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Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 16, 2024
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Wham-O Instant Fish advertising leaflet, 1962

In the 1960s, Wham-O toys nearly gave kids something far more spectacular than the hideously disappointed Sea-Monkeys — an instant aquarium that would spawn colorful, rainbow-hued fish from a cube of dried African mud.

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