{"id":45,"date":"2005-04-08T22:09:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T02:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=45"},"modified":"2005-04-08T22:09:58","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T02:09:58","slug":"the-wonderful-world-of-off-model-old-character-merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/08\/the-wonderful-world-of-off-model-old-character-merchandise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderful World of Off-Model Old Character Merchandise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snohomish, Washington&#8211;a little town I visited yesterday&#8211;is home to maybe the best selection of antique shops I&#8217;ve ever seen. And its largest store is home to an astonishing array of old cartoon-related toys. With a lot of this stuff, it feels like the manufacturer just wasn&#8217;t <em>trying<\/em> to depict the characters in question in anything like an accurate fashion, I took pictures of just a few of the oddball items I stumbled across&#8211;from a red Huck Hound to portly Lady and the Tramp dolls wearing human clothing to a multitude of Soakies:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"barney.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/barney.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"672\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"huckhounds.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/huckhounds.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"huckhound.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/huckhound.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ladytramp.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/ladytramp.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"littleaudrey.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/littleaudrey.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"soaky1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/soaky1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"soaky2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/soaky2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"soaky3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/soaky3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"soaky4.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/soaky4.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yogi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/yogi.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snohomish, Washington&#8211;a little town I visited yesterday&#8211;is home to maybe the best selection of antique shops I&#8217;ve ever seen. And its largest store is home to an astonishing array of old cartoon-related toys. With a lot of this stuff, it feels like the manufacturer just wasn&#8217;t trying to depict the characters in question in anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/08\/the-wonderful-world-of-off-model-old-character-merchandise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wonderful World of Off-Model Old Character Merchandise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}