JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for December 22, 2024

Not surprised they like old toys. I walk through toy departments today and I think “You poor kids”.

No wonder all they want to play with is video games. What else is there? Aisles were pretty much all Hot Wheels, Barbie and Lego-related, plus lots of infant stuff.

All of the games and board games seemed like they were around in the 1960s and 1970s when I was a kid. Just sad.

Well designed entertainment.

I had a ViewMaster & really loved it! Especially the dinosaurs. Even then, I thought they were kind of, weird, doncha know? But, DiNoSaURs!!!

My old view master took me to places only my books could compete with, having been born in 1948.

I liked the national parks ones!

If Joe’s mother were there and could hear Marcy’s thoughts, she would tell Marcy that the correct word is “healthful”.

View Masters have always fascinated me.

You don’t throw away old toys. Either give them to your kids (or the neigbourhood kids) and if you don’t have the opportunity, check what they’re worth on ebay and sell them.

They both can be addictive!

The internet has turned out to be very much of a two edged sword. Perhaps it was a technology our society was not yet mature enough to handle? This is why AI scares the bejesus out of me.

We just gave our view master and 3 dozen slides to our 6-8 yr old grandkids. They just love it.

I used to make my own. I took old discs and some super 8 film and taped them in place after snapping out the old ones. Couldnt always post to both sides, or you’d get a headache, but sometimes it worked. In the 70s, a neat way to view images I had taken at a concert or at a park!

I can’t imagine that Marcy has much time to use social media anyway.

I lived my view master.

Loved*

i deleted my social media too. after realizing i didn’t need the people on it or itself.

View masters were wonderful…hours of entertainment. Wish I still had mine.

Social media—I never had any except commenting on GoComics and on YouTube. Good for Marcy Cobb!

Still have mine.

I had Thriller slides for my View master! A good part was the dance number and I would flick it really fast to make it seem like they were moving. All as I sang the Thriller song out loud.

When I was six (1959), the only thing I wanted for Christmas was a View Master. But shortly into the first grade, they checked our eyes at school and sent me to an optometrist who said that I had amblyopia. He suggested that during the Christmas break that I wear an eye patch over my good right eye (20/15) to see if that would force my brain to rewire my left eye (20/400) so it would see properly. I got my View Master and couldn’t see a darn thing with it. Huge disappointment.

Aren’t Joe and Marcy a bit young to know about View Masters?