Babee Tenda!
Jenny is still organizing our photos from this weekend, but I thought I would do a quicky post about one item that sort of turned into the theme of our sale day. It’s BABEE TENDA!
While packing up the car after a really amazing sale I noticed a sign on the side of what they were using as their cashier table: “Babee Tenda - $5.” All I could think was WTF is that?!?!?
It looked like a normal small kids table, but as soon as you lift the green table top up you see it has an alphabet and animals. The main part of the table opens and becomes a seat.
You can see it in action in this old ad (with great commentary) over at Do What Now. Apparently one of the guys having the sale used to get put into this contraption as a youth. I had to snag it. The graphics on it are awesome.
Of course we felt the need to say BABEE TENDA about 50 more times thoughout the day.
They still make them.
Paper Dolls for Boys said,
June 23, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
That is a super score. 5 bucks! I’m not even in on the joke but you can bet I’m going to drop, “babee tenda” into conversation about 10 times today alone.
Thanks for sharing.
Goddess in the Groove said,
June 25, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
You made a steal!! This looks like a vintage one. I am getting ready to sell ours, it was around 350.00 ten years ago :). It is an amazing table…..
thorn said,
July 12, 2008 @ 8:23 am
this thing looks frighteningly familiar, but i cannot think why. i don’t believe i ever had one myself, but those labeled pictures.. “house”.. “airplane”.. “ship”.. “car”… they’re somehow burned into my brain.
lisa said,
September 29, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
i have an original 1948 manual to that! do you want it? it’s pretty hilarious and has a whole section on the “crotch strap.”
i live in seattle too…