A Ten Cent Glider
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PeppermintPatty
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Now they are closer to $9 each.I enjoyed them a lot as a kid.
Pappy
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Had those back in the fifties too. Some cereals gave them inside their boxes.
Pappy
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1950s gliders.
bobcat
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I had them too. If you moved the wings forward in the slot, the plane would fly straight and if you moved the wings back, it would do loops.
Got them at the dime store, along with yo-yo's (Another novel way to enjoy life as a kid).
Got them at the dime store, along with yo-yo's (Another novel way to enjoy life as a kid).
Sunkist
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That's what I was going to say, too- in cereal boxes- although I found them in the early 1960s.
Pappy
Living the Dream
Not a gliders but I do remember this one.
jujube
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There were always a couple of them on the roof....keeping company with the Frisbee and taunting the kites in the tree.
Sunkist
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Yup- clip out ad from comic books, and send in fifty cents..
Also, the ad must have been from a long time ago- no zip codes!!
Murrmurr
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When those cost 10 cents, a loaf of bread was 11 cents, so me and my brothers only got those gliders from Santa, when he put them in our Christmas stockings.
I understand now why my mom would get so upset when any of our gliders got irretrievably stuck in a tree or whatever. You might as well have tossed a whole loaf of bread up there. (only minutes after buying it
)
I understand now why my mom would get so upset when any of our gliders got irretrievably stuck in a tree or whatever. You might as well have tossed a whole loaf of bread up there. (only minutes after buying it
)
Aunt Bea
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and when you didn’t have two nickels to rub together…
Murrmurr
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And if you were really good at it, not only did you save a dime, you got a bonus; other kids' admiration. Or even better, envy.and when you didn’t have two nickels to rub together…
Those were neat!
Also in the trees with the kites that got stuck in them!
bobcat
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The real expertise there was in knowing just how much you could wind that rubber band before it would break.
JustDave
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Not the 70s for me, but the 50s I bought many of those.
Yes, that is the exact one I remember. Now I don't want to get pedantic about it, but those other two planes are not technically gliders.
Pappy
Living the Dream
For sure. Propeller driven is not a glider but were so much fun to see where they landed.
JustDave
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There was a similar rubber powered gizmo called a ceiling walker. Do you remember it?
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Pappy
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No, can’t say as I remember this one. Looks like fun.
jujube
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At the Astoria Column in Oregon, you can buy biodegradable paper airplanes from the gift shop (or at least you used to be able to.....it's been some years since I've been there), climb to the top of the column and launch them into the wind.
Provided you lived long enough to finish the climb to the top, it was fun to do that.
Provided you lived long enough to finish the climb to the top, it was fun to do that.
Gardenlover
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I just looked up the price on Amazon. The glider costs approximately $3.50 now.When those cost 10 cents, a loaf of bread was 11 cents, so me and my brothers only got those gliders from Santa, when he put them in our Christmas stockings.
I understand now why my mom would get so upset when any of our gliders got irretrievably stuck in a tree or whatever. You might as well have tossed a whole loaf of bread up there. (only minutes after buying it
Aunt Bea
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- Near Mount Pilot
You used to be able to find a foam plastic version in the dollar store but I haven’t noticed them lately.
