Posted on 09/13/2011 8:47:25 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
In a way, commercials can tell you more about how we've changed than history books. The other day I came across the following 1960s TV commercial on YouTube; it's for a toy set called the "Gung Ho Commando Outfit" by Marx. And it's a perfect snapshot of the America that, sadly, no longer exists.
(Excerpt) Read more at renewamerica.com ...
OH my I bet you were very popular for those 2 months! ROFLOL
>> In 1950 the Stallion 45 was introduced at the New York Toy Fair and became a sensation. It was declared the “Toy of the Year.”
When we were pups, a realistic toy pistol that fired real projectiles won toy of the year in (of all places) New York City.
Dude... we’re getting *old*.
Oh you know it. I was from then on(even now) branded as the “Bratty Little Bother(no I didn’t misspell it)”.
I got my son a pistol and rifle, both of which use those cap rolls, from Wally World last Christmas. I forgot how much fun they were. We went through several extra rolls. I even showed him how to use a rock to make sure the whole roll was used up, if'n ya had a misfire.
>and my dad brought home 3 Jap swords from WW II AND a Jap Rifle and bayonet too. TOYS...PHTT!
Nice! Do you still have them? They’re likely worth a lot, the sword especially, as I seem to recall swords [and guns] were outlawed after WWII.
I got 1 Jap Sword(the “nicest” one) and my Sisters(the middle 2 have always held me in distain)got everything else.
“a realistic toy pistol that fired real projectiles “
It didn’t actually “fire” the bullet out the barrel. The hammer hit the brass, forcing it against the metal “bullet,” and “fired” the cap. The “bullet” looked kinda like a hollow point, except the hole went all the way through the “bullet” to where the cap was. That hole allowed the smoke from the cap to blow out the end of the barrel.
This is the pistol I had! Stallion 45.
http://www.nicholscapguns.com/45mark2barrel.htm
http://www.nicholscapguns.com/45mark2right.htm
Roger
Heh, I had a ".22" from age 7 (an old Flobert parlor rifle I found rusting under my grandparents' house), and there was no shortage of either Mauser or Arisaka bayonets in the family homes. None were particularly sharp, so my mother never worried much about them.
I remember Dad going a bit pale when, years later, he saw me actually shooting the Flobert. My uncle (a man more knowledgeable in oddball foreign firearms than my father) had secured a quantity of 8mm Flobert CB caps and had checked the rifle for safe function. Dad had believed it to be safely inert and useless as anything but a "toy".
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