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Here are a few things I had as a kid that I haven't seen posted yet.
1_1 (resized).jpg91reAVZ3LFL._AC_SX425_ (resized).jpgb3fac2fea39d30c5a5a581c7f7b25870 (resized).jpge1dbc3ba0c9f295bbaa8ab854fa3a215 (resized).jpglf (resized).jpegvintage-ideal-1964-crazy-clock-game_1_dfb8ed55867686d1c01c5c11f2a20e8d (resized).jpgQuoted from Atari_Daze:Whoa. Didn't recognize that one. ^
I had a neighbor that had the Sears Atari 2600. [quoted image]
I had a load of Atari 2600 cartridges. But I remember I had one game called Stellar Track that you could only buy at Sears.
2A3ABA03-4E09-45FA-B38A-1285D1064F82 (resized).jpegQuoted from Rezdog:Would Stellar Track only play exclusively on the Sears 2600?
I had the regular Atari system and it played fine on that. Must’ve just been some exclusive item to get you to shop at Sears.
Quoted from Rezdog:Was kinda like a mobile etch a sketch
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Your Skedoodle reminds me of my Skediddler.
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The Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker! I had that scalding hot toy when I was just 8 years old. Its danger level was rivaled only by my Woodburning Set.
EC0CF68D-9650-4DFD-A59B-87534E19E507 (resized).jpegWhat the.... I just noticed NOW that the open track area of each Mr. Do! level is in the shape of that level's number. Or did I know this in the past but my feeble old mind is faltering? 
Mr. Do!-2 (resized).png46060-mr-do-colecovision-screenshot-try-to-collect-all-of-the-cherries (resized).png156890 (resized).jpgQuoted from cottonm4:Hasbro made new doll that did not go over so well with the parents of young daughters.
" The troll doll has a button on its stomach that, when pressed, says words like "Can I have a hug?" and other sweet phrases."
" What isn't advertised anywhere on the box or in the media is that there is another button on the bottom of the doll, between its legs and under its skirt. When pressed, the doll makes sounds like "Whee" and "Oh."
Must be from the same design team that made my Batman Water Pistol.
AF9CA24D-9D0D-495B-A136-55708D02B09C (resized).pngQuoted from Rezdog:Was it Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?
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Quoted from bssbllr:Remember these punching bag for kids. Like a weeble.
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I never had a cool punching bag like that one. But I did have a few of these cheapo balloons you attached to cardboard feet.
image034 (resized).jpgQuoted from Rezdog:my problem started in 4 grade huffing those damn ditto papers
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0840A8D7-60DA-4A54-9174-C0F1E1A69B39.gifQuoted from Mr68:I'd huff some now if I could.
Here’s the stuff. Looks perfectly safe to me.
C97AEADC-68FA-4C6A-A179-A894CAD53C00 (resized).pngI got an Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm as a gift when I was around 9 years old.
You had to mail away for the live ants.
What arrived in the mail was a container full of dead ants.
Determined to get my ant farm up and running, I went out in the yard and gathered up any ants I could find— red, black, large and small— and dumped them all into the ant farm.
That didn’t work. They were all dead in a week.
E6A84BBB-88A7-4E70-9DB1-EC9A6909EF26 (resized).jpegQuoted from gatordad:I used to order the cowboys indians and soldiers from the backs of comics and make big scenes in the basement.
At about age 8, I had a big pile of cheap plastic toy American and Japanese soldiers, which I would use to stage the Battle of Iwo Jima on the living room rug.
67-japanese-soldiers-54mm-plastic-toy_1_abb95e7b0db610cd713cd52e18f5b790 (resized).jpgQuoted from Atari_Daze:Unfortunately, I cannot post a photo of my most favorite child hood toy, I never left home without it.
4DB8D583-740F-4DFF-A4E5-C38D0EF8A65E (resized).jpegQuoted from DanQverymuch:I always wanted one, well, two, really, in order to crash them and blow them up like Gomez did! But we were far too poor to be buying multiple trains just to destroy them.
This is the train set for you!
One of Elvishasleft 's M80s would spice up the action with this set.
