{"id":11233,"date":"2013-01-07T05:29:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=11233"},"modified":"2019-12-16T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T19:04:32","slug":"slurpee-cups-from-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/01\/07\/slurpee-cups-from-the-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"Slurpee Cups from the 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These collectible Slurpee cups come from the era of flared jeans, Earth Shoes<\/a> and leaded gasoline. This is back before the internet, home video, video games and other fabulous electrified time-wasters. Only three broadcast networks and a handful of UHF channels broadcasting reruns were available at the time. Fantasy fiends had to content themselves with Lee Majors<\/em><\/a> leaping in slow motion, well-worn reruns of Star Trek<\/em> and low-rent, cornball fare like Godzilla Vs Megalon<\/em><\/a> or At The Earth’s Core<\/em><\/a> dumped into weekend kiddie matinees. The one oasis was the monthly comics in spinning metal racks at newsstands, drug stores and convenience stores like 7-Eleven.<\/strong> 7-Eleven also catered to the kids with super-hero drink cups. My younger brother and I had to have them. It was worth the brain freeze to get our favorite character on a cup. The problem was that the cups were random and the Slurpee machine was behind the counter. Whatever the clerk grabbed was yours. He poured it, you bought it. Sometimes you would luck out and end up with Iron Man.<\/strong> Other times you wound up with the Sub-Mariner <\/strong>(water-logged Spock-looking guy) or Chameleon Boy <\/strong>(we hated DC back then.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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