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YouTube video: Sears 1960's Christmas Toys (3:31 mins)
YouTube ^ | Oct 10, 2017

Posted on 03/09/2019 11:06:47 AM PST by ETL

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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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: 1960s; childhood; retail; sears; searscatalog; toys
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To: ETL

They had cool toys back then.


61 posted on 03/09/2019 1:38:39 PM PST by punknpuss
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To: sparklite2

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.


62 posted on 03/09/2019 1:41:33 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: sparklite2

Wow—I remember the others, but never heard of Winky Dink.


63 posted on 03/09/2019 1:45:25 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Covenantor

Mom wondered about the damp rag in my back pocket though.


“Why do you always have a wet rag in your pocket?”
“I...uhm... well, I have to wipe my nose a lot.”
“Whew. I was getting worried...”
“About what?”
“I...uhm... well...”


64 posted on 03/09/2019 1:46:34 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: ETL

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!


65 posted on 03/09/2019 1:47:14 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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A few from the past
spring/summer/fall/winter

Sears
Montgomery Ward
Spiegel
JC Penney


66 posted on 03/09/2019 1:51:53 PM PST by deport
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To: nascarnation

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.


67 posted on 03/09/2019 2:21:44 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ETL
One example, of many, in art...

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.

68 posted on 03/09/2019 2:39:03 PM PST by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society." - MD)
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To: ETL
Anyone remember this one, The Get-A-Way Chase Game...

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...

69 posted on 03/09/2019 2:53:16 PM PST by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society." - MD)
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To: ETL

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.


70 posted on 03/09/2019 3:19:49 PM PST by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: niteowl77

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 $)


71 posted on 03/09/2019 3:22:54 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

They would throw a kid and parents under the prison if the tot brought that to the conformity factory.


72 posted on 03/09/2019 3:25:16 PM PST by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: ETL

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.


73 posted on 03/09/2019 3:28:14 PM PST by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: ETL

I’d like that.


74 posted on 03/09/2019 3:29:05 PM PST by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: vigilence

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.


75 posted on 03/09/2019 3:30:06 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: vigilence

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.


76 posted on 03/09/2019 3:41:00 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: wally_bert

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!


77 posted on 03/09/2019 3:46:30 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: niteowl77

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”


78 posted on 03/09/2019 3:51:15 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Haha! The 007 attaché case! I’ve never seen one of them! How cool!


79 posted on 03/09/2019 4:24:53 PM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: Maine Mariner

We had a Texaco service station.

little cans of oil.

and a lift.


80 posted on 03/09/2019 4:33:17 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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