Sunday, June 16, 2013

Vintage Matchbox Car Erasers !!

The memories of these guys !! Matchbox erasers !! Back in the 80's there were so many cool things to steer our attention from schoolwork. A pile of car shaped erasers in the Matchbox Car scale sure did the trick !!





I remember the weird stamping on the bottoms of these guys.


The next two look they were hand etched into the eraser after they were molded. 



I had tons of these things in school. WAY more fun racing these around than schoolwork :) Setting up roads and courses with our books and supplies. Taking pencils and making bullet hole divots in them when they got shot up .... what fun !
 
I remember airplanes and all sorts of different styles of erasers, and they never were used for erasing ! Why use these wonderful toy like pieces of art for the purpose they were designed for ?!?!
 
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  1. UnknownJune 16, 2013 at 4:26 PM

    Hey it's Mike! How you been buddy? Missed you here around the Blog-A-Sphere. : )

    I had my share of fun erasers when I was in school too from cars to robots man we had them all and just loved them. No school work for us just play time with our little cigar boxes full of them.

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    1. MichaelJune 16, 2013 at 4:39 PM

      I've been EXTREMELY busy ! but my schedule is evening out a bit and I should be back to writing a bit more frequently :) I missed this a lot, but be sure that I was reading every day, especially a certain Cosmic Ark blog that is at the top of the list :)

      Its amazing what fun a sculpted eraser can bring to a child. CIGAR BOXES !!! I bet they wouldnt even allow them in school nowadays !!

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    2. UnknownJune 16, 2013 at 5:35 PM

      Oh am sure they would not want those in schools for sure Mike these days lol.

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    3. MichaelJune 16, 2013 at 6:51 PM

      You bet, even though there are probably worse things already there !

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  2. T-RavJune 16, 2013 at 4:34 PM

    Dude, great post. I remember having a bunch of these but haven't thought anything about them until I read this. Thanks for bringing up those memories.

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    1. MichaelJune 16, 2013 at 4:43 PM

      I came across these erasers on Ebay and the memories just gushed out ! I tried to research them for some tidbits, or at least manufacture runs and so forth, but there's not much out there. The fun that I had with these is still wedged in my memories :)

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  3. Hobgoblin238June 16, 2013 at 5:29 PM

    I do remember those!

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  4. Buzz ChuckJune 29, 2013 at 12:30 PM

    They sold them at the school store in the lunch room when I was in 1st and 2nd grade.

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  5. HockeyCardsPlusJuly 2, 2013 at 7:11 PM

    I bought a bunch of these erasers back in the day. Tried to get every style in every color. The local Rexall had em in big jars behind the counter of the old ice cream fountain they also had in the back of the store. Wow reminds me of how much I loved Blueberry Phosphates

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    1. MichaelJuly 2, 2013 at 11:23 PM

      They were a really cool part of our childhood, simple yet important !

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