4gfdah.gif8108opGuHgL._AC_SL1500_.jpgI loved Fizzies when I was a kid. They’ve been sporadically available over the years. I last found them for sale around the year 2000, and bought a bunch to share with all the kids at a big family party. Man, did they love them Fizzies!
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My Grandma had those same tumblers!
Quoted from Grayman_EM:One that I wish we had and never got was Tip It.
I was fascinated by the little balancing Tip-It guy, and kept him out of the game’s box to play with. He was often found balancing on an end of the family TV antenna.
6C245833-C314-4ADF-BF0D-11AC46E9DC5E (resized).pngWhen I was about 12, I had this thing called a Spin-A-Reeno. It was a plastic Frisbee-like disc and a long wooden stick. You hang the disc on the top of the stick, then twirl the stick in a circle to start the disc spinning, then make the disc spin faster and faster. One of my favorite toys. Reminds me of the plate spinning guys who would perform on the Ed Sullivan show.
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839B5ABD-F364-4367-8A55-32168A9991A6.gifWhen I was born, my Mom’s co-worker gave her a gift for the new baby. It was a small plush white dog with a tag that said his name was Morgan. I slept every night holding Morgan next to me. I brought him along in my little suitcase on all vacations and sleepovers. Then, one day around age 9, I decided I was now too old to sleep with a stuffed animal. I marched out to a big dumpster in the alley behind my house and tossed in Morgan. That night, I couldn’t sleep— regretting that I had thrown Morgan out. At daybreak, I ran outside to retrieve my lifelong friend from the dumpster. To my horror, the dumpster was now completely empty...
Forty years later, I was able to find some of these plush Morgan dogs on eBay. I discovered that they came in several sizes and colors. It took me a while to find a small white one, but Morgan is now back home! (Umm, but I don’t sleep with him anymore.)
A0A112FF-09B9-47EA-9AC1-F42EFFEEAFD8 (resized).jpegQuoted from jorro:Linus? That you?
87178237_1874608496008447_6511204827719008256_n (resized).jpgI had a fabulous "Mister Softee" ring that I got from some ice cream truck when I was very young. One of my most cherished trinkets. But I don't remember the Mister Softee trucks. I grew up chasing Good Humor trucks. There was often one parked next to my school's playground, attracting dozens of kids. I usually only had enough money on me to buy their cheapest item, the Wahoo bar.
s-l400 (1) (resized).jpgQLJMIW2RI5HP3FTRON2ZCY7F2Y (resized).jpgI enjoyed a good coloring book every once in a while as a kid. Especially if I had acquired a new box of Crayola crayons to use instead of my coffee can full of old broken ones. I also loved to draw pictures with Venus colored pencils. In addition to coloring books, I remember “Sticker Fun” books and “Paint With Water” books. (Or, as I used to call them, “Paint With Spit” books.)
9EE2ED44-A9BA-4E8C-9044-B94222BC11F1 (resized).jpeg0D932424-C494-422A-9989-47E53519A9E4 (resized).jpeg3F1D2CE9-DC1E-4042-85A4-B07D12FBB81D (resized).jpeg8920BA4B-0144-4577-B69B-6F88564813DC (resized).jpeg81847DE4-5384-4CEB-81CA-A4824DC699BA (resized).jpegQuoted from DanQverymuch:Whoa, thanks for the memory jolt!
I vividly remember getting one of these, and trying it out at the tavern my dear old dad hung out at, him having no compunction about having me tag along (this was the early 70s)! I remember it like it was yesterday.
Here's to the memory of the Butterfly Bar on S Commercial in Neenah!
My dad used to bring me along to a hangout tavern of his in Elmwood Park IL back in the mid-Sixties. I loved the bar! I would drink Kiddie Cocktails and play the Bally bingo machines at the back of the bar, oblivious that they were used for gambling. They had a great jukebox on which I regularly played Mellow Yellow and Wooly Bully. When my dad ran out of smokes, he gave me money to get him his Pall Malls from the cigarette machine.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:There is around 10 bins more than showing.....I guess we truly were all spoiled
Do I see a Crazy Clock game in there? Crazy Clock was my favorite game.
