by littlerockguy 28 Replies latest social entertainment
One of my favorite toys when I was a kid was my spirograph. I don't know whatever happened to it but I wanted to get another one and didn't realize they didn't make them anymore. I went on ebay and got a super spirograph (complete except for the pens) for a real good price ($30) - I hit it at just the right time since most are listed for $50 to $100. I'm really enjoying it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9mrNm5PIEE
What were some of your favorite toys or games as a kid?
LRG
Spirograph,
Play Skool record player with plastic records
Slinky
Etch a Sketch
Roller skates
Ice skates
Easy Bake Oven
Shrinky Dinks
I used to love my Erector set!
Monopoly... (ugh!)
Risk (double ugh!)
Scrabble (still love it!)
Aww, Spirograph! I had the exact same box.
Uno
Lego
Rollerskates
Top Trumps
Monopoly
My Little Pony
Sindy
Aside from the usual (Tinkertoys, Play-Doh, etc.),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkertoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-Doh
- my friend Johnny across the street had a quadracycle that was low to the
ground and had spoked wheels and the gears of an English racer. Very cool.
- my friend Rosalyn and I played McHale's Navy (I was Ensign Parker--I could
fall down good in those days--and she was a very cute funny little Capt.
Binghamton).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McHale's_Navy
- my Dad was a cartoonist--I took art seriously and drew cartoons.
http://books.google.com/books?id=9Bi_3ld4ch0C&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=bill+winstein&source=bl&ots=QTzClbFCOd&sig=II7jqf27iQo4ZfpVwgW7f0AV6Cg&hl=en&ei=xi93Tvu8EdCitgeKxcHKDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=bill%20winstein&f=false
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19821216&id=_EscAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AGAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3136,125077
- My friends Wayne and John (different John) and I used my Dad's 8mm home
movie camera to make horror movies and comedy shorts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDMfEcgOJz4
- German neighbor Ma Straka had sugared Easter eggs that were dioramas
or Panoramas--I'm not sure what you call them.
http://www.blumchen.com/ny_times_panorama_sugar_egg.html
Snow globe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_globe
In the 30's, before he was an artist, my Dad was a brakeman on the railroad.
We had HO model trains for Christmases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HO_scale
Some of the usual things I found articles for:
Mr. Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WHQI5iKYfM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Glass_and_Associates
Great Garloo by Marx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0p0WRhAp9o
http://www.robotnut.com/gallery/2-04.htm
http://io9.com/356016/the-great-garloo-used-to-smash-railroads-and-destroy-cities-but-now-hell-have-a-tea-party-with-you
Tinkertoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkertoy
Flintstone Building Boulders
http://www.timewarptoys.com/lgfstoneb.jpg
http://lauriekendrick.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/i-was-milton-bradleys-love-child-part-2/
Etch A Sketch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
Mouse Trap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Trap_(board_game)
Silly Putty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_Putty
Play-Doh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-doh
Flubber
http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/flubber/flubber.html
Super Ball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncy_ball
Frisbee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc
Slinky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky
Unit block (wood blocks) and wooden toy train
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_block
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_toy_train
Parcheesi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcheesi
Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Life
Checkers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_draughts
Dominoes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes
Scrabble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble
Monopoly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29
Clue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_%28board_game%29
Croquet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet
Fireworks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_fireworks
Big-Bang (Carbide) Cannon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big-Bang_Cannon
(Calcium carbide also worked with a pipe tobacco can.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbide
Water Rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_rocket
This could take forever if I find articles for everything--the basketball hoop
over the garage door, magic tricks, swimming pool, etc.
A few things not recommended in childrens shows: getting going good on a swing
then jumping, the wax paper on the sliding board, the Tarzan swing rope over a
gulley in the woods, seeing how far you could ride a bike without using the handle-
bars, sleds used on a steep hill that led down to an intersection, etc.
Banana bikes - the best baby! :D ** no pun intended. I actually had one ** ;D
