Oddity Archive: Episode 198.5 - Archive Thrifting #11: This Can Not Be The Right Price Deal

Dare we say, a delightfully bucolic edition of Archive Thrifting.
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[@bgsather]

My late grandfather probably either sold or repaired that Crosley TV. He was the only TV repair guy in Sioux Falls from 1949 to 1957.

[@pokemaster2129]

that's actually really interesting!

[@eascec8374]

Back When Sioux Falls Had A Much Smaller Populated Town Than Rapid City?

[@michaelfisher9722]

Don't you just hate when people have overpriced things that sit forever? Some folks seem to think they have gold nuggets. I've seen stuff sit for literally decades at some of my haunts.

[@derekjtaylor]

Justin Wilson used to have a Cajun cooking show on PBS back in the day. He’d throw a couple corny jokes in the show spoken in a thick Cajun accent.

[@spooley]

Watched it as a kid with my grandparents. His cliche was something like "Ooooweeeh, I guaaaaarrrrantee!" Each one started with the story of how the Cajun people came to New Orleans from Acadia, Nova Scotia. Banished for being French speakers. Or so he said.

[@5roundsrapid263]

He was only half French, but he played up his accent for laughs. The show was actually taped in Mississippi, by their PBS affiliate. It was a big hit nationally.

[@spooley]

@@5roundsrapid263 Cajuns seem to all be half French, hah. It played on WNED out of Buffalo so definitely a national institution. Theo Von recently mentioned him in his stand up act, another famous Cajun showing some love.

[@CommodoreFan64]

I remember watching the show back in the day with my step father on SCETV(South Carolina Educational TV) who was a big fan, and sometimes they where more than just jokes, and where real stories about life in the old days with a moral tale, but they almost always had some joke weaved into it. I still have the cookbooks my stepdad bought, and they honestly have some really good stuff in them.

[@spooley]

He was entertaining, very comfortable on camera. I remember he used Lea and Perrins a lot and once said the base it was built from is soya sauce. Not sure if it was a joke but it is the right color, add the fermented fish and you're good, hah.

[@DukeNukem2417]

7:16 = The Criterion DVD for TWO DOLLARS?! You are one LUCKY KZbinr, Ben!

[@JL-sm6cg]

I don't know why you didn't pick that bad boy up, Benny!

[@syferdet]

Yum. Pizza burgers. A staple of my childhood. Glad you got those sales tapes. They’re some of my favorite content on Annex for YT filler programming.

[@brantisonfire]

Pizza burger with mayo is delicious. Burger patty, mozzarella and marinara is a divine combination. I would be tempted to try one with some deli sliced salami or pepperoni.

[@poody56]

I'm hoping some of those get rich quick tapes can lead to a 2nd infomercial type episode. Still trying to wack away with a nice profit.

[@OddityArchive]

I never did make those melons in real estate.

[@soonerterp]

Couldn't help but notice the phone card tape originated from a marketing company in Oklahoma City ... Google was no real help because it kept directing me to job listings for telemarketing (even though when I did the search I typed it as "Tele-Sales," as on the package and input the address too). The address on the tape (2828 NW 57th) is a general office building with several tenants. Given the proliferation of inbound call centers AND the rise of remote work, especially during the current pandemic, I wonder if some permutation of this company is still around.

[@JL-sm6cg]

I think these did make it to a later OA episode. I recall the calling card video...I think. lol

[@TheGreenMeanie]

Oh my goodness! Ed Emberley! I've honestly been racking my brain for at least 20 years trying to re-discover him and his books. I had forgotten his name but I remember I used to check them out at the library when I was in elementary school. Loved the art style and that they were very dated, yet charming. (The books I looked at were made in the 70's and I'm talking early to mid-90's here.) I just went on eBay and bought that tape and a bunch of the books.

[@5roundsrapid263]

14:30 Debbie Gibson wrote and produced her own songs at 16. Definitely one of the more talented “teen idols”.

[@visaman]

I was an adult and had a crush on her, then I saw that she was in Playboy, and all I couldkd muster was a "meh."

[@eascec8374]

Some Radio Stations Recalled Her To Get Back To Her Family. _"GO HOME LITTLE CHILD, GO HOME!"_

[@thealrightestguitarist9135]

Always enjoy the thrifting videos! I love seeing all the gadgets you come across on your adventures, but it's especially fun because you share so much knowledge and background detail about them.

[@digitor24]

Thanks for the content, I always look forward to your videos.

[@ChaunceyGardener]

It's no apparent on footage, but when Ben is outside on archive duty he also carries the box in front of his face.

[@luisreyes1963]

Where else but in a second-hand shop can you find a prosthetic leg up for sale?