CA87AAB6-C587-40E6-BE1B-69B4DE223C97 (resized).jpegQuoted from Mr68:Ha ha. Reminds me of the BIG rumor that all of the kids believed. Someone's older sister got braces on her teeth and she began picking up radio stations in her head. - Such drama for pre-teens. LOL
Quoted from DanQverymuch:What about Fish Bait?[quoted image]
I had all three. First I had Crazy Clock and Mouse Trap which were both great. Then Fish Bait came out and I was so stoked to get it. But Fish Bait was so lame compared to the others. Crazy Clock was the coolest contraption to assemble by yourself for fun. Although Mouse Trap was the most fun to play with other kids as a game.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:One more in the genre.....
Hey! I’ve never seen that one before. Looks like a lot more fun than Fish Bait.
I once got a red plastic whistle free inside a box of Trix cereal. It had three chambers in it that made a neat chord sound. My Mom said I was too loud with it in the house, so I took it outside in the alley. After several very loud toots, a neighbor's German Shepherd jumped a fence and bit my leg! Long story short-- The bite wasn't that bad, the dog had its Rabies shot, I eventually stopped crying and admitted to all that it was my fault with the stupid whistle.
s-l1600 (2) (resized).jpgmaxresdefault (resized).jpgQuoted from OLDPINGUY:3 weeks, 5 minutes at a time, they all are getting cleaned, checked, and stored.
This is like 8 family members toys going back to the 50s.
There is around 10 bins more than showing.....I guess we truly were all spoiled.
Can't stop looking at your great collection of games! I see a Bolt n Stein game in there, on top of Crazy Clock. A game from the 90s. Never played that one. Looks like it would be great fun with kids.
3697953e9501e664023d0abcd9a3f61c87247d5a (resized).jpg91CRcly7k0L._AC_SL1500_ (resized).jpgQuoted from OLDPINGUY:Pretty Cool, Lava Lamp like, not as cool as a sisyphus table though.
It’s reminding me of my Lava Wave machine I had back in the 70s.
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Oh man... Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. I played with a tube of that stuff in my Grandpa’s front yard and created a colorful indelible mess all over his cement front steps. Was he pissed!
Quoted from mooch:Hmm... Sorry, maybe a Stoned Agin poster is a bit off topic.
C883E940-B730-42E7-A6CF-D670D14D5529 (resized).jpegQuoted from vec-tor:I remember this coffin toy bank being glow-in-the-dark.
I remember this one. Kind of like Thing from the Addams Family.
5534 (resized).jpgQuoted 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]
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In addition to the Fuzzy Wuzzy soap, I abused a few bars of the similar Soaprize soap. These soaps had a crappy little toy prize hidden inside them. I had no patience to wait for the bar to dissolve over time. So at bath time, I would madly bash the new bar against the tub fixtures until the soap broke apart. My Mom didn’t appreciate that very much.
A16ED512-9F10-4CCC-9BA8-B389D1A21721 (resized).jpegF9798678-B7CE-4F40-85CD-EFAEF8D56819 (resized).jpegQuoted from cottonm4:This ball bearing clock was not the way. That clackity clacking on the minute got annoying real fast. Not only that, if you were across the room you could not tell the time unless you had the eyes of an eagle. The clock lasted 3 or 4 days before I took it back and donated it.
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My Dad had a ball clock that he kept running in the living room for years. More of a novelty than a timepiece. He had a collection of little clocks all over the place.
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Quoted from DanQverymuch:I even just picked up, at an auction, the same model stereo I had in my bedroom as a teenager!
Man, that Panasonic stereo looks REALLY familiar. I think I might’ve had that same one. 
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Not quite toys per say but I had the A Team plastic one. They're up for sale at auction in a couple weeks and hopefully I can put one back on my shelf
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I had this Peanuts lunch box that I brought to school for a few years. I was pretty adept at dropping it and breaking the silvery glass part inside the Thermos. Bonus points if it was full of milk at the time. I would come home from school with the Thermos container filled with broken glass shards, pissing off my Dad who would have to drive to the store for a replacement.
