Oddity Archive: Episode 151.3 - Archive Thrifting #3 (Beautiful Downtown Aurora’s Last Stand)

…because I totally needed a bunch more junk to try and pack up.
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[@jasonhaman4670]

I have that Ray Anthony album @3:21. I like it a lot; listened to it within the past month or so. The Scotch 203 Dynarange - that's a "low noise" tape regarded as a significant step up from the (still good) ubiquitous Scotch 150.

[@Menstral]

@14:44 I had a Kyocera CD player with the wooden sides. It was purported to have some kind of stellar transport mechanism if I recall.

[@maxwelsh6121]

Yeah the few people I've heard from on my audio forums who dealt with Kyocera have incredibly good things to say about it

[@JL-sm6cg]

@4:00; I had one of those. It was a Comic Relief show.

[@Menstral]

@7:43 Timi Yuro looked like Sasha Baron Cohen

[@5roundsrapid263]

18:44 Those movies weren’t made in Canada, but by Mormons in Utah.

[@daveporter0217]

5Rounds Rapid They were made by a multi-level marketing racket called Nu Skin. They are in the same vein as Amway or LuLaRoe.

[@JL-sm6cg]

@14:17; looks a lot like a Soundesign system, so...yeah, it was cheap.

[@DukeNukem2417]

14:44 - Woodgrain....a favorite of LGR.

[@henryjohnson1071]

2:53 Tommy Roe's 16 Greatest Hits LP!

[@rwdplz1]

14:47 It's a Sony ES Series CD player, CDP-C85ES, that was part of their top-of-the-line series, the wood panels are original. I have an entire stereo system made up of those all matching components. I'd say go grab it but I bet it's gone.

[@0111pokemon]

rwdplz1 Holy crap he should get it! Those are really good, and the wood is really rare!

[@OM19_MO79]

That's why I don't like these Archive Thriftings videos, we just see lots and lots of stuff we would like to get and he should get, but he never gets anything! In one store he just got a pack of VHS cases! What's the point of making these trips and then show them on YT? It's unintended trolling! I love this channel for the oddities and riffs. Thrifting videos, on the other hand, are just too common, totally out of place in a channel called Oddity Archive.

[@vileCR999]

Yeah that would have matched my dtc-75es so nicely!

[@squirrelguy2195]

12:20 the first picture on the left isn't even John! It's George!

[@maxwelsh6121]

FM Is great. Nash the slash on electric violin ( years before Slash from GNR, this guy actually wore a top hat all the time too) the side B of black noise is excellent, at their best they are an excellent prog rock outfit. I recall city of fear was less great , cant recall if black noise is the album or just the song....

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

I'm guessing the album without a record inside could still be valuable to someone who would use the cover as a wall decoration, like a restaurant. You see all sorts of local stores or restaurants with a collection of odd stuff decorating the walls. It's too bad those portable TV's are basically big doorstops today. My parents owned one for years, and it came in handy for viewing things anywhere in the age of trash can-width TVs. Now it's useless since they got rid of analog TV. RIP T_T

[@EsotericArcade]

Dude it is a real shame about that Hard Days Night. I remember my rental store had that one. More interesting to watch though they had The Compleat Beatles and that’s still a vhs exclusive worth checking out.

[@OddityArchive]

I have Compleat Beatles on CED.

[@EsotericArcade]

OddityArchive wow props! Someday I’ll get a ced player. Maybe after I get a Nuon player...

[@Tornado1994]

Nuon, the forgotten Novelty from 2002 that was 4 years too late to the market.

[@Aqua_Xenossia]

I really admire your dedication- not just to sticking around beautiful downtown Aurora, but also in busting your ass working on Oddity Archive while also trying to move a not-short distance away. Hope you’re enjoying the new place!

[@Fuzy2K]

14:45 -- That was a frequent occurrence on Sony's older ES stuff. I have a CDP-508ESD that I got at Goodwill (for $10... Score! -- But the remote cost me about $40 on eBay, so...) that came with the simulated wood panels (or 'sidewoods' as the label calls them)

[@wdavem]

May your move go well, looking forward to more.

[@luisreyes1963]

My uncle had one of those Movie CDs that I tried to run in an old notebook PC. Didn't run too well, I'm afraid.

[@RickinBaltimore]

15:20 When Oddity Archive meets Ashens Popstation Alert

[@syxepop]

It is more likely from Shane Luis' (Rerez) Worst Video Consoles series... As in "shite' on a chip".

[@iamnomad101]

Damn, Ben could've sent that to Dr. Ashen (provided he's willing to pay for international shipping). _(I do wonder if Ben watches the good doctor's channel.)_

[@SailorCallie]

6:37 And it's signed by the late comic himself when he was alive.

