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Joker
24-02-04, 04:01 PM
Somewhere on my travels around the net I have seen a colour picture of Porky (Tannoy ?) just spent all afternoon looking to no avail, also bit of a long shot this one any one got a sound file of the said porker ????

Have Fun

Alex J-UK
dummyten
24-02-04, 04:25 PM
Here you go me old mucker!
Joker
25-02-04, 07:55 AM
Cheers mate

24 mins now thats what I call service !!!

Now you lot what about the sound ! (did he make any noise?)

Have Fun

Alex J-UK
dummyten
25-02-04, 10:43 AM
no worries ... i check on the site a few times a day for anything interesting.

Getting a bit futile recently tho ... it's all but dried up.

Such a shame ...such a shame.
Sharky
25-02-04, 10:58 AM
Only sound that i remember was that of a very powerful vac cleaner. Great for shoving little sisters hand into...What fun

Cheers

Sharky..
Pushbutton
25-02-04, 11:18 AM
Idora Park was an amusement park located in Youngstown Ohio, USA.
The park was open from 1899 till 1984. It sat abandon from 1985 till just recently when a fire in the ballroom and the tearing down of the Wild Cat and Jack Rabbit sounded the parks final end.

If you go to
http://members.tripod.com/~idorapark/album-pg5.html
you will see a photo of Porky the paper eater, clearly identical to the Butlins ones.

I do not know if it was actually FROM Butlins, or just made by the same company that supplied Butlins. Very interesting either way.
Pushbutton
25-02-04, 11:30 AM
After a closer look I strongly recommend all campers have a look at the Idora Park site. (although a pop-up stopper will come in handy)

These people are very similar to us. They even have photos of the park in its abandoned and derilict state, and a message board (albeit not often used) where they talk about how good Idora used to be!!!

Apparently one of the ballrooms at Idora Park ended its days as "The Crazy Horse Saloon"

Now are they copying us, or we copying them, or is this one of those spooky co-incidences known as synchronicity?

I'll let you decide...
Kerry
01-03-04, 08:32 PM
is it like a bin? i have never seen one in my life lol 8)
Pushbutton
03-03-04, 09:41 AM
After 3, everyone say "ahhhh!" for poor Kerry!

1, 2, 3, "Ahhhhhh!"

Yes Kerry, it is like a bin, but Butlinised!
Tom
03-03-04, 10:50 AM
Ahhhhhh!
Kerry
07-03-04, 07:48 PM
aww thanks lol they should still have them, i bet it encouraged small children to throw away there litter :lol:
davidharle
27-08-05, 09:17 PM
yeah they should still have them, think how they would brighten up our town centres, and they certainly encouraged kids to bin their litter
Redcoat Jase
28-08-05, 10:19 AM
They've got a Bin like that at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, It's a Tiger :D
raybenuk
28-08-05, 06:08 PM
I remember these. Wow! I'm amazed other people do. I was terrified of the thing and I know for a fact I would never have put my hand anywhere near it. I mean, for goodness sake, what sort of weird, corrupt, distorted mind ever came up with the design....its like something out of Alice in Wonderland..! I'll have nightmares tonight.... :wink: