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To: I still care

“Chalk, a ball, and a bicycle. Nothing else was necessary.”

But - I’ll bet you had an EasyBake Oven :-)

(Even as a boy I was secretly jealous of my sister - how cool to create tasty little cakes with a 60-watt bulb!)


48 posted on 07/22/2011 8:29:14 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: mkleesma

I did. You mixed the cakes with a tablespoon of water. My mom said they tasted terrible. But I can still taste them, thinking of them, and I loved them!

We also had a “creepy crawlers”. “A thingmaker set, and electric plug. Now pour plastigoop, into the mold...”

Kids didn’t have everything then. I remember setting it up and all the neighborhood kids would come over and pick their colors and we would all pick a bug on each metal tray (horrors! hot metal!) and each end up with a bug.

That was one popular toy.


61 posted on 07/22/2011 10:20:40 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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