[@Tornado1994]

Freberg's Son Donavan is the little Kid from the Encyclopedia Britannica Commercials.(The first one was filmed in September 1985 and has 13 year old Donavan with shorter hair and mid 80s Nerdy Gazelle Glasses, the later ones were filmed in Mid 1987 and had him as a Teenager with newer glasses, puberty voice and his Father doing the narration) I follow Donavan on Instragram. He's a Cool fellow. He's also a Photographer, and dates a young Middle Aged Emo gal who's also a Photographer and Burlesque Fashion Show Director.(She's cool too). kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaTFkGBtobmCnKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/rICVdZKprb10ja8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKbak3eImaiJqZI Donavan's Dad Stan, was also a successful Advertising executive in L.A. and wrote plenty of well known Commercial ads, from the Lays Bert "Cowardly" Lion Lahr as the Devil one, to the Odor Eaters one, to the 1983 Right Guard ad. Freberg did VOICE OVERS in ads too. Remember the 1978 Ginsu Knife ad? That was Stan's Voice!!!

[@PeterBellefleur]

The Car phone wasn't THAT early. Likely more from the tail end of the transportable era, they didn't start using grey backed LCD displays like that until later on. But it is from BEFORE Airtouch was absorbed into Verizon, which happened in 2000. So 97-99ish? Also, the network it worked on, AMPS, has been shutdown since 2008, so all you would get out of this anymore was a blinking "NO SVC" light.

[@Tornado1994]

1993 actually. I don't recall ANYONE using Car Phones by 1997. LCD Displays were introduced in Cell Phones in 1994. Flip up mini Mobile Phone were introduced in 1999. So its dated 1992-1993. About the same time PDAs like Apple Newton were being introduced.

[@PeterBellefleur]

They were still around. Not popular in the least, but in a lot of the more rural areas, you needed the 3watts of power these provided over the handheld .6 watt. They were also popular with the "I just want it for emergencies" crowd with plans that had a low monthly price and an insanely high per minute rate. Airtouch Cellular itself, didn't exist until 1994. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTouch LCDs came to cell phones in 94, sure...But Motorola liked to use these displays that looked more VFD than LCD. (I think they were LCD, but used a backlit polarizing filter so they looked different) They didn't use the standard black on grey style LCDs on their car/transportable line of phones until the end.

[@DevannB]

I promise that you have lots of dedicated fans, Benny Boy. I know because I'm one of them. Good luck with your move, we will support the Archive no matter where it goes!

[@OM19_MO79]

I'm also one of them too, but these thrifting videos... PASS!

[@visaman]

I enjoy how you narrate these thrift haul videos. It reminds me of the Canadian fishing show Red Fisher. He would go fishing and film it on 8 mm film and narrate it in his "Scuttlebutt Lodge". The show was the direct inspiration for, The Red Green Show, a very popular comedy show. You may have caught it on your local PBS station.

[@fixman88]

“If your wife can’t find ya handsome, at least she can find ya handy,”

[@visaman]

That George Maharis Liberace joke is really funny if you know the background reference. It dates it as far back as 1974.

[@Tornado1994]

"Darling,Darling, let me Play MGM Grand!!!!"

[@Feelthefelt]

Its weird. I'm moving in a month, and I keep collecting more stuff. Should have got the Mustang tape.

[@KejnTheImmortal]

You'd probably like FM.

[@punknerd9747]

Been looking for 39/Smooth and Kerplunk release vynil, because I like it in the original way it was relesed

[@colewoodard8920]

I sure would've picked up that FM City of Fear album, they're a great Canadian prog rock band.

[@maxwelsh6121]

Yes. Nash the slash on electric violin is not to be missed.

[@marktubeie07]

The signatures on the albums Ben is hilarious - I'll give them props for trying I guess!

[@djhrecordhound4391]

I'll join the chorus saying you might dig FM. Then again you might like their electric mandolin player Nash The Slash's solo stuff too.

[@colewoodard8920]

Love nash even more than fm

[@MORPHOSYS]

i had to take a look at the back of that john lennon tribute album and i believe they accidentally used a photo of george instead of john oopsies

[@michelle_pgh]

"'Oh how I love Jesus in less than 10 minutes.' Makes it sound like a cooking video." OMG, I died!

[@imrustyokay]

Apparently KFML and KTLK are all stations....in Minnesota. 🤔

[@daveporter0217]

Oddly enough, MLM organizations such as Amway often refer to their critics as "dream stealers," so my initial guess was that it was pyramid propaganda.

[@vicariousgamer2871]

"You gotta think about it" when you see a Daniken book.

