60 years of collecting! what did I find in the garage?!? watch as I unbox a BIG car load of treasures form a 60 year stash of treasures! and... Subscribe :)
I'm always amazed at how Alex skips over the (amazing, desirable, worthwhile) doll stuff as if it were nothing and goes straight to the (boring, useless, uninspiring) toy cars. Do try and remember that some of us are girls and we LOVE the dollies and their accoutrements. NB. I hated dolls as a child. All I wanted was a train set or a microscope, but every year they gave me another doll and then got cross when I performed surgical operations on it. Huh! I showed them! Got top marks for dissection in Anatomy classes at uni!
The Big Ben clocks brought back one of my earliest memories. Back in the late forties we lived in a four room shack heated by a pot belly stove in the living room that burned coal. (Yes, at that time, it was legal to heat your house with coal. It was also legal to burn your trash in an old steel oil drum in your back yard.) The coal was piled in an open bin out in the side yard. When I was three or four years old, we discovered that someone was stealing coal from our bin. Dad had just returned from being being injured in WWII, so he knew something about booby traps. He set up a trip wire around the coal bin, set to release the alarm on a Big Ben clock. The next time the thief came, it was very late at night and everyone else in the neighborhood was asleep. Except for crickets and night birds, it was totally silent. Suddenly, out rang the most god-awful noise he had ever heard, and out ran Dad in his pajamas with a rifle in his hand. (It was only a .22, but the thief didn't know that.) We never lost another pound of coal after that night. The thief was lucky, because Dad had come from West Virginia and had traveled throughout the country, so he also knew about bear traps.
What a lovely and funny story. As I get older it so strange how something I haven't thought of in 100 years will just pop into my head. And a few years ago I started remembering smells. The smells of my old toys which weren't old then😄 or foods I haven't eaten since childhood. Earlier I saw his video on razors and it reminded me of one of my favorite memories of my Grandpa. If you're interested I wrote about it. Thanks for the delightful story. One of the best aspects of this site is reading about people's personal stories and/or knowledge of these items.
Anyone elses get swatted with that Orange Track? Ahh Memories. And everything needs more CowBell. I was born in 67 that looks like my toybox. i recognize almost every item in there. And almost everything you found.
Yes! I was just commenting on another post that my husband remembers getting whipped with the hot wheels tracks ~ it was his mom's weapon of choice... Said it hurt the worst on your legs
The knowledge that comes pouring out of you so enthusiastically keeps me coming back over and over. I feel so blessed to live in a time period where we might be facing bad calamities but I can tune in and have my spirits uplifted by you and your family, Alex. Thank you for that.
Thrifty stores used to have the tube tester right next to the ice cream counter. We kids begged to have the tubes tested because we would also get a cone. Rainbow sherbet.
“Alexander is playing with his toys again, Mum!!” He has way too much fun going through those boxes. I love how he gets so excited. Thank you for the entertainment. 😘💕🇦🇺
I remember being sent up to walk to the electronics store about a mile or so away form our house, to take the tubes from our tv to test them on one of those and buy replacements. I was probably only 8 years old. Times have changed.
You know, seeing all of the toys being beat up and well used made me happy. That kid had countless hours of fun with them. I think if I ever got into toy collecting, those would be the ones I'd specifically go for, because I'm not one to just let things sit on a shelf looking pretty. I'd want to fiddle and play, and with those, nobody would be yelling at me how I'm ruining their value.
I miss old alarm clocks. They're better than phones, IMO, because they don't tempt you to go on social media the moment you wake up. And I love cow bells. They have the prettiest sound. 😃
The clock displayed at 16:23 is the same as the one my dad kept 'down below' in his fishing boat. He had made a little plywood box for it, that kept it from flying around in rough conditions, but still allowed the face to be seen. When it got VERY rough, one summer when I fished with him, I'd go down and put it, and other breakables, inside my sleeping bag. Really brings back memories.
I was born in the 50's and had 6 siblings. At one time or another we had about 20 of those clocks lots of them were familiar. And the tube machine brought back a specific memory of the tv going out and going to the store with my father and they didn't have the right tube. My father was not happy. Thanks for the memories.
Wow, I was just talking today to my 92 year old Dad about going to a local electronics store in the 60s to use their tube tester. As a girl I felt proud to join my Dad in the pursuit of the repair. I also watched a repairman fix my Mom’s washing machine only to pull out a Bobby pin. The next time it stopped working I showed my Dad how to fix it! I was about 7 years old. No one encouraged girls to do this kind of work…..too bad. I had lots of fun.
Hi everybody. This show helps keep me motivated to continually downsize. My son is a minimalist so no saving for him. If I can shed something every week it will lighten the load.
