Here they are, as promised!! So what if they're a few days late...
Those hands were later fired for canoodling on the set. They were later hired by I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
You know what's crazy? I'm not even that old, but I remember waaaaaay back in the '80s when I was a kid, Tang came in a jar with a screw off metal top like that! Or maybe my grandmother was just feeding me 30 year old breakfast drink powder?
Am I the only person who reads these giveaway promos in old magazines and immediately begins searching for the stuff in them at every shop/sale they're in? I now want that bowl and glass.
Anyone else noticing the disembodied hand trend here? Not sure how I feel about that approach. In fact, it kind of had a 'Don Draper would have never approved this' kind of vibe. Or maybe he would have if he'd have gotten Tang for sifting through the Johns' trousers. Meh, who knows.
Oooo! Finally!! I real person! But 'punchier'? I think Hawaiian Punch's Punchie would take issue with that!
I love the outer space/astronaut tie ins with Tang. I credit them with making me feel that every glass of Tang is one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind...er, breakfastkind....er, something...
Why, Mrs. Brady, THOSE aren't Bobby and Thindy. Wait, that isn't your kitchen either. Wait. What?
The Lay's Pigs. It seems that, in 1969, to tie in with the actual Lunar Landing, the Lay's company put out a few of these as a promotion. How many were actually distributed, I don't know. But I could only find one for sale and GEEEEEZ LEEEEWWWWWEEEEEZZZZZ at the asking price on that baby!
I got my little mitts on this one as a kid. One of the local high schools always had a barbeque supper to support it's booster club. My entry ticket won me this beauty at the tender age of about 8. I knew it was old then...and that's what I loved about it!
It's a super cool game! The instructions read as follows:
THE OBJECT OF THE GAME is to be the first player to make a Lunar Landing on the moon. A Lay's Three Little Pigs Astronaut Team mans each spacecraft in the race to the moon. Up to four craft may enter the race at one time.
TO BEGIN THE GAME
1. Each player should choose his spacecraft. [I was always red!]
2. Shuffle the stack of 32 cards [would you believe they're all still there??]
3. Decide who shall play first by spinning the Space Dial. The player who spins the highest number of "Move Forward" spaces plays first.
4. The space race begins at the Blast Off area on the Lunar Landing Board.
TO PLAY
1. A player spins the Space Dial and does whatever it instructs him to do. This will be one of three things:
a. Move Forward a certain number of spaces OR
b. Move Back a certain number of spaces OR
c. Draw a Card
(IMPORTANT: From BLAST OFF through JETTISON STAGE 3, a player accepts only FORWARD spins because the space craft has to go fast to free itself from the pull of the Earth's gravity. [see what they did there? A little bit of rocket science thrown right atcha!] The player is to ignore orders to MOVE BACK and number of spaces or to DRAW A CARD until JETTISON STAGE 3 is completed.)
2.Directions on a CARD are to be followed immediately, except in the case of a LAYSer BEAM CARD. ["LAYSer Beam! Oh, the clever word play!!] All CARDS should be placed face up in a separate stack after they are played.
3. Five of the CARDS are LAYSer BEAM CARDS. A LAYSer BEAM CARD can be used at any time. It allows a player to ignore any instruction that might delay his lunar landing. However, a LAYSer BEAM CARD can be used only once. The player should keep his LAYSer BEAM CARD by his place at the Lunar Landing Board until he wants to use it. A used LAYSer BEAM CARD is placed face up on the used deck of CARDS.
4. When all the CARDS have been drawn, reshuffle the stack, place face down by the Lunar Landing Board and continue playing.
5. Players should follow the directions on the Lunar Landing Board as indicated.
6. Once his spacecraft has gone into orbit around the moon, a player continues in orbit until he gets a spin that stops him right on MOON PATH, the only space that permits a landing. (For example, if he is 2 spaces away, and he spins a "Forward 3 Spaces," he must "fly by".)
7. When his craft stops on MOON PATH, the player must stay there until he spins a "Forward 1 Space." He ignores all other instructions on he has landed on MOON PATH.
