These Slinky Eyes we found in the bottom drawer of an old dresser about 5 years ago. My parents had never gone through the drawers since they moved into the house in 1965! The price on them is 15 cents. The yellow frame and eyeballs are made of some kind of pre-plastic, like a cellulose.
I had them on display in my last home, and I'm looking for a good way to keep them out in the new house. Even if you are 13 and very cool, it's still fun to wear them!
Next up is the View-Master my sister and I had as kids in the 70s. It is made of very attractive mushroom colored plastic.
We have a lot of the discs still, and some came with story books. Many of our booklets and discs got ruined later on when our mom had a home day care. At least they were used and not packed away!
This Disney Friends View-Master is from the mid-80s, so it's probably technically not vintage, but I wanted to show how jazzy they have become! When my nephews were helping with these pictures, they were telling me all about other themed View-Masters from when they were little, Buzz Lightyear, Elmo, etc. They never had one, but their friends did.
Of course I have to thank Frick and Frack for their photography skills and their modeling. When we first got these out of the box they kept acting as if they were amazed by the rudimentary technology, and had comments such as, "You had to read the story and then look at the picture?" Being around their grandfather, the basement king, they of course have seen many of these items before; they just like to be silly. Within 10 minutes I couldn't get them to take the pictures, they were too busy playing with the View Masters!If you are interested, The View-Master Resource has history and information about purchasing discs and old machines.
See you next week for another Vintage Thingies Thursday! Be sure to hop on over and see what the other participants are featuring this week.
27 comments:
hi. first time to your blog. wanted to leave a comment and say hello.
I've got one of these (viewmaster) on my shelf! It was my husbands. :-) I can remember using one at my Grandma's house when I was younger. Much younger. Blessings.
You have the BEST toys! Love looking and remembering them all. xxoo
oh you have a viewfinder - how cool!
"Attractive mushroom colored plastic" - HA! I loved that! Those are really neat. I remember those red View-Masters from when I was a kid in the 80s. Blast from the past! Thanks for sharing!
I had a black view Master. Thanks for helping me remember.
View-Masters rock...mushroom color and all! I forgot about the little booklets. How cool that you have so many of these great old toys and games.
Great that these items were preserved...
You really brought back some fun memories of childhood. I am glad you still have these fun toys!!
I loved my old View Master!
I feel 12 again! Such treasures!
Cool slinky glasses! I too had a view master, mine was made of black metal. It was very heavy!
Love thouse slinky glasses!!! Too cool.
What great slinky glasses! I had a Slinky, and glasses, but not together!
And I had a red View Finder which I thought was the absolute greatest!
I had forgotten all about how fun those viewmasters were. Alas, I too, had the mushroom colored one. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
I'm just grinning from ear to ear. Thanks.
I love vintage stuff! Those glasses are GREAT!
OMGosh...my kids had those googly eye glasses and viewmaster...sooo hilarious!! xx
Great stuff! We had our view master out this afternoon. The kids never get tired of it.
I still have my 1960's Viewfinder and many many discs. My Dad (a sheetmetal worker - you know those guys can do anything) created a cool metal case for it.
I think I'll go dig it out. ~ Robyn
Hey Elizabeth! Stopping in to say hello and wish you a happy weekend!
Karla & Karrie
I loved my viewmaster too! and cool glasses!
I still can't believe you have all this stuff stored! I'm the kind that throws everything out!
Justine :o )
And the eyes have it! lol. I had a red view master growing up. We were a simple folk in the 80's. Amazed by such innovations as the red view master and the Apple IIC complete with the Oregon Trail brought to life for us through amazing white blips on the screen!
I adore the glasses! What a laugh.
I absolutely love the slinky eyeball
glasses they are truly cool, what
kid/adult wouldn't try them on?
I would!!!! Viewmaster, I have a
few old reels and kids from any era
love them! Two great toy classics
this week! Hey I always comment
late...but Thurs. and Fridays, I am
always busiest! ♥ Jewelgirl
Hi Elizabeth, I am late with this comment, forgive me. We were indeed on vacation. I prescheduled my post to publish while I was away.....a trick really, to keep my vacation a secret from some people.....Love your viewmaster, those were such great toys.
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