When I was Super ~ Boy

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When I was Super ~ Boy...So Long Ago  


I was just 12 years old when I got my first Aurora HO Slot Car set and I loved it. For every holiday and birthdays from then on I would ask for another set. There was no Amazon or Ebay back then to buy used ones so I had to build a collection from new sets. Money was not at hand back then but I would save my allowance, $1.50 a week, to be able to buy additional cars. There was only one Hobby Shop that carried them and I would ride my bike 5 miles each way just to see what was available and what I wanted to save for. Fast forward a year and my sets had had grown very much. We had a Ping Pong table in the basement which had lost its interest in anyone playing so I ask my Dad if I could use it for my Slot Cars. After I got his permission, bless his heart, I saved up enough to buy sheets of 1/4" plywood to cover it. Before I attached the plywood I ran all my wiring from the controllers to the Transformer under it and permanently attach the 4 controllers to the plywood. All of the 4 Lanes of the Raceway are screwed down so there was no movement. The pictures really only show just one side which is the Raceway Landscaped side, the right side is more rural, Farm field like.

Forgive the blurry pictures but this was a time way before auto focus cameras. This wa a time when you bought film sold as either Black & White (cheaper) or color (expensive) and you could buy either 12 (cheaper) or 24 (expensive) pictures. You have to wait until you take all the pictures in the roll before you then took it to a Developer and after about 2 weeks get the developed pictures back. Only then will you see how your pictures turned out, blurry or clear. The camera I used was the easy to use (at that time) Pocket Instamatic Camera.