That cookie jar twigged a memory for me... I think my grandmother had salt & paper shakers with the same little girl design. I could be imagining it though. haha
LOL Anyone else cringe when he slapped the lid on that box of perfect paper dolls, catching a few hanging over the side and then bend them by picking up the box? Ouch!
@@maryleemcdaniel7274 Me, too! I had a favorite set that I bought a few times as a girl until I couldn’t find new ones any more. I’ve searched the Internet still looking for them after all these years! LOL I passed my love onto my daughter and when she was in high school, she collected antique and vintage paper dolls, including the old advertising ones.
@@Lucinda_Jackson I have spent a lot of time (and money) collecting the old paper dolls I played with. They were from the late 40's - early 50's. Many great movie stars are probably still collectible. I wanted to see what was in that box.
Cringed and then cringed again when the original Ken doll was just passed over as nothing ~ the Barbie with wigs was a good one ~ I sure hope he got a good price for that, because those can be quite pricey!
Mickey Mouse’s picnic was my favorite book growing up!! Here’s a quote from the book: What a beautiful day for a picnic! What a picnical day for a lark! We will frolic all day till the sun goes away and we won’t get back home until dark!!! I still have my ratty old copy and one I found at a garage sale that’s in much better shape. Love the cookie jar! I have the matching cream server. The clocks are cool! I just purchased a vintage looking clock last week. It looks cheap compared to the real deal!
@@PatchworkUSA yes and I love how they taped the knife to cut the cake underneath the plate and couldn’t remember where it was or am I just imagining that!
In high school I often participated in honors bands around the state I lived in. I remember making sure I remembered to pack my Westclox folding travel alarm. It went everywhere with me. It made a pleasant little ticking sound that lulled me off to sleep. Lots of memories in today’s episode. 🙂👵🏻
For the old cookbooks you might want to contact "Glen and Friends Cooking" he has a regular segment called "The old cookbook Show" he might be interested in new old material. He is on youtube as well
That tube tester took me back. Someone once gave me a console color tv, back in 1974. It was out of focus and I called a tv repair place, explaining how low income I was and he told me it was one of two tubes, and what numbers they were. Took them down and tested them, and bought the one replacement for not very much money. Those look like old Golden books! I wish I could get the paper dolls, but really, I’m trying to dejunk . I love the iron and the dolls. Way cool picks.
In the 70's we still had those Tube Tester display's at convenience stores or gas stations in my home town. When a tv, radio, or old cabinet stereo stopped working, I would take the tubes to test and replace the bad ones and it worked almost every time :)!
Every time you have clocks in your videos, I think about the coolest clock I have ever seen. My grandparents had this clock that was rows of bearings (like the ones in a pachinko machine). Each minute, a bearing would drop to a lower row. Each time 60 bearings landed in that next row, a bearing would drop to the bottom row which was counting hours; and the other 59 bearings would all drop and get recycled back into the works to start again at the top row. The minutes and hours were all marked on it so that the corresponding last bearing dropped would mark the time. It was so fun to watch and listen as the hour changed. Way better than any cuckoo clock or flip clock. I wish I knew the maker of it. Thanks for the inspiring videos!
I have all of the golden books from 60's that I read to my kids then to my granddaughters. They are packed away for my great grandkids. All in excellent condition. There are so many toys that I had in the 50's in this haul. 💖💖
A big kid and cool stuff. That is ok , I like to sit on the floor and play with kids toys. Most of the time kids are there and sometimes I am putting the toys back together.
Those clocks reminds me of the Radium Girls. I think I saw one or two with the greenish radium paint on the numbers or hands of the clocks. All kinds of history there. Nice haul!
Always loved those Timex commercials with John Cameron Swazzee. Really enjoyed seeing the old tire ashtrays, I think mine was from Firestone. Anxious to see the old Mercury.
Thanks for the sweet memories of going to the Hardware Store with my Dad and testing out tubes for the TV before buying a new one. I'm going to be 70yrs old at the end of this year, that's why I said it was so sweet. Blessings..✌
I remember going to the grocery store with my dad so he could test some tubes to fix our TV. When he figured out what tube was bad he could get a new one right there. The testing unit looks just like the one you just got.
When I was a kid I had an old one of those from my parents. I thought it was so cool but soon realized there were alarm clocks already everywhere we may have travelled (we aren’t a camping family). They are still so cute and I keep a clock in most rooms; one that wouldn’t rust might be cute for the bathroom. Maybe I’ll find one thrifting soon!
This haul made me feel like you could have been going through my stuff if I'd never gotten rid of anything from the house I grew up in that my parents bought in about 1950 (I was born in 1963). The clocks, cameras, radios, toys, guitars. They were all part of my life!
