Posted on 03/09/2019 11:06:47 AM PST by ETL
They had cool toys back then.
Didn’t need to send away for the “Secret Winky Dink screen kit” I found a China grease marker worked just as well...when neither parental unit was nearby. Mom woondered about the damp rag in my back pocket though.
Wow—I remember the others, but never heard of Winky Dink.
Mom wondered about the damp rag in my back pocket though.
Hey, that’s because the CIA was trying to win over those sophisticated Europeans by showing them how advanced we were with our modern art—especially compared to the Ruskies!
A few from the past
spring/summer/fall/winter
Sears
Montgomery Ward
Spiegel
JC Penney
We spent much of the afternoon of January 15, 1967 shopping, so I heard much of the game over a Blaupunkt car radio. I was rooting for Kansas City only because it was closer to California than Green Bay.
Actually, that sculpture of an artsy-fartsy woman walking in front of a window with a dingy oilcloth shade is pretty good artwork by any stan...
dard...
Never mind.
It was a cops & robbers slot car game, with 1930s cars.
That set I do not remember, although if DX stations offered them, I am sure someone in my class had one. We were still well-supplied with DX stations in those days.
A classmate of mine had the drag race slot car setup that Plymouth dealers sold: it was called "shutdown!" Basically, you had to hit the "shift points" right in a drag race between two Plymouth GTX slot cars that might have been about 1:35 scale or something like that. I don't think anyone in his entire family ever condescended to even test drive a Plymouth let alone own one, but he had that set nonetheless.
"Jealous" doesn't begin to describe it...
I had the Fort Apache set along with a pair of Mattel “Fanner Fifty” cap guns with holster set, a “pop” gun rifle and the required Davey Crockett coon skin cap. Never got the scaled down replica .50 cal machine gun, got a Schwinn bike instead. Toys were fun but preferred sports equipment.
Pretty clever of Plymouth to get youngins interested in their cars. This way when they’re old enough they may want to buy a real one! (if they had that kind of $)
They would throw a kid and parents under the prison if the tot brought that to the conformity factory.
There was one of those sets in my grandmother’s house at least until the late 80s.
If it was there afterwards, the set probably didn’t survive the tornado a few years ago. I haven’t thought about it until now.
I’d like that.
Me and my next older brother were not ordinary kids. We had overactive imaginations. We would play out scenes from the great 60s-era westerns using toy sets like Fort Apache. Never see a toy like that in the stores these days. Way too politically incorrect.
We also had a toy castle/fort with soldiers (knights), catapults, and other things of the sort. It was similar to Fort Apache, except it was two armies of knights battling it out instead of bluecoat union soldiers vs indians.
Wish I knew about HO slot car drag racing back then. I do recall one kid who had a black 55 Chevy HO that burned rubber! Well, with a tiny drop of oil on the track the rear slicks did spin and create smoke!
I read that the Soviets deliberately pushed ugly repulsive ‘art’ as yet another way of screwing up American culture. is. Communist Picaso. Check out “45 Communist Goals”
Haha! The 007 attaché case! I’ve never seen one of them! How cool!
We had a Texaco service station.
little cans of oil.
and a lift.
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