony Trinitron TV for two reasons. First the colors for the times were fantastic, and it weighed a ton. Literally it was able to cause a hernia, you picked it up wrong. Oh yes the good old days.
I picked up an old Trinitron at a church rummage sale in 2000. Paid $10 & it lasted 10 years!
I remember The Zenith and later Magnavox , all made Here in the Good 'Ol USA 😋💖 .Sir
@@samanthab1923 Your investment equates to $1 a year or breaking that down even further, that's a penny every 3 and 1/2 days. If you ever decide to become an investment advisor, let me know. You'll put Wall Street out of business. 👍
@@lilysandoval7706 We had the Zeneith & it was heavy as hell
@@samanthab1923 single or double speaker wooden cabinet?
I was born in the early 80s but I still remember some of these products, they were made to last back then and some are still used even today.
Kodak released the Instamatic 100 in 1963, the 104 came out in 1965. The difference was the 100 used a pop up flash shield using an Ag1 flash bulb and the 104 used a new for 1965 a flash cube
I had one. I remember having to pull the flash shield up rather than any mechanism making it pop up.
I gtewup in the 50s and 60s...I remember all of these products and the commercials...
Oh Yes Best Time to Grow up ,
@@cwilson6990 ,I remember when BOYS were REAL boys, and GIRLS were REAL girls, and they knew what public restrooms to use, no confusion and no MENTAL ILLNESS
I was born in 1967, but remember seeing all of these products!
1967 for me too!! I remember many of these as well!
Born 1965 in Chicago. Loved those Christmas toy catalogs! I could spend hours going through them. Matt Mason astronaut, Corgi Batmobile, Ben Cooper Batman playsuit...
@@Marcg-b4n I used to play a game with catalogs when I was a kid. I used to imagine I could have 1 toy off every page and I'd go through the toy section and circle the item I wanted. It did kinda help my parents out to see what I liked. 😁
Many of these things lasted way after the 1960s. I was given my mother's 1963 Kodak Instamatic 104 in the early 1970s and used it into the early 1980s!
I remember the jingle for the Polaroid Swinger, and the price "It's only nineteen dollars and ninety-five.🎵" As soon as my older sister got her first pay from an after-school job, she bought one of them.
I kept using up the batteries for my 10 transistor radio, because the New York City area stations played lots of great Motown and rock music back in those days.
My mom used an Electrolux, which I thought worked just as well as a Hoover. And I wished my mom had one of those mixers. It was hard work kneading bread and stirring up hard doughs by hand. About dolls - I think the older Barbie dolls had sweeter faces (and slightly more realistic figures) than the new ones from the late 1970's and 1980's on. I wished I hadn't given away my Beatle dolls!
That $19.95 was the equivalent of about $160.00 today, if she bought it in 1966.
Actually, the Electrolux canister vacuum of the time was superior to anything made by Hoover. It was of much higher construction quality, more like a commercial Kirby than a consumer model, and was also significantly more expensive. It also had a two-stage compressor, so it generated higher vacuum than almost anything else on the market.
We had many of those items in the 60s. My mother had a big B&W camera early 60s but switched to a color instamatic with a flash cube by the mid 60s. She used a kitchen mixer almost daily whether it was mashed potatoes, cakes, or something else. My sister definitely had Barbies and many accessories. I remember the rotary phones but I used the exact AT&T one with a touch pad well into the 90s and as a second phone after that! My father traveled a lot and got us little transistor radios one time. I don’t remember the brand but I listened to baseball games with it all summer long.
I remember getting my first transistor radio...probably Christmas 1967. Got my first camera in 1969, but I don't remember the brand. Most likely Kodak. I wanted to be able to take pictures of my baby sister. I was 14 when the youngest was born!
Remember how hot the flash cubes were when we pulled them off to put a new one on quick for the next picture? Ouch!!
I enjoy this channel because even though im young ish (40) my parents and grandparents passed a lot of these very items down to me when i moved out on my own, many in mint condition then and many still in use today!
Some of those Kitchenaid mixmasters from the 1960s are still going strong and working just fine!
