Bruce - TRUE Story- when I was like 7 about 1962-63 I sold christmas
cards Door to door from BOYS LIFE
magazine on back cover to buy a Guitar.. that was the prize if you sold
liek a Billion boxes of cards..
It was My life changing event..:) because 1.) I received so much
rejection of people NOt wanting Chritsmas Crads.. so many doors where
slammed in my face.. and 2.) It was snowing like 2 foot deep and I was
getting hypothermia from snow going in my boots.....
After I sold the billion boxs.. ( im exaggerating.. It was 1/2 Billion
to 7 year Old) The guitar came after asking my mailman for what seemed
there months ( " is it here yet" ) It came... I strummed it like
three times...
and the Bridge broke off and smacked me in the head.... ( very quality
Guitar im sure) so then the company sent another one............ same
deal..... strummed it and then BOING !!! el cabong... right in the
kisser..........
So after having a fit , and balling my eyes out for like 2 days..(
maybe a week). NANA my grandmother, Bought me a
29.00 Electric solid body Guitar and amp.. from Shoppers Town...... I
then was able to fill the neighborhood with noise
and pretend I could play the thing.. ( which I still do to this day) .
Thank God for Grandmothers!!
The Boys Life scouting magazine may have taught me a Lifelong
message.... before selling a Billion christmas cards to get a inferior
junk Guitar,,, Go see your Granmother.... will save your toes from
frostbite and get you
a upgrade :)
So see Bruce if you would have sold a Billion Christmas cards and
slipped off some porches and got some windburn on your face , the
parents woul have rewarded you with some Figures from the back pages of
a comic book,,, But you may have prefered to stay in the confines of a
warm toasty home drinkin Hot chocolate with
tiny marshmallows and watching sat morning popeye cartoons!!!
The only thing is... You seemed to "get it" later on in Life and now
sell a billion Posters while I am back to selling in
the rain , sleet and snow, Clappers and misc stuff like when I was
seven.... whats wrong with the picture?? well I dont have
Granma to help... so looks like maybe I need to get busy and get
creative or Ill be in the soupline asking my " UNCLE SAM " to help
out... :) hahhahhhaa
Bruce Hershenson wrote:
Did any of you who were old enough to ever buy those "100 Civil War
soldiers for $1" that were advertised on the back of DC Comics in the
late 1950s? I kept begging my parents to get them, and my dad said
they were sure to be total junk, but I knew better, and we ordered
them, and they came and they were like each the size of my thumbnail,
and they couldn't even stand, and there WERE total junk.
Not like those X-Ray Specs, which let me see inside my hand!
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:16 AM, James Richard
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Rich and PJ,
Yes, that was one momentous battle for world domination, when we
all pitched in and did our bit. Even though our soldiers had a
tendency to melt into screaming blobs of flaming plastic goo when
hit with any kind of heat ray, I do agree with Rich's overall
analysis: As in the 1950's sci-fi movies, in the end the Army was
victorious -- the monsters did get the worst of it (witness that
today you can still buy the tiny soldiers new but not the
monsters... unless you call those little overpriced Star Wars
freakazoids real monsters. :)
pj angel wrote:
I blew mine all up, too. With firecrackers.
And burned all my G.I. Joes to make them into melting monsters.
My mother thought I was going to grow up to be a serial
killer. She was greatly
relieved when I veered onto the Meteorology career path instead.
pj
--- On Mon, 11/9/09, Richard Halegua Comic Art
<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OFF TOPIC WANTED - METAL TOY FIGURES /
SOLDIERS / KNIGHTS / WILD WEST / ETC.
To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 1:13 PM
I blew all of mine up in the "Soldiers figurines VS the Aurora
Monsters Models Battles"
I think the aurora monsters got the worst of it
: - )
At 11:54 AM 11/9/2009, Alan Adler wrote:
>Howdy All!
>
>Looking for metal toy figures - any scale - especially in box.
>Anybody have anything?
>
>Can also trade posters -
>
>Alan Adler
>Museum of Mom and Pop Culture
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