Cool stuff. Check out this video with "B. Going" as part of the bomber controls. A little bit of video magic could tranform it into a very cool "B. Boing" control.

http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/tvve/nbs9s.mpg

My 77 y/o Mom has a Virgin Mobile prepay phone that costs $6.66 a month to operate ($20 every 3 mnths). I think Virgin has changed the rules to require you to spend $20 every 2 months but it's still a great deal.

You can get charge up cards at the local 7-11, at brick and mortar stores, or set it up to be billed automatically online.

Unless the person using this phone has severe vision or arthritis problems I think a basic prepay phone is a much better, much more affordable option.

The Turtle Club is mentioned in Tom Wolfe's novel 'The Right Stuff' about the Mercury astronauts.

My family has one of these clocks.

My grandfather bought one as a gift in the early 1940s while working in Bermuda as a aircraft mechanic for Pan Am. The model we have is a variation of the Genie, call it the Swami. I used to get yelled at as a kid for playing with the clock and winding it - not because it was valuable but the 'tick,tick,tick' is very loud.

The Swami model is stained wood, not painted, and has a turban similar to the Genie but with a different carved face and outfit. The outstretched palms hold a matching wooden coaster that my Mom thinks is original.