I played with myself a lot but I wont post a picture.
Quoted from electricsquirrel:My 1968 Schwinn deluxe Stingray!
It had a Sturmey Archer three speed coaster brake and a stik shift!68bike_(cropped)_(resized).jpg
Your parents must have been well off.Schwinn bikes were expensive .
Quoted from Rabbit:Lawn darts. How did we ever survive?
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Posting a pic for those Pinsiders that never got to experience the excitement.
Amazing that toys such as this ever even got sold in stores.
Consumer safety laws probably started kicking in shortly after products such as this came out.
Man BMX bikes where the biggest deal back then; such a status symbol. Redlines, PK Rippers, ever elusive Cooks Bros....Never forget the day my SE Quadangle was stolen; a day which will live in infamy.
EDIT: And skateboards of course....so many damn skateboards.
Quoted from o-din:And Frisbees
That was high school time for me...all hacky sack & discs, and huge rolling fields, and weed.
Made my own stilts out of 2x4s. Got on them from a bucket on top of a picnic table.
Wonder why I got bad ankles and knees.
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:Amazing that toys such as this ever even got sold in stores.
Consumer safety laws probably started kicking in shortly after products such as this came out.
Jarts were sold from the 1950's through the 1980's
A pretty successful run for any toy.
Back in the day when they said go fly a kite, we actually did. The best ones came from the Green Giant food co. They would have a new one every year and we would send in our boxtops for it.
Quoted from vid1900:Jarts were sold from the 1950's through the 1980's
A pretty successful run for any toy.29772925_maomj-M_(resized).jpg
David Snow took care of those, due to a tragic circumstance unfortunately.
I don't know if I ever successfully flew a kite in my damn life. It's right up there with turning the key and hitting the button on a rocket launcher and nothing happening.
Quoted from TheLaw:It's right up there with turning the key and hitting the button on a rocket launcher and nothing happening.
Perhaps you should have stuck with water rockets.
Quoted from TheLaw:It's right up there with turning the key and hitting the button on a rocket launcher and nothing happening.
I'll go fly a rocket with you! I've got some sitting not 10 feet away from me. Rockets were a big part of my life as a kid.
Did a lot of fun shit because of model rockets. I even went to Poland and won a gold medal.
Quoted from o-din:Back in the day when they said go fly a kite, we actually did. The best ones came from the Green Giant food co. They would have a new one every year and we would send in our boxtops for it.
We used to fly kites all the time.Sometimes my dad would go to the store and get more and more string to see how high we could get it to go.
I just picked up a set of Jarts from an antique shop last year. I didn't think they were legal to sell.?
Quoted from xsvtoys:David Snow took care of those, due to a tragic circumstance unfortunately.
Ebay to the rescue I guess:
ebay.com link: Vintage 1960s JARTS MISSILE GAME Outdoor Lawn Game Toy New in Box
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Wow, I had one of these!!!!!
Quoted from EdisonArcade:Dug out an old comic. I ordered a bunch of this stuff. Used to run when the mailman came every day.
That reminds me of the old Johnson Smith catalogs. I would study those things for hours and then try to talk my parents into buying me crap like this ....
I did
Quoted from ENDOFLINE:..... CROSSBOWS and CATAPULTS
Yeah I just picked 2 boxes a couple years ago.
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:True happiness when these came out back in 70's.
Many of us survived, some didn't fair so well.
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My God, I had one of those that I rode for 10 years. I rode it like it was stolen for 10 years and never got hurt. Everyone else that got on it did. I wish I could find another, bigger one. It finally met its match when I was in High School when a friend of mine got it running again and got shit faced and rode it down the streets of the huge subdivision we lived in. It had its own school system to tell you how big it was even then. The Popo tried to pull us over so we zipped down the jogging trails through the woods only to be met on the other side by another Popo so we turned around and went the other way. We got back out on the road and he came up behind us and we tried to run again. We tried to go up the side of a overpass that was over a jogging trail and it turned over on us and he caught us. Believe it or not a friend of ours came by in a truck and stopped to ask what was going on and the cop told him to load the 3 wheeler in the truck, go home and stay there and that he would arrest us if he saw us out again that night. Lucky us. Today we would be in jail. Good times
Yeah I remember having some of the boxed army men sets...like battle of bunker hill that had the mountain(t)s and roll up floor cover and all that jazz.
Quoted from TheLaw:Yeah I remember having some of the boxed army men sets.
That one above had cannons that shot plastic bullets. Great fun when you are playing with your brother.
Legos - I played with Legos more then every other toy. I always wanted that Black Seas Barracuda.
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Action Figures: He-Man / Thundercats - I always though the slim pit was pretty cool.
Nintendo - I really enjoyed Tecmo Super Bowl.
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Super Soaker - Completely revolutionized squirt guns.
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Army Men - We'd set them up and then take turns shooting them down with a rubber band gun. I see someone above posted a picture of a battleground set. I must have received the bulk of that set used because I had a number of those pieces.
I was just editing my post because that's also the set I had. I'm sure my parents bought it used at a rummage sale or something, but I had some of those brown pieces, flags, fences, bushes, etc.
Quoted from o-din:Back in the day when they said go fly a kite, we actually did. The best ones came from the Green Giant food co. They would have a new one every year and we would send in our boxtops for it.
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That was the best flying kite ever!!! And don't forget the lil sprout parachute that came with them that would fly for like a mile that we would have to chase down through the neighborhood.
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