(Topic ID: 157159)
Mojave Desert, NV
O.K. I have never seen these last batch of stuff.
I have only seen the game Master Mind on T.V. advertisement.
If I am correct, Master Mind is the inspiration to Bally's Spectrum.
Anyone remember "Screech!"?
Game was played in the dark. You looked into the eyes of the Purple owl to see spooky characters.
I looked forever and never found one.
Hanging with grandma played a few different games. Played pick up sticks and many card games like war, 5 card stud and 7 card draw.
Built many houses as well. Lol
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041BED0B-69E8-4420-B647-1804A42D82F2 (resized).jpegQuoted from mooch:I remember playing games back in the 60s with a few of the Whitman card decks.
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Hell yeah ! I had the Old Maid set.
Played that along with a lot of regular card deck Slap Jack.
Bermuda Triangle
Not quite a toy but more of a memory here. My one story elementary school had a flat roof and many many types of balls would get stuck up there. That is where the term “roofed” came from on the playground. Roofing the ball was a quick way to end a fun game. Every now and then the Janitor would go up on the roof and throw down a ton of baseballs, kick balls, rubber balls and whatever else down to us kids during recess. Tons of stuff made its way up there and came down for free to whom ever was able to grab it first.
16CB49E4-3CAE-4D25-AED3-16B03B48DE0D (resized).jpegQuoted from pinnyheadhead:Not quite a toy but more of a memory here. My one story elementary school had a flat roof and many many types of balls would get stuck up there. That is where the term “roofed” came from on the playground. Roofing the ball was a quick way to end a fun game. Every now and then the Janitor would go up on the roof and throw down a ton of baseballs, kick balls, rubber balls and whatever else down to us kids during recess. Tons of stuff made its way up there and came down for free to whom ever was able to grab it first.
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Somewhere along the way of 3rd and 4th grade, the teacher had this big glass jar on her desk, which started the school year empty. The rule was, no marbles were ever allowed to appear during class. Ok, you could have them in your pockets for recess access, but they had to stay there out of sight. If a marble showed up in any way, including dropping on the floor by accident or even in your hand for an instant, you had to give it up and into the jar it went.
Being the idiots we were, by the end of the school year that big jar was packed full. It was pretty much everyone at one point or another, you just couldn’t resist getting a marble out, and off it would go. Whoever f-ed up on any given day and lost a marble this way would get made fun of on the playground. Then, sure enough, the very ones who were making fun would botch it the next day, much to the mirth of everyone. I’ll never forget, even to this day, when one kid showed up with a big puree header (I think some geographies called the big ones boulders, but we called them headers). It was a big beautiful clear work of art that was rarely seen, and everyone was envious as he showed it off on the playground. And, we all reminded him, multiple times, to not let it out in class. Well, sure enough, right in the middle of class, there was a big clunk and the sound of a large object rolling across the floor. We all gasped, thinking, no, he didn’t. Well, he did. What a laugh we got out of that. I think the poor kid was pretty sad, so maybe we even felt guilty for making fun of him. But probably not.
On the very last day of class, the teacher took that jar up to a second story window, and with all of us gathered on the grass below, dumped that entire jar of marbles down onto us, where we had a mad scramble to grab what you could. What a memory. I can’t imagine any kids today having that much fun. What are they gonna do, play with an app?
Quoted from xsvtoys:...dumped that entire jar of marbles down onto us, where we had a mad scramble to grab what you could.
8D58579F-8370-4188-AE3A-FCFE3E671E09.gifQuoted from zombywoof:Does anyone remember these old gyroscopes?
I loved those gyroscopes! They looked cool even when they were just resting inside the plastic box.
2C2E4D40-5C29-4494-BA5A-5853255BB3A5 (resized).pngToypedo! I bought one of these about 20 years ago for my son and I to play with in a hotel swimming pool. It was like an underwater missile that cruised the whole length of the pool. What a great toy-- we had a blast! Years later, I learned that the original model was modified and downsized due to lawsuits from eye injuries. Apparently, this thing could shoot up out of the water and poke your eye out. The original eye-poking Toypedos now fetch $60+ on eBay.
Original-Vintage-SwimWays-Toypedo-115-Gliding-Underwater-Toy (resized).jpgQuoted from OLDPINGUY:Those were so much better!
Before that, These Balsa Wood Flyers were lucky to make it to the end of the day![quoted image]
O.K. that style of balsa wood plane brings back an incidence...
My dad was teaching me and my brother about gluing a frame to those model balsa wood planes.
My dad got to the nose of the plane but the side ribbing would not taper down to a point...
