somebody asking "why do you go to so many Goodwills? Go other places!" And I wish I

had more options as far as thrift stores, they're just the dominant chain in this

area so that's why I go to so many Goodwills. However, today I have found

somewhere that's a little bit different than a Goodwill. In fact it's a little

bit different than your normal thrift store, you'll see what I mean as the

episode proceeds. So yeah let's go thrifting!

As is tradition at this point

we're starting at a Goodwill, this one with the lucky rock out front. Here, have

an offering of a dollar, we'll see if that helps. Hm I guess not, because the first thing

I see when I walk in is this. Well this really SOCKS.

This doesn't though, although the price is a bit much: 150 bucks. "Vintage record

player," it says. Well yes it is that and much more. Turns out it is a General

Electric all-in-one transistor radio/phonograph player, with hookups and

adjustments for all sorts of things really, in a pretty neat little wooden

package. Well it's not little, it's substantial. You got this fold-out record

player down here, that's just a neat design. And a lot smaller than the gigantic

stereo floor units that I often see at Goodwills. Over in the glass cases we

have glass case things, including the expected cameras of dubious desirability.

Along with one of these things: an electro-mechanical Deluxe Computer

Baseball game, probably from the mid-70s, 1976-77. I have another version

of something like this, they're pretty neat. I thought this guy was pretty

friggin cool, really fascinating display going on there with the dials that

almost--I thought it was like an oscilloscopey kind of thing at first

but it doesn't appear to be. Still with the crosshairs it looks like something

that should be in some sort of aircraft, I like it. Over with the Nuvis and

flashlights I saw this little thing: a Vivitar digital camera, which I swear is

the cheapest thing I have ever felt. It just feels like nothing, runs on triple As.

It has a USB connection, internal memory I guess. Yeah I'm gonna get it

because it's cheap in just every sense of the word, so much so that I'm

curious. Saw this little thing on the shelf below that and was curious because of

the brand Agfa. This is an Agfalux, it is a flash module that actually folds

open, although it didn't get that on video. Yeah I don't see too many Agfa

things, much less these old flashbulb modules like this, so yeah I thought it

was kind of cool. Now this caught my attention, this is a

Skyrider bike. I don't know much about bikes but something about this really

drew me in... the red, the design, the way the spokes look, the chain protector, just

all of it. They were asking $99 for it and who knows if that was a good deal, either

way I thought it looked cool. Well here's something that I know a little bit more

about! Over in the CDs I saw a copy of Battle Bugs, an MS-DOS strategy game

where you control a bunch of insects and was released by Sierra back in the day.

I do have another version of this already but I know someone who's looking for a

copy so I picked this up, it was 5 bucks. And then over in the puzzles and board

games today there was quite a bit to choose from for someone such as me. Looks

like they'd just gotten in a bunch of boxed PC software and some Macintosh stuff.

Expert Landscape, Virtual PC, Nero 6 Ultra, OmniForm, Adobe Acrobat 4... you know,

a bunch of stuff that i don't want but a few things that i did and ended up

picking up. Was also very close to picking up this right here: Cad

Complete for the Macintosh. I don't know, I'm not really big on Macintosh stuff,

I would have bought this if it was for DOS. But it's just an early early Softkey

product, I don't see many of these in the box at all. All right onto another Goodwill

and it's quite nice outside today, I'm enjoying. And inside the glass case is

sword, haha. I don't know if this is like, from some property of something? It's a

hundred bucks, I'm sure someone can tell me like, what

this is. Or maybe it's just one of those generic ones that you find at like the

beach from some guy that smells like hot dogs. Checking out the glass case near

the registers and yeah, I'm seeing a lot of these cheapo VR headsets show up now,

they're littering Goodwills. And some console games, whatever nothing I need.

However this got my attention, this is a Tomytronic Slimline Speedway. For one

thing I love this case and for another, I don't know, it's just one of those early

portable monochrome black and white electronic games. Only thing holding me

back was the price of 25 bucks, which actually wasn't

that bad once I got home and looked it up, but oh well.

