Telegram-Tribune ad December 11, 1964 for Buy Rite Drug Store
Remember the 6 foot tall stainless aluminum trees? They always looked best when you had a color wheel light that would change the color of the tree every few seconds. A real bargain at $4.66.
Famous Barbie & Ken dolls, 20% off marked prices. If it Mattel it’s swell! Poor Ken, always got second billing to glamorous Barbie.
Kids will thrill to the exciting game of Skill and Chance, Yahtzee. Hey, we still play that when we go to the Sierra. No TV, no computers, no X Box.
The most expensive item on the list? the Lloyd 5 transistor tape recorder at $18.99. Not sure if this is a cassette or a reel to reel.
Of course you could teach the kid life a skill with the Remco Little Red Spinning Wheel. Complete with hank of wool, regularly $7.98 now 4.88. Practice with that for a few hours and you’ll be ready for a job at the mill.
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I think my grandmother bought one of these alumninum trees that graced Lawrence Drive every year. Yes, color wheel included. She was then a widow of 13 years and appreciated the simpler things in life, like the tri-colored acetate film you pressed onto your black-and-white TV screen.
You can still get an Oster can opener (their cheapest version with only a 2-star rating on Amazon.com) for $15.
Sorry, that should be just a 1-star rating!
Lloyd made only cheap tape recorders and I suspect that this one was just reel-to-reel, if only because right next to it is the ad for the reels of tape themselves. Nobody who really wanted good sound would ever buy a Lloyd. Sony was the top of the line back then, although many times more expensive.
These are great prices! Too bad I can’t got back in time.
Your right on the money Steve. In 64, cassettes were still 3 or 4 years away. I had one of those cheapo Lloyd reel to reel recorders as a kid. The sound quality was right up there with tin can and string telephones, but, at that time they were pretty average, if not state of the art.