Had something happen today: we went to Silver Bells in the City. Shall write about it soon. For now, please enjoy some relaxing times in Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, as it was in May.
Let's just let this overload you a little. Yes, up above, that's the Charlie McCarthy. Well, a bunch of Charlie McCarthys, anyway.
And here's the little coin-op carousel that I sometimes set my pop down on only to have it rotate away from me.
One of the Cardiff Giants! They insist they believe this to be P T Barnum's fake Cardiff Giant.
I'm a little surprised it's so obstructed but as you can see, there's not a lot of room for anything here.
Among the stuff here: a machine for stamping circular medals, a coin-op miniature bumper cars thing, the lighthouse from .... I think a strength test machine, a bunch of tickets from a closed amusement park, and a mannequin in the electric chair.
Welcome To Marvin's invites the sign on the ticket redemption counter. There's another strength machine --- I think this one tests your love capacity --- to the left of it.
Beloved but nonfunctional Chuck E Cheese animatronics ... uh ... Chicky McChickerson, Grapegoyle, and Hootenbarky? I'll go with those names. I really wasn't a Chuck E Cheese kid in the day. Sorry.
Couple of rogue Charlie McCarthys on the far left and between them and McChickerson, backup singers ... uh ... The Tweetstones.
Uh ... I'm going to say Gloria Swineson and her backup singers, Bananaraven?
Slightly more interesting composition for Swineson and Bananaraven.
McChickerson, Grapegoyle, and Hootenbarky in slightly better light but with the ceiling fan going for them.
And lastly, how about some large overalls?
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Trivia: When established in 1911 the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (which would become IBM) had capital stock outstanding of $10.4 million, of which $7 million was funded. That year, the company saw $950,000 in revenue. Source: Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry they Created, 1865 - 1956, James W Cortada.
Currently Reading: Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem, June Barrow-Green.