[@VectraQS]

In a similar vein to the CD drinking water, my high school had a bomb shelter. The gov't-issued carbohydrate rations dated 1962 were finally thrown out in 2017 when the robotics teacher got ahold of the space and cleaned out 50 years of crap.

[@cyprianalexzander6628]

We had a Popingo video in Cedar Rapids, 3 locations. When they phased out Beta, my dad would by tapes by the lot. I remember sitting in the backroom of popingo and sorting through pallets of beta tapes.

[@suedenim]

I'm actually really looking forward to seeing that calling card video.

[@sawbonesquad4876]

Wonder if that Crate amp video is an instructional vid? "How to Dial in a Perfect Hard Rock Tone(and possibly annoy your parents)"

[@kaksikymmenta3]

St. Urho is fake Finnish saint parody of St. Patrick. Almost unknown in Finland as he was invented in the US.

[@aaronstepien2363]

All the “let’s go thrifting” YT channels have driven prices way up

[@michaelfisher9722]

Some of the thrift stores around me have gotten so high that you can go someplace like TJ Maxx or Mardhalls and get new stuff for cheaper.

[@aaronstepien2363]

Michael Fisher I’ve been finding great deals on brand new stuff at TJs, lol

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

I only go thrift-shopping for clothes now. At least, the place near me has nice shorts and button-down shirts and stuff mostly for 1 or two dollars a piece. Anything besides that... I try and find elsewhere

[@chattingesque372]

EBay already fucked it ages ago

[@vicariousgamer2871]

Awesome ! Possibly my most favorite of your topics. Personally I miss thrifting due to this current bug, so vicariously I join you %^] Oh yeah... First. LOL

[@memyopinionsche6610]

And one of my family members had a farm that grown corn. Running around that corn field playing hide and seek with my brother and cousins. On a summer day. And eating corn on the cob straight from the stalk. Mmmmm good stuff and great memories.

[@justjennie7394]

OMG is that the Cajun chef Justin Wilson...of 80s I guarantee fame? Dying right now

[@ericn.wilson2345]

"16 mm film can, nice and clean" Well, it's certainly uncluttered by film. Since the "Angel Baby" 45 caught your eye, look up the B-side. "Give Me Love" (not the George Harrison one) is a real jawdropper.

[@OddityArchive]

What I meant is, I've seen canisters with rust and other junk in them--if you had an appropriate reel of film, it'd be a good home for it.

[@dorourke105]

Hey my cousin used to have that Debbie Gibson vhs he loved her along with Tiffany

[@WrestleKrysti]

Hell yeah, Debbie! ;)

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Reminds me of the farm lands of Michigan. I am state sick. No not by the coronavirus but home state wishing I could go back to my home state. One of these days.

[@keithwoods7724]

We had a Popingo video store here in Centralia in the 80s. The building is still empty with the sign painted over black .

[@jeenkzk5919]

I actually met Justin Wilson at a flea market as a kid! True story

[@lightfusegetaway]

Those prices are INSAAAAANE!

[@JL-sm6cg]

@6:39; that, my friend, would be akin to a cheap car stereo cassette deck with no auto-reverse, just FF/EJECT, and having to flip the tape over to rewind it.

[@millsyinnz]

My music tastes are very different to yours. I pulled a few tracks for those Columbia House albuns on the Tube and they were pretty good. The 1970's was a really diverse decade for music.

[@SailorMaxie]

One day I went with my mom to Goodwill and came home with a Pioneer cassette deck for $20 in near mint condition. I love thrift stores...

[@misledman8057]

Hi Ben. Love your videos, been watching you since 2014, never miss one. In this ep, you mention some record booth metal records. What speed are they recorded in? Probably 78 rpm I would think. Anyway, my brother has one and is dying to be able to play it. What do you recommend?

[@OddityArchive]

Most of the ones I've got are 78's--which is always an annoyance, because I have to swap out my cartridge and reset the turntable each time. Otherwise, they're 45's--never seen one at 33-1/3 (though I'm sure they exist somewhere).

[@brantisonfire]

Half baked on laserdisc would be awesome. I’m not a pothead, but the movie is a classic in the stoner comedy genre.

[@misterjib]

33.3k subs right now, maybe release an LP to mark the occasion?

[@jamesbennettmusic]

Wonder if that cassette deck was either some sort of simple background music system, or dual language tape player, hence the balance control?

[@jessecoffey4737]

10:33 One of a kind!

[@PeacefulAutistic]

Can someone tell me what a death tape is? He mentions it with the Pink Floyd tape 7:40. I’m not really into tapes and 8-tracks.. I’m only 23 and have high functioning autism so, they never really hit my radar until I gained a special interest in retro tech just after graduating high school.

