HOW MANY REMEMBER THIS GUY

[mooseman]

ah, the memories the cars, the models the fun.......

[GKitson]

ah, the memories the cars, the models the fun.......

Growing up in the 60's, Mad magazine, hot rod models & the glue used to assemble them.  Big Daddy Rat Fink was responsible for some of the first 'gotta have' hot rod radical t-shirts sold in wide distribution.

Hand cut ruby, india ink on acetate, lacquer applied films and trying to figure out which positive the little sliver of ruby on the exposure glass belongs.

Ahh...memories.  Loved hearing the 'old guys' tell their glory day stories, I did not start until 1974.

~Kitson

[Frog]

For me, it's not only growing up in the '60's, but in SoCal, around all of those guys. From seeing the customs at Dean Jeffries shop near my elementary school, way before the Monkeemobile. (He just died a couple of weeks ago) to driving some of George Barris' TV cars to the rub-out and polishing guys at the gas station/auto shop where I worked part time during my first college years.
Then years later, washing up on the shore of the Rodfather, Andy Brizio's Andy's Tee Shirts shop, cleaning screens and pulling reprints of the world's most famous fink!

[screenxpress]

ah, the memories the cars, the models the fun.......

Growing up in the 60's, Mad magazine, hot rod models & the glue used to assemble them.  Big Daddy Rat Fink was responsible for some of the first 'gotta have' hot rod radical t-shirts sold in wide distribution.
Ahh...memories.
~Kitson

I grew up in the 60's as well and remember reading and sneaking the new Mad magazine into school, lol. 

But I took note on something you mentioned that is gone, as far as I know, from kids to buy now.  At least not out on open shelves like we used to find.  Models and especially the glue to assemble those car, plane and ship models available everywhere.

I was watching Pawn Stars the other night and a guy brought in a Gilbert Chemical set to sell.  No way that could be found for sale today.

I remember as a pre-teen asking for Christmas, and getting, a set of double western pistols and holsters.  Cap pistols no less.  I remember playing fast draw with others.  When is the last time you saw cap pistols?  Not to mention, I just saw where one of the hollywoods recently got in trouble for letting her kid have a toy gun.  Remember when a kid could be acting western and point a toy gun at someone and not get arrested?  But I'm sure nobody here did that as a kid.

When I was in grade school, a fad going around then were those caps worn by both Union and Confederate soldiers, blue and gray.  Most places are trying to legislate everything to do with Confederates, like it never happened.  Try marketing something like that today for kids.  First off, the way schools teach American history today, the kids probably wouldn't even understand the connection.

I won't even get into fireworks.

Ah, progress...........or is it? 

I'm sure I left out a lot of other things that we had as kids that have been legislated away, for our safety and well being.

Happy Sunday 

[tpitman]

I had one of those Gilbert Chemistry sets. Made a crystal radio from a cheap kit that would only pull in a Spanish station. Also had a Mattel "Derringer-In-A-Belt-Buckle" thing (see the attachment). Got the derringer part taken away by my nutty 5th grade teacher. Bitc# never gave it back. These things fired a hard plastic "bullet" (other pic). Can you imagine the uproar by the PC crowd today? S#it, there'd be police, lawyers, much hand wringing.
Mad Magazine, especially Don Martin. He apparently retired to Ft. Lauderdale or somewhere close, and had I known before he died, I'd have driven down to pay him a visit. Plastic model airplanes "embellished" with bullet holes made with a straight pin heated over a candle.
Well, it was fun while it lasted.

[StuJohnston]

Big Daddy Roth teaches you how to screen print. http://youtu.be/j0n8rU11Zf0

Camera man: "You sure have a lot of junk in your garage!"
Roth: (stares for 10 seconds)

[CGS]

Big Daddy is awesome, I am in stitches, LOL 

up to part#3 right now ... what a wealth of knowledge he his, " it's a metric number or something, like threads per inch....."

[Sbrem]

So there are that many of us this old? All the same memories; did anyone mention erector sets? I built a few rat fink models back then too, and cars, and boats, and planes. A nice innocent time of life eh?

Steve

I should have read more closely; I had the derringer belt buckle too, as well as their 6 shooter rifle. What a great time as young kid...

[mk162]

the cool stuff was handed down from my dad, like an erector set.  I am a little younger than most on here, so I didn't get the chemistry sets, the wood burning/etching kit, the toy guns without the orange tips(which can be colored with permanent marker anyway),

when i was a kid the transition had been made to plastic, metal toys are so much cooler.

One of the best games we used to play was called paddle pool, the new boards aren't as good because they are seamed, the original ones were a solid formed field that was perfect....http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/Games/paddle-pool.php