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   From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   In rec.arts.tv Van Bagnol  wrote:   
   >   
   > For my 10th birthday I got a Polaroid Swinger. It still used the single   
   > flashbulbs. Ahh... the smell of burnt flashbulbs and Polaroid developer   
   > coating...mmmm memories!   
      
   Remember the little light bulb you could insert in place of the flashbulb?   
   It glowed so you could test the batteries.  And remember all those dire   
   warnings on the package about not getting the coating on your fingers   
   when you painted it on the prints?  They made it sound like it was just   
   a little less toxic than plutonium.  :-)   
      
   I took mine on a eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C.  I carried it up   
   the stairs of the Washington Monument to get a picture from the top (in   
   those days you still were allowed to climb the stairs all the way up),   
   and as I reached the top step the camera popped open and the now-ruined   
   film bounced back down the stairs...   
      
   The first time I really started to feel old was when I saw a Polaroid   
   Swinger in a museum.   
      
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