This collection that Alexander bought felt familiar growing up in our house. Had that. Dad had a box of those. Little brother had a box of those……..then, Eewww! Jarts! I wanted them so badly. Dad’s answer was “it’s like playing with a drawer of kitchen knives.” No dad, this is a lawn game, it says so on the box. 🤣😂🤣
@@kelcal6697 I saw a vivid silent home movie playing in my head: me being wheeled into the Emergency room with a Jart sticking out of the top of my shoulder. The whole family ( dressed in 70’s polyester and dad in socks with sandals) walking behind me with my mother throwing her hands up and around and mouthing “ What did I warn you about Stacy Lynn, huh? And now we HAVE to take you to the hospital!” 🤪🤪🤪🤣
@@kelcal6697 No, never a Jart accident. I took quite a few ambulance rides to the hospital when I was young and I am mashing true partial memories up create the above non fiction scenario. Old lady with a vivid imagination.
I always cringe a little when Alex says "mid-century". That was my childhood, and doesn't seem that far away to me! Ha ha. My favorite toy, hands down, was my father's tube tester in it's own solid wood box. It had a long cylinder with a paper scroll telling how to set up each type of tube. There were blinking lights, switches to flip, wires to connect, dials that spun and plenty of cool sounds. Forget the baby dolls, I would sit for hours testing and retesting the tubes in a giant old suitcase.
Wonderful video, thank you for the time travel to my childhood of the 1960’s. We had the old Kodak camera. My brother had the orange hot wheels track, played many a day with it!! The golden books, goodnight little bear, I read that to my daughter when she was little (late 80’s) 4,841 times a week lol!! So thrilled I found you. You do a great job and your personality is the icing on the cake! Thanks!!
❤️❤️❤️This collection took me down memory lane! Hearing your excitement while digging through just about everything I grew up with ( except the yard Jarts that I pleaded for during our monthly” take the family to K-mart “trips) . Boxes of clocks and cameras and what became a basement full of boxes accumulated over a decade from dad’s family members passing. If I only had your knowledge of what’s collectible then, and the collector/seller connections. Connections Alexander has built up through the years.
Gosh I feel like u just found the stuff from our house in 1960, radios that have a weird smell when they heated up, paper dolls spent hrs playing with and the old tube tester my Uncle had so cool!!!
Yes, Linda. I would have liked to see all the paper dolls layer by layer! I drew paper dolls and clothes for my little cousins when we were kids in the 50s. They still has them!! Alas, Alex isn’t interested in paper dolls. That’s okay. I like Hot Wheels too!
You are the epitome of following your dreams. So glad it has worked out well. You will soon have a beautiful home, a jobs to dream for and a great family. I wish you more of the same.
The cfl helmets are from the late 70s, from dairy queen. You could buy a sundae in the helmet, and they gave you a sticker sheet to put on the helmets…i have the edmonton eskimo one still…lol.
Those cookie jars sell for $150 minimum . I sold a set of the smaller items in that set and they all went to Japan, for crazy money! People over there love them.
Oooohhhhhh I LOVE the cookie jar! I hope that goes to auction! 💕💕💕And the paper dolls!, and dolls! Ooohhh Alex, you finally picked some stuff sooo right up my alley! 💕💕💕💕 Also, look on the Barbies foot and see if she has anything written on it. And when you put her up for auction, show close ups of her feet and head. This could improve the sale from $10 to $1000. Especially if there are original clothes to go with.
Can't believe how knowledgeable you are about collectables from way before your time. You sure know your business. But ,honestly ,you need a vacation ,you're nonstop.
O.K., that's it! That does it! In 1968, as a little 8 year old girl, my wish list included a Sizzler track and Sizzler cars. I already had the orange track and redlines and a supercharger. I also wanted a bunk bed for my dolls, and a BB gun. My parents were ahead of their time in one sense. Since I was an only child, I didn't think of toys as much as girl or boy ones. I just saw them as looking like fun or not, and Mom and Dad never pushed me one way or the other. Here's me watching this video: Let's see what he got this t...whoa! I think that's my favorite doll in that white dress. Never saw that dress before, and I've only seen 2 other Suzys ever, I believe...my name for her. Wish he would turn her ov...hey! Radios, cool. Kinda like my grandparents'. Super Charger set!! Orange track, purple connectors, looking for cars I had. This is nuts. What's in that box, I wonder. Wind up alarm clocks!!! I have collected those for years. I want that whole box and I haven't even seen it. Must write comment...As for those three gifts...played with the doll bed a couple hours, my Hot Wheels or Sizzlers tracks were set up in the living room a LOT, and the BB Gun? Took safety and shooting lessons from the Jaycees in town, made the team, and we went to state and placed 3rd. Headed back to see the box o' clocks...pulse racing, vision blurring...these people feel like my people. 🤓
O.k., you just showed a shot into the back of the wagon again. Do I spy a blue-bodied Johnny or Jane West with hat? JARTS! Spent many fun, fun afternoons in Grandma and Grandpa's front yard trying to avoid impalement with one of those aerodynamic missles. Only thing missing was a nice croquet set. I'm sitting. Bit dizzy.
