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My mom had a Maytag washing machine that washed the cloth diapers of 5 of us. It lasted 27 years.
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I, my brother, my other brother and my sister, we grew up, we were the dish washers!!
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dishwasher, car washer, lawnmower, driveway shoveler....name it. Kids used to be the ones to do those things.
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When we were in grade school and jr high, on snow days, no school, all us neighborhood boys would grab shovels and mad dash to any unshoveled drives and sidewalks we could find!
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aaaYep did the same but then some rich kids father in the neighborhood bought a snow blower and took away pretty much all that but by then I got hooked up with one of my older friends that drove a residential plow for a landscaper being his shoveler, eventually leading into a part time gig driving & servicing the plows for the landscaper. Then one night while doing a driveway I'm checking off the route chart wondering like WTF is taking my shoveler so long... he opens the door and cry's for me to help him as it's REALLY HEAVY & WET. I'm like suck it up buttercup, I've been there done that and moved up the ladder, heh I didn't even offer him the use of my 'Grain Scoop' that was in back as I have 'been there' (and learned).
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Me and my2 brothers loved the really deep heavy snow...who could through biggest shovel full the farthest! No shoveling these days for me, its riding mower and my tractor!aaaYep did the same but then some rich kids father in the neighborhood bought a snow blower and took away pretty much all that but by then I got hooked up with one of my older friends that drove a residential plow for a landscaper being his shoveler, eventually leading into a part time gig driving & servicing the plows for the landscaper. Then one night while doing a driveway I'm checking off the route chart wondering like WTF is taking my shoveler so long... he opens the door and cry's for me to help him as it's REALLY HEAVY & WET. I'm like suck it up buttercup, I've been there done that and moved up the ladder, heh I didn't even offer him the use of my 'Grain Scoop' that was in back as I have 'been there' (and learned).
I've never seen the revolutionary war soldiers.
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To tell you the truth that image sparked my memory and I may have bought it but at $2.25 I don't think my 25¢ allowance for chores at the time would be saved up to that amount... ya know I would of have to go without several comic books for weeks.
I got those images from a FB oldies group leading into a YouTube reviewer, young guy, about old toys and their advertisements on the collector level.
(edit) From the show those AD's were still going in the 70's and I think the 100 toy soldiers was dated 1978. I would of seen them in the early 60's so they were most likely $1.00 IIRC.
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I was playing with the army guys in 1981 at 5 years old when I got my first BB gun. The army guys were hand me downs from my Bama Cousins (ROLL TIDE). Rarely made it into town to stores so I don't recall seeing either of them in the general store in the early 80's.
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Most Dangerous Toy of All Times!
Junior scientist Stefan Olsen operating the Wilson Cloud Chamber¹ of a Gilbert No. U-238 Atomic Energy Lab² (New York Toy Fair, March 1950).
It was a toy lab set designed to allow children to create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions using radioactive material. The Atomic Energy Lab was designed by the A.C.Gilbert Company and comes with several radioactive samples of uranium-bearing ores, autunite, torbernite, uraninite, and carnotite, as well as a fresh short-lived 740 becquerel Polonium-210 alpha particle source with a 138.4 day half-life!
The cloud chamber he is using is a particle detector used for visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation. An energetic charged particle (for example, an alpha or beta particle) interacts with the gaseous mixture by knocking electrons off gas molecules via electrostatic forces during collisions, resulting in a trail of ionized gas particles. The resulting ions act as condensation centers around which a mist-like trail of small droplets form if the gas mixture is at the point of condensation. These droplets are visible as a "cloud" track that persists for several seconds while the droplets fall through the vapor. These tracks have characteristic shapes. For example, an alpha particle track is thick and straight, while a beta particle track is wispy and shows more evidence of deflections by collision
1. Cloud chamber - Wikipedia
2. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia
Junior scientist Stefan Olsen operating the Wilson Cloud Chamber¹ of a Gilbert No. U-238 Atomic Energy Lab² (New York Toy Fair, March 1950).
It was a toy lab set designed to allow children to create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions using radioactive material. The Atomic Energy Lab was designed by the A.C.Gilbert Company and comes with several radioactive samples of uranium-bearing ores, autunite, torbernite, uraninite, and carnotite, as well as a fresh short-lived 740 becquerel Polonium-210 alpha particle source with a 138.4 day half-life!
The cloud chamber he is using is a particle detector used for visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation. An energetic charged particle (for example, an alpha or beta particle) interacts with the gaseous mixture by knocking electrons off gas molecules via electrostatic forces during collisions, resulting in a trail of ionized gas particles. The resulting ions act as condensation centers around which a mist-like trail of small droplets form if the gas mixture is at the point of condensation. These droplets are visible as a "cloud" track that persists for several seconds while the droplets fall through the vapor. These tracks have characteristic shapes. For example, an alpha particle track is thick and straight, while a beta particle track is wispy and shows more evidence of deflections by collision
1. Cloud chamber - Wikipedia
2. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia
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