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Steve Austin Christmas: 1977
Submitted by bhappel on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 9:59am.
Indianapolis, 1977. My youngest Brother Jim had a $6 Million Dollar Christmas. Here he has Steve Austin, the 6 Million Dollar Man, stored in the Bionic Transport and Repair Station.
I expected to embarrass him with this image at our family gathering this summer but instead I found Steve Austin and and his repair station in my niece's playroom! Jim had gotten these toys out of storage just months ago.
35mm B&W taken with my Yashica SLR and processed at home. View full size.
$6 Million Heirloom
Submitted by RGMBill on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 4:29pm.
My son still has my old $6 Million Man figure in a toychest at the foot of his bed.
I loved that thing almost as much as my old Evil Knievel Motorcycle set. Steve Austin often was able to outrun Evil back in the day!
Re: Toys
Submitted by bhappel on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 10:19am.
And you can be sure that Slinky is a metal coil, not plastic!
With five children in the house we learned that Santa needed a system to deliver the correct gifts to each child. On the love seat and the table in the background are Thank You placeholder notes to Santa indicating where a specific child's gifts were to be placed.
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