Posted on 12/21/2017 10:08:52 AM PST by bgill
Just reading the posts is a reminder of how far we have come from the better life.
Remember the Visible Man?
Mine spilled his guts in the alley when I got the Daisy BB gun!!
1946? Was there a 1946?
They didn’t have toys in 1946. Toys weren’t invented till the late 50s/early 60s.
Are you one of my kids?
:) Are you rich? I mean like filthy dirty rich? I could be...
Born in 1960 ... Some very popular stuff missing from that list:
ERECTOR SET
LEGO
LINCOLN LOGS
MONOPOLY
ETCH-A-SKETCH
PLAY-DOE
SILLY-PUTTY
MATCHBOX
WHAMO! FRISBEE
SUPER-ELASTIC-BUBBLE PLASTIC!
SLOT CAR RACERS
I had all the above, plus ...
GI-JOE, with all the “accessories,” the Jeep and trailer with recoil-less rifle, search light, etc.
Plastic green soldiers (by the 100s)
TONKA Trucks? I had dozens - and the real McCoy, not the cheap Chinese crap they make today.
Lionel Trains - my layout covered 2 sheets of 4x8 plywood, and then some!
Trouble, Parcheesi, Battleship, Sub Search, Stratego, Chinese Checkers, American Checkers, Chess, Slinkies, 1000s of Marbles, Romper Stompers, Game of Life, Clue, etc ...
Had dozens of model airplanes, naval ships, and the original Star Trek “Enterprise” (which lit up).
Had kites, flying model planes, model rockets ...
Had the Radio Shack amateur radio hobby kits, walkie-talkies, etc.
Made my own gun powder and fireworks (Mom not thrilled)
Yeah, we had fun ... Because we had real toys!
Looks like I'm still too old.
We are so old, we got dirt for Christmas and our birthdays!
LOL A wheel? Years listed, my year failed to make the cut and unlisted as well. Born before the discovery of toys!
I had both of these games, many hours playing them.
And the visible engine with the little light bulbs for spark plugs.
I got those book life savers too! 1969 or 70
No coal?
Well coal, is dirt, I guess.
You win for most intact memory!
LOL! I HAD THEM! HA-HAH!
WE beat the crap out of ‘em!
That must have been about 1970/71.
Regards,
OMG! I forgot about those! Yeah, they were fun!
Something gets broken in the house so the kid tells Mom,
“Well, don’t look at me, Mr. Machine did it!”
;^)
All kinds of them!....Jaxstones...marbles...pick-up stixs...jump-ropes...ice skates...roller-skates...Toboggans...Western Flyer wagons and sleds...Daisy BB guns...games galore....Monopoly...Parcheesi...Clue etc...
They didn't call the Sears and Roebuck catalog the “Wish-Book” for nothing!...and it could be recycled in the outhouse when the new one came out!......
Ahhh..for the good old days....
Yep, the day the Wish-Book came was even better than Christmas itself.
We had that Creepy Crawlers.... that was kind of fun. The goop stuff was digusting. I think they revived that toy, when my kids were young-ish (mid to late 1980s?), and I bought it for them.
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