How Many Remember View-Master?

A quick trip down memory lane:

Just went through an old box of stamp collecting supplies from my childhood days of collecting and came across View-Master (c) 1972:



Then I found a bag (still half full) of blue tint hinges like these:



And later ones I tried when Dennison's were no longer available, but to my surprise (I should have read the bag more carefully), they weren't even pre-folded (ugh!):

My View Master is boxed up in the attic and I also have the Stamp Reels! WOW! What a blast from the past!

WOW, I used to have that reel. Too cool to see it again, have not thought about it in years.

Sold one on ebay not so very long ago with about 10 disks. Not the stamps tho.

1980 was year of the handicapped in Australia (rest of the world?). We used to joke that we would send Helen Keller a talking viewmaster for Christmas.

Bophuthatswana had a set in 1980 - International year of the disabled, couldnt find any sets for Republic of South Africa, South West Africa, Ciskei, Transkei, Venda.

I'm old enough to think that was remarkable technology at the time. But then, I've had that thought maybe 25 times since.

I had a View-Master as a kid, but the main gimmick of the item, the stereoscopic views, didn't work so well for me because I have one eye that sees poorly. And it doesn't always point in the same direction as the good one. Whatever.

Being that as it may, I would have to guess that a flat stamp wouldn't offer much in the way of 3-D excitement when viewed with a stereoscopic viewer. And that's something which would have been better for me, looking at the thing with one eye as I did. My Huckleberry Hound View-Master reels were something of a disappointment to me, with their artificial shapes. I wanted a nice flat cartoon, not those clay figure things! ha ha

"I'm plumb fed up with them Russian fellas shouting about getting to the moon first," ...

Ryan

To borrow from another recent post, some of us also thought it was "remarkable technology" when self stick stamps first appeared ... and look where that got us (at least those of us who are philatelically inclined)!