Heading to the back part of the store and what in the world

look at this industrial steampunk-looking beast. It's some gigantic saw

thing. Oh it's just a Craftsman bandsaw. Yeah whatever, I just don't see like

exposed saw blades at Goodwill very often. Over on this end cap over here I

saw a copy of Symantec PC Anywhere 32 version eight. You know I do like to pick

up software like this if it's in a big box, but my personal rule is like,

unless it's version one or two of the product I don't really care. I don't know

it's just what I like. Got a couple of Sims 3 things in here a dollar fifty

each. And a copy of Duke Nukem 3D, nice. Always happy to come across this, I don't

know it's still exciting for some reason. I've played it a million times I have a

million copies but it doesn't matter, it just makes me happy to see. And I'm not

sure if this makes me happy to see but there's definitely something I'm feeling

when I'm seeing this banana sitting on a knife display stand. It's like carved out

of a piece of tree. This is so confusing and it's just classic Goodwill. Ooh, there's a

whole stack of 45s down here with their sleeves. That's actually not the most

common thing at least in my experience. I usually see 45s just sort of shuffling up

against each other getting all scratched without any sleeves. I'm not a huge

collector of them, I pick them up every so often, but the fact they had all the

sleeves -- I appreciate that whoever owned these last. And as soon as I left filming

this some guy bought all of them at once so I guess there was something good in

there. Hmm what is this, looks like old tech! Cine-Kodak Editing Kit sixteen

millimeter, all right. Hmm well unfortunately all of the stuff that used

to be in here is pretty much gone, at least all the good stuff. Not that I

would have gotten it anyway but you know whatever. Still though, neat case,

I appreciate the packaging. And you *know* I appreciate this 8-track player over here.

Shiny chrome and black and some wood grain, aw yes, sweet looking-knobs and

switches and dials. Rarely do I bring kit like this home, but man are they

enjoyable to admire. And the shelf below that and I thought this was kind of

fascinating, this is a Radio Shack Tele Pone.

Yeah like telephone without the H. Essentially a Rolodex and you just put

in like, contacts, phone numbers and stuff.

And then you can key them up with those letters down there and it'll sort to them

automatically. Analog tech like this fascinates me, kinda like flip clocks and

you know just anything like that. Flippy things, they're neat! And I thought this

was just a clock but it turns out it is much more than that. This right here is

The Timer ™ model number X10-TC262. And yes this is an X10-compatible device

for all of you Oddware viewers out there. I'm not entirely sure how this works but

that's why I bought it: because I want to try it with my existing X10 system,

because I have that going where I can control a lot of stuff in my house with

my MS-DOS computer and if I can make more things happen with this timer?

Definitely getting this. And as I was leaving I noticed this ad for the Goodwill "Color

Me Goodwill Fashion Show." That just sounds fantastic somehow. Okay under the

tree to another Goodwill, here we go. Ooh hey in the puzzles and board games I see a

Learning Company logo, what is this? Nothing. Yeah I like a lot of Learning

Company games but when they started getting into this territory of just like

straight-up education? Nah man I want that edutainment! So this was kind of

interesting, this is a Sharp Aquos AVC system. Maybe the TV went with it and nobody

knew what it went with? Like, Sharp Aquos is a series of TVs, this is the control

box that goes with the TV, so seeing them separate is kind of odd. I do wonder if

there's any use for this outside of its intended situation. Now this this was

much more tempting, this is a Sony SL-2400 Betamax VCR. I dug a lot about this

except that it was not in great shape and when I turned it on the mechanism

was making some strange noises. It might have just needed new belts or something.