1959-Peanuts-Snoopy-and-Gang (resized).jpglot-vintage-aladdin-thermos-bottle_1_c05808720379ec93bc0a4dd1fa9daa4b (resized).jpgRemember the "Mechanical Servants" vending machines? I occasionally saw one in the rest room of a bar or restaurant back in the 60s. The machines usually sold items like aspirin, combs, nail clippers, etc. But sometimes there were a couple of little toy items in there. I remember persuading my Dad to buy me a much-needed pair of magnetic Scottie dogs.
s-l300 (resized).jpgvintage-mechanical-servants-magnets-black-and-white-dogs (resized).jpgMy younger self always enjoyed a box of Cracker Jack with a prize inside. Although most of the prizes were crappy, I got a few good ones. I liked it when I got a whistle. My favorite of all was the disc that would spin when you blew on it. I could get that thing to spin really fast.
27231181-E550-4C7B-BC07-3B52EC9D53AD (resized).png172DE13C-50CA-4C2C-AF47-D53E91E2845F (resized).jpegQuoted from OLDPINGUY:Well My Uncles and older Cousins use to show me this as a kid.
They came it different sizes, and were made in the 40s, to the early 60s.
My brother and I wood pick our numbers, along with the fashionable cigarette smokers, who would light the race.
I was intrigued by Art’s post (#2534) of the old burning horse race papers, so I bought some to try out. Not sure if the 70 year old paper burned as originally intended. But it sort of looks like the first horse won, ridden by Lorne Greene.
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AEA5236E-19E1-46FB-9C35-C67A044403AF.gifQuoted from Rezdog:Did anybody here ever buy the “next 6 albums over the next 2 years” to complete your Columbia House record club obligation?
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I got a bunch of cassettes from Record Club Of America when I was in high school in the early 70s. I think it was a better deal than Columbia House. I remember having several Three Dog Night tapes from them. Joy to the world!
36617F28-6391-4F4E-AA33-CC1E8F01625A (resized).jpeg48076D76-BC72-4828-BE13-25218D55ABF2 (resized).jpegQuoted from Mr68:I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin then watch TV with my unsuspecting grandmother.
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F93061F8-A579-4C6E-835C-96091DEF8D32 (resized).jpegQuoted from Mr68:I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin and then watched TV with my unsuspecting grandmother.
While we’re on the subject of abusing cough suppressants... Candy was not allowed in my grade school classrooms. But I could occasionally get around that rule with a box of tasty candy-like cough drops for my bogus sore throat. I loved those Vicks lemon ones.
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0F2AEF78-7ADD-4572-AC87-12E8FFA7DF14 (resized).jpeg5D3C4153-2F19-410C-88DD-101816C4211F (resized).jpegADB399F2-BAEC-4D25-97D1-5DADAA128973 (resized).jpegI always loved cheap little magic tricks. At a truck stop or gift shop I would look for a rack of Adams tricks. My favorite magic trick was the Color Vision Box.
BD1948CC-4778-4581-B4AA-1507CF2D5078 (resized).jpeg44078400-BEDE-4A1A-A150-3A424A190459 (resized).jpeg2FAADE65-E38D-4295-9773-AD2C646A159C (resized).jpegHere’s the kind of protractor I used in class in 7th or 8th grade. I always wondered about that cool-looking “French Curve” part on it. We measured angles and drew lines and stuff with it. But the teacher never mentioned anything about any “French Curve.” 
C67389B1-32AC-43AF-A24E-EB90DE4F76BD (resized).jpegQuoted from EdisonArcade:Harvey Comics! Especially Richie Rich and Hot Stuff
My favorite Harvey comic was Sad Sack.
765267 (resized).jpgQuoted from Rezdog:Not a toy but it made for a hell of a light show when we played KISS concert with my brothers guitars.
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I had a very groovy sound activated color light box that flashed along with music. Turned it on when there was a party.
vintage-sound-light-color-organ-disco_1_7c4f8b50d5d2dcc989eafc0e3f23fa1c (resized).jpgAround age 8, I had a toy printing press like this one. Bad idea... The first thing I did with it was spill all the ink— horribly staining our white Formica kitchen table. The printing press was in the trash that same day.
