Old metal detector ads.

[GL]

I have a collection of Popular Mechanix, Popular Mechanics and Popular Science that ranges from the late 30s to the late 70s. As all of you may know, these magazines rule and are full of awesome things. Electronic projects, wood projects, television repair, military articles on then-new technology like radar and ball turrets. These magazines are really, really neat. I was thumbing through the June 73 issue of Popular Mechanics and check out what I found on page 189 right above the home karate classes and the "Inventors Needed" ad.

I had never really noticed them before but I can remember seeing ads like this for various detector kits going back into the 40s. I will be finding, scanning and posting more of these. Stay tuned.

 

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[GL]

I like the one that the babe on the left has.

 

[deepskyal]

Would you look at those...ummm...muscles... on the one on the right.
Gotta have them to swing that beast all day...

Al

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Fun to look back on the goofy ads, eh? I mean ... where did the gal on the right put the coins after she found them? (she's not wearing a pouch).

I put a bunch of old ads I gathered from old factory brochures, Desert and True-West type magazines from the 1950s & 60s, etc... If you scroll back far enough (last year-ish), and look for my posts, they can be found on this forum:

http://members6.boardhost.com/classicdetector/index.html?1172512320

 

[One mans trash...]

Fun to look back on the goofy ads, eh? I mean ... where did the gal on the right put the coins after she found them? (she's not wearing a pouch).

That's okay. What you can't see is the guy following her around waiting for her to bend over to pick 'em up. He'll carry 'em for her.

 

[GL]

Ha ha! I remember in elementary school the exposed pipes on the walls and ceiling were all covered in softish pads with a thin coating of plaster on them. If you smacked the pads they would puff out dust(smoke to a young mind) and it looked neato in the sunbeams. If you picked at the pads they came apart into fluffy white stuffing that also puffed dust. We all played with them.

Yeah, that dust was asbestos from the fire insulation on the scalding hot steam pipes.

 

[GL]

From November 1948 Popular Mechanics page 86.

 

[21stTNCav]

Amazing is it not. Goes the deepest, finds the most, will discriminate the coins right out!!! Hmmm, sounds just like the advertisements today. History repeats itself.

 

[Lowbatts]

Ah yes, I have a multitude of old Radio Electronics Mags with probably countless varieties of metal detectors in them. A couple I put together could even detect a coin I'd drop on the coil. Was always terrible at winding. One guy I knew built one with an old five gallon plastic bucket for a coil. Meticulously wound, it would probably bring big money for scrap today.

 

[homefires]

Keep yer eyes open fer this one please.

It was from the 70's. Called the Crusader , I think. BFO a whole 4 transistors.

Got on my hands and knees groveling in front of my mom for her to get me one.

$50.00 was pile of money for us back then.

Even came with one year subscription to the Searcher Magazine.

Can't find any reference to it no how, no place.

That was my First Detector and found my first Silver in the Front Yard with it. 1954 Quarter that I still have.

 

[Likely Guy]

Frontier Times, May 1972