We had that sprinkler. The middle one, the green item. The RAIN KING. Wikipedia says "Sunbeam bought out the Rain King Sprinkler Company and produced one of the most popular sprinkler lines of the 1950s and 1960s." Citation needed? Hell no; we all had one. Everyone knows that.

Nine bucks then; forty bucks today.

The Oscillating Sprinkler was the lawn appliance that best summed up summer - the long slow wave back and forth, the water glistening in the sunlight, the happy heedless leap through the water in your suit. Backyard bliss.

Levelawn: leveling lawns since 1947. You'll note that these mowers don't seem to have bags - they just blew the clippings out the side. Run over some wood chips, or a loose screw, and ZING: you could embed that fragment half an inch into the siding of the house.