Sometimes I just pick a page at random out of the Wish Books and post something from that page. I have been amazed how some of these items have gotten so many responses, when it was something I would not have normally posted. That taught me that I don’t always know what the readers want to see. Here is another one of those random picks.

The Magic Answer Machine was an electronic gizmo from 1977 that helped teaching kids how to spell. You put a picture into the machine and hit buttons to get the device to spell one letter at a time.