ExiledInIllinois Posted December 23, 2018 Posted December 23, 2018 LoL I was easily amused. Then in 1979, got this... Exact, VolksCycle Mark V: 1
Q-baby! Posted December 23, 2018 Posted December 23, 2018 When I was a teenager my parents won a major lottery and we spent 2 weeks in Bora Bora. It was a different type of Christmas, but was unbelievable!
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted December 23, 2018 Posted December 23, 2018 Looking back to the early 60s, Texaco gas stations sold a very detailed model of a service station, complete with miniature service islands, small oil cans, working lifts in the bays. Texaco also one year offered a Texaco tanker, it had to be a good 18” long. I seem to remember a working propeller, powered by a D cell battery. I also remember receiving a hand cranked ten pin bowling game in a fairly accurate scale. You placed a small ball in the bowler’s hand, pivoted him on his anchor to aim, and turned a lever to cause him to roll the ball. Even more amazing was the pinsetter had its own lever; when turning it the machine cycled through its sequence of settling pins, then sweeping after the first ball, resetting for the second ball, then final sweep and reracking for a new frame.
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted December 25, 2018 Posted December 25, 2018 Rather than starting a new thread, I’ll tack on the most ‘cost effective’ gift I’ve seen as a stocking stuffer. I was pleased to see after I missed out last year, a local chapter of a service club runs a cash calendar. For $20, you get 365 days of draws, where the smallest prize is never less than $25. If you win, your ticket goes right back in the drum for the next day. That’s 5.4 cents per day for a lottery ticket. Both my son and son-in-law received one as part of their gift. Then I bought one for myself. 1
davefan66 Posted December 26, 2018 Posted December 26, 2018 N64 my wife got me. Was shopping for our sons first Christmas at Toys R Us.
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