If you were a kid in the 60s, 70s, or early 80s, you didn’t
have video games at home (or if you did it only had 2 colors) and you sure didn’t
have a VCR (unless you’re family was rich and even then you probably didn’t
have any movies to watch on it). Before cable TV (and definitely before the
internet) the best way for a kid to see something really cool was through a
View-Master. For those not acquainted with this marvelous stereoscopic toy, it
was very simple. The kid put circular slides in the front and the pull of a lever
rotated the slide to the next picture. No battery. No electricity. All you
needed was a light source to look toward.
View Master slides ran the gamut of interests ; nature,
cartoons , geography, history, TV shows, the Bible, movies and more. They even
made slides for the US military to train service members in ship and aircraft
identification! My favorites were the ones based on the classic monsters. Each
picture is a work of art in itself. Modelers would have spent weeks putting
together everything for one tiny picture, and it shows!
Below are the slides for Dracula and Frankenstein. A Wolfman
slide was also made, but as it was in 3-D, I haven’t been able to find any good
pics on the internet. I had all three of them as a kid. I don’t know where
they, or my old View Master, are now.
Maybe you had these too.
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