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Quoted from spfxted:My three favorite toys!
Great Garloo
Robot Commando
King Zor
...I get together with my brother every 15 years or so to celebrate that magic Christmas when i got my Great Garloo!
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Love those pictures with your brother.
Quoted from SunKing:A real pinball machine was out of the question, so I got this for Christmas in '76. That's me playing, with my older brother, dad and grandfather.
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I would have killed for one of those.
We made do with the Tomy Atomic Arcade in 1979.
Quoted from SteveO:I got one of these as a Christmas present and found my brother playing it before it was wrapped.
I used to play that game with my dad every Friday night when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite games.
I would spend hours on a Saturday afternoon practicing my shots.
Quoted from JMK:Evel Knievel, Turbo Tower of Power (TTP), Mattel Hot Birds and Rock Em Sock Em Robots were some of my favourites...
Can I come over and play?
Quoted from AlexSMendes:My first pinball:
Better playfield art than many Stern machines.......
Quoted from zr11990:So how many people, as kids, shot a arrow up in the air and then rand for it. Stupid yes, but it was fun.
Yes to the arrow.
We also used a fairly powerful sling shot with the most point, jagged rocks we could find.
Quoted from cottonm4:I just remembered that I used to have a doctor's kit when I was 4-5 years old. Me and the little girl next door used to play doctor. I seem to remember having a good time giving shots with the fake sringe
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Wow, my sister had that kit back in the 70’s.
Quoted from vec-tor:Yea, my dad and mom did the same thing to me...
I cry with what people want for the stuff I had back in the 60's/70's.
( they did not sell, they just through away )
One of my friends from high school had his mother do the same thing. Evidently, she also did a bunch of other things that he didn’t feel were too nice.
When she died, he had her cremated and her remains were used as the stuffing for a Hacky Sack.
True story.
Quoted from xsvtoys:Old family photos have been rolling in for scanning projects. Here are some real-deal toys from the early 60s, not sure what some of them even are. I remember the sled that's for sure, spent half a lifetime on that thing. Not much resolution in these tiny old pics of course so you can't zoom in much to see what's what.
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This I love.
Please post whatever else you may have.
Quoted from xsvtoys:There's probably a lot more, but I have a stack to get to for the scanning project and its taking some time.
Here's another one, its me with this one, but I can't remember this toy at all. Pretty darn cool-looking though. This should be 1964 or 1965,
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Thanks. Your pictures really look like the kind of Christmas i would have killed for when I was a kid. Those toys are awesome.
Quoted from Mr68:In high school we use to put the tail of the tissue roll into the bowl, flush, and watch the dispenser roll spin.
I still do that.
Quoted from mooch:Must be from the same design team that made my Batman Water Pistol.[quoted image]
Always makes me laugh.
Quoted from bssbllr:Remember these punching bag for kids. Like a weeble.
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I had that exact one back in 1972.
Quoted from BMore-Pinball:Who is old enough to of had Metal Tonka Trucks?
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I had a friend when I was very young who had two of the Tonga dump trucks.
He would take the wire out of his dad’s tool chest and use the dump trucks like roller skates.
Quoted from LTG:Anybody grab onto the bumper of a car and let it drag you through the snow covered streets ?
LTG : )
Yes, we called it Skitching, not sure how that term was derived.
Quoted from mooch:Hmm... Notice anything strangely familiar about Milton Bradley’s Haunted Treasure Hunt game?
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Is that the Psycho house on the box lid?
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:Yes! Phoebe!
Plenty of childhood memories about her. Very nice body, way before I knew anything about all that.
She just had such a cute face. And I always thought a big part of that is her nose.
A lot of women have noses that are just too big, or pointed or something and makes their whole face look not as good as it could.
Anyway, sorry for my childhood memory rant, carry on, show more pics of toys, (or Phoebe Cates).
You’re dead on. A lousy nose (or chin) can ruin an otherwise pretty face.
Quoted from pinwiztom:I think the Ethel M. MARS bars are as close as you will get,
it is made (owned) as a specialty (online orders only) by a Mars family member,
obviously with the MARS food conglomerates permission.
But I do not want to pay $50 + shipping for 16 bars.
Ethel M. is the same thing according to my 88 year old uncle. He seems to go through a couple of cases each month.
That and the Hershey bar are the only candy bars he eats.
Quoted from mooch:RIP B.J. Thomas
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That one hurt.
His songs mean a lot to me.
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I spent hours with Silly Putty and the newspaper.
Quoted from swampfire:My parents should have said “no son, that’s fucked up.”
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Oh god, that comment made me laugh so hard.
Quoted from bssbllr:I remember playing this a couple of times.