I use to get clocks like that every year for Christmas from my parents but they didn't last very long if they ticked or clicked all they did was made so i couldn't sleep . i love digital clocks
I live in Cleveland area, not far from Akron, Ohio. I have visited the F. A. Seiberling’s home, Stan Hywet Hall & Garden. F.A. Steiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber built his manor on a beautiful piece of land. We had some of those tire ashtrays at one time! Brought back good memories, for our dachshund loved playing with that tire! I love exploring your treasures with you!
I'm always amazed at how Alex skips over the (amazing, desirable, worthwhile) doll stuff as if it were nothing and goes straight to the (boring, useless, uninspiring) toy cars. Do try and remember that some of us are girls and we LOVE the dollies and their accoutrements.
NB. I hated dolls as a child. All I wanted was a train set or a microscope, but every year they gave me another doll and then got cross when I performed surgical operations on it. Huh! I showed them! Got top marks for dissection in Anatomy classes at uni!
Right?! He moves Ken aside twice and later says 'maybe there's a Ken in here'.
@@jennifermiller8226 I saw ken too. Poor Ken dismissed.
So funny!
When you pulled out the Barbie that you said was from the 60's, it was rocking a glam outfit and the first thing I thought of was, 'it's Madame Roc!'
The Big Ben clocks brought back one of my earliest memories. Back in the late forties we lived in a four room shack heated by a pot belly stove in the living room that burned coal. (Yes, at that time, it was legal to heat your house with coal. It was also legal to burn your trash in an old steel oil drum in your back yard.) The coal was piled in an open bin out in the side yard. When I was three or four years old, we discovered that someone was stealing coal from our bin. Dad had just returned from being being injured in WWII, so he knew something about booby traps. He set up a trip wire around the coal bin, set to release the alarm on a Big Ben clock. The next time the thief came, it was very late at night and everyone else in the neighborhood was asleep. Except for crickets and night birds, it was totally silent. Suddenly, out rang the most god-awful noise he had ever heard, and out ran Dad in his pajamas with a rifle in his hand. (It was only a .22, but the thief didn't know that.) We never lost another pound of coal after that night. The thief was lucky, because Dad had come from West Virginia and had traveled throughout the country, so he also knew about bear traps.
What a lovely and funny story. As I get older it so strange how something I haven't thought of in 100 years will just pop into my head. And a few years ago I started remembering smells. The smells of my old toys which weren't old then😄 or foods I haven't eaten since childhood. Earlier I saw his video on razors and it reminded me of one of my favorite memories of my Grandpa. If you're interested I wrote about it. Thanks for the delightful story. One of the best aspects of this site is reading about people's personal stories and/or knowledge of these items.
Look up " kid in a candy shop" and you'll see a pic of Alex. Too excited about all the finds. You're too cute!
Anyone elses get swatted with that Orange Track? Ahh Memories. And everything needs more CowBell.
I was born in 67 that looks like my toybox. i recognize almost every item in there. And almost everything you found.
Yes! I was just commenting on another post that my husband remembers getting whipped with the hot wheels tracks ~ it was his mom's weapon of choice... Said it hurt the worst on your legs
The knowledge that comes pouring out of you so enthusiastically keeps me coming back over and over. I feel so blessed to live in a time period where we might be facing bad calamities but I can tune in and have my spirits uplifted by you and your family, Alex. Thank you for that.
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I was a child of the 60's and you just showed me my toy box and bookshelf. What a blast from the past!
I was just hitting my teens in the start of the sixties and left for nam in 66
@@morgansword Glad you made it back. Thank you for serving! Be well.
Thrifty stores used to have the tube tester right next to the ice cream counter. We kids begged to have the tubes tested because we would also get a cone. Rainbow sherbet.
I remember the tube tester at Thrifty's also and always got the rainbow sherbert or strawberry cone.
Oh my god the lawn darts, the forbidden backyard sport. I hope those can still be sold as antiques.
