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To: SamAdams76

I had a Gilbert microscope back in 1957. Kept it together for years while we moved around. Then in 1964 I found part of it taken apart in the back yard. Dad needed a bolt. Soon it was no more.

He did the same with our BB guns. He needed a couple of bolts. Too cheap to go to town to buy some.


2 posted on 04/19/2021 6:52:11 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Bad dad


5 posted on 04/19/2021 6:53:09 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
In the 60's i got a Thing Maker and a Wood Burning set.

Then a RONCO Glass Cutter for making drinking glasses out of bottles.

29 posted on 04/19/2021 7:20:03 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

A.C. Gilbert also made American Flyer trains. S-guage, with two-rail trackage instead of three like Lionel, my crowd considered them more true to life. Now HO guage and smaller is what the serious modellers like.


55 posted on 04/19/2021 7:55:30 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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