Tom,
Oh, lord, I had forgotten all about that tank! I don't think I got that
it was cardboard at the time (naive little type that I was). But I
really, "really Mom", wanted that tank so bad. I never did -- at the
time it was priced totally out of my reach and my parents were very
strict about not increasing or advancing me on my 50 cents a week
allowance. I remember all those times I gazed at the picture and
imagined myself tooling down the sidewalk, going around and around my
block in it "on patrol" (I wasn't allowed to cross the street).
But like all the rest, it must have been a piece of total junk and would
have fallen apart the first time I tried to get into it, so I was
probably saved from severe childhood trauma (but would have learned a
valuable early lesson in consumerism).
It's odd that none of those cardboard tanks or submarines seem to have
survived. You would have thought, like old movie posters, that some of
them would have escaped destruction at the hands of kids and gone on to
become expensive collector's items.
-- JR
Tom Martin wrote:
funny thing is I still want to do same stuff as I did back in 60s.. :)
play music and make stuff..... Like robots and flying saucers,, man
this is Fun
Make movies... and play,,,,, what else??
so whats new??
I wanted the cardboard Tank. that was offered in Comics...
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