I had a cheap transistor radio in the 70's and took it camping. I hung it on a bush so everyone could hear it. That night it drizzled freezing rain and the next morning my radio had a covering of ice. I hung it on a stick by the fire to thaw. I almost waited too long to retrieve it, because the plastic on the back had started to sag where it had softened by the fire. But, I turned the switch and it came on and worked just like it was supposed to. The only problem was the battery cover had to be cut off, as it was melted to the body. So, I used a small piece of cardboard and some tape to hold the batteries in! It looked funky, but worked so I never threw it away or got a new one.
I still have my mom's Sunbeam Mixmaster from the 1960's in yellow. Loved that mixer. Haven't tried it in a while, but I think it still works.
Nice!
Thank you.
Back in the 1960s, my family used to have a kodak instimatic camera, hoover vacuum cleaner, and stuff like that. Those were the days.
Great video! I'll toss in the Kenner Easy Bake Oven, hula hoops, slot cars and those sports, car, and airplane coins you got in Shirriff products. Dang what a decade!
I had a used Instamatic 104 when in grammar school in the '70s. I either lost it or it broke. I told my morning school bus driver.....a few days later, as I entered the bus he handed me a new one! What a great memory and a kind gesture.
Great story!!👍😊
Never happen today…..
I still have my Kodak camera with the flash in the original box and it still works and I got that in 1959.
I lived through the introduction of most of these innovative, breakthrough items. My first film camera was my mother’s old Brownie. It was the rage years before the Instamatic came out. It was a small cube and yes, brown. It took good pictures too.
Was that Brownie a hand me down. My generation got to use 1960s cameras in the 1970s,80s and even 1990s as hand me downs.
Those products worked so well and for so long.
@@bighands69 Yes, it was my mother’s camera when she was a kid. She was born in 1927 so it was from around 1937-1938. I think it was made from Bakelite, forerunner of plastic.
@@kellycoleman715
Plastic gets a bad rep in the modern world because most people's experience is with cheap horribly made plastics. Bakelite is a dense plastic that can produce a nice finish.
I was waiting to see the original G.I.Joe, 1964, with footlocker. I handed mine down to my Grandson last Christmas.
My brother had it. He loved it. My husband did, too.
Alot of gay men had a GI Joe doll, and when they would match up with their sister's Ken doll! 😍
I still have my Kodak instamatic in the original box with the K-mart price sticker still on the box. Always took excellent pictures. I used it until I could no longer find film for it. My first vacuum cleaner was a Blue Hoover upright.
There’s film for the instamatic out there. Just gotta do some searching.
@@dr.OgataSerizawa Thanks for the info I will look into it! I always loved how the pictures turned out with that camera.
My grandmother bought me a Lady Remington.
I used it for 20 years!
I purchased a new retro touchtone phone a few years ago.
I like the way the receiver feels in my hand. It's solid!
I purchased a Eureka canister vac paying $5. a month when I first got married.
It had a few repairs over the 40 years of good service. Still in good order when I passed it on.
Oh yes I remember them all. I never knew about the Sunbeam stamp, interesting.
Great video thank's
I have a Kodak Instamatic 104 in my collection, In absolutely mint condition. I also have a Western Electric (Bell) 500 (and it's predecessor, The Western Electric (Bell) 302) 👍😊👍
..my dad had one if those original Bkac & Decker drills with the aluminum housing
They are called widow makers because they have a metal housing and were not grounded.
My neighbor almost got killed by one. He was using it on wet ground and it shocked him so bad he couldn't let go of it. He finally got away from it and pitched it
I had many Hoover vacuums from 60’s-80’s. Many Kodak instamatic cameras. My mom had the Sunbeam mixer. I had a couple transistor radios but not as nice as the Braun. I played Barbies with friends in the 60’s. Chatty Cathy was a Christmas gift for my sister one year. My mom hid the gifts in the car trunk. It was very cold. On Christmas Eve my family went to church and I stayed behind to play Santa. Chatty Cathy was frozen. When my sister came home and found her doll she was still partially frozen. She would say mooooooooma! As she thawed her talking speeded up. lol We had a red rotary phone in our family room. When the touch tone came out we had a yellow in the kitchen and rust colored in the den.
