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| 1207 | Article | Vaporman87 | WOW! First of all, that furniture brings back a flood of nostalgia. Not just because we had all the same stuff filling up our house, but because I SOLD the stuff. Some of you may, or may not, know that prior to my business being strictly a propane business, we also had an entire furniture store (well, actually two) that lasted from the 50's until the 90's (when small furniture stores just started biting the dust). Seeing that furniture reminds me of my days standing around, waiting for somebody to walk in so I could put on my best "Goldberg" face and make a sale. My gosh... some of that stuff we had was just insane. Dining room suits were the worst. So much wood... thousands upon thousands of dollars for the good stuff. Giant, mammoth hutches and 15,000 leaf inserts to make your table big enough for the Duggars to eat at. Those were some interesting days. Then there are the electronics, which we also sold. Tube tvs that easily outweighed me, lifting them and moving them from one spot to another. shakin and I have discussed our fascination with the console televisions, with their wood cabinets and simple controls. Our first "big screen" television was one of the first to be commercially available... and it sucked. It was hidden inside a large wood cabinet. Then when you would turn the power on, it would lift up out of the cabinet and power on. If you tried watching from even the slightest angle, it just went black. LOL. You had to be DEAD ON centered to see anything. My friend and I watched many a Friday Night Videos episode on that screen. The clothes, of course I had them. My favorites being ones that I kept even until just recently (including a Spudz McKenzie shirt and an old Subway "Put a foot in your mouth" shirt. They had become so threadbare that my wife forced me to trash them. Also the armpit areas had become hard and crusty from all the years of deodorant coming in contact with them. LOL. And I had the toys for sure. While most of us might have suffered the fate of the poor sap who lost his sweet He-Man collection to you, I myself am to blame for my own losses. I willingly sold my He-Man collection and other toys at Garage Sales. Naturally I hate my pre-teen self now for committing such a blatantly stupid act. But hey, I wanted money for something. I have a feeling no Goodwill in my area is ever going to come close to offering the great stuff you've found here. More likely, they are going to be filled with beer t-shirts, crappy outdoor furniture, and hunting crap. Sadly, that's what you get for living in hickville. But at least I can live vicariously through vkimo. LOL And by the way, nice pic there at the end. ;) | Sep 07, 2014 |  | |
| 1208 | Article | vkimo | That's hilarious about the TV set! I remember seeing the first Plasma TVs that came out with my parents at a high end electronics store. 10,000 dollars! It looked amazing then I bet a 200 Wal-Mart TV looks better now. It seems like the furniture market is dominated by a few large companies now. I remember back in California you could go downtown to San Francisco and get the cheap chinese furniture from various warehouse stores. I wish I had pictures of this stuff, the designs were outrageous. Zebra print couched, lamps with hydra like bulbs...it was great. | Retro Thrifting | Sep 07, 2014 | |
| 1209 | Article | Vaporman87 | Even in no man's land here, we still had a few pieces that were "Chinese". Mostly deep, gloss black end tables with crazy gold dragon and other print all over it. The wood was SO cheap. They may as well have made it from cardboard. | Retro Thrifting | Sep 07, 2014 | |
| 1212 | Article | pikachulover | I remember those furniture stores. There were some in my area too in So. Cal. When I got thrifting I like to pick up Sanrio items. I've gotten some good deals including a suitcase and plush. Sanrio items are hard to gauge. You need to have a good eye for them. One time I bought a large Pound Puppy. | Retro Thrifting | Sep 08, 2014 | |
| 1216 | Article | vkimo | There's actually a Pound Puppy at the thrift store now haha it's been there a few days. I found one about 2 years ago still in the cardboard dog house, that was cool. | Retro Thrifting | Sep 08, 2014 | |
| 2017 | Article | AnEarly90sMan | Ah...The Super Soaker 100. I'm still in love with it after all of these years. | Retro Thrifting | Feb 18, 2015 | |
| 2368 | Article | onipar | Whoa, that Secret of Mana with the original box is a sweet score! I've yet to find *any* boxed NES or SNES game, let alone a coveted one like that. Great article, cheers! | Retro Thrifting | Jul 08, 2015 | |
| 5423 | Article | I have passion for the past as well | Retro Thrifting | May 15, 2021 | | |
| 1206 | Article | Vaporman87 | I'm pretty certain I never owned any Battle Beasts, though the seem familiar to me. Like you said, without a syndicated television show to go along with them, it would have been difficult to attract those He-Man and G.I. Joe obsessed kids like me. I did, however, have many, many, M.U.S.C.L.E. figurines. I had a pretty extensive collection of them, though several of those were doubles (sometimes triples). I have a very clear memory (one of only a few) of finding some of them at a department store here locally that is now closed (and turned into a flea market) called Big Wheel. Not long after that it became a Pamida. It was during those days that I found a nice haul of M.U.S.C.L.E. figures that I had yet to own. Miss M did a nice article that had info on the female equivalent to M.U.S.C.L.E. and Monster In My Pocket that I didn't even know ever existed. You can find that here: http://www.retro-daze.org/site/article/id/181 . So the "mighty minis" weren't just a boy thing apparently. :) | The Mini & The Mighty | Sep 07, 2014 | |
| 1210 | Article | Hoju Koolander | Yeah, her article on C.U.T.I.E.S is what got me thinking about the other toys of that size from back int he day. That's the great thing about this site, we can spark those memories in each other with our own. | The Mini & The Mighty | Sep 07, 2014 | |