“Alexander is playing with his toys again, Mum!!” He has way too much fun going through those boxes. I love how he gets so excited. Thank you for the entertainment. 😘💕🇦🇺
Ohhhh paper dolls!!!! How I loved playing with those!
I remember being sent up to walk to the electronics store about a mile or so away form our house, to take the tubes from our tv to test them on one of those and buy replacements. I was probably only 8 years old. Times have changed.
O' the Cutie Pie cookie jar is gorgeous!!
Wow! My life just flashed before my eyes . I had a lot of those travel clocks radios and toys books lol Keep Safe❤Keep Well ❤
You know, seeing all of the toys being beat up and well used made me happy. That kid had countless hours of fun with them. I think if I ever got into toy collecting, those would be the ones I'd specifically go for, because I'm not one to just let things sit on a shelf looking pretty. I'd want to fiddle and play, and with those, nobody would be yelling at me how I'm ruining their value.
I miss old alarm clocks. They're better than phones, IMO, because they don't tempt you to go on social media the moment you wake up. And I love cow bells. They have the prettiest sound. 😃
The clock displayed at 16:23 is the same as the one my dad kept 'down below' in his fishing boat. He had made a little plywood box for it, that kept it from flying around in rough conditions, but still allowed the face to be seen. When it got VERY rough, one summer when I fished with him, I'd go down and put it, and other breakables, inside my sleeping bag. Really brings back memories.
Oh the paper dolls are amazing!!!
I was born in the 50's and had 6 siblings. At one time or another we had about 20 of those clocks lots of them were familiar. And the tube machine brought back a specific memory of the tv going out and going to the store with my father and they didn't have the right tube. My father was not happy. Thanks for the memories.
Wow, I was just talking today to my 92 year old Dad about going to a local electronics store in the 60s to use their tube tester. As a girl I felt proud to join my Dad in the pursuit of the repair. I also watched a repairman fix my Mom’s washing machine only to pull out a Bobby pin. The next time it stopped working I showed my Dad how to fix it! I was about 7 years old. No one encouraged girls to do this kind of work…..too bad. I had lots of fun.
Hi everybody. This show helps keep me motivated to continually downsize. My son is a minimalist so no saving for him. If I can shed something every week it will lighten the load.
In the camera box, Alex passed over the tiny black camera that was just like mine. I still have b&w pictures taken with that little Brownie.
That cookie jar twigged a memory for me... I think my grandmother had salt & paper shakers with the same little girl design. I could be imagining it though. haha
Loving all those vintage clocks! Great haul!
I love the teddy bear. He has been loved too.
LOL Anyone else cringe when he slapped the lid on that box of perfect paper dolls, catching a few hanging over the side and then bend them by picking up the box? Ouch!
I Loved Paper Dolls!!!
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Me, too! I had a favorite set that I bought a few times as a girl until I couldn’t find new ones any more. I’ve searched the Internet still looking for them after all these years! LOL
I passed my love onto my daughter and when she was in high school, she collected antique and vintage paper dolls, including the old advertising ones.
@@Lucinda_Jackson I have spent a lot of time (and money) collecting the old paper dolls I played with. They were from the late 40's - early 50's. Many great movie stars are probably still collectible. I wanted to see what was in that box.
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I think it may have been with the stuff he already sold to other dealers.
Cringed and then cringed again when the original Ken doll was just passed over as nothing ~ the Barbie with wigs was a good one ~ I sure hope he got a good price for that, because those can be quite pricey!
Three things really stood out to me. 1) The tube tester.
Quite right about the welts ~ my husband remembers getting whipped with the hot wheels tracks ... It was his mom's "weapon of choice".
@@CarolsCurrentObsession Sorry to hear that.
Seeing all the old radios reminded me that my Dad built a radio from scratch to finish a course in repairing themZ
My house was built in the early 50s, there’s a spot in the kitchen above the sink that’s waiting for a plug-in clock.
Mickey Mouse’s picnic was my favorite book growing up!! Here’s a quote from the book:
What a beautiful day for a picnic! What a picnical day for a lark! We will frolic all day till the sun goes away and we won’t get back home until dark!!!
I still have my ratty old copy and one I found at a garage sale that’s in much better shape.
Love the cookie jar! I have the matching cream server. The clocks are cool! I just purchased a vintage looking clock last week. It looks cheap compared to the real deal!
That sounds delightful ☺️
I have this book too. I used to read it to my own grown up daughters. I’d sing that little song. Very fond memories 💕
love mickey mouse. nice reference!
I still have my copy, too. I remember being fascinated looking at the picnic things in the pictures.
@@PatchworkUSA yes and I love how they taped the knife to cut the cake underneath the plate and couldn’t remember where it was or am I just imagining that!