[@soonerterp]

I'm pretty sure a "death tape" is the kind in which the cartridge cannot be opened for repair of 8-track little parts (like rollers and pads) or to respool the tape itself if it goes catty-wampus. There's a early OA video about the care and feeding of 8-track tapes.

[@MidnightsEdgeAfterDark]

pretty sure that BTTF special is on the DVD and Blu-rays

[@gregcruz5152]

I was in one of those Universal Studios Hollywood Star Trek Adventure #1111-7 11/11/1989. I was 7. I remember being so nervous i still remember them telling me how to play the part and me messing it up .

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Man, at 4:54 is On A Threshold Of A Dream by The Moody Blues. I got that record at my local 2nd & Charles in December 2017 before New Year's. The very first time I found this record, it was at The Hammond Salvage And Retail Shop. I grabbed it only to find a stray record of the Woodstock soundtrack and it did not come with an inner sleeve. That very particular record plays all the way till you pick up the needle. That's why I got it. And I also got Mott The Hoople's Drive On on the same day along with Crosby, Stills, and Nash's first album. Now Drive on had one side that has a guy with a British accent saying Uh..DRIIIVE OOON!! And on Side 2 had two people scream. AHHH!!! AHHH!!! AHHHH!!!! And then you hear moaning by some girl. It's an inner groove that it'll play at a loop till you pick up the needle. So you hear some moaning on a loop and it will continue till you come and pick up the needle. Great episode as always.

[@Bucky749]

Glad there’s another thrifting episode .

[@jwestbrook61]

The fellow, I assume from the fisherman 8 Track on the end who was speaking reminded me of the solitary episode of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo I attempted to watch. One of the characters on that show had to be subtitled so we could understand her, and I feel the fisherman could use subtitling too. In case one is wondering, I only lasted 5 minutes with Honey Boo Boo and never visited it again.

[@jamesmoss3424]

I got the original total recall on VHS. 😀👍📼

[@Bucky749]

I just had a flash back to Ben 10 . And Ben drinking carrot and chocolate smoothies together.

[@soundminedd]

Must be light😂❤❤❤

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Well I guess Betty boop would rather have a price tag on her ankle. Than a court-ordered ankle monitoring system because she committed a crime.

[@eascec8374]

Yes Betty Did Went To Court One Time In 1933. Yes Her Punishment Is To Tie Her Up In A -25 Degree Blizzard.

[@MinoTheShow]

Half-Baked is a pretty valuable LD

[@mightyfilm]

I think I saw those "Kid-a-littles" things on some Everything is Terrible or VHS-Hell type KZbin channel. Yeah. You're probably in good hands. That brown monster ripoff character looks like a happy version of Moishe Oofnik from the Israeli Sesame Street. Only, you know, not nearly as good.

[@ABCEasyas--]

I always wondered how stations who share networks (as Ben mentioned the first station in South Dakota was affiliated with four networks). Do they pick and choose which shows to air?

[@OddityArchive]

That's exactly how they did it.

[@millsyinnz]

Jerry Junck is a prominent square dance caller. His vids are on TY.

[@RubberChickenFilms]

Man, antique store prices are so insane these days. Everyone thinks their old junk is some kind of rare treasure. Always trying to sell long dead video and music formats for outrageous prices. Makes me mad.

[@louiseogden1296]

Or you go in and all that's interesting is FIFA 2013 and Richard Hammond's Oops How Did That Happen biography.

[@OzRetrocomp]

10:00 From around the same era when Crosley also made cars. Not very good ones, and they were woefully undersized (by American standards)... but at least they tried.

[@soonerterp]

Ah, Powel Crosley! A mogul of his time. But what he's remembered for the most seem like little pieces of things: * His crappy little cars are now viewed by some as ahead of their time. They introduced the first pushbutton radios in their cars, and the 1949 Crosleys were the first cars that had all-around disc brakes. If only the Crosleys had been adorable like the Nash Metropolitans (which were introduced in 1953, almost immediately after Crosley got out of the making-cars business). * He built radios, and, having founded and owned WLW Radio, was at least responsible for what was broadcast on said radios. Crosley sold his consumer electronics manufactory and broadcasting interests to Aviation Corporation (AVCO) in 1945. AVCO quit marketing Crosley consumer products in 1956. Some other body bought the rights to the Crosley name in the 1980s and started using it to brand overpriced, underwhelming retro-style consumer audio products. * But he's probably now best remembered for his ownership of the Cincinnati Reds, which he bought in 1934 and held onto until his death in 1961. The first night game in modern Major League Baseball was in 1935 at Crosley Field (you know, because that's what moguls do) between the Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies (and that was still five years after the Negro League Kansas City Monarchs played baseball under lights). Under his ownership, the Reds grew in stature thru the 1930s, winning the NL Pennant in 1939 and 1940, and the World Series against Detroit in 1940. After that, the Reds were mediocre for the next couple of decades. And it was under Crosley's ownership that the team briefly changed its name in the 1950s to the Redlegs ... because COMMIES.

