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To: WIMom

The Talking View-Master.

I remember getting this under my Christmas tree every year during the early 1970s. This was high-tech stuff at the time! There were literally thousands of "reels" available during the "hey-day" of the Talking View-Master. Cheesy mini-episodes of Gilligan's Island and Disney films. Reels about the Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Park. The Monkees, The Banana Splits, and of course, The Partridge Family. After a while, the film would start popping out of the reels and then you had a one-dimensional view (each image had two photos that superimposed upon each other and gave a colorful 2-D effect).

Here is this week's selections from the 70s Jukebox from hell. I'll pick the year 1976:

"Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille

"Fernando" by Abba

"I Only Want To Be With You" by Bay City Rollers

"Jeans On" by David Dundas (later turned into commercial)

"You Are The Woman" by Firefall

50 posted on 10/12/2001 5:51:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
We had a view master. I feel so cheated, ours didn't talk.

Muskrat Love....Boy what we listened to.

53 posted on 10/12/2001 5:54:49 PM PDT by WIMom
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To: SamAdams76
We had those, but did you have a GE SHOW'N TELL phono-viewer? I think we got ours in 1966...


115 posted on 10/13/2001 9:35:43 AM PDT by SarahW
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