[@davidwardrop9214]

Love the tawdry looking pulp novel, I own a few.

[@wdavem]

Those stores don't seem too too bad but those speakers look ready for the 120 volt or other blow-out treatment before going in the trash!

[@chops1976]

I had a couple of "hey, I have one of those" moments while watching this video. I have an actual (not foam) original Game Boy, albeit with a not completely functional screen. And when I saw the Best of Dave Mason album, I was reminded of my mom and dad's copy of Let It Flow.

[@ChrisKewl]

When you get situated I can show you around Dallas and take you to all of my haunts for thrifting!

[@derekjtaylor]

Just cry-laughed when I saw the To Hal Blaine, Thanks Jackie DeShannon fake.

[@SailorCallie]

15:11 A PlayStation Portable knock-off from China. 3:) Good thing you passed on it.

[@betaman7988]

You know my town isn’t the richest when the last time I went into one of these stores I noticed two guys actually considering buying a cheap, run of the mill VHS VCR from the late 90s...

[@maxwelsh6121]

Actually VHS is pretty popular with the hipsters right now, and if you got a collection of VHS tapes you going to need a player to play them on, I had to pick up another one last year myself got a nice Panasonic for 7 Bucks

[@daveporter0217]

I just saw the copyright for Nu Skin, which is an MLM company. Thus "Dream stealers" is indeed propaganda for a pyramid scheme.

[@segaskeletor23]

Good luck moving and in future endeavors. Let's just hope the cardboard box stays safe during the move.

[@Kodocha7]

Hey, nice icon!

[@Fuzy2K]

10:54 "Hey Peter, man! Check out channel 9, it's the breast exams!"

[@Footjones]

Looove the thrifting posts! I can’t wait for new installments from the new place! Btw, I would’ve grabbed that Nick Gilder album 👍

[@Musicradio77Network]

Peter Kier Me too! I always go to antique and thrift hunting for their stuff which is quite interesting. The R2R haul looks good, but Goodwill and Salvation Army stores doesn't carried these tapes until they need more. Or I go to eBay and get more of these so I can record OTR shows on my Concord 220T 2-track R2R tape recorder. The Edgar Winter Group album is still a classic featuring "Free Ride" and an instrumental rock classic "Frankenstein" are on the album. I was in Spike's record shop in Catskill and I saw the quadraphonic edition of the same album and it was an SQ encoded record which is not easy to find. There were so many SQ encoded albums during the 1970's and it does work with my Sony SQ Decoder SQD-1000 and it was excellent to 4 channels to hear.

[@omittedprod]

You should do a youtuber moving vlog

[@morelenmir]

I enjoy these 'thrift store' videos a very great deal--they deliver all the expectant enjoyment of a visit to a second hand shop without having to actually go and then be inevitably disappointed by what you find! Please continue the series wherever it is you eventually land. The name alone is amusing to someone who lives in England. These places would be called in polite company 'Charity Shops' or unfortunately in my area 'Pauper Shops'... Other than modern pawn brokers like 'Cash'-(or again, locally 'Gash')-'Generator' there really aren't any large chains dedicated to second-hand goods. The closest we have are outlets run by nationwide organizations like 'Oxfam' and 'Age Concern' who receive their stock as free donations--expect they often sell these goods at prices barely reduced from brand-new, especially the former outfit.

[@Fluteboy]

Those Rifkin cassettes: is this how local bands succeed in getting their music out - by offloading them to goodwill stores?

[@adamwalker6702]

I missed your intro.

[@Bucky749]

When comes Mst3k the episode that I like Is eggah while my bro is more manos hands of fate guy .

[@pegnas]

Nice

[@daveporter0217]

$1.50/minute for a 10 minute video? Calling Miss Cleo may have been a better buy in the 90s.

[@SgtBilby]

I say keep the Thrifting seres, nice addition but what i'm concerned about is what will happen to Sergei's Catacomb of Classics? i love the cheesy russian accent and it'll be sad to see such a wonderfully hokey show go away because of change of location

[@OM19_MO79]

In the KZbin, I found a familiar name... ah, I swear Archive Thrifting follows me around. I've watched the previous installments, so I'm gonna assume he's gonna still try to do the same as LGR, but is gonna comment it as if it was a chore and in the end, he will hardly pick anything from the stores. PASS!!

[@algorefan4]

god beatle sound alike records always make me cringe

[@MrIveyIsBonkers]

Do you think you could do an episode on the false alarm in Hawaii on January 2018, if you have the information? It's odd.

[@sawomirbranski6794]

Never heard of FM? Good Canadian prog rock right there - shold have pickedthat "City of Fear" LP up - it's one of their best albums!