So my dad took a rubber band and doubled it to snap around the nose of the frame.
CRUNCH... Total implosion and in the trash the model went.
My dad was a bit more successful with larger plastic style kits... The invisible V8
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Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Those were so much better!
Before that, These Balsa Wood Flyers were lucky to make it to the end of the day![quoted image]
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our parents hated my brother and I for this toy. we took the heads off them and stretched out the springs so that they would fly higher and get stuck in the drop ceiling tiles 
I had my Burger Chef Yo yo kept by my grade school teacher and she never gave it back!
Which by the way I loved eating at Burger Chef much better than McDonald's and the first to give prizes along with the food before McDonald's did.
Quoted from Grayman_EM:I had my Burger Chef Yo yo kept by my grade school teacher and she never gave it back!
Which by the way I loved eating at Burger Chef much better than McDonald's and the first to give prizes along with the food before McDonald's did.
I had a steering wheel knob with a light blue background and a beetle (a real bug) encased in clear plastic. The music teacher came into the room, sat down, saw me with that knob and commandeered it away from me. I never saw it again.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Those were so much better!
Before that, These Balsa Wood Flyers were lucky to make it to the end of the day![quoted image]
Yeah, but they were cheap, and man, we got so much mileage out of those things. Played with them for hours. Flight contests were always going on. You had to wind that rubber band into a triple-full wind at least, until it just became a gobbed-up blob, then let 'er fly.
Vancouver, BC
Quoted from wcbrandes:who remembers clackers? whatever they were called, should have been renamed knuckle breakers!
Real early in this thread I posted those and how they got banned at school.
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Talk about suggestive selling. I saw thru the crap ( pun intended) and never bought a pair.
Three key words in the ad: 1) imagine and 2) seem and 3) "see".
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I did buy those instructions from Charles Atlas on how to make your body bigger so you could go kick the asses of those bullies who were kicking sand in your face; In front of your girlfriend.
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My package arrived and I got burned. It came in an unmarked manilla envelope guaranteed to make any porno shop envious. It was several pages of instructions of isometric exercises. Nothing different from all of the exercises we did in high school gym classes. I knew I had been had.
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Unlike Ralphie in A Christmas Story, I never bought the Ovaltine Decoder Ring.
Quoted from o-din:Wasn't that Charles Atlas deal one of these?
I had one back in high school and a few hours a night while watching TV along with a bunch of sit ups and I could wear my painter's overalls at school with no shirt, no problem.[quoted image]
I'm not sure if this was Charles Atlas, or just another ad in the back of the magazine. My half-brother, much older than me, had a set of those along with those wire forms you squeeze to improve your grip. He lived on our grandparents farm so I know they were mail order.
I don't remember where I got mine. I didn't buy it. Maybe my brother did or someone gave it to me. But I used it. And you don't even have to know how to talk to girls after a few weeks with that thing.
Quoted from o-din:Wasn't that Charles Atlas deal one of these?
I had one back in high school and a few hours a night while watching TV along with a bunch of sit ups and I could wear my painter's overalls at school with no shirt, no problem.[quoted image]
Goonies! The older brother was working out with that springy thing.
Quoted from vec-tor:Goonies! The older brother was working out with that springy thing.
Yeah well, I did it 10 years before the goonies. While watching Starsky and Hutch.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Those were so much better!
Before that, These Balsa Wood Flyers were lucky to make it to the end of the day![quoted image]
Especially when one attaches bottle rockets to them!
We'd use ones with no report until we started to get tired of it, then go out with a bang!
This thread reminded me of cast iron horse drawn toys. If it was real fancy, had intricate or dainty wheels, still had paint on the wheel treads. Looked in great shape. It likely belonged to a crippled child who couldn't play with it.
Thankfully since polio had a vaccine invented. More kids can enjoy toys as they were meant to be.
I love a beat up toy that was enjoyed.
LTG : )
Quoted from mooch:I loved those gyroscopes! They looked cool even when they were just resting inside the plastic box.
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I think they were the inspiration for the back-glass for Space Station. 
Quoted from LTG:This thread reminded me of cast iron horse drawn toys.
And that just reminded me of the cast iron rocking horse. Best toy ever.
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And that reminds me of Will Rogers toy, a stuffed bear/cow on wheels that was pulled through the living room
with guests riding on it and or practicing their roping technique.
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Quoted from vec-tor:Will Rogers toy, a stuffed bear/cow on wheels that was pulled through the living room
with guests riding on it and or practicing their roping technique.
Yeah man, it had wheels.
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