Posted on 12/25/2008 8:59:35 AM PST by Soliton
This Mattel toy set would peobably get you arrested today.
I want one.
I had a winchester rifle toy that shot plastic bullets. We lost all the plastic "slugs" Christmas day. From then on it was "bang!", "Bang!"
The most dangerous toy I ever had was a plastic toy molding kit. It heated up and you used a vacuum pump to make little car bodies and things. Hot meltal and molten plastic are a little rough on a 10 year old. I still have scars at 51!
I had the snubnose as a kid. It was a great little gun for playing cops and robbers or cowboys and indians. Always scrounging for rolls of caps.
Merry Christmas
I’ll bet there is no plastic on that pistol either! Remember those die cast metal guns from back then? Hell there aint that much steel in a car any more.
Is the Red Rider BB gun (rifle) still available somewhere?
If not, why not?
That lever action is really cool!
As an adult toy, of course!
: )
Merry Christmas
I posted earlier today, but my favorite toy was even more politically incorrect.
http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/commercials/Johnny_Reb_Cannon_Commercial/#26430
You are absolutely correct. Growing up in the fifties and sixties was idyllic, for me at least. And, yes, $7 was real money. I got my first job in 1965, making $0.65 per hour, in a restaurant in the small town where I grew up. So, that $7 would be about 11 hours of labor.
Thought I was on top of the world, though. Also did some yard work for an elderly lady that lived across the street from us. She paid me ten cents per hour...and lunch. Even that was a pretty good deal, at the time.
OMG, how times have changed...and not always for the better.
I had the Fanner 50 back then as well. Did you have the belt buckle derringer that flipped out and shot a little plastic bullet as you expanded your belly? Remember all the TV shows...Maverick, The Rebel, Bat Masterson, Hopalong Cassidy, Cheyenne, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, The Cisco Kid, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Wagon Train... Westerns were definitely all the rage.
Do you recall the shiny cap gun shaped like a 1911 .45, where the cap holder popped up on a hinge and a roll of caps was placed in on a post then the ‘magazine’ was snapped back down and you could fire away?
Oh ... I always wanted one of those! They were heavy, not like the stamped two-sided production line cap guns. The belt for the holster had loops to store extra ‘bullets’. A few years after that one came out, I seem to recall a ‘buntline special’, which had a shoulder stock you could attach to make it into a carbine. A neighborhood friend whose family owned a grocery wholesale had the best toys. He was nice enough to share, too! Dickey Brummitt ... but it didn’t last as he grew up.
Had a “burp gun” cap assult rifle back in the 50’s . Wound it up on the side and ran through a roll of caps in about 10 seconds .Awesome!! I think it was made by Mattel also .
I never got a Red Rider BB gun as a kid. Bought for myself a Winchester 94AE not long ago, in .357 caliber, complete with the metal ring on the side. Hot darn!
I got a Hopalong Cassidy gun set one time. The cylinder revolved and had bullets in it. The bullets came apart and you put caps inside them and loaded it The holter were first clas to, not the kind that fell apart, In fact I have seen real holsters that werent that good.
Lordy those were great toys.
I had this toy that I have never been able to remember the name of.
It was a tube with a plunger setup that you would put wax in and plug it in.
There were these kind of snap together molds that you would slide into the bottom of it, then push the plunger.
It made tanks and planes and troops, army stuff.
Got a lot of use out of it, for an 11 year old kid or so, it was cool!
Me either, I got a Daisy. ; )
Mattel, #536, “Burp gun” Automatic cap gun, Safe 1 to 50 shots at trigger touch, noisy fire bursts, smoking barrel. All metal working parts. Perforated roll caps....1957....$300.00
http://www.momandpopstoys.com/guns.htm
I used to get $2.00 for mowing a lawn in the summer in Louisiana. I threw up from the heat many a time.
Our parents really wanted Christmas to be special to pay that kind of money for toys.
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