6B501217-7801-4D81-A942-CEBF83CA0921 (resized).jpegBC9DE942-5C12-46CF-A6FE-6037A8B606D3 (resized).jpeg7F37376A-D64D-44D8-B0C8-8AD74F5E8113 (resized).jpegQuoted from EternitytoM83:Not a toy, but I happened across this in a used bookstore a couple days ago. As soon as I saw the cover I remembered reading it (and reading it, and reading it) as a little kid.
Here’s a book that brings back memories for me. My parents couldn’t afford to buy a whole set of the World Book Encyclopedia. But we somehow did have the single volume for the letter “A.” I think it was from some store promotion where the first volume was $1 and the rest were full price. I milked this book for all it was worth. I tried to steer as many of my school papers and projects as possible to subjects starting with “A.” I remember writing a paper on the Aztecs.
FDFC2C16-0701-4924-8513-DF298C21F80F (resized).jpegQuoted from BMore-Pinball:My first computer, taught myself to program BASIC[quoted image]
I had an Atari 400 computer to “help me with my schoolwork.” But 99% of the time I spent on it was playing this game “Speedway Blast.”
F925012F-7D16-42EC-9F02-8AE48B2D86EA (resized).jpeg1B69DA54-0345-487C-945F-9C6CB2A770D5 (resized).jpegQuoted from cottonm4:My friend had two younger sisters when this game hit the market around 1965-66
I don't know how this game got past the censors
DFE4B2CC-A58F-4C97-AA3B-026D5C26A3B7 (resized).jpegDid you ever make a Christmas Countdown chain at school out of red and green paper rings with numbers written on them? It would get hung up somewhere at home. Then every day you would tear off a ring and it would be one day closer to Christmas. I LOVED that thing!
E30C78FB-7DE6-4FC7-A4B5-1E7445F680D1 (resized).jpeg959C20D6-B1EE-49D6-A96A-FAE400BA8423 (resized).jpegQuoted from pacmanretro:For Christmas one year, I bought a twister board game for my roommate and his girlfriend to play with me and mine
I was at a party where a guy had a big checkered shag rug with huge chess pieces on it. It was cool, but he could’ve gotten more girls on the floor with Twister.
81386913-0221-4DE9-9150-56301030E566 (resized).jpegYears ago, I somehow always had a small collection of near-worthless foreign coins. One by one, they would show up in change as an inferior lower-value replacement for a similar-sized U.S. coin. It was fun to try and figure out which countries they came from.
655ED836-CE22-4772-A4C2-9D7883B25191 (resized).jpegQuoted from DCP:We were a Wham-o family in the 60s.
I remember when I first got a Wham-o Superball in the 60s. My Dad would go with me and my friends to this huge factory parking lot that was empty on the weekends. He would throw the Superball as hard as he could straight down to the pavement. It would bounce up so high that you couldn’t see it. We would all run around trying to catch or chase after that crazy ball.
9D7C6519-176C-4B4F-A0EF-C75B23B307E2 (resized).pngQuoted from cottonm4:That brings back memories. I did not have the magnet, but I had Wham-O Frisbee.
Anybody ever have the Glow-In-The-Dark Frisbee? I had one, but I can’t recall ever really throwing it outside in the dark. Who the hell throws Frisbees around at night time?
FC6D9932-DC7D-4637-BFD1-C09FB46785C0 (resized).jpegQuoted from rstrunks:Here is my Mechanical Servants vending machine. It lived its life in Pennsylvania from the amusement decal on it. It is loaded with inventory and works like it should after some repair. [quoted image]
That machine is awesome!
Quoted from dirkdiggler:The Jocko reminds me of wonderbread
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Wait a minute... Jocko is the same dude as Scoopy the Carnival Straws clown.
4226F730-378D-4D85-B7E6-7D1A814F2EA3 (resized).jpegGoing way back... They had a couple of these “Moo Cans” at my pre-school. You turn it upside down and it makes a sound like a cow’s moo as the air escapes through the holes. Looks like they still make these things today. It was magical entertainment for a 4 year old back in 1961.
