Vintage

My dad says he's never replaced the battery in it. We saw this in a home video and laughed when we found the still uses it 40 years later.

For testing:

These figurines were released by Hardee's in 1989 as part of a co-promotion with Tang who was using the characters in their commercials at the time! This would have been around the same time that Dominos The Noid character and The California Raisins were at the height of their popularity so it looks very similar in style to those ads

Hardee's ad for the figures

Tang ad featuring the characters

People from the past believe radioactive element can fix your health.

This belonged to my grandfather originally. There's not a ton of info about when these were produced that I could find, but what I did find suggested that this is probably from the very early 60s sometime

OP is wearing hot shorts with a florescent windsurfer T-shirt and stripe socks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14954952

My Grandfathers pre-war Signal Electric MFG Co. Morse Key

I've inherited all my grandfathers radio and telegraph equipment. I have lots of memories of sitting on his lap in his radio room while he talked to people on the other side of the world before the internet was really a thing. He passed away in the mid 90's and I think he would have loved this modern world and all its tools for instant communication.

This piece is likely from Signal Electrics Telegraph learners kit, there appears to be many eras of this kit from the 1920s until the 40s. I suspect he got this around the 30's but I'm not sure. Its a really cool piece of retro tech tho.