I think the over commercialization by media and the constant guilt tripping has started to take the shine of christmas as a holiday period.
GOOD VIDEO, HAD SOME OF THE PRODUCTS LIKE THE PHONES AND RADIO .THE BEST THING TO ME ABOUT THE 60S, WAS GAS LAWNMOWERS. THIS HELPED ME EARN EXTRA MONEY. GOD BLESS
I have the Mixmaster in my kitchen right now bought in the thrift store last year for $30.00 Love it! Anna In Ohio
The great feature of the instamatic 104 was the introduction of the flash cube so you didn’t have to change the flashbulbs each time you took a picture. It rotated after each exposure and only had to be changed every fourth flash.
I grew up in the 60's. My family had a rotary phone with a party line. What a pain that was.
Flash bulb cameras were still being made in the 70's, into the very early 80's. My niece purchased one in 1980 and we used that camera until the mid 80's when stores stopped selling flash cubes.
I had an Instamatic 155X from 1977 to mid 90's so then was stolled...
Funny thing about the Instamatic Cameras. You would see people using them in concerts with the flash. The flash only went 10" or so and was useless in most cases. But, the camera had two shutter speeds, one for flash and one daylight. So even though the flash didn't add to the picture, the slower shutter speed did increase the chances of a better photo.
I remember the sunbeam mixer, which both my mom and grandmother both had. Coppertone suntans lotion was used on myself and family, especially the coconut oil, which I think was later! My sister had a Chatty Kathi doll, which ironically was my sister’s name! ( Kathi that is ). Lol! Thank you for the memories!
Did you know…? A very young Jodie Foster appeared in a commercial for Coppertone.
@@pernelldh Actually I did. I remember reading it somewhere.
This was fun.
Great Video as Always Instamatic Camera ! Dad had one , I still Have my Chatty Cathy Doll Blonde one , So Expensive for my parents , was my Christmas Present in 1961 it present my Stocking & Babies I do have Original 59 Barbie hmm maybe need to Auction her & all Early Ones , In Thier Original BOXES Transistor Radio still have mine Kids today Don't Know what missed growing up in 60s Drill my Dad had one , The Rotary Phone never had a Push Button Phone till 80s We never Had A Color TV till 1970 too expensive 🙂
My favourite channel, love it, thank you so much x
Had a sony trinitron tv ...recieved it as a gift in 1972 and it lasted for 28 years!I collect vintage barbies and have over 500.Harder to find now and more expensive then all the dolls I picked up in garage sales in the 70s and 80s.I do have a number one head on a number 2 body.....she is far from perfect but I love her!!!
And all you used to say is that japaneses goodies were crap quality ones...
Mine was almost indestructible!
U have the ultimate recollection! I tried to get one of those radios on ebay but I saw that it sold for $1300! 😐
I was given a Barbie for Christmas in 1963 or 1964 that had molded hair and came with three wigs, one blonde, one brunette and one red haired. When I did a little research a few years ago about it, I found out that it was only produced for approx. 6 months.
Boy I wish I still had her now!
Love the video! Thank you.
Born in 1968 and remember many of these items back in the 70s. My mom's favorite cameras were a Kodak 126 and 110. I remember the flash cubes one had to attach to the cameras. Rotary and push button phones were used in our home up through the 80s.
I remember all of these things except the Hoover. Everyone had an Instamatic. When we visited England in 1966 we visited Stratford-upon-Avon. I happened to be standing across the street from Shakespeare's house and watched the endless stream of tourists coming out. Virtually every one had an Instamatic. i wish the lens had been better.
Did you happen to meet Hyacinth Bucket? You know, "it's pronounced _Bouquet"_
@@coloradostrong No, but I am sure I met some of her family! We also met, at Jane Austen's house, a woman I am sure was a direct descendant of Lady Catherine de Burgh. I am so glad we traveled before everything became so regimented and endless "thou shalt nots." For example, when we left LAX our family and friends came to see us off and escorted us out to the plane! There was NO Security and all we had to do was show our tickets.