9E71DB80-CDD6-4B82-A38F-CF8D7FF79AFC (resized).jpegFD3AA316-1E2B-42BA-89C6-782BFDB32CA1 (resized).jpegQuoted from EdisonArcade:Clown got around! I remember him on the ice cream cone box at Grandmas house
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Here’s a rare image of Scoopy handing off his giant Safe-T Cone to his personal assistant while he goes on a smoke break.
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Quoted from mooch:Who the hell throws Frisbees around at night time?
1A8EFE20-C6FC-4284-8739-4968A873FDD2.gifIn the late 60s, Shell gas stations had a few promotions where they gave out little coins to collect and win prizes. There were coins featuring Presidents, States and Space Missions. I thought these coins were so cool. I tried to get my Dad to get gas from Shell whenever they were giving out coins. But he only went there a few times, since the nearest Shell station was several miles from where we lived. I still have my treasured Apollo XI coin squirreled away somewhere.
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E252A168-EC6A-4453-AC2A-F14D53CBB7D5 (resized).jpegEB3A5811-9CC3-40D0-937B-A1521EB1576A (resized).jpegMy Dad got this cool white glass mug free with a fill-up at a Gulf gas station around 1970. It had an image of GROG the caveman from the comic strip “B.C.” on it. I immediately confiscated it and used it as a pencil holder for decades. I thought it might be a valuable collector’s item, but I see they’re for sale all over the place for 5 or 6 bucks apiece.
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There are FOUR Lincoln Cent books?! I feel old... When I was a kid there were only two. I was really only able to fill up most of the second volume. Also filled up most of the Jefferson Nickel book. There are probably more volumes of nickel books now, too. The other book I had was 20th Century Type Coins. Whenever I opened that book, all my older worn beat-up silver coins would fall out of their holes.
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I think my no-budget filler-quality Barber Quarter was so worn down it would've fit into a nickel hole. Shiny new pennies jammed into their holes tightly.
I had this windup tin jukebox bank when I was a kid. It looked like fun at first. I thought it would play a tune. But when you wound it up and put a coin in the slot, it made an awful sound. Sounded like something spinning inside making a ball bearing clink against metal pieces. No incentive to ever put in another coin.
D9166C2F-C610-4776-B9CB-7672E0A7834D (resized).jpegToday, my feeble mind is remembering a couple of fun souvenirs I brought home from my 60s-era school field trips to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. They had this big machine called a Mold-A-Rama that injected hot wax into a metal mold to create a figure. The one I got there was a black locomotive. Also, there was a row of Metal Typer machines in the hallway outside a big room called the Safari Room, where all the school kids ate lunch. I loved getting the little round metal tokens from these machines. I remember carefully spinning that dial pointer around to choose each letter and then pulling the lever down repeatedly to punch out my message. Ka-CHUNK! Ka-CHUNK!
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A few years ago, I received a small bottle of “Liquid Ass” fart smell spray as a gag gift. One night while I was having a few beers with my father-in-law in the kitchen, I sprayed a bit of it around as a joke. OMG, it smelled like a toilet bowl full of diarrhea. The smell made my dog immediately take a big dump on the kitchen floor. (I am not making this up.)
1E692BA5-B84C-46BC-8F14-3AD2625CE128 (resized).jpegQuoted from pacmanretro:My brother had that more boxy looking style (410?).
My first camera with the flash cubes and the square prints used 126 film.
Here’s an even older Kodak Brownie camera that my Mom had which took black and white photos. I never used that one.
D35903D6-2E00-4DC4-9E34-215C7FB8DFF5 (resized).jpegQuoted from pacmanretro:A couple of batteries and a dark room turned into a lot of time spent having "flash wars"...no wonder I have glasses...
That story reminds me of this flashing strobe light I used to have. I brought it out at parties for fun. But most people couldn't stand the thing for more than a minute or two.
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I was such a crappy roller skater that the only category I could skate under was ALL SKATE (barely). I would’ve done great if it said FALL ON ASS. Got dragged along to the rink with friends who loved skating. I spent most of my time there playing the pinball machine by the snack bar.
