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The Most Popular Christmas Toy from the Year You Were Born
livingly ^ | unknown | unknown

Posted on 12/21/2017 10:08:52 AM PST by bgill

1. 1963: Easy Bake Oven

2. 1964: G.I. Joe

3. 1965: Operation

4. 1966: Twister

5. 1967: Battleship

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To: bgill

Just reading the posts is a reminder of how far we have come from the better life.


121 posted on 12/21/2017 10:56:01 AM PST by Maudeen (http://www.thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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To: dhs12345

Remember the Visible Man?

Mine spilled his guts in the alley when I got the Daisy BB gun!!


122 posted on 12/21/2017 10:56:03 AM PST by Gasshog (When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!)
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To: arthurus

1946? Was there a 1946?

They didn’t have toys in 1946. Toys weren’t invented till the late 50s/early 60s.


123 posted on 12/21/2017 10:57:02 AM PST by suthener
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To: mass55th

Are you one of my kids?


:) Are you rich? I mean like filthy dirty rich? I could be...


124 posted on 12/21/2017 10:57:13 AM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: bgill

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!


125 posted on 12/21/2017 10:57:25 AM PST by JME_FAN
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To: laker_dad
For us really old kids...

Looks like I'm still too old.

126 posted on 12/21/2017 10:58:08 AM PST by Maceman (The)
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To: Reno89519

We are so old, we got dirt for Christmas and our birthdays!


127 posted on 12/21/2017 10:58:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP ACT!,)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

LOL A wheel? Years listed, my year failed to make the cut and unlisted as well. Born before the discovery of toys!


128 posted on 12/21/2017 10:59:24 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: mass55th
"1950s: Mr Potato Head."
I got the game "Cootie."

I had both of these games, many hours playing them.

129 posted on 12/21/2017 11:00:40 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Gasshog
Oh ya! Lol. Just like a boy to find something “useful” to do with an “educational” toy. :)

And the visible engine with the little light bulbs for spark plugs.

130 posted on 12/21/2017 11:01:19 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: mass55th

I got those book life savers too! 1969 or 70


131 posted on 12/21/2017 11:01:20 AM PST by JME_FAN
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To: Grampa Dave

No coal?

Well coal, is dirt, I guess.


132 posted on 12/21/2017 11:02:02 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: JME_FAN

You win for most intact memory!


133 posted on 12/21/2017 11:02:15 AM PST by Gasshog (When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!)
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To: McGruff

LOL! I HAD THEM! HA-HAH!
WE beat the crap out of ‘em!


134 posted on 12/21/2017 11:04:05 AM PST by JME_FAN
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To: Gasshog; WayneS; dfwgator
I had a Thing-Maker - and also the goop for making the edible creepy-crawlies.

That must have been about 1970/71.

Regards,

135 posted on 12/21/2017 11:04:07 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: dfwgator

OMG! I forgot about those! Yeah, they were fun!


136 posted on 12/21/2017 11:04:53 AM PST by JME_FAN
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To: Obadiah

Something gets broken in the house so the kid tells Mom,

“Well, don’t look at me, Mr. Machine did it!”

;^)


137 posted on 12/21/2017 11:08:53 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Reno89519
Am I so old that they don’t have history for my birth year? No toys back then?<<<

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....

138 posted on 12/21/2017 11:10:07 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: M-cubed

Yep, the day the Wish-Book came was even better than Christmas itself.


139 posted on 12/21/2017 11:11:13 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Gasshog

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.


140 posted on 12/21/2017 11:11:29 AM PST by NEMDF
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