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Christmas 1979, Merlin and Simon were the big toys.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:I currently live in the town of the home of the world's largest tomahawk. The teepee is about 25ft and the tomahawk is probably 30 ft tall.
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I’d hate to meet the injun that owns that tomahawk.
Quoted from pinzrfun:My side of town was just slightly more spread out than the OTHER side, which got cable a few years before we did. I remember my stepdad going crazy - "$17 a month to watch TV? We watch it for free right now!"
This was the only time my mother ever stood up to my father.
“Listen you cheap, sob. We have a car with no ac, we never go on a vacation and I cook 365 days a year. You’re paying for HBO, now stop talking and write the check.”
Quoted from mooch:Did you buy any books from the Scholastic Arrow Book Club in your grade school class? I had a few of these.
A knee-slapper from The Arrow Book of Jokes and Riddles:
Q: “What did Tennessee?”
A: “The same thing Arkansas.”
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I had that Paul Bunyan book. I was fascinated by the blue bull on the cover as a young kid.
Quoted from GRB1959:I remember reading many of the Chip Hilton books and also reading the Gil Thorp comic strip in our local newspaper.
Gord
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Chip Hilton was written by Claire Bee who is considered one of the greatest basketball minds.
Quoted from c508:I remember when the “Big Gulp” first came out everyone was wondering “how can someone drink all of that?!”
Now 32oz is basically a “small.”
As my wife says, “a country of lard asses”
Quoted from RCA1:The electric scooter carts at the grocery store used to be for people with injuries or the elderly and frail.
Now it's all lardasses.
It’s probably just glandular. 
Quoted from mooch:Did you eat Chuckles in a certain order?
I always ate the black one last.
Yellow, Green, Orange, Red, Black.
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I ate the black once.
Quoted from mmuglia:Handheld elecronic were my favorite toys. I still have them all, and I still have most of the original boxes too.
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Is that a Lil’ Professor on the second shelf? I remember my sister getting one for Christmas and everyone in the family would play with it. It was always on the coffee table in our living room.
The cars on the bottom look really nice. Are they RC? The white with the Texaco label is sharp.
Quoted from RichWolfson:I now live in Jersey and this was in the paper last week (yes, I am the only one left reading the paper, actually two, every day).
The Alexander's mural, a longtime attraction in Paramus that was dismantled and removed from the borough years ago, will be making its return home as part of The New Valley Hospital. ... The giant, 200-foot-long mural was saved in 1998 after Alexander's went out of business. IKEA now occupies the former Alexander's site.
The large murals that were in Valley Stream have to be somewhere, and they were really impressive.
///Rich
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I remember that vividly.
On the right side of the mural, I always saw a duck wearing a straw hat. I would always look for it when driving down Route 17 in the 70s and 80s.
Quoted from mbeardsley:Yep, I grew up in Teaneck, NJ (and went to high school in Paramus). I remember that Alexander's mural very well.
Can't say I ever saw a duck with a straw hat in it though...
I guess I was having too much fun back then.
Quoted from jawjaw:Malls used to be awesome. They had have movie theaters, arcades, toy stores, and all kinds of things. Now it just seems like cheap clothes and shoe stores with a food court full of people you rather avoid.
We have no one to blame but ourselves.
I still do everything I can to buy most items from local downtown shopping areas.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:We sure spent alot of money and time to tweak a stereo for sound.
OMG, endless receiver and turntable arguments!
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That’s the type of equipment, that if my parents took us out to see “company,” my dad would pull me aside and say, “if anything happens to that, and you happen to be near it when it does, I break both of your arms”
I was always so paranoid that I would frequently become the guardian of many high end or prized possessions throughout the evening. A Friday or Saturday night making sure other guest’s kids did nothing to harm a stereo, slot car set, pool table, fish tank or prized pet were not unusual.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:I'm too young to remember beer in the double tab top but loved soda pop in them.
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My go to drink during undergrad exams.
Quoted from zr11990:I have no idea. I called a place that sells old consoles and was told that it’s pretty much impossible to make it play on the new tellys so I guess it’s trash.
No.
It’s not trash. There is a way to get the 2600 to operate on a new television. Hopefully, someone smarter than me can tell you how to do it.
Quoted from pinheadpierre:I think I had that board as a kid. I vaguely remember going to get it and taking forever to pick it out because each multicolored one was different. Mine was more colors, but otherwise exactly the same, texture and all. Can’t remember anything else other than feeling waaaay cool riding it!
I believe it’s a Penny Board.
Quoted from Viggin900:Classic, made me laugh. Every play of the 1977 NFL today intro would be a penalty now!
https://ifunny.co/video/every-play-from-cbs-s-nfl-today-intro-from-1977-XyYtnMjo7
Better football, better pregame, better world.
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