or the 60s

 

How about the 50's, you could send away for anything if you got enough box tops.

My Dad is still irritated that the "Amazing X-Ray Specs" didn't work after eating a depressing quantity of "Sugar Jets Cereal".

 

I only hit the tail end of the 50s so I can't comment.

 

I was born in '53 so I was still just a lad when the '60 started.

I sent in for some X-ray glasses too and was also very disappointed that I could not see through girls clothing.

I also got the Polaris submarine. It was pretty cool but didn't do all that much. You would put some baking soda in it and it would sink to the bottom of the bath tub then come backup on it own then sink again. There was a little plastic ICBM that you could push a button on the sub and fire the missile so that was kinda cool.

I sent away for a mini spy camera. That worked much better than I thought it would. I was in the photography club at school so I was able to actually print my pictures.

Most were very blurry and about as totally out of focus as could be, but some came out pretty darn good if black and white. It seemed like the pictures I took with it on a cloudy day came out better than the ones I shot in full sunlight.

I cut down 35mm film to refill the camera and that worked out fairly well. Putting the sprocket holes in the side was a bit of a challenge but I could get two rolls of film for the mini spy camera out of one roll of 35mm.

 

Sea monkeys from comics. (brine shrimp)

Magic Crystals from comics. (actually worked)

 

I didn't get out of here until almost 9:30 last night. Then I was stuck on Rt 58 due to resurfacing.... 3 lanes merged down to 1. By the time I got home and ate dinner it was 11.

Joy of joys... they're gonna let me do it again tonight.

 

You lucky so and so, you know that there are probably "Road Work" groupies out there, but watch out for Zombies...they use work zones as traps.

 

Do I need to start looking for a MiniGun Mod?



The M134 Minigun is a 7.62 mm, six-barreled machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute), employing Gatling-style rotating barrels with an external power source. In popular culture, the term "Minigun" has come to refer to any externally-powered Gatling gun of rifle caliber, though the term is sometimes used to refer to guns of similar rates of fire and configuration, regardless of power source and caliber. Specifically, minigun refers to a specific model of weapon, originally produced by General Electric.

The "Mini" of the name is in comparison to designs that use a similar firing mechanism but larger shells, such as General Electric's earlier 20 mm M61 Vulcan, and "gun" referencing the delineation between a cannon, that of a caliber higher than 20 millimeters—and gun—within certain ranges.

Just in case?

 

With a mini-gun like that you'll run yourself out of ammo before you run out of zombies. Having a weapon in a caliber that govt agencies stockpile like 7.62X51 or 5.56X45 would be a wise choice though.

 

It'll work as a ram if it runs dry