Step into my Wayback Machine - 1956 part 2

[PWC]

Many here remember 1956, I do. Many may have read about it in their high school history book if they got past the First World War.... Slides 6 thru 9

I found these advertisements on another site and thought you might like them. Have a happy, safe 4th and remember to toast absent comrades.

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[dryheat]

Good job! Some of those pieces are very valuable today. Some were junk back than and are broken junk now. Some of the artwork in the ads depicted non existent firearms.
I remember looking at a pistol under glass at the hardware store when I was twelve. It had a gold trigger. It might have been Ruger, I don't know, but it had a gold trigger. Every time we went the the hardware store I made a beeline to go look at that pistol.
PPK's I should have bought. A Big Johnson I should have bought. [stuff not pictured], Had a STV-40 and sold it for what I had in it. I need to stop before I start thinking about the Python.

[PWC]

I remember seeing a Python add and I think it was "Introducing...."

please go back and see the first 5. I 'fixed" them.

[JB White]

Johnson automatic rifle. I remember passing on a nice deal because I believed the story about the rifle being useless once the magazine was dented. Thinking back...why would I have dented it?
Too young to recall very much in the late 50's, but things weren't much different in the early 60's. I too left hand prints and nose prints on plenty of gun display cases.

[BEAR]

Interesting to note that the cities and states these old advertisements come from are now rabidly anti-gun.

[bdm]

I have the Johnson Winfield my dad purchased it for me along with a lot of spare parts from Gun Parts The bayonets had a price sticker of $8.25 if i remember correct barrels were $15.00 the good old days a long time ago