This video is so great.:-)😀🙂Wow!!!
It’s funny I remember being little in the 60’s & both my mom & aunt coming home from the hairdresser with frosted hair! That was it no more brown. Both in their 80’s now & way blonder 😂
I had a Kodak Instamatic loved it .
And, after taking the last photo, did you bring it to Fotomat for your film to be processed in 24 hours or less? Those Fotomat booths seemed to be in every supermarket parking lot back in the 70's. My friend worked in one (there was only one person to the booth), sometimes until late at night. Scary back then...would be impossible now...
My grandmother still has the old phones. It's the only style that accommodates the silver handle covers. Yes, she has modern phones, but according to her, a conversation is more interesting when holding the silver handle. 🤔
Does her house have a built-in phone nook?
@@samiam619 yes, one on the main floor and one upstairs
@@dartlanddunbar5842 That is so cool
I had one of those on my Princess phone. Long gone 80’s
I was born in the 60s but i remember some of these for sure! ☮️💟
Loved those flash cubes!,, i used to put the used ones in the ice bucket in the freezer.
In my family, we didn’t need a Chatty Cathy doll… we had my sister, who never stopped talking on her princess rotary phone.
The Sunbeam "Radiant Control" toaster, seen at 5:47 was BY FAR the best home toaster ever made. It was the only toaster to make consistent toast every time no matter how long between slices. forget 29.99! I'd pay $199.99 if they were made today!
If you haven't seen it, Technology Connections has a couple of great videos on how those toasters worked. Here is a link to one of them: ruclips.net/video/bLk1cjZ4ll0/видео.html
If you have never watched TC before, turn on closed captions, and watch allll the way to the very end. The instant I saw that toaster, I knew what it was!
@@61rampy65Oh yes, I have seen it, and he deserves credit for explaining this feat of kitchen greatness! I'm a big fan of his channel. I might have even commented(or responded to a comment at least) on that video particularly. I grew up with one, my sister STILL has one (Lucky) LOL
@@61rampy65 Lol, I just noticed your name. I'm also a Corvair fan!😊👍👍
@@jamesslick4790 COOL! I haven't been without a Corvair since 1970.
Had one, toast came out brown on the outside, moist on the inside, not dried out like a cracker as all other toasters do. Faster too.
We still have a rotary phone (not connected of course) and the grand kids are kinda fascinated by it. There is something so satisfying about the feel as you turn the rotary with your finger...
I'm the proud owner of an Black and Decker , all metal drill from late sixties, and it still works fine
I loved my Kodak Instamatic 134 camera.
Mom had the original Sunbeam Mix Master right up till it caught fire in the mid sixties. I loved my Kodak Instamatic 100 and later the one with the flash cubes. The reflectors from flash cubes were perfect for crafting Christmas ornaments. Recycling well before it became fashionable.
Thank you for these vids!❤💋😀 It helps me to remember a time long time ago. Why and how do things get so complicated? IDK🤔💋❤
I got a dark brown haired Chatty Cathy doll for my fifth birthday in 1965. A Barbie in 1966. A Kodak Instamatic in 1972. (I also think the Polaroid Instant Camera came out in the 60s, too. I remember my Uncle had one when I was 8 in 1968. And in the early 80s, as a young military wife, remember going to the Ma Bell phone store to pick out a rotary or push-button phone whenever we moved. Those were the days when you were charged by the minute to talk to someone long distant. I do remember well the Coppertone little girl with her dog, too. So cute! Some days, in this fast paced world, I long for those simpler times. They were good days back then.
I have one of those instamatics & a Polaroid Land Camera. (Model 195). I was fascinated by the cubes the way they shattered when used. The Polaroid was sought after 40 years ago !! Persons frequently approached my father offering to buy it bc it was more versatile as a manual focus.
I've got to admit if you had a row with someone on a rotary phone it was so satisfying slamming the receiver down doing on a mobile phone just doesn't have the same effect in
I still have my Mixmaster and it works great!
I had a KODAK Instamatic back in the late 60's . It used 126 film cartridges so your hands never touched the film.
