I'm obsessed with terrariums right now. Truth: I've been obsessed since I had this behemoth in my living room when I was a kid. It was a wonderland in there. A perfect little microcosm I would get lost in just peeking inside.
I've had an eBay alert set up to get myself one of these if the come up for auction but I haven't heard a peep. I've seen things I could use as a modern version but lacking the same charm...
I've harassed my family as to what happened to it. It was apparently placed in our greenhouse for safe keeping a zillion years ago and it cracked due to extreme heat. Sadness.
BTW- I look exactly the same now but I wear red lipstick...
p.s. cool shoes, Dad
p.s.s. That shopping cart met a bizarre demise when we strung it up from the pulley system of our tree house and whacked it with a bat until it was molecular-sized when I was about 12- I believe that particular incident also included some apple throwing at neighbor kids...
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If you find two, I want one as well. It is a very seventies shape: in fact I believe that the television in Tommy (the Ken Russell film) was shaped like that. If you remember it erupted baked beans and foam all over Ann Margaret who then writhed around the floor.
Even if it wasn't that shape, it jolly well should have been.
Great shoes.
I did actually found them on eBay, but the asking price is SICK and really whallops the fun right out of it. Even with the exchange rate as it is...
Oh, Amanda, you really need this Virgo friend to help you find things! LOL
I did a quick (and I mean QUICK) ebay search of 5 minutes and came up with three great terrariums for you, INCLUDING THE VERY ONE YOU WANTED!!!
Don't get all whiney about the prices: they are what they are and there is a certain charm to just ponying up the cash when you REALLY want something! Good luck getting the round one; $100 bucks is pretty darn cheap for something this old and still intact.
Here are the links, Darlink:
http://cgi.ebay.com/REAL-VINTAGE-60S-TERRARIUM_W0QQitemZ230293110708QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item230293110708&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=310085296085
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=200255153660
You're right about the $100 one. I wonder why my search alert didn't alert me on that? I get 40 emails a day from ebay...hmmm!
Yeah, I'll totally bid on that! Thanks Bee!
Love the photo and the terrarium.
We had a glass one when I was a kid. My mum used to do the gardening in it with a knickerbocker glory spoon.
The 1970s have a lot to answer for.
Well it is 10/2008. I didn't happen to see when your post was but I went to the links in EBay and the items no longer were listed. :( My daughter wants one...probably remembers the 70's one that we also had. So, I'm looking for one. Will go check Ebay again. Anyone know of any more places to check?
Doplastic, a company in Benton Harbor Michigan is repoping the tulip base globe terrariums with the original molds. i want one so bad. someone mentioned a tulip base tv in a movie. it is probably a keracolor. i want one of those too. everyting is better on a tulip base.
We're getting ready to carry the DoPlastic Terrarium at www.lindaanderson.com. A white one will be about $80, and other colors (there are LOTS of them to choose from) will be $90. We should have them on the website by the first week of June 2009.
The man whose making these is passionate about them, and the sample we got is exactly like the ones from our childhood, thanks to those original molds. The model he's making right now is the one where the clear sphere looks like a globe.
I had a globe terrarium when i was a teenager. I would love to get another one... I will keep trying until I can get one. Sunshine
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