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Month: June 2018

seventies
  • G.I. Joe
  • Lone Ranger

Gabriel’s Lone Ranger, Hasbro’s G.I. Joe, Mattel’s Big Jim, and More!

Philip Reed June 5, 2018

October 3, 1974. This Hobby Center newspaper ad from the Akron Beacon Journal is one of the best collections of...

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1982 Choose Your Own Adventure Newspaper Advertisement

Philip Reed June 5, 2018

Could there be anything as eighties as this February 15, 1982, newspaper ad for a single book in the then-popular...

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Ideal’s Evel Knievel in 1975

Philip Reed June 1, 2018

February 4, 1975. Does it get any more seventies than this ad block for Ideal's Evel Knievel motorcycle toy? Despite...

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