The '60s were awesome!
Posted on 04/19/2021 6:48:11 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I had one of them too!!!!
At least they were a good band.
Had my mad scientist lab in the basement. Bought lab supplies and chemicals mail order. I feel bad for the people who bought the house...used to pour stuf, in cluding concentrated sulfuric acid down the sink drain.
Man, I loved my erector set back in the day. I also had a geology set - still have the little hammer. I stunk up the house for days when someone told me that sulfur would burn.
I gotta admit, though, that K’Nex are really cool. So much easier than the old erector set, and way more shapes and possibilities.
Then we found we could boil crawdads in it.
The '60s were awesome!
Ha!
Was thinking of re-starting exploration of an electrochemical process and can’t find sulfuric acid- for sale... to adults!
Yeah, I miss the old stuff. I went to their website not too long ago, and they still have a few classics, but better ones. I didn’t know they sold vibrators back then. I may have seen one in the catalog, but I was so young my biggest concern was doing my homework and not peeing on my Hush Puppies. LOL
Had the Tinker Toys first, then graduated to the Erector Set. But the best by far was the blue box I’d get in the mail monthly through the 50s and into the 60s.
http://ecg.mit.edu/george/tos/
I had one of these. There was a chain chicken restaurant named the Denver Drumstick with these trains running around with scenery of Colorado. There was one located at us36 and federal blvd.
Yeah, and it came with a simple programming sheet to tell you where to put the little programming pegs, like a reverse punch card, then you have to slide those little handles back and forth to get it to display the right output. Nothing but a higher-tech abacus. LOL
I’m in my 80’s. The erector sets were my favorite toy when I was a kid. Also loved my chemistry sets.
I remember those! And latex bubbles!
According to the “urban dictionary”, a nice pair of boobs is called an erector set. Yeah, I can kinda see how that would work.
A.C. Gilbert also made American Flyer trains. S-guage, with two-rail trackage instead of three like Lionel, my crowd considered them more true to life. Now HO guage and smaller is what the serious modellers like.
And of course I still have the American Flyer train set my late parents bought for me in either 1957 or 1958.
Wife says I haven't changed.
Kevin is that you? bottle rockets and firecracker wars...loved the fourth. lucky to have not lost fingers or an eye....
“I had set that you poured latex into and cooked it to form rubber insects.”
I remember those! There was another version that used candy gel so you could eat them.
I split my finger open holding a lit black cat. Hid it from my parents with band-aids.
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