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 want one too! LOL
That’s a great TV commercial. The good old days.
Same here. We had one of those Davy Crocket hats, sticks, and lots of imagination.
We used to get packages of some kind of little white balls that would SNAP! like a gunshot when you threw them hard onto the sidewalk. I also enjoyed those things that you'd light and they'd turn into (ash) "snakes".
“I can also still smell the acrid but exciting gunpowder smell whenever you “got a shot off”.”
Stop it now. You’re starting to scare us. LOL!
was the Encylcopaedia Brittanica, late 50's edition. Many entries about warfare were written by WW2 veterans and former partisans. Improvised napalm, booby traps, silencers, plastic explosives, squad-level tactics, field interrogations - they covered everything.
I still have some tiny burn scars from the napalm. Set the side of the house on fire - fortunately we had "liberated" some dry extinguishers and put it out quickly. Had the whole thing scraped, sanded, and painted before my parents came home.
We had one of those when I was little!
Those darned hard cannon balls hurt when you got hit attacking the fort!
When I joined the Air Force my parents threw away most of my toys. Many would have made me quite a bit of cash on EBay.
Reminds me of traveling at Christmas when my future step-son gave my son a cap gun as a gift. We forgot the time and had to rush to the airport. the next thing I know, TSA is ripping open the zippers on my son’s backpack... The lady thought it was a WATER gun and was surprised at the “POP POP” sound... Immediately to “special line” and my son screaming “it’s MINE!” as I tell them to just throw it away!! LOL (I bought him a new one at home.)
Yup, that’s the one!
The M1 and the 50 ca used batteries and made gun shot noises.
My first real gun was a 22 rifle with a plastic stock. It was a Remington I think. We bought it at Sears.
I miss the good old days.
My dad also included a whole case of caps with it . One of the best presents ever .
I also had a Man from Uncle kit that included a gun and a badge just like on TV. Sold the badge on Ebay for $25 years ago.
Also had the 007 Briefcase that was pretty cool, but I loved my Robot Commando. It could shoot missiles and hard plastic balls across the Living Room of the house and it had a cutting edge wired remote control. Talk about being able to put an eye out. LOL
Bought a cap gun for my son five or six years ago at Walmart. Still can get them on the web
I found it! This thing was torture! you got molten plastic on your hands and the fumes would probably kill a mortal!
http://www.spookshows.com/toys/vacuform/vacuform.htm
My brother had a battery powered m-14
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190275375132
oh yeah, I remember those!
When I was a fifth grade student, my three years older brother brought his Remington target rifle (with peep sight) to school on the bus, with a box of fifty .22 Long Rifle shells to use at rifle practice after school! Talk about politically incorrect!
I win the prize this year. I was at Walgreen last night and the cashier tried to sell me some last minute batteries. I said “Sorry, I’ve got four kids and none of them got anything battery operated, in fact, my boys are getting knives and a shotgun.”
She took a deep breath and told me that I should be ashamed of myself. I disagreed and left. I think I’m permanently banned from Walgreen’s.
I think official Boy Scout knives and a .410 shotgun are perfect gifts.
Pencils misspell words the same way guns kill people.
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No, I didn’t have such a derringer (by the way, do you remember the TV series “Yancey Derringer?”). The 1950s and early 1960s had some great Western TV shows, but my favorites were Maverick, Wanted Dead or Alive, The Tall Man, The Deputy, Tombstone Territory; and many more. The absolute very best Western TV series (though it was a mini-series rather than a season-long series) was not in the 1950s or the 1960s, but in the 1980s: Lonesome Dove.
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