They found that the " Magicube " rotating flash cube was so close to the lens that with portraits you often got
" Red Eye ". KODAK remedied this with the Magicube extension which raised the flash about two inches above the
camera lens.
I don't have the numbers, but Barbie likely is still the top-selling doll.
I had the very same doll in front with the striped suit and black hair and sunglasses! Still wish I had it, $26K who would have thought. I also had one of the first Shirley Temple dolls. Had it for years, my sister threw it away without me knowing.
I 100% KNOW it is. I worked retail until 2019 and the "Barbie" line BY FAR out sold every other doll line (even when there were fads like "Cabbage Patch" or "Bratz" - "Barbie" still leads.
@@jamesslick4790 I never understood why a parent would buy a Bratz doll for their kid. They looked like little trollops. I guess pretty tame by todays standards.
@@mayorb3366 Maybe "tame" today, but even my daughter said they looked like "sluts"(She was 12 when they came out.) I laughed, Hell, I HAD to laugh! Because she was RIGHT! A little more than 3 decades (and MANY "Barbies"!) later, she is now a middle school English teacher, LOL.
@@mayorb3366
Modern dolls are too suggestive for young children. They are now aimed at teen age children when dolls are suppose to be for children.
One year, my little sister got a Chatty Cathy for Christmas, and loved it. In fact, she played with it so much, that my New Year's Day I was ready to shove it where the sun doesn't shine. That was an annoying toy.
And although my Mom has a cordless phone system in the house, the kitchen still has the black, wall-mounted rotary phone with the 7 mile long cord.
My original Barbie had the nearly black ponytail, whereas my sister's Barbie had the red bubble cut. She later got a Midge with a brunette flip, and a black haired Ken doll. My Barbie came with the strapless zebra print bathing suit. I later got the solid red one for her. Our grandmother sewed a lot of custom clothes for our dolls -- unique outfits that we couldn't buy anywhere.
Oh, to be young again!
My Dad owned two tv and stereo stores. We were the first on our block to own a color tv. It was a Zenith. My sister and I had a 19” Zenith B&W tv with a remote.
I remember the Kodak Instamatic 104 camera..my wife had one and I had it's successor the X-15 Instamatic. The 126 film cartridge format was great..just open the camera back, pop in the cartridge, close the camera back then fire away. The 126 cartridge even was used in a SLR camera: the Kodak 126 Reflex which was a finely crafted jewel of a camera. Too bad the 126 cartridge went away.
Our first colour Tv was a 17" Sony Trinitron in 1971 , first show we saw was "Alias Smith & Jones", my first camera an Instamatic 233 in 1969 .📷
...you forgot the "Princess Phone"...
Yes I got one for my 16 Birthday Pink 🙂
I remember many of these....it was a great time.
My Kodak Imstamatic and I went to Alaska in 1972 and took 40 24-pix rolls of film. Some of my best shots were taken through the bar car windows on the Alaska Railway's train going to and from Fairbanks and Anchorage. Still have all those prints!
Everyone had a Kodak Instamatic camera. Today kids don't know what it's like to use film camera and send off film cartridge to get developed.
We had the negatives developed in the 1990s.
I'm still sometimes use a film camera.
But I'm not a kid. 😄
I know someone who has a Sunbeam Mixmaster; it still works just fine!
I recently cleaned out my parents house and found a brand new Kodak Instamatic camera still in the box, never used. Only thing missing is the flash cube. Have no idea what happened to that.
Wow, you're lucky.
Possible that they received a couple as gifts and never used the one still in the box but took the flash bulb out to use on the other one.
I believe the flash cubes were a consumable. I once had a Kodak 127 camera that took little flash bulbs. At least it didn't use glass plates and sit on a tripod.
@@cmonkey63 Yes, a flashcube had four single-use bulbs (one on each face). Once you had gone through all four flashes (assuming that they all actually fired, which was not always guaranteed to happen!) you threw the cube away.
Who could forget taking in a 36 exposure roll of Kodacolor for development to prints and getting back at least 3 or 4 that were throw aways.
So cool 😎 😍
I have a sunbeam vista toaster from 1962 still works using now!!