What do old Hotel Phones and Cowbells have in common? Call'em up and mooove 'em out!
Why do cows wear bells? Cuz their horns don't work....
In high school I often participated in honors bands around the state I lived in. I remember making sure I remembered to pack my Westclox folding travel alarm. It went everywhere with me. It made a pleasant little ticking sound that lulled me off to sleep. Lots of memories in today’s episode. 🙂👵🏻
There is one of those "Cutie Pie" cookie jars on esty for $500 what a find. Have a great day
For sale and sold are different things. Just saw one in an antique store for $60.
Ebay sold comps are $150-$250 usd.
For the old cookbooks you might want to contact "Glen and Friends Cooking" he has a regular segment called "The old cookbook Show" he might be interested in new old material. He is on youtube as well
That tube tester took me back. Someone once gave me a console color tv, back in 1974. It was out of focus and I called a tv repair place, explaining how low income I was and he told me it was one of two tubes, and what numbers they were. Took them down and tested them, and bought the one replacement for not very much money.
Those look like old Golden books! I wish I could get the paper dolls, but really, I’m trying to dejunk . I love the iron and the dolls. Way cool picks.
“Do you know what time it is?”
A man with one clock always knows what time it is…. A man with two clocks is never quite sure!
In the 70's we still had those Tube Tester display's at convenience stores or gas stations in my home town. When a tv, radio, or old cabinet stereo stopped working, I would take the tubes to test and replace the bad ones and it worked almost every time :)!
Love ur excitement finding the old clocks a and stuff really brings me back to my childhood! Thanks for sharing
This episode was so much fun…. Naughty naughty Alex for teasing Melissa, that made me smile at what a cute couple y’all are.
Melissa, you owe Alex one for making you get up, lol. Love your enthusiasm Alex.
If Melissa thought that duck was alive between fifteen to thirty seconds, well done.
Every time you have clocks in your videos, I think about the coolest clock I have ever seen. My grandparents had this clock that was rows of bearings (like the ones in a pachinko machine). Each minute, a bearing would drop to a lower row. Each time 60 bearings landed in that next row, a bearing would drop to the bottom row which was counting hours; and the other 59 bearings would all drop and get recycled back into the works to start again at the top row. The minutes and hours were all marked on it so that the corresponding last bearing dropped would mark the time. It was so fun to watch and listen as the hour changed. Way better than any cuckoo clock or flip clock. I wish I knew the maker of it. Thanks for the inspiring videos!
I have all of the golden books from 60's that I read to my kids then to my granddaughters. They are packed away for my great grandkids. All in excellent condition. There are so many toys that I had in the 50's in this haul. 💖💖
A big kid and cool stuff. That is ok , I like to sit on the floor and play with kids toys. Most of the time kids are there and sometimes I am putting the toys back together.
Those clocks reminds me of the Radium Girls. I think I saw one or two with the greenish radium paint on the numbers or hands of the clocks. All kinds of history there. Nice haul!
Always loved those Timex commercials with John Cameron Swazzee. Really enjoyed seeing the old tire ashtrays, I think mine was from Firestone. Anxious to see the old Mercury.
Wonderfully delightful 💕 finds, every single one!! 😀
Thanks for the sweet memories of going to the Hardware Store with my Dad and testing out tubes for the TV before buying a new one. I'm going to be 70yrs old at the end of this year, that's why I said it was so sweet. Blessings..✌
The TV clock,,, a winner!
When I was a child my dad fixed radios ,he had lots of tubes …neighbors would bring their radios
I remember going to the grocery store with my dad so he could test some tubes to fix our TV. When he figured out what tube was bad he could get a new one right there. The testing unit looks just like the one you just got.
Loved this pick! I collect old cameras, played with paper dolls, and love all of the old Hot Wheels. Fun!
Those small alarm clocks that opened up or folded out were travel clocks. You’d take them with you on vacation or on the road. Cool!
When I was a kid I had an old one of those from my parents. I thought it was so cool but soon realized there were alarm clocks already everywhere we may have travelled (we aren’t a camping family). They are still so cute and I keep a clock in most rooms; one that wouldn’t rust might be cute for the bathroom. Maybe I’ll find one thrifting soon!
@@twobluestripes fingers-crossed! 😊
I used those for years at hotels because I couldn't always get a wake-up call. Now I just use my cell phone alarm.
@@joyceb5864 yes!
That was fun. I love when you find small cars , the little kid in you comes out.
I was a kid in the 50's and its a trip down memory lane watching a lot of Alex's videos,and I so enjoy them very much.
I remember seeing the tune testers in stores when I was a kid. Haven’t seen one in years!