I don't know, either way I didn't get this one. One of them though, one of these

days. Up above that I saw a typewriter that caught my attention, because I mean,

look at the design of this thing! Green-topped keys, now those just look

friggin cool. It's an Olivetti Underwood Praxis 48. If I could get a modern

mechanical keyboard with those key tops I totally would. And as I was about to

leave the store I saw this here, which was a -- I don't know, it struck me as oddly

melancholy, kind of sad. "Unanswered prayers." Maybe it's

supposed to be encouraging because it was empty, so it's like "all your

prayers have been answered!" But at the same time it's just like, are you

supposed to put your unanswered prayers in there? I don't know it's making me

think too much. And finally one more Goodwill here and

it's this one. And inside the glass case, I don't know man.

This scouring pad holder just caught my attention: "I'll hold your scouring pad."

How direct and oddly friendly. Oh and hey look it's one of our local

mascots. The Tourists baseball team has a moon for a mascot. I don't know what the

story is behind that but he's a little disturbed. Whoa check out this very green

upright piano. It almost looks like it was painted by hand way after the fact, maybe

it was! Either way though a pretty old thing, they were asking 95 bucks for it.

I do not recognize the brand but I'm sure someone in the comments will enlighten.

Over in the junk I found some junk and a PC game here, a kids' game which is

Stanley: Tiger Tales. Never heard of this but it was in a big box, I like that.

But yeah you know whatever I don't know anything about it so I'm not gonna get it.

I did kind of want this though. This is a Wendy's Burger Magic 8 Ball.

I did ask it whether this very video would reach a million views and "Burger sources

say no" is the result, so, oh well I tried. And check these things out, I saw the

Panasonic logo but was like "what the heck, like pencil sharpeners?" Nope,

they are closed-circuit security cameras, complete with some of the equipment as

well. Man I don't know what kind of age these are but I kinda like the retro design going on.

ROBOT.

And the last thing of note here was this Shred X Watergate

paper shredder. I don't know if that's the best or the worst name for a paper

shredder. Either way though props to the marketing

department on that one. And then last up for today, I just ran across this store

as I was driving around and was instantly intrigued. It didn't have a

sign out front, no name anyth--I couldn't even find it on Google Maps. It seems

they're in some sort of a transitionary period from old owners to the new ones,

so maybe it'll have a name later on. Seems that it used to be called Third

Hand Co-op. It's not really a thrift store or an antique store, it's sort of just a

junk shop. There are a bunch of these around me but this one, they just had so

much junk outside that I'm like "man, who knows what's inside!" So I stopped

and gave it a look and was instantly impressed with just the sheer amount of

stuff. I'm just kind of gonna gloss over a lot of this here because this place

was huge, every square foot had at least one thing of interest. There's a Brownie Kodak

camera in there randomly. Nothing is really sorted exactly, like some things

are together like the music and the movies. But then there's just random

sections of model cars and then other stuff thrown elsewhere that doesn't

really belong anywhere but it could if they organized it. But most of it is just

not organized, at least not right now. I myself spent about an hour just browsing

this place so suffice to say this will be heavily edited and I just want to

show a few of the things that were of interest to me.

Random electronics in here, VCRs and tape players that kind of thing. But yeah

this place has a little bit of everything I could think of from

glassware to pith helmets to paintings to gardening shears, gas pumps, desk fans,

pillows, baskets, a lot of toys, a lot of really weird knick-knack type of stuff.

Most of it seeming to be from like the 1970s to the mid-2000s. Most of it's not

the kind of stuff that I would buy but I did find a few things of note.

Starting with this desk lamp and you know, it was just a lamp but yeah I don't know.

There's something about the design of these kind of things in particular, I've

always enjoyed them. I have one at home but this one looked a little different

so I liked it. And then ooh, I saw vacuum tubes and some kind of freaky-looking

General Electric stuff going on, what is this? Well it's a piece of furniture that

is a radio. I don't really know any exact model numbers or a whole lot about it.

They were asking $125 for it and yeah it had one of those early 20th century

designs. Almost art deco, maybe not, I don't know it looks cool though. A lot of

camera-like photography and video stuff was just hanging around all over the