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Look At All of the Cool Stuff a Kid Could Buy Himself Through Mail Order Comic Book Ads In 1940

submitted by TheBigGuyFromQueens to whatever 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 10:47:34 ago (+53/-1)     (files.catbox.moe)

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Back then and even when I was young, kids had HOBBIES. Now, the only hobby these little bastards have is being a creep on TikTok. I remember Chess, Stamp Collecting, Coin Collecting, Painting, Woodworking, Catching Butterflies and Frogs, Bike Riding, Sports, Rock Collecting, Play-Do, Legos, Mud Pies, Snow Forts, Etc. My Boomer Dad taught me all that shit and he used to wear a Daniel Boone raccoon hat and play with American Flyer Trains and race slot cars.

Kids today are horrible, horrible faggots.


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[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 11 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 11:42:51 ago (+11/-0)

They still had that stuff in the 80's and early 90's. The internet killed all that. Though if you are a father, you can order cool shit online to build together with your kids, so there's that.

Learned a lot of skills repairing/building bikes and other random crap as a kid. Skills I still use today. Just took my mountain bike apart and started a full restoration on it yesterday in fact.

We used to build traps in the woods to whack each other in the shins or the face with branches, cover each other in cages and leaves, or dump each other into small water-filled holes.

Throwing rocks and hitting each other with sticks was normal for us. Young adults today are thin-skinned fat faggots with mushy minds and weak wills.

[ - ] MuricaPersonified 4 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 16:41:04 ago (+4/-0)

Yeah, wasn't awful yet. I had similar stuff growing up. Not a radio kit per-se, but a real nice electronic breadboard with a ton of wire, resistors, caps, and ICs to make various projects including radios, trip alarms, and basic synthesizors. That thing was cool.

The smell of modelling cement was common in my room, and my fence was full of BB holes. Kids had go karts, dirtbikes, paintball guns, and trampolines without walls. Broken bones weren't an "if", but a "when". Every kid was going to break one or two at some point.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 16:50:35 ago (+1/-0)

trip alarms

Lol, my siblings hated those.

[ - ] rzr97 8 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 12:33:19 ago (+8/-0)

As a boy, I bought that "midget racer" pictured on the mid-right. It was such a disappointment. When it arrived it just kept shouting, "De plane! De plane!"

[ - ] Peleg 2 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 14:52:13 ago (+2/-0)

You fucker. You had me going there for a second.

[ - ] bobdole9 5 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 13:15:49 ago (+5/-0)

build your own radio kit

Tinkering is a lost art.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 1 point 2 weeksMay 2, 2024 12:48:27 ago (+1/-0)

My dad was an electronics engineer and showed me how to build a non-powered wireless radio. It was basically just an induction coil and a tunable crystal that was grounded to a water pipe, but I thought it was magic.

[ - ] ISlooshyYou 3 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 13:55:48 ago (+3/-0)

I could have bought a blank cartridge pistol and a television rifle for $1.69.

Those would have been good times.

[ - ] Laputois 1 point 2 weeksMay 2, 2024 07:36:41 ago (+1/-0)*

As a child in the 60's and somewhat in the early 70's one could aquire even better stuff hawking Grit subscriptions, selling seed packs and Chistmas card orders.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens [op] 0 points 2 weeksMay 2, 2024 08:08:26 ago (+0/-0)

Oh yeah! I remember Grit! That was still around when I was a kid.

[ - ] JosephGoebbels 2 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 11:36:35 ago (+2/-0)

We're being dumbed down and it's working. This was still subversive in nature because it kicked off the consumerism craze.

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 13:37:08 ago (+1/-0)

It's been 'modern jewish society' for longer than people are willing to accept.

[ - ] Wahaha 2 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 11:23:02 ago (+3/-1)

Reminder that a Dollar in 1940 has the same worth as $23 have in 2024.

[ - ] 2plus2equals5 1 point 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 20:10:04 ago (+1/-0)

Old Sears catalogs had DIY house kits, pistols, farming equipment, you name it.
http://www.searsarchives.com/catalogs/questions/findcatalogs.htm

[ - ] RevengeOfNeri 0 points 2 weeksMay 2, 2024 05:39:38 ago (+0/-0)

When sears had good shit not cheap chinese made crap

[ - ] MaryXmas 1 point 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 15:47:38 ago (+1/-0)

I'll take 1 midget racer please.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens [op] 0 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 16:51:50 ago (+0/-0)

My Dad taught me how to make something like that using a milk crate and roller skate or wagon wheels.

[ - ] SocksOnCats 1 point 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 12:10:47 ago (+2/-1)

I remember all this stuff! Such nostalgia.

Would love a hi-res version of this so we can read all the ads.

[ - ] Sleazy 0 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 17:44:49 ago (+0/-0)

kind of like wish

[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 0 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 15:57:06 ago (+0/-0)

Those were the best of times, most everything back then was meant to expand a kid's imagination and kept them busy with innovation...what I don't see here though is the "Charles Atlas" muscle building manual or the "black head" extractor.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens [op] 0 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 17:48:16 ago (+0/-0)

I’m pretty sure Charles Atlas came later in the 1960’s.

[ - ] Belfuro 0 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 15:46:16 ago (+0/-0)

As a kid I would get bored all the time. High energy.

So I would build my own toys using my dad's tools.
Go ride my three speed banana bike looking for adventures. Make up random games to play with my brother. Such as indoor cricket with an autograph bat and tennis ball until I broke the hallway light.

Kids these days will get bored, turn to a device with TikTok and tune out the world.

They're are fucked. Years of importance squandered.

[ - ] Master_Foo 0 points 2 weeksMay 1, 2024 15:24:18 ago (+0/-0)

We still had those back in the 80's.
It seemed cool, but most of the things you could buy didn't meet the hype.
See: X-Ray vision Goggles.
See: Sea Monkeys.
Etc.