50 year old magazine

[Howard Cohen]

Last week I stopped in to visit a local car museum. They had a few magazines and I bought some old 'Car Model' mags from 1967/8/9/70/71 era. I was going through them when I turned the page and saw the ad for the 'International Car Model Association' membership...with my name and address filled in! Yes, I bought back my magazine from 50 years ago! This time I am keeping it  

[Richard Bartrop]

That is a really neat find.

[Dave Ambrose]

That is amazing and too cool for words. 

[tbill]

That is cool, glad you are reunited with your magazine.

[misterNNL]

My ICMA membership number was 11. I still have all of my correspondence from them and the decal is on my wooden model box. Nice to finally know someone else who was a member.

[alan barton]

I would love to have seen the look on your face when you opened that page..........

 

 

[Snake45]

23 minutes ago, misterNNL said:

My ICMA membership number was 11. I still have all of my correspondence from them and the decal is on my wooden model box. Nice to finally know someone else who was a member.

Mine was #714--same as Joe Friday's badge number. (The number would assume another significance in the mid-'70s, but of that we will not speak more. )  I still have my decal on my metal parts bin with the little plastic drawers. (I still occasionally take some 50-yo parts out of that thing and USE them on a model to this day!) 

[misterNNL]

3 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Mine was #714--same as Joe Friday's badge number. (The number would assume another significance in the mid-'70s, but of that we will not speak more. )  I still have my decal on my metal parts bin with the little plastic drawers. (I still occasionally take some 50-yo parts out of that thing and USE them on a model to this day!) 

I have several of those boxes and even though I have sorted through them umpteen dozen times I still find usable stuff." Waste not-want not" my mom would have said.

[Modlbldr]

Now that gave me a laugh. How often does something like that happen? Glad you found it.

Later-

[Straightliner59]

4 hours ago, Snake45 said:

The number would assume another significance in the mid-'70s, but of that we will not speak more. 

What? Disco biscuits?! ?

 

Edited September 27, 2019 by Straightliner59

[89AKurt]

What a trip, down memory lane.  Built 300 models? ?

[Deuces]

8 hours ago, alan barton said:

I would love to have seen the look on your face when you opened that page..........

 

 

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[landman]

Nice story and nostalgia. That kind of story brings happiness and a big smile.

[tim boyd]

Howard......that is too cool!  The chances of that happening are what....1 in a million (or higher???)  

As far is the ICMA, I recall my membership number being 5053.....TIM