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Author:  Don Tiny [ Fri May 04, 2012 3:55 am ]
Post subject:  Kiddierama coin-op cartoon machines
The IMU-crowd need not read on ... this is for fossils like me, JimmyP, Reason, etc.

In one of those cases of "I have no idea how I ended up here on the internet", I came across the original sales packet for the Kiddierama cartoon machine .... picture following (more text after picture):

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I really don't have to say much more, you either remember it or you're wondering why the fuck this obviously pedo-harvesting machine is getting a shoutout (hell, maybe both).

For further fun, here's a link to the aforementioned sales-packet in pdf form .... I tried to upload it for your convenience but the bored told me that pdf's weren't allowed, so there. You'll perhaps notice in the packet, towards the end, all the scenic Illinois locations pictured - maybe it was one you visited.

http://www.billyseven.net/kiddierama/krtinfo.pdf
Author:  Scooter [ Fri May 04, 2012 4:21 am ]
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Very cool. I remember these being in malls and other stores in the mid to late 1970s. I would bet at the time people who owned them did make a nice profit off of them. Lets see in 1976 I was 11 so I bet my folks dropped .25 in to shut my dumb ass up every once in a while. Cartoons on demand. What a concept.
Author:  Scooter [ Fri May 04, 2012 4:32 am ]
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But Wally Gator and Touche Turtle would have been better for sales IMO.
Author:  Peoria Matt [ Fri May 04, 2012 6:18 am ]
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Great find don tiny. I remember these as a kid. The internets machine is a wonderful thing.

Reason's version of these featured keaton....Chaplin etc.
Author:  JORR [ Fri May 04, 2012 7:01 am ]
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I don't remember those machines at all. I'm guessing they were at the front of grocery stores by the coin-operated rocking horses?
Author:  good dolphin [ Fri May 04, 2012 8:32 am ]
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I remember them. I also remember my parents never giving me money for them. Bad times.
Author:  Dr. Kenneth Noisewater [ Fri May 04, 2012 9:38 am ]
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Peoria Matt wrote:
Reason's version of these featured keaton....Chaplin etc.


I'm guessing more likely live-action thespian midgets acting out all the latest smash Burly-Qs from out East.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Fri May 04, 2012 9:42 am ]
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There was one of these at the Zayre in Round Lake Beach when I was a yute. Circa 1980.
Author:  Tad Queasy [ Fri May 04, 2012 10:04 am ]
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That Woody Woodpecker was a real instigator.
Author:  Don Tiny [ Fri May 04, 2012 1:53 pm ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I don't remember those machines at all. I'm guessing they were at the front of grocery stores by the coin-operated rocking horses?


Correct. The one I knew was at the front of the Montgomery Wards store. The literature talks about the machine being both a potential 'babysitter' and 'reward' (during or after shopping, respectively, I assume), thus the front-of-store positioning.

Scooter mentioned the 70s version of the 'on demand' idea .... I kinda thought that as well .... I wonder where (if at all, perhaps) on the progressive concept ladder this might show up.
Author:  Telegram Sam [ Fri May 04, 2012 2:15 pm ]
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I vaguely recall watching The Omen in one of these while my parents were off couch shopping at the Goldblatts.
Author:  jimmypasta [ Fri May 04, 2012 2:18 pm ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I don't remember those machines at all. I'm guessing they were at the front of grocery stores by the coin-operated rocking horses?


This may come as a surprise,but I don't remember them either. Must have been in the upscale neighborhoods. I grew up around the North & Pulaski shopping mecca.
Author:  good dolphin [ Fri May 04, 2012 4:01 pm ]
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Telegram Sam wrote:
I vaguely recall watching The Omen in one of these while my parents were off couch shopping at the Goldblatts.


sign of a true chicago man, putting the in front of Goldblatt's...you passed the test
Author:  Don Tiny [ Fri May 04, 2012 4:04 pm ]
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good dolphin wrote:
Telegram Sam wrote:
I vaguely recall watching The Omen in one of these while my parents were off couch shopping at the Goldblatts.


sign of a true chicago man, putting the in front of Goldblatt's...you passed the test


Eh ... a real, true chicago man would know dat we pronounce "th" as a "d".
Author:  jimmypasta [ Fri May 04, 2012 4:13 pm ]
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Hey, I worked at Goldblatts and helped to put it out of business. Worked in the hardware dept. For shits & giggles,I used to call the guys in Pet Supplies and ask them if they sold Glow-in-the-dark pooper scoopers. One guy actually got pissed off.
Author:  Dr. Kenneth Noisewater [ Fri May 04, 2012 4:22 pm ]
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I got a kick out of seeing the one in front of Wieboldt's.
Author:  WhiteAndProud [ Sat May 05, 2012 1:36 pm ]
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For whatever reason this wants me to say the following:

RIP Kiddieland

Although Kiddieland was going "demographically downhill" towards the end if you know what I mean. If it hadn't turned into a Costco, you'd imagine they would have had to install a metal detector by now. Not the place to be on the first hot weekend of the year.
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