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[4] The playground equipment was dismantled despite the objections. [5] Two companies were noted for their military and space-themed playground equipment: Miracle Equipment Company of Grinnell, Iowa, and Jamison Fantasy Equipment of Los Angeles, California, which manufactured a moon rocket, nautilus submarine, and space slide. [2]
One particular episode of I Love Lucy, Number 140, became pivotal to the Bell 47's public image as the definitive light helicopter of the 1950s. In No. 140, titled "Bon Voyage" and first aired on CBS on January 16, 1956, Lucy Ricardo misses the sailing of her trans-Atlantic ocean liner and commandeers a friendly pilot of a Bell 47G to fly her ...
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1950s Space Commander Walkie Talkies [5] 1953 Medicine Chest; 1955 Big Max (magnetic robot that picked off iron slugs from battery operated conveyor belt and placed them the bed of a small toy truck) 1957 Firebird 99 battery powered dashboard game. 1957 Pom Pom Gun, battery powered double-barrel cannon. 1958 Giant Wheel Cowboys'n Indians Game
In addition to the VertiBird itself, there are several other pre-VertiBird and post-VertiBird units covering various eras, global regions and business lines. Some units like the Dan Dare (see list below) were home-usage toy sets. Others such as the WhirlyBird were skill games meant for arcade distribution or another location-based business usage.
Miracle was the first playground manufacturer to use powder coating of steel parts in the late 1960s. After World War II , thefirm widened their market to include the increasingly popular drive-in movie theaters, selling two smaller versions of carousels that were commonly found at fairs and amusement parks .
Whirlybird may refer to: Helicopter (slang) Whirlybirds, a television program that aired in the United States from 1957 to 1960; Attic fan (slang and brand name) Samara (fruit) (slang), the fruit of a maple tree; Paper fortune teller, a form of origami; Power trowel (slang), light construction equipment
Schoolchildren on a slide at the East Texas State Normal College Training School in 1921. The earliest known playground slide was erected in the playground of Washington, D.C.'s "Neighborhood House" sometime between the establishment of the "Neighborhood House" in early 1902 and the publication of an image of the slide on August 1, 1903, in Evening Star (Washington DC) [3] [4] The first bamboo ...