It "stores" the VCR. Well, then I have a house full of furniture that "stores" most of the dogs' toys, plus pretty much anything else I can't find when I need it
Looks like someone discovered that they forgot to place that ad back in 1983, and was afraid they would get in trouble, so here it is in this week's flyer!
Now all they have to do is convince all the hipsters in Williamsburg and Wicker Park and Silver Lake that cabinet TVs and VCRs are cool because they're ironically retro. After getting them all to drink PBR, this should be a snap.
Hey no kidding, these things fit on top of the wood-grained multi-purpose table in the efficiency apartment dining room/living room/kitchen/study. So convenient when there are two students sharing rent, too.
I tell my grandkids every year we gather for the holidays how we used to sit around and watch moving pictures on these box-like things, and no kidding, touching on the screen there did absolutely nothing but leave big fat fingerprints! Them sure was the days!
All kidding aside, one of the first gadgets i bought as a teenager and one i saved money for at the time was a vcr that was close to 60 bucks........ yep.. they were THAT expensive.. it was around 1996 or so lol
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19 comments:
My parents still have a VCR!
Then again, they didn't get a microwave till 2005. And my mother still doesn't know how to set up the voicemail on her cellphone.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/XL-Double-Swivel-Board-Black-Woodgrain/14301678?findingMethod=rr
Interesting. Even the typeface looks old... what catalog is this? They must really not be aggressive about updating it :)
It "stores" the VCR. Well, then I have a house full of furniture that "stores" most of the dogs' toys, plus pretty much anything else I can't find when I need it
Just think of how much more scope this gives you for adjusting the antenna.
My grandmother had one of those swivel stands... 20 years ago.
Looks like someone discovered that they forgot to place that ad back in 1983, and was afraid they would get in trouble, so here it is in this week's flyer!
Somebody, somewhere must have said: "one of these days these things will sell again like hotcakes! Mark my words!"
Now all they have to do is convince all the hipsters in Williamsburg and Wicker Park and Silver Lake that cabinet TVs and VCRs are cool because they're ironically retro. After getting them all to drink PBR, this should be a snap.
Hey no kidding, these things fit on top of the wood-grained multi-purpose table in the efficiency apartment dining room/living room/kitchen/study. So convenient when there are two students sharing rent, too.
Are you sure the catalog wasn't mailed to you in 1980?
Harriet Carter!!! *Best gifts ever.*
"The swivel mechanism is made with our new 'wheel' technology!!!"
Welcome to the 70s. I think the catalog was buried in the bottom of a mailbag in a storage bin for 40 years.
I tell my grandkids every year we gather for the holidays how we used to sit around and watch moving pictures on these box-like things, and no kidding, touching on the screen there did absolutely nothing but leave big fat fingerprints! Them sure was the days!
But where do you put your ColecoVision?
Tell me again about the old days when you had a VCR
whats a VCR?
LOL....
All kidding aside, one of the first gadgets i bought as a teenager and one i saved money for at the time was a vcr that was close to 60 bucks........ yep.. they were THAT expensive.. it was around 1996 or so lol
@Bus Driver:
Ditto, except that it was 1986, and it was $266 then (and that was the *cheapest* one on the market, an Emerson 2-head with wired remote).
Sixty bucks, expensive? A ten-pack of blank tapes cost that much back in the day.
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