Last week’s most viewed item was the Sears Electronic Digital Clock (check it out in the "vintage" department).
I picked this item up at a garage sale about 2 years ago and considered installing it in my (clock less) greasy work car. My earlier attempts to install dollar store digital clocks with that double sided foam tape didn’t work well at all. I usually found it an hour after installing it on the floor of the car in the hot summer months with bits of sand , dead flys, stink bugs, and grass stuck to the tape. Usually finding one that stuck well meant that it would work exactly one week then the segments would die and 8:00 would read E:00 and display various segments and then after one week be “dead”
It is rather surprising how the entire clock would cost 1.00 while the battery alone was 1.59. No way was I to lay out 3.99 for a good one. This one for two bucks seemed "neat" - untill I figured out it is a little more work to wire into the car power than to buy a battery -- Not a large task by any means ...Anyway getting back on track …since the interest of this clock (lookers but no buyers) I decided to find out or tell a little more about it.
It’s hard to see in the picture but the lady running the garage sale just “had” to directly write 2.00 on the hanger tab and in ink no less . She was one of those with a bee-hive hairdoo , chewing gum and wore an apron colored green to collect the money and topped with a visor hat and was “everyplace” at once and “everything” you touched she would announce what it was. Such as – "That’s a digital clock – you can put it in your car – it uses the cars' battery for power “. So when I paid her for it I told her “That’s a dollar bill – It’s money – you can spend it at the grocery store”
The clock still has that “fake” vinyl on the face of it saying 6:28 – so one could say it’s correct at least twice in a 24 hr time period. It has the “Sears” logo on it and has all the packing – I figured she bought it for her car and never got around to installing it either. It is real neat how the box says “CAR CLOCK CAR CLOCK” over and over on the box – graphic design at its finest.The hanger tab has D>28 and MY> 2083 --Hmmm it looks like late 70 or 80’s stuff to me –could it be this stand for 1983 – – I was thinking maybe 20/28/1983 but forgot there are only month 20 has only 27 days.Otherwise on the back of the package they show that you can put it in various places in your car – On top of dash , On dash and under dash – all look rather out of place to me – I can only imagine where people would have put it without this info – maybe trunk , rear deck or in the glove box.
Anyway all things said these things “needs” to be wired into the cars electrical system – I tried to find one searching thru Google – Seems that the ones that need to be wired to the vehicle are not that common – So it defiantly is vintage in my book – Just think of all the battery money you will save.
posted by FiveStarGeneralStore @ 10:54 AM
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