Yeah those tune testers were something! haha
Yes, I remember going with my dad to a local drug store that had a tube tester.
I still remember the disappointment when the TV went on the blink, and Dad would say it needed a new tube because there was never a spare on hand.
This haul made me feel like you could have been going through my stuff if I'd never gotten rid of anything from the house I grew up in that my parents bought in about 1950 (I was born in 1963). The clocks, cameras, radios, toys, guitars. They were all part of my life!
I just saw THE DEADLY “JARTS!!” 😂 😂
This collection that Alexander bought felt familiar growing up in our house. Had that. Dad had a box of those. Little brother had a box of those……..then, Eewww! Jarts! I wanted them so badly. Dad’s answer was “it’s like playing with a drawer of kitchen knives.” No dad, this is a lawn game, it says so on the box. 🤣😂🤣
@@stacykelly9962 😂 right? We’d play as a family. Can you imagine?? Lol! FORE!!!!! Haha!
@@kelcal6697 I saw a vivid silent home movie playing in my head: me being wheeled into the Emergency room with a Jart sticking out of the top of my shoulder. The whole family ( dressed in 70’s polyester and dad in socks with sandals) walking behind me with my mother throwing her hands up and around and mouthing “ What did I warn you about Stacy Lynn, huh? And now we HAVE to take you to the hospital!” 🤪🤪🤪🤣
@@stacykelly9962 that didn’t really happen tho right??!!
@@kelcal6697 No, never a Jart accident. I took quite a few ambulance rides to the hospital when I was young and I am mashing true partial memories up create the above non fiction scenario. Old lady with a vivid imagination.
I used to have a cowbell for a front door bell till someone pinched it. :( Also, love all those old clocks, lots of memories there.
As always great to see Alexander so happy with his new toys!!
I always cringe a little when Alex says "mid-century". That was my childhood, and doesn't seem that far away to me! Ha ha. My favorite toy, hands down, was my father's tube tester in it's own solid wood box. It had a long cylinder with a paper scroll telling how to set up each type of tube. There were blinking lights, switches to flip, wires to connect, dials that spun and plenty of cool sounds. Forget the baby dolls, I would sit for hours testing and retesting the tubes in a giant old suitcase.
My uncle had one too. He used to take TV,s off the curb and give them to us all. I had a stereo console tv in my bedroom when I 5.
I ca remember going to the store to test tubes with my dad for our tv.
That was like my childhood at Oma and Opa's house!!!
I used to have that same Kay guitar! It was a great campfire guitar!
Growing up, my best friends parents had that exact same TV clock sitting on top of their television this is only the second one I’ve ever seen
I had the Barbie with the wig and the paper dolls with the black cat! The buttons with the fold down tab from Mattel. Oh the memories!
Wonderful video, thank you for the time travel to my childhood of the 1960’s. We had the old Kodak camera. My brother had the orange hot wheels track, played many a day with it!! The golden books, goodnight little bear, I read that to my daughter when she was little (late 80’s) 4,841 times a week lol!! So thrilled I found you. You do a great job and your personality is the icing on the cake! Thanks!!
❤️❤️❤️This collection took me down memory lane! Hearing your excitement while digging through just about everything I grew up with ( except the yard Jarts that I pleaded for during our monthly” take the family to K-mart “trips) . Boxes of clocks and cameras and what became a basement full of boxes accumulated over a decade from dad’s family members passing. If I only had your knowledge of what’s collectible then, and the collector/seller connections. Connections Alexander has built up through the years.
i agree. cool video
I have a stuffed duck, too! I remember going with my Dad to the taxidermist to get him stuffed.
You could use the cow Bell at your new home to call people in from the garden when you need them.
I think you have the best job ever especially when you get a load of stuff like this😊
Loved the water container!
Gosh I feel like u just found the stuff from our house in 1960, radios that have a weird smell when they heated up, paper dolls spent hrs playing with and the old tube tester my Uncle had so cool!!!
Yes, Linda. I would have liked to see all the paper dolls layer by layer! I drew paper dolls and clothes for my little cousins when we were kids in the 50s. They still has them!!
Alas, Alex isn’t interested in paper dolls. That’s okay. I like Hot Wheels too!
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You are the epitome of following your dreams. So glad it has worked out well. You will soon have a beautiful home, a jobs to dream for and a great family. I wish you more of the same.
Wow, I remember those Tube Testers. Some were stand alone on top of a metal
cabinet where the Tubes for sale were located.
I had that KODAK INstamatic Camera when i was a boy in the 1960's.
It took 126 Cartridge film and used Flash Cubes.
Wow, so much fun to watch and listen.
