History's Dumpster = GLORIOUS trash! Kitsch, music, fashion, food, history, ephemera, and other memorable and forgotten, famous and infamous pop cultu

History's Dumpster: The Bell & Howell Language Master

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2024-10-31 03:30:09

History's Dumpster = GLORIOUS trash! Kitsch, music, fashion, food, history, ephemera, and other memorable and forgotten, famous and infamous pop culture junk and oddities of yesterday and today. Saved from the landfill of time...

Yes, Yes--I vividly remember using one of these in my grade school days--one of my classes had one of these machines with a few cards (I remember recording and playing back one of them, it was a fun machine for a 2nd grader for me to use!). I was racking my brain until now trying to remember what the name of the system was! Thanks for posting this, quite a nostalgic flashback for me!!!

My dad was a first grade public school teacher and had this thing in his classroom in the early 1970s to help kids learn to pronounce and spell words. I still remember one of the cards he recorded: "Cookies ... cookies ... cookies ... C-O-O-K-I-E-S..." It seemed pretty funny, especially since I heard this in fourth grade around 1972. He didn't have it around for very long, so I suppose this system didn't sell for very long?

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