I’m watching an episode of Get Smart. A female character exercises on an orange disc. I remember my mom had one of those when I was a kid. It’s about a foot in diameter. The top cover and side are orange. The base is black. There must be some sort of lazy Susan thing on the inside. A person stands on the disc and then ‘does the Twist’.
What was this called?
Disco Trimmer
Did they have ‘disco’ in the '60s? I looked up ‘disco trimmer’ on google. The ones I found look the same in concept, but they’re not the actual thing.
Got the Season 1 Collection, hmm Johnny?
I have all five seasons. The device is in Season 4. ‘Trim Twist’ sounds familiar, but the ones I found when I did a search don’t look like the one in the show.
No, I think disco started in the '70s, but I actually have one I ordered thru the mail many years ago, probably in the seventies. I haven’t seen it in years but I’m pretty sure of the name but it might have been spelled Disc-o-trimmer. Maybe it was a knock off of an earlier version with another name.
I took it apart once; it had lots of small, 3/8 inch maybe, glass marbles in one or more round tracks molded into the inside of both plastic discs, which were held together at the center with a machine screw and nut, I think.
Yes, but the name might have nothing to do with disco music. It is shaped like a disc, right?
I bleieve it was and is still called a Twist Board.
Re: ‘Disco’. I do not recall ‘Disco’ being part of the name.
Re: ‘Twist Board’. That certainly looks like the same design, only updated. But ‘Twist Board’ does not sound like the actual name of the product.
Neither ‘Disco Trimmer’ nor ‘Twist Board’ are trademarks.
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Did you try Twist N Tone? Hope this helps 
a discothèque a place predated “disco music”.
Hey, I have one. Sounds like what your talking about. It belonged to my relative. Ive had it myself for 15 yrs. I just registered to this site so Im not sure how to or if I can upload a photo. But I would love to find if its the same one your talking about. Good luck& Have a good 1.
Oh Dont have the box, and no visible label.
You can’t actually upload photos to this board. You have to post a link instead.
And welcome to the SDMB!
Actually, a discotheque (French) is a place where music is played from disques vinyle (gramophone records), and disco music is the type of music most frequently played in a discotheque.
I have one at work, we modified it for something else, I’ll have to look at it when I get there.
In the U.S., the first discotheques were popular clubs in the early 1960s, playing contemporary dance music (with “go-go” dancers performing in “cages”). They faded somewhat when rock and the psychedelic era took over. Disco Music as it is most commonly understood in the U.S. is a genre of music that became popular in the 1970s into the 1980s, with characteristic emphasis on the beat and a tempo targeted for dancing. It has never widely been a generic term in the U.S. for any “music played in a discotheque” although the term was probably derived from that word. If you say “disco” most people are going to think of Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, and “Saturday Night Fever.” The genre spawned a resurgence of discotheque-style venues where recorded music was played, displacing what had been the more predominant performance of Top 40 covers by live bands.
I have no idea how old this is and you’ll have to excuse the mess, but here’s the one we have at work.
