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January 5, 2024

Water-pressure rocket toy ad from 1950s comics surrounded by other small ads for squirrel monkeys, bike decals and Venus fly traps. A red plastic rocket swoops upwards from a circle of children who launched it. Captioned "JET ROCKET, ZOOMS 300 FEET."

Will Falk prevent scandal and sabotage of the United States Rocketry Program? Does his friend Jimmy seem familiar? Is chili a myth? Listen to find out! 

Ad Space, episode 95 of This Gun in My Hand, was advertised and spaced by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I make space for ads? With This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Anachronism: Umberto Eco was seven years old in 1939, the time this story is set.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), with more music from The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948) and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: old pinball.wav
By mapleleaf
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/mapleleaf/sounds/34730/

Sound Effect Title: Classic Pinball Gameplay
By theshaggyfreak
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/theshaggyfreak/sounds/404144/

Sound Effect Title: Fail (Trombone wah, wah, wah…) - Sound Effect.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/NikPlaymostories/sounds/563850/

Sound Effect Title: Beep 1 sec.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/austin1234575/sounds/213795/

The image accompanying this episode is from 1950s and 1970s comic book or magazine ads, presumed to be public domain.

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