[@millsyinnz]

$350 would be the going rate for a stereo system like that.

[@PKSandman]

Don't expect that Leon's coming back for that leg- if my research is right, he passed away in November.

[@johnathin0061892]

I am surprised Covid made any real impact given where you live and how isolated it is. Did they still shut everything down there? Those slot loading cassettes could be found on some Soundesign stereos in the 1980s as a second tape deck (my grandpa had one), and some of those faux-antique radios with a tape player have them too.

[@OddityArchive]

Didn't get as hard a shutdown as a lot of the country, but most things either closed or got restricted--thrift stores, pawn shops and antique malls all were closed for about three months. At this point, the vast majority of the restrictions are from the major chains.

[@louiseogden1296]

Three months :/! The original shutdown here in the UK was March 2020 to July 2020 for non-essential shops, then things closed down in November and have barely reopened since Christmas. In any event the really good places for thrifting are relatively scarce and I've already broken one ankle slipping on thrifted stuff from eBay, but there is one shop I'll be stopping by when things finally reopen, and the hospice chain will be getting a box of the stuff Music Magpie won't buy.

[@DuckGWR]

Those side loaders are always terrible - straight out of a crappy 70s car deck and into a crappy 70s radio... Oh man, 8 track Dark Side! I bought mine for $2 with a copy of Animals at a thrift store. Crap, $9 for an XLII??? Always gotta check those electronics boxes... checked a portable TV set box once, and while it wasn't the TV, it was a bunch of great 8 tracks! Ooh, ooh! Three over from Star Trek is an early (though not original) Strand VCI Thomas Breaks the Rules! I've got a couple copies of that release, plus an original in a red shell. I used to pick up any blanks when I first started getting 8 tracks, but then I acquired a few hundred and... now I just get particularly cool looking ones or ones with the quad cutout - just found 3 yesterday.

[@suedenim]

Do they not haggle at this place?

[@derekroberts6654]

Responding to you Debbie Gibson remark, I’m curious for personal reasons, if that’s ok? What do you think of 90s female artist Tori Amos?

[@OddityArchive]

To me, Tori Amos was the logical next step after Laura Nyro and Kate Bush.

[@derekroberts6654]

OddityArchive but you would NEVER put Debbie and Tori in the same category would you? That would be like David Cassidy & the Partridge Family touring with Pink Floyd in a way....

[@OddityArchive]

Apples and oranges to me.

[@AjaxTheRoo]

TBH I would have gotten the DSOTM 8 track just to display it, but that's mainly because I am a huge Pink Floyd fan.

[@PeacefulAutistic]

Ben! Goodtimes film company is a staple in mockbuster Disney ripoffs! I hope you bought or go back and buy and do the Santa tape at Christmas this year!!

[@daniell8387]

Debbie Gibson is preeeeegnant! With my two-headed loooove child!

[@louiseogden1296]

Everything's better with Garfield :).

[@Damaniel3]

How much were they asking for that 45 lot?

[@OddityArchive]

I wanna say $40.

[@Damaniel3]

@@OddityArchive Not the worst price ever considering what they were charging for some of the LPs they had there, but I would have passed too. Great haul overall - I wonder what's on the mystery tape?

[@vicariousgamer2871]

The empty film canisters would be handy for a "roll your own" person. It appears as if some of the electronics came from someones flooded basement. I'm curious about if you've been bored enough to listen to my stuff. The 3rd String Theory is probably my favorite as I preferred playing guitar, this is strictly guitar. I really like it. It may surprise you ? Anyway, thanks for the upload. -VG Also the other 3 contain 3 or 4 acoustic instrumentals as well.

[@OddityArchive]

Got a link?

[@vicariousgamer2871]

@@OddityArchive kzbin.info?search_query=joseph+strider+string+theory If you like, please do criticize. I've always wanted this. At the time of my sort of small success all I got was, Great, awesome, etc... That was nice, but what I really wanted was for someone to take my tunes apart and tell me this or that, and question me. No pressure nor expectation brother. Just though to add. I never did get views on YT for my music interestingly, as I did get a lot of gigs. Go figure ? I send this link in particular because of your recent work on Elderbush Gultch. I must say that your attentiveness to this particular piece has (in my opinion) truly proved to be worth the effort. Quite the noted difference from your first inception, but even from that I could feel that something greater would come from it. Music comes from the heart, it must be felt. Otherwise whats the point ?

