{"id":15833,"date":"2019-10-25T05:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15833"},"modified":"2019-10-23T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:55:29","slug":"view-view-master-master-ad-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/view-view-master-master-ad-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"view view master master ad ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15834\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/VIEW-MASTER-LIFE-Jan.-26-1959.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15834\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15834\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/VIEW-MASTER-LIFE-Jan.-26-1959-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Vanguard special for View-Master in this January 26, 1959 LIFE ad.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. January 1959. The USA was digging into the space race and to capitalize on it, View-Master offered a special deal for a viewer and seven photos of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanguard_(rocket)\">Vanguard<\/a> Rocket being launched in Florida at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Canaveral\">Cape Canaveral<\/a> plus three other reels to introduce your family to the marvels of 3D in general and View-Master in particular.<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to George Dunbar for telling me about this epic advertisement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=dlQEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=January+26+1959+LIFE+google+books&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiho_emhbPlAhXjYd8KHZROBfcQ6wEIMTAB#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">January 26, 1959 edition of the popular LIFE magazine<\/a>. As you may recall, Russia caught the states with its proverbial pants down when the tiny payload of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sputnik_1\">Sputnik<\/a> rocket took off and entered orbit this month in 1957 to be the first thing in space to orbit the earth. I can still remember that night, sitting in my ham radio shack listening to the tiny beeps from space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. January 1959. The USA was digging into the space race and to capitalize on it, View-Master offered a special deal for a viewer and seven photos of a Vanguard Rocket being launched in Florida at Cape Canaveral plus three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/view-view-master-master-ad-ad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1983],"tags":[462,972,2832,2141,652,636],"class_list":["post-15833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","tag-3d","tag-ad","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-rocket","tag-sputnik","tag-view-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15837,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions\/15837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}