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):



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

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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.

But Wally Gator and Touche Turtle would have been better for sales IMO.

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.

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?

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I remember them. I also remember my parents never giving me money for them. Bad times.

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I'm guessing more likely live-action thespian midgets acting out all the latest smash Burly-Qs from out East.

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There was one of these at the Zayre in Round Lake Beach when I was a yute. Circa 1980.

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That Woody Woodpecker was a real instigator.

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.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I vaguely recall watching The Omen in one of these while my parents were off couch shopping at the Goldblatts.

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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.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Eh ... a real, true chicago man would know dat we pronounce "th" as a "d".

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I got a kick out of seeing the one in front of Wieboldt's.

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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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