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A couple of good machine parts makers pictures I located:

Making sails at Ratsey’s (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Making sails at Ratsey’s

[among ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 unfavorable : glass 5 x 7 in. or smaller sized.

Notes:
Title from information provided by the Bain News Service on the adverse.
Photo possibly shows the American branch of the English boat sail manufacturer, Ratseys and Lapthorn, established in 1902 on City Island, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and Sports Illustrated, May 19, 1958)
Forms portion of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Information: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Common data about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Greater resolution image is offered (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.16208

Get in touch with Number: LC-B2- 3087-10

Zoltar Speaks

Image by “Caveman Chuck” Coker
We found this Zoltar Speaks machine outdoors the arcade on the Santa Monica Pier. The button on the front that is lit up says &quotEspañol.&quot The sign above the machine says, &quotChildren Only 70 Lbs. or Less.&quot The coin (bill) slot is labeled although the glass says .00. In the background you can see a Rambo sign subsequent to the Dance Dance Revolution game—it should be a rough game.

Zoltar has a ring on the ring finger of his left hand, but we did not see Mrs. Zoltar anyplace nearby. I wonder if the rainbow beads he’s wearing are considerable.

Zoltar Speaks machines are 77 inches tall. They come in 3 sizes: Premium (33&quotW x 28&quotD), Standard (27&quotW x 25&quotD), and Economy (24&quotW x 24&quotD). They are priced at ,500, ,500, and ,500, respectively. Zoltar Speaks comes with 16 pre-recorded messages and you can add as a lot of of your own messages as you’d like. There are 23 diverse messages that are dispensed on paper cards at the front of the machine. The eyes and jaw move and the crystal ball lights up. On the Normal and Premium models the arm and head move as well. You can add breathing animation to any of the models for an extra . The only address I could find for the manufacturer was www.zoltarmachine.com/.

The Zoltar Speaks machine was part of the plot in the movie Huge (1988). The standard plot goes one thing like this (from Wikipedia):

Soon after being humiliated whilst attempting to impress an older teenage girl at a carnival, Josh Baskin (David Moscow) goes to a want/fortune-telling machine (referred to as Zoltar Speaks) and wishes that he have been &quotbig&quot. The next morning, he sees a face in the mirror he does not recognize. Overnight, he has turn out to be a 35-year-old man (Tom Hanks). With the assist of his 13-year-old ideal buddy, Billy Kopecki (Jared Rushton), Josh rents a cheap room in Manhattan and gets a lowly data-entry job at the MacMillan Toy Business. In a memorable scene, he meets the company’s owner, MacMillan (Robert Loggia), checking out the items at the FAO Schwarz toy store, and impresses him with his childlike enthusiasm. They finish up playing a duet with each other on a Big Piano, a foot-operated electronic keyboard, performing Chopsticks and Heart &amp Soul. This earns Josh a promotion to a dream job for a kid: testing toys all day lengthy and getting paid for it. He soon attracts the interest of the beautiful, ambitious Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins), a fellow toy executive. A romance starts to develop, considerably to the annoyance of her current boyfriend, Paul (John Heard). As Josh becomes more and a lot more entwined in his &quotadult&quot life, considerably to the annoyance of Billy, he soon begins to want for the carefree life of a kid once again and becomes determined to discover the Zoltar machine to reverse the wish.

The Swedish version of Huge was printed on 35mm film and was 2,855 meters extended.

In the finish credits for Big, Harold ‘Whitey’ McEvoy was the Transportation Captain. I’ve heard folks say, &quotNever trust Whitey,&quot but I do not know why—maybe he’s a poor driver.

Also in the finish credits for Huge, Elizabeth Shelton was the Assistant to the Costume Designer. This was not my aunt Elizabeth Shelton it was a diverse one.

The individual who hired Danny Irom for the crew have to have stuttered. Mr. Irom was the Second Second Assistant Director.

In the credits &quotFAO Schwarz&quot (the toy retailer) is misspelled as &quotFAO Schwartz&quot (&quott&quot added).

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Update: This photo was utilized to accompany an post BC Predicts: June Infant Bargain Forecast on May possibly 31, 2009 on the Child Cheapskate site.

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