If you grew up in the 50's, 60's, 70's, or 80's, then be grateful! (video)

liveleak ^ | june 8, 2013

[lowbridge]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c12_1370729168

[elcid1970]

Christmas 1956 I got a Mattel Thunderburp tommy gun. BRAAAAP!

Fall 1970 they issued me an M-16.

[VanDeKoik]

Not where I lived in the 80s. Then again western Michigan was more conservative than Utah back then.

That was a perfect representation of what life was for me as a kid from 1978-1990.

[RandallFlagg]

I'll see that, and raise you...

A Solothurn!
MUAAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

[teeman8r]

I.
Want.
it.

[Boiling point]

Remember the “Thingmaker” in the sixties? It was a hot plate that cured smelly liquid plastic in molds that made bugs and such. I wonder how many houses burned down from those. I remember leaving mine on and accidentally stepping on it in the dark and burning the $h!+ out of my foot.

[grumpygresh]

I’ll bet you brought this to school for “show and tell” and the teacher was impressed.

[Fledermaus]

I grew up in the 60’s. Yesterday I saw a little boy playing with a Tonka truck...it was all plastic.

In my day they were made of hard metal.

[TexasRepublic]

My buddy had a Johnny Seven and still has many happy memories firing projectiles at the family cats. :-)

[OldPossum]

I’d be even more wealthy than I am if I’d been in my twenties during the fifties.

I didn't quite make 20 in the 1950s but I was so lucky as to become a teenager in that decade (born in 1940). Believe me, it was a great time to be an American in that decade. OldPossum

[bicyclerepair]

We used to ride our Tonka trucks down the driveway.

We came in when my Dad whistled REALLY LOUDLY!

Playing in a boatyard, I stepped on a giant nail once, they had to dig sneaker out of my foot.

Had a treehouse with electricity. We slept in it too.

Slept in the yard in a tent. How many parents will allow that now?

[ealgeone]

I had one of those also! First time I’ve thought of that toy in a long time.

Also had a chemistry set from sears. Do they still make those?

[fone]

>>>Also had a chemistry set from sears. Do they still make those?<<<

Yes, but it's only to test baby daddy's DNA and urine tox screens....

[jmacusa]

I remember a thing Mattel had called “The Strange Change Machine’’ that did just what you said. I think it was Christmas ‘69.

[jmacusa]

Mattel had the coolest looking Thompson .45 sub-machine gun. You flipped up the front of the magazine and loaded in those red rolls of caps. (remember those things?) My folks never got me one no matter how many times I begged them. One of my stingy cousins had one and would never let me play with it.Dang thing was a ringer for the real thing.