[@OddityArchive]

Will check when I get a chance. :)

[@vicariousgamer2871]

@@OddityArchive When you bet bored.

[@jaybrooks1098]

Ben you ever do anything on the cb?

[@OddityArchive]

Episodes? Just the one (Episode 83). Haven't used it since--of course, I don't even have an antenna for it right now.

[@Hogdriva]

Ever find any Nakamichi gear in the wild Ben?

[@OddityArchive]

Nope, nor do I expect to.

[@GrizzlyDipper614]

I have to ask. Were there any Beta tapes?

[@OddityArchive]

Nope--had I found any (good or bad), I would've shown it. Haven't seen a single Betamax ANYTHING since I've lived here.

[@VSigma725]

@@OddityArchive I have 3 or 4 Beta tapes that took me literal years to find and all of them are blanks, not pre-recorded tapes. And until uh...this week, actually, I didn't even have a working Beta machine to try and play/record them.

[@therealrockstargamer]

​@@OddityArchive there are some betamax tapes here in New York blast from the past has it. here is the address maps.app.goo.gl/LchUPGgTr251QNC96

[@HappyHellscapes]

It's a shame Justin Wilson was a member of an offshoot of the KKK, think it was called the White Citizens Brigade or something like that. He was also vehemently and vocally against desegregation. My grandad used to have some of his more unfortunate recordings.

[@albear972]

6:45 Awwwww! I wanted to see what brand that weird silly thing was. I was a kid in the 80's and I admit, I never saw something like that then. And 17:53 will the greedy AF, RIAA be going after this place for selling bootleg music on 8 tracks? And the main LOL! 😂🤣😂🤣😂 of all, backing up the Denver Center for the Performing arts'/fad record collection to MiniDisc. 21:50 Again, 😂🤣😂🤣😂 I got suckered into wasting a heck of a lot of money on that MiniDisc crap/fad back in the late-mid 90's. The equipment was in the trash in less than 4 years.And yes, I have a sealed Columbia House MD that I had to pay for because I forgot to return it. I won't say what it is because its actually embarrassing.

[@OddityArchive]

I didn't notice a brand on that tape deck, would've mentioned it otherwise.

[@TombstoneChris]

Are you that guy from the Arby's videos? You know that guy that takes stock news footage and inserts himself?

[@memyopinionsche6610]

That's funny. I went into a grocery store where I live and at the customer service desk they had a lot of walking Cain's and one prosthetic limb for the leg. And in my mind and thinking.. If someone walk into a grocery store needing to use a Cain or fake leg. And walks not needing to use them.. Where they suddenly cured of their impalements. Someone walks into a grocery store having to use a walking cane or prosthetic limb. And now walking out without the use of a Cane or limb. Obviously Jesus was at the grocery store and curing the week and disabled. It makes sense to me.

[@OM19_MO79]

Pass.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Wait someone can make a 8 track mix tape? I thought that was a cassette thing. I never knew someone could record on a 8 track tape. How could you do that?

[@visaman]

Oh yes, my parents and I did that a lot in the 70s. We recorded TV shows before VCRs and radio stations. 8 tracks were quite durable compared to cassettes. The players on the other hand broke down easily though. We recorded TV with microphones to the speaker, and the radio by pushing the record button on our stereo

[@seamusoblainn]

You can. I've never seen it working, but my mother lived in the US before I was born, and she brought home her hifi system, which included seperates, and while there was an 8track integrated into one unit, there was a seperate unit that had a red recorder button.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Don't get the slitch burgers.. It will give you the slitchs.

[@markmallone7484]

I think you've got a bit excessive on the commercial breaks this episode.

[@OddityArchive]

Huh? Is YT putting midrolls in and not telling me? Seriously, the only way I hear about this stuff is from viewers.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@OddityArchive I usually watch on my PC with AdBlock on Chrome that gives me 1, or 2 silent ads i can skip at the start of a video(I have non intrusive ads turned on so YT creators get something), but I was watching on my phone this time at work, and man yeah YT is going overboard on the mid roll ads on just about everyone's video that did not do the manual job of turning them off in their settings. Dave Jones of EEVBlog on both his channels does a fairly good job of keeping up with all the YT changes, and letting his audience know about them when it effect how his videos are being made.

[@OddityArchive]

Midrolls should be off now.

[@visaman]

Yes 2 15 second commercials.