8. The first one to land on the moon is the winner.
I can tell ya that this is one of those games that, while it seems simple enough, can eat into an entire summer afternoon! It is a LOOOONG game to play! But it's super fun and was always one of my favourites!
I leave you with The Muppets....and Luke Skywalker....
Well, nothing as exciting as last week's, my dears, but I did pick up a few goodies....
The canister set that matches the pitcher that I showed you a couple of weeks ago. To be noted, I didn't get them from the same lady. In the previous post, I told you that she was bringing the canisters at a later date. In the meantime, I found this set on a local facebook selling site. Now, the pitcher cost me $13.50, so I knew that I'd be paying a pretty good sum (for me anyway!) for the canister set. These, on facebook were $5. That's right loves! FIVE smackeroos. I snatched them up! Funnily enough...and oh so typical of people...these had been posted for a good two weeks with no interest whatsoever before I replied that I wanted them. Within a couple of hours, two or three others replied that if I didn't take them they wanted them and for the owner to 'put them in line'! What is it about us humans that once one person wants something, we all do?? What silly creatures we are!
These are going in my owl and mushroom 1970s laundry room to hold, well, 'stuff'. Clothespins, dryer sheets, etc. I figure, if you must do laundry, have a happy, 'sunshine day' space to do it in!
Next up, an egg cup!
This little cutey isn't perfect, but is too adorable to have been left behind. Especially as I'd been thinking for the last week that I needed to find some egg cups so I could try out some of the soft boiled egg recipes I always see in vintage cookery books. This was a marvelous starter piece...and at $1, the price was right! She's marked 'Japan' and has a lovely pink interior glaze and the loveliest atomic-meets-mod flowers on her front!
A loverly little daisy serving plate! And, yes, that blue is original, not painted on! It looks like it was done with a heavy hand and some acrylics 'after market', but it's actually glazed on!
Tragedy befell this little beauty though, less than 3 hours after arriving home. As she was in the sink waiting to be scrubbed, a soap suds drenched hand (mine!) dropped a heavy 1970's Pfaltzgraff Village bread plate on her. Not only was she broken, but also a casualty was one of my Taylor Smith and Taylor Riviera, aka, 'Atomic Onion' breadplates, who suffered a chipped edge! GAHH!
However, I dare you to find the break now that I've fixed her.....
The break is easier to see on the back....
Oh well, she's still fine to serve crackers and such off of! Who'll notice?
A pair of Life Magazines. The one on the left is from December of '54 and the one on the right is November 27, 1950. There's a whole stack of these where I work for $3 each, so you know I'll be picking up more as time goes on!
I hate to admit this, but these guys are getting picked apart and the
resulting awesomeness will be doing 'wall covering duty'. The one on the left has some great 1950's artwork of space...my favourite being the cover! The one on the
right is falling apart anyway and it has two, count 'em, TWO, adverts
that feature Scottie Dogs! SQUEEEEE!!! I'll post when I get them framed!
Pip, in the meantime, is not impressed......
I had to remove my morning cuppa joe for the next little trinket....
.....an Expo 67 tray....
It has most excellent Space Age
graphics of some of the buildings.....
Canada:
The USSR:
France:
Quebec:
Israel:
The UK:
And the good ole US of A:
Complete with geodesic dome by none other than Bucky Fuller, whom I love dearly!
This is perfect for my travel theme that I've kind of got going on my house...thanks to my world-traveler-well-into-her-80's great-grandmother, who left loads of travel goodies behind!
It also lead me to research Expo 67 in Montreal....and sweet baby Jesus!, it was fab! Take a look:
For more Expo 67 time travel, head over to Expo Lounge! Brilliant blog!
The last little trinket was picked up yesterday for a paltry $2! And was worth every penny!
He was even so nice as to pose with one of the paintings the 1954 Life Magazine....
Get a load of that ray gun!!!
And those gold boots!....which remind me of a movie.....
He was apparently part of a set of salt and pepper shakers at one time, although I'll be darned if I can figure out how they would have kept the salt and pepper in with all the holes and such in his 'capsule'.
Oh well, he's the cutest thing regardless!
Have any of you loves come across any goodies this week?
