Had hours of fun with this as a kid.
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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Clothes made from flour sacks. Mother or grandma would make me some for the start of the school year and some more for Christmas. I remember the year grandma made Barbie clothes.
Old flour sacks still make the best kitchen towels. I get some every so often and was given one for Christmas this year. Going to have to soak it in straight detergent to get out the old grease feel but none the less an excellent present.
Had hours of fun with this as a kid.
They have a picture of an Atari 400 computer instead of an Atari VCS (2600).
Classic
I still have my train set in original box.
Oh, there was a lot of “playing” going on late Christmas eve/early Christmas morning.
That is why parents looks so tired Christmas morning when the kids wake up at the crack of dawn.
I still have my Pinewood Derby car
I've got Chinese takeout leftovers in my refrigerator older than that.
She was good to her word...I was cranking out cookies from about age 11 onward...
Clackers and lawn darts!
I still have a big scar on my left knee from an incident that occurred when I was about 7 or 8. My brother had a Lionel train set, and had set it up in the living room. My mother told me to help him put it away, and I got mad, and said I hadn't even been playing with it. I was so angry, that I picked up the steam engine, and forcefully shoved it into one end of the box, and it fell back out the other end, the cow catcher leaving a big gash in the area just above my knee. Back then, your option of getting stitches were slim to none. My mother never babied us, put some vaseline on it, covered it with gauze and adhesive tape, and that was that. I'm 70, and the scar is still very visible. It's about 1 1/4 inches long, and about 1/4 wide.
I actually had the same crab Beanie Baby in my picture, but it was bluish and brown...
I think all the Beanie Babies we had are in a box in the attic now.
Lincoln Logs
My brother and I received a complete Lionel Train set in 1954, including a cattle loader that vibrated the cows up a ramp and into the cattle car. My mother gave it away before a family move in the 60’s.......My brother and I were upset when we found out a few years later : (
Are you one of my kids?
“They had rocks back then, right?”
My mom, born in Greece in 1944, always likes to tell what my sister and I referrred to as her poor little Greek girl stories. She used to only have rocks to play with. She and her 6 siblings played jacks with rocks, battleships with rocks, etc.
No toys before 1963?
How about Lincoln Logs and Tinkertoys? Yep small pieces that got lost quick!
Me too. One year my Dad built me a tree house, another year was a wagon and, of course, the ultimate non PC cap pistol.
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