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Topic: 1960s surplus ad for "Astronaut Space Suit"
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-29-2013 07:42 PM
   
Did anyone buy one of these spacesuits? |
David Carey
Member Posts: 782
From:
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 08-29-2013 08:55 PM
Order now and receive a SECOND space suit free (just pay separate handling & shipping).That's a hoot... |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-29-2013 09:47 PM
Slightly before my time, but I believe $7.95 was a lot back then. That may have been the price of my Tintin books, while comics were 12 cents or so.At any rate, to quote Eddie Murphy, "Wotta bahgain. That is a bahgain for me." Makes you wonder what the first space autograph sold went for if there was such a transaction back then. I look at coin prices then and wince. |
mode1charlie
Member Posts: 1169
From: Honolulu, HI
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 08-30-2013 12:09 AM
Wow. Total chick magnet. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 08-30-2013 12:31 AM
Keep in mind, ads like this were the best way to rip people off, back when it took forever to figure out who just suckered you.Anyone remember seeing the ads for military Jeeps in the crates? All those ads were for was to sell people lists for government surplus listings, which were free to the public if you knew who to ask anyway. NOBODY EVER bought a new Jeep in a crate for $50 from one of these ads. Yet, any military Jeep owner will keep running into people who swear they know someone who knows someone who bought one (they never can tell you where it is today, or even tell you who it was or any way to reach this person, yet people will argue to death that they know 'someone' who got one). Just google, "$50 Jeep in a crate" to see what I'm talking about... |
DG27
Member Posts: 173
From: USA
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted 08-30-2013 02:30 AM
Yea, funny ad. There were similar ads which offered the helmet too, but these were just surplus USAF MC-1 partial pressure suits. No idea if these were legitimate ads or not.Probably not from this source, but many surplus Air Force suits like this ended up in late 50's and early 60's grade B science fiction movies. Funny thing about the ad is, he has the suit on backwards. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 09-05-2013 10:23 AM
Hmm... Awkward if he wanted to use a waste collection system. LOL  |
Glint
Member Posts: 1040
From: New Windsor, Maryland USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 09-05-2013 01:24 PM
Depends on whether it was #1 or #2. 
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cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-05-2013 01:33 PM
quote:
Originally posted by mode1charlie:
Wow. Total chick magnet.
Are you THAT sure?  |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 12-29-2013 12:02 PM
My parents bought me a parachute, for $2.95. quote:
Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo:
Did anyone buy one of these spacesuits?
Yes Hart I've seen a few. |
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