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Good alternative to an exercise wheel! :)

@marmer68 I think the MMID's main customer in Taneytown is a propane gas dealer just north of the grade crossing. Naturally, propane demand is much higher in the Winter. The dealer probably gets enough delivered in late Winter to hold him over to the following Fall. I remember taking a rail excur...

Just like the old Western movie, the hero rides off into the sunset at the end. ;-)

I remember when all the downtown department stores and office buildings in Baltimore had manual elevators with operators. By the end of the 1960s only one store still had them. I would patronize that store whenever I could just to be able to ride the old elevators on my shopping trip. This buildi...

I still have this single, at least my sister still has it as the caretaker of all our old 45s going back to the early 1950s. Nice upbeat version of an old children's song.

Funny...after all these years since last hearing this song the lyrics of it were going through my head just recently. I was only 12 when it was released, but still remember the song really well. Nice to hear the recording once again. Thanks for posting it!

@cocacolafreshgirl Oh, OK! I was wondering whether you might have bought him somewhere else like perhaps in the UK. You don't see as many of these glider horses here in the states. Although there is one rocking horse carver in Texas, his website is called the Texashorsemaker, who has real leather...

@65REASONSTOLIE The price of these mechanical rides vary from place to place. Here on youtube, I've seen vids of ones which only cost a penny - at Meijers store - to ones which cost 50 cents or more. There's a mechanical horse outside a dollar store near me which is 25 cents. I rode it on a coupl...

Nice that they showed the old photos to see them then and now. A few of them still closely resemble how they looked at a younger age. My old childhood crush, the late Cheryl Holdridge, still had the same pretty smile that lit up the MMC stage 25 years earlier. Sad that we've lost a few of them al...

@samk17 OK Thank you very much for the fast reply!

We've got one of those...they're fun toys! Though that hard plastic saddle will make a heavier person sore after some bouncing on it.

Would love to see a sight like this over here in the states. I'm a guy who loves coach built prams, but lives in an un-prammie location, unfortunately. Thank goodness for the internet and being able to see these beautiful prams being used in England.

Babies shouldn't be smoking and drinking! ;-)

A tricycle with only two wheels is a real drag! ;-)

As a collector of Emmaljunga prams here in the US, I'd love to tour their pram factory in Sweden one day. I have several of them dating from 1989 to 2000, some brand new some lightly used, along with a brand new Carmen model from 2007, purchased from a UK retailer. They make some beautiful prams!

Wow...never saw a coin-op horse in any laundramats around here. It makes good sense though. Something fun to keep the younger kids occupied while mom/dad wait for the clothes to finish in the machine.

As a pram collector here in the US, I purchased one of these Kensingtons a few years back. It's a beautifully made pram as is typical with Silver Cross coach builts. It's the prize of my collection and I love owning one.

Believe it or not, this pram wasn't made in the UK. Bilt-Rite was one of the nicer pram builders here in the US at one time, and made several models of English-style prams like this one.

Bilt-Rite was a maker of beautiful prams in the US at one time. I still have our children's Bilt-Rite stroller purchased new in the mid-1980s.

Wish some more Baltimore streetcar home movies would surface. Especially out Edmondson Ave. and Poplar Grove St. way where I lived as a young child in the early/mid 1950s. I still remember laying in bed at night and hearing the #15 streetcars rumbling by our Poplar Grove St. house, on their way t...

Those older Cosco chairs are quite popular with collectors of retro furnishings, even if they don't have kids to use them. The seat could easily be repaired with a piece of new vinyl from a fabric store.

WOW! I was born and raised in Baltimore and remember when the rest of the original Bromo Building was demolished with only the tower remaining. The rest of the building was only six stories tall as alluded to in the video. What really surprised me was that there was still an active elevator in th...

I think the operator was pulling your leg about a post coming up through the floor if the car dropped. Elevator shafts are equipped with a buffer at the bottom, but not a post to skewer the dropping car when it hits bottom, along with any hapless passenger standing over the brass plate in the flo...