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 Posted - May 28 2017 : 12:54:48 AM
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My AOTW is some HO scale pop/soda machines I received on Thursday.
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Posted - May 28 2017 : 06:49:50 AM
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Wonder how long these ones where you pulled out the bottle were used. Think I can remember encountering one as late as 1980s.
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Posted - May 28 2017 : 10:30:41 AM
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These are pretty neat-o. My idea of a Sunday afternoon was
biking down to the one place that had these- they were up to
a quarter, I think. Ice cold on a hot day. Drink to fast and the top
of one's head would explode. Life was good.
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Posted - May 29 2017 : 7:13:05 PM
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Nice Soda Machines, I could use a few. My accessory this week started out as a fancy chopstick holder. I made a it a sign for my pink motel.
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Posted - May 29 2017 : 7:59:45 PM
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SWF. I believe you are correct on dating the pop machines. My layout is of the 70s to 80s era. Same seller has modern ones also.
Yes chops, those days were good!
I like the color of that stacked motel !
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Posted - May 29 2017 : 8:13:19 PM
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quote:My accessory this week started out as a fancy chopstick holder. I made a it a sign for my pink motel.
Originally posted by Gary BÂ -Â May 29 2017Â :Â 7:13:05 PM
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Gary, I have memories of driving past a motel on US30 in eastern Iowa with a huge flamingo statue in front of it. There's a prototype for everything.
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Posted - May 29 2017 : 8:40:23 PM
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well it do resemble this one http://chelsamander.tumblr.com/post/21297526327 
I posted the pop machines I got in last week's AOTW
Do need to get moar!
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Posted - May 29 2017 : 10:06:41 PM
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| The seller I bought from sell 4 for $7.00 or 10 for $12.50. $3.00 shipping on either. I will buy at least 10 moar. I figure 2 or 3 at the gas stations.
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Posted - May 30 2017 : 8:27:17 PM
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microbusss - If you look closely you'ld see I stole the actual Flamingo Motel lettering from that very sign.
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Posted - May 30 2017 : 9:57:47 PM
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quote:Nice Soda Machines, I could use a few. My accessory this week started out as a fancy chopstick holder. I made a it a sign for my pink motel.
Originally posted by Gary BÂ -Â May 29 2017Â :Â 7:13:05 PM
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Oh! That brings to mind;
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-americans-embraced-the-bob-hairstyle-this-new-england-town-had-to-come-up-with-something-to-make-besides-a-comb-enter-the-pink-flamingo
quote:When Americans Embraced the Bob, This New England Town Had To Make Something Besides a Comb. Enter the Pink Flamingo
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Posted - May 31 2017 : 12:35:50 AM
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Dukes of Hazzard on Tycomania VII. At one time I had live slots on the same table as the Tyco, but
the quality of this miniature automobile was not so hot, and trying to keep them working became a
full time job, so they eventually ended up as a static display.
The Pink Flamingo is bomb.
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Posted - May 31 2017 : 12:57:32 AM
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Hehehe! My first car was a 1969 Dodge Coronet 500 with the famous 318 V-8. It was blue with black rocker panels. Also with a black vinyl roof and a stitched headliner from some perforated fabric, both of which had not decayed by 1983, and had been my parents before mine.
I kept threatening to repaint it orange but ended up spending the money on trains instead.
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Posted - May 31 2017 : 08:52:23 AM
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Yesterday I was sorting through legos and found a pen branded with "The Flamingo Motel" in Ocean City, MD.
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
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yeah
They did a Rock Island volountarily
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