View-Master Vanishing From Landscape

Photograph by Tom Uhlman / AP Mary Ann Sell holds one of her more than 25,000 discs.

View-Master to stop selling scenic photos Fisher-Price will continue making discs of more popular cartoon characters. Associated Press March 8, 2009 Columbus, Ohio — Amber LaPointe's introduction to one of the country's greatest tourist attractions came from small square pictures on a white wheel. "It was like you could look into a world away," said the 28-year-old from Toledo, Ohio. "My only image of the Grand Canyon was from the View-Master." The iconic reels of tourist attractions, often packaged with a clunky plastic viewer and first sold to promote 3-D photography, are ending their 70-year run after years of diminishing sales. Collectors like Mary Ann Sell of Maineville, Ohio, are dismayed. Read more>>>

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[Eve]

I must admit, I thought they went out of business decades ago.