So many clocks and cameras I recognize from my childhood. That tells you how are of I am! 😃
What a great lot: zeo lefton cutie pie jar, barbie, cut outs. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
I can just hear Christopher Walken say”what we need is more cowbell.”
Hahahaha me too. It was my first thought!
Yup, mine too !!!
That was my first thought too. My second thought was, 'these advertisements that I'm letting play through, they need more cowbell !!!'
Yep! Exactly my thoughts, too!
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The Saggy Baggy Elephant! I had that! From the sixties or earlier.
I love your excitement going through those boxes!! Toys and treasures galore! Love your adventures and knowledge!
You would have loved all the stuff I left when I moved and left a house and garage full of almost everything I owned and collected 70 yrs😛
Oh! You bent the paper doll stuff when you put the lid on!
I cringed when he did that.
Kay Guitars were made in Chicago, my hometown. Also, I love those little alarm clocks!
The cfl helmets are from the late 70s, from dairy queen. You could buy a sundae in the helmet, and they gave you a sticker sheet to put on the helmets…i have the edmonton eskimo one still…lol.
I saw lawn darts!
I just LOVE digging through these boxes with you!
I don’t get dirty or breath in dust, and I can’t keep any of it!
Win win
I love watching you go through the boxes. Like a big kid. Lol Love you❣
Those cookie jars sell for $150 minimum . I sold a set of the smaller items in that set and they all went to Japan, for crazy money! People over there love them.
I am sure that after he sold that pig one, he’ll check collectibility of most creepy looking cookie jars! That one specifically was super valueable
When I was a kid 7-11 had that tube tester.
Oooohhhhhh I LOVE the cookie jar! I hope that goes to auction! 💕💕💕And the paper dolls!, and dolls! Ooohhh Alex, you finally picked some stuff sooo right up my alley! 💕💕💕💕
Also, look on the Barbies foot and see if she has anything written on it. And when you put her up for auction, show close ups of her feet and head. This could improve the sale from $10 to $1000. Especially if there are original clothes to go with.
You are so fun to watch! Such great enthusiasm! Delightful!
Can't believe how knowledgeable you are about collectables from way before your time. You sure know your business. But ,honestly ,you need a vacation ,you're nonstop.
O.K., that's it! That does it! In 1968, as a little 8 year old girl, my wish list included a Sizzler track and Sizzler cars. I already had the orange track and redlines and a supercharger. I also wanted a bunk bed for my dolls, and a BB gun. My parents were ahead of their time in one sense. Since I was an only child, I didn't think of toys as much as girl or boy ones. I just saw them as looking like fun or not, and Mom and Dad never pushed me one way or the other. Here's me watching this video: Let's see what he got this t...whoa! I think that's my favorite doll in that white dress. Never saw that dress before, and I've only seen 2 other Suzys ever, I believe...my name for her. Wish he would turn her ov...hey! Radios, cool. Kinda like my grandparents'. Super Charger set!! Orange track, purple connectors, looking for cars I had. This is nuts. What's in that box, I wonder. Wind up alarm clocks!!! I have collected those for years. I want that whole box and I haven't even seen it. Must write comment...As for those three gifts...played with the doll bed a couple hours, my Hot Wheels or Sizzlers tracks were set up in the living room a LOT, and the BB Gun? Took safety and shooting lessons from the Jaycees in town, made the team, and we went to state and placed 3rd. Headed back to see the box o' clocks...pulse racing, vision blurring...these people feel like my people. 🤓
O.k., you just showed a shot into the back of the wagon again. Do I spy a blue-bodied Johnny or Jane West with hat? JARTS! Spent many fun, fun afternoons in Grandma and Grandpa's front yard trying to avoid impalement with one of those aerodynamic missles. Only thing missing was a nice croquet set. I'm sitting. Bit dizzy.
Enjoyed. Fun items. Love the old radios and clocks. 7 cars now plus Steven's Mercedes , Wow!
"Insert obligatory Christopher Walken More Cowbell Reference here"
What a fantastic and fun group of goodies! I love digging through boxes full of treasures. Thanks for sharing this fun video!
Sounds like its raining hard your way…Cow Bells! Gotta have more Cow Bells!!! lol.. Nice joke on Melissa…
I use to get clocks like that every year for Christmas from my parents but they didn't last very long if they ticked or clicked all they did was made so i couldn't sleep . i love digital clocks
I live in Cleveland area, not far from Akron, Ohio. I have visited the F. A. Seiberling’s home, Stan Hywet Hall & Garden. F.A. Steiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber built his manor on a beautiful piece of land. We had some of those tire ashtrays at one time! Brought back good memories, for our dachshund loved playing with that tire! I love exploring your treasures with you!