Here are a few:
1) The Dooling .29. We lived 2 hours from the Chicago "Loop", and my parents took me there several times each year. My itinerary was pretty much the same and included Kroch's and Brentano's, the "world's largest bookstoor"; Carl Fischers (music); The Berghoff (lunch); the ABZ bookstore, where I could get old magazines like Air Trails; and several other places. However, one store I always visited, just for a few minutes, was the Fair Store, where I would walk in and go straight up the escalator to the mezzanine, where there was a glass case full of hobby items. One such item was a plastic case with a Dooling .29 for the usual price of $21.95. That was a pilgrimage for me. I finally got one in a trade - pretty much run out and without a needle valve. I built a Harter's "Royal Rodent" rat racer for it. Since it never flew, it rests on a file cabinet over my left shoulder now, having survived for perhaps 45 years. The Dooling is probably why I still keep it. - sort of my "Holy Grail" as a kid.
2-3) I was always intrigued by Harold DeBolt's ads. I finally bought a "Speedster", but have never yet built it. NIB and I do intend to build it and a "Hall Razor" before I depart.
4) The first or second CL plane I built.
5) Image of Bob Palmer for Pactra - One of the earliest things to attract me to CL Stunt.
6) TD RTF - 'probably should have posted in the 1954 thread.
7) This one appeared in many issues of AT and its successors.
My great running last half-A, before the TD's.
9) In AT and a reminder of where imagination often arose.
Did I mention that I had no on favorite ad?
SK