Posted on 03/09/2019 11:06:47 AM PST by ETL
Jukeboxfun
Published on Oct 10, 2017
"Sears Wishbook catalog from the 1960's.
Toys for girls and boys! Merry Christmas.
This video was made using information and photos freely found on the internet."
(video is 3:31 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqCk1xB0jS0
How I used to look forward to this!
It was the last of the innocent times. Sure, the turmoil of the 60’s was starting, but childhood was still firmly held in a cocoon of sincerity.
Irony was just starting to encroach, just starting to tear down our culture.
Wow—the power of nostalgia is strong!
I remember the first year Hot Wheels and the track came out. They couldn’t keep up with demand. The cars were $1.00. You really took care of the cars to avoid scratching the paint. Some kids oiled the wheels which tended to crack the wheels. It was like Pinewood Derby. Some cars ran better on some track configurations than others. Always enjoyed testing them and thinking about owning real one when I got older.
Sometime later they encouraged kids to crash them into one another. I never understood that.
I never got into the Hot Wheels track much. I preferred pushing the cars around in various scenarios I made up. Also liked to display the cars. Same with Matchbox cars and trucks. Had some police, fire and ambulance vehicles. Used to recreate some of the things I saw in my neighborhood growing up.
The generation before you had Lincoln Logs, Erector sets, Tinker Toys, and Winky Dink.
the point is that every generation thinks the newest generation is doing something wrong when they dont do what they did as children.
all children want to do is play outside.. whatever happened to working in the fields as we did as kids?
all children want to do is play those darn card games and dominoes, whatever happened to just playing outside?
all children want to do is play those darn board games, whatever happened to just playing dominoes and card games?
all children want to do is watch the darn TV, whatever happened to just playing board games?
all children want to do is surf the internet, whatever happened to just watching tv?
ect ect ect.. forever.
It was a cops & robbers slot car game, with 1930s cars.
They key of all children’s playing is socialization. It’s understanding fairness and problem solving. It learning to work as a unit.
The issue with even interactive video games is that you miss the periodic fistfight with your friends. And getting over it.
Wonder if you can still purchase The Wish Book, Sears catalog? Spent many an hour wishing in that book.
Yep EBay!!
There comes a point when you can toss that line of thinking in the trash. Some things are simply better, somtimes a lot better, than other things.
One example, of many, in art...
Winky Dink?
I used to pore over the Wish Book for HOURS.
I guess it provided a lot of entertainment in itself.
Matchbox cars were more realistic and had more vehicle choices. My brother was a couple of years older and had a some of them before switching over into Hot Wheels but he was getting a little old when they came out.
Thanks for the pictures.
When that Super Bowl board game came out, the first Super Bowl had yet to be played.
For someone wanting to watch the first Super Bowl on TV in Los Angeles, where it was blacked out, a good gift for Christmas 1966 would have been a Super Bowl antenna, a device you could attach to your TV antenna that would enable you to watch the broadcast from San Diego.
I watched that game in the basement of our fraternity house on probably a 12 or 15 inch black and white tv. And I remember there were a lot of empty seats at the Coliseum.
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