'Touring' (& other) Rockets Of the '50s?

[Street Worm]

I really dig these-

So far I've found the Luer Meat Rocket
the Space Patrol 'Ralston' Rocket & the Rocky Jones Silvercup Bread Rocket...

Know of any others?

[Monster Bob]

Bozo's Pocket Rocket (yup- it was a real song, released on Capitol Records).

[Street Worm]

slightly related, & one I've never seen a photo of, is the
Kraft Areojet Training Space Ship


(this ad would show up on the back of comic books in 1959)

looking around I've found out a bit of it's history-

the student who won, donated it to Riverview Gardens Senior
High School in Riverview Gardens Missouri.

in the early '70s the space ship turned up at the
Bellefountaine Hab Center also in Missouri...

In '75 or '76 Joe Kuntz, administrator at Bellefountaine,
had a contractor dig a nice deep hole, push the rocket ship off of it's pad
and run over it several times with the big dozer, then push it into the hole
and cover it. 

[The Drunken Severed Head]

That's really sad. I love the pics you've shared here.

[Street Worm]

I've also been reading about  the (carnival) Star Flyer (simulator) Rocket Ships
invented by John Taggart and Sam Daugherty,
former police officers turned space age amusement entrepreneurs.

a great shot of the original Star Flyer - Peralta Playland- Oakland, Ca. 1958



the most famous Star Flyer is probably the Astroland Moon Rocket,
but there were quite a few of these around...

[Street Worm]

from a Riverview Gardens Senior High School yearbook-



this has got to be the Kraft Marshmallow Training Rocket!

my quest is done~

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[Scatter]

I want to fill my yard with those!!

[Monster Bob]

[Haunted hearse]

Too bad none of those in the pictures seemed to have survived.  Disneyland, recently built a 2/3 scale version of the Moonlner Rocker that was destroyed in the 1960's as part of the new Tomorrowland.

[general gruesome]

wow these are great! I really like rockets, they are so cool! - That one rocket looks like it's sitting in the yard of one of many homes in a 1950s suburban neighborhood, awesome!

[general gruesome]

slightly related, & one I've never seen a photo of, is the
Kraft Areojet Training Space Ship


(this ad would show up on the back of comic books in 1959)

looking around I've found out a bit of it's history-

the student who won, donated it to Riverview Gardens Senior
High School in Riverview Gardens Missouri.

in the early '70s the space ship turned up at the
Bellefountaine Hab Center also in Missouri...

In '75 or '76 Joe Kuntz, administrator at Bellefountaine,
had a contractor dig a nice deep hole, push the rocket ship off of it's pad
and run over it several times with the big dozer, then push it into the hole
and cover it. 

wow this is totally awesome!

[Street Worm]

wow these are great! I really like rockets, they are so cool! - That one rocket looks like it's sitting in the yard of one of many homes in a 1950s suburban neighborhood, awesome!

That's ten year-old Ricky Walker of Washington, Illinois's driveway-
He actually won the rocket clubhouse in the Space Patrol  "Name The Planet" contest-

SPACE PATROL NAME THE PLANET CONTEST COMMERCIALS 1953

[general gruesome]

That's ten year-old Ricky Walker of Washington, Illinois's driveway-
He actually won the rocket clubhouse in the Space Patrol  "Name The Planet" contest-

SPACE PATROL NAME THE PLANET CONTEST COMMERCIALS 1953

wow! really cool! thanks for sharing!

[Scatter]

What a freaking great era!!