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3 Essential 80s Home Decor Items
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DirtyD79 Posted on Dec 04, 2015 at 11:56 PM
I remember my parents having one of those gumball machines when I was a kid. In fact the one they got looks like the one in the first picture. Surprisingly though you did have to put coins in that one for it to dispense candy but it didn't matter what size they were. Usually they'd fill it with peanut M
pikachulover Posted on Nov 28, 2015 at 03:54 AM
Those gumball machines and novelty phones were usually a prize on those 80s and early 90s kids game shows like Double Dare. My family didn't have any of those things. My aunt had a clear phone and another cousin on my other side of the family had one.
When I was a kid I always wanted a gumball machine.
Poshy2005 Posted on Nov 24, 2015 at 06:37 PM
The pins the are still popular til this day. I still have one. Great stress reliever. I guess we never really grow up do we. How I miss some of the old phones. They had some neat ones back then.
Vaporman87 Posted on Nov 23, 2015 at 05:14 PM
Surprisingly, we never owned a single one of these items. That's right. I was totally deprived of these. In fact, I don't even know of any friends who owned any of these items. Man, how did I even survive? LOL
Nowadays you can even own a miniature "claw game" for your home. The kids get a kick out of that... until they get tired of always "winning" items that they already owned.
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