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vintage 1950s to 1970s SF San Francisco Zoo Talking Storybook memorabilia by Audio Tours, Inc
[NOT FOR SALE, EXHIBIT ONLY]
| This a a great part of our childhood. A beautiful
piece of Americana history preserved for generations to come. What
you see below is a empty housing for the talking storybook. Those
who have visited the Zoo may recall those colorful elephant shaped
keys. Insert key into one of these "Informative Educational Books"
and Whola! A voice with information. This will coincide with
whatever animal exhibit at hand e.g. lions, ape, elephant etc. How
many of you still have these momentos? Also how many of you broke a
key. I recall breaking a few. We found these goodies via eBay. The
ultimate flea market. TIDBIT: This was invented in the 1950s by a well known bay area's children entertainer and puppeteer: Bruce Sedley. Check out this website on Sedley and Friends. More info on Bruce HERE --- Bruce is the owner of http://www.corkey.com/ NOTE: hyperlinks will open a new browser window $BUYING$ We are looking for all the different color elephant keys especially with the original tags. We are especially looking to buy any San Francisco Zoological board members keys. The gold plated as seen below was from an SF Zoo executive. If you have more info on the matter et us know. All the info is to the best of our knowledge |
1950's? vintage Talking Storybook top [variation from the one below]
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VERY RARE 1950's? vintage Talking Storybook box minus the internals
[variation from the one below]
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200? - present SF Zoo Gorilla Key [GREEN color]
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200? - present SF Zoo Gorilla Key [ORANGE color]
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1950's to 1970s SF Zoo key [BLUE color]
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1950's to 1970s SF Zoo key [BLUE color]
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1950's to 1970s SF Zoo key [BLUE color, Wells Fargo variation]
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1950's to 1970s SF Zoo executive society key [GOLD color]
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1950's to 1970s SF Zoo key [GREEN color]
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1950's to 1970s SF Zoo key [RED color]
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1950's to 1970s SF Zoo key [RED color]
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Cleveland Zoo, we got this from Bruce Sedley :-)
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