JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for March 24, 2019

How else are you going to relieve the boredom of a routine patrol?

I had a model E of the Viewmaster from the 1950s (now lost in the Hurricane Sandy flood in mom’s basement along with so much more) Husband had the same – not sure what happened to his. In the 1970s or 1980s we bought a newer viewer as he started buying new reels at historic sites we went to and we still have same.

Christmas 2017 he bought himself a VR holder for his cell phone. It went back to the store – his phone did not fit it. He bought about 3 others none of which he liked and he returned. We were in a computer store that had just been redone and they were selling VR holders for cell phones for 99 cents. He figured what could he lose and bought it. It is the best of the ones he had. He showed me how it works. Ummm, not so much 3D as flat pictures that move – but that is probably my eyes not the holder – the Viewmaster never looked 3D to me either, just a bunch of flat pictures behind each other.

Will she do a report on André Cassagnes next week?

Now I’m all nostalgic for the ViewMaster I had as a kid. I wonder if it’s in a box somewhere…

Is it me or is Sunny missing an arm in Panel 3?

I had a View Master! My favorite discs were the dinosaurs. My Great-Aunt had a Stereopticon and told me that’s where the View Master idea came from. I don’t know, but I do know I loved looking at her collection of pictures as much as I did my collection of discs.

I had one of these when I was a kid – it was the fancy battery powered lighted one… no need to aim it at the window or a light in the room to see the pic! No idea what happened to it long, long ago…

I remember looking at Hopalong Cassidy with mine

Sure hope Crunchy parked!

I still have two View-Masters and a number of slides.

I had a wall-eye that was eventually corrected with surgery. They tried to straighten my eye muscles first and View Master was one of the exercises. It never worked for me. I could not pull in my wandering eye to see the 3-D image. I only saw one flat image. I hated View Master because it meant failure to me.

I inherited a ViewMaster my dad had as a teenager in the 1930’s. They’d been around for over thirty years before Harrison “reshaped” them.

I loved my VM. I would put two disks in it at a time and make my own scene. A volcano erupting and a pride of lions. The Northern Lights and ostriches. An early form of photo shop

View Master was how I got to see places as a kid, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, World Fairs. As an adult I have seen these and so much more. View Master isn’t in stores, but they are still out there and my granddaughter is learning how to work one so she can see places that hopefully will still be around for her to see one day in person.

Sadly, technology has made view masters obsolete. I do remember a library that still had some stereoscopes.

Wish I had mine but my sisters and brother broke them a super long time ago..

My grandkids love them!

I loved View-Masters.

You can discover more about Charles “Chuck” Harrison on his wikipedia page, “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_”Chuck"_Harrison" and in his autobiography, “A Life’s Design: The Life And Work of Industrial Designer Charles Harrison” , ISBN-13: 978-0977327102. www.amazon.com/Lifes-Design-Industrial-Designer-Harrison/dp/0977327108/.