1E82D7BA-9D0B-4D72-BEC2-9480A3BC94CE (resized).jpegQuoted from tcape61:This is me back in 1966. That gun you could pump up and it made a really big compressed air BANG when you pulled the trigger. Surprised it did not kill me!
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Looks like this one... ?
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Hmm... many mouse-related items.
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I had a LEGO phone that I got as a gift in the 80s. I didn’t like it, but my Mom flipped over it and used it for over 20 years.
612544C7-0EF0-430C-A1F2-551A04D2EAE8 (resized).jpegHoly crap! I’ve just discovered that in 1964 there was a kids Halloween costume of RAT FINK. This thing is shockingly awesome. Beats the heck out of whatever I dressed up as that year. Probably Yogi Bear.
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Remember trying to record some audio from the family TV using a microphone? Parents talking, doors slamming, phones ringing, dogs barking- all while you’re trying to capture a pristine recording of the theme song from your favorite show.
Quoted from Rezdog:I would do the same thing in the 70s trying to record TV show theme songs
Speaking of TV shows, one of the most anticipated events of the year for my 60s/70s-era boyhood household was the arrival of the annual Fall Preview issue of TV Guide. That big fat special issue was filled with details about all the exciting new shows! Woo-hoo!
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I couldn’t stand it when two must-see shows were on different channels in the same time slot. Batman vs Lost In Space comes to mind.
Here’s a wooden puzzle my Dad gave me when I was a kid. I think he got it from somebody at work. I thought it was interesting and spent a lot of time trying to solve it, but I don’t think I ever did.
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I don’t have that puzzle any more. I found that image online. It didn’t come with a solution. The box said you could get it by mail, which I never did. I’m tempted to print out the image and cut out the pieces to try solving it again. Not sure I’d be any better at it 50 years later.
Quoted from mbeardsley:I just did exactly that...I've always been a big fan of puzzles like that.
I solved it in about 15 minutes. If anyone wants the solution (or a hint), feel free to PM me.
This puzzle wasn’t as difficult as I remember it. I think I’ve found two different solutions.
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I don’t seem to have a world of fun with a magnifying glass anymore like I did when I was a kid. Back then, I always had one on hand to look at coins, stamps, dollar bills, feathers, leaves and bugs or to burn holes in sunlit paper or fry an ant. Now, I would likely only use one to fix something.
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2A272C01-4907-41F6-A232-313B7D361C0B.gifRemember flicker rings? These were cheap little plastic rings that had a lenticular picture which changed when you moved it around. I got one occasionally from a gumball machine. The perfect pinky bling to boost your 3rd Grade street cred.
EF5F3781-C86D-4274-A174-15F327677008.gif7EED996C-A9F2-4B99-8D0B-4D5A24985FAB.jpegI remember these rubbery little toy creatures that hung from a string and wiggled around like crazy at the slightest touch. I had one hanging in my bedroom as a kid. It was a yellow gorilla like the one seen here. It had a small piece missing out of its arm where my pet hamster once took a bite out of it.
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61FC843F-1668-4B57-A671-71538BC1BACA (resized).jpegA291F98E-F22B-4CE9-BC26-0A550D43B9E0 (resized).jpegQuoted from bssbllr:Rolled around on one of these as child. Don’t really remember but the pictures tell me I did. Lol.
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My only pre-school ride was a red generic base-model tricycle. I remember I liked to set the tricycle upside down and make the front wheel spin as fast as I could by moving the pedals around with my hands. I couldn’t find any image online of a kid doing this so I must’ve been crazy.
Quoted from Mr68:Sitting in the bleachers with my foster grandfather, I had my first stadium hog dog. Mustard, ketchup, relish and onions.
Ooh, ballpark memories! My Dad took me to several Cubs games at Wrigley Field in the 60s. I loved it when they played the Giants, since Willie Mays was my favorite non-Cubs player. We got a home run ball once that landed under our bleacher seats. I loved the Oscar Mayer hot dogs they had there back then. Also the Oscar Mayer “Smokie Links.” Mustard and onions, please.
EBF41763-EF25-4334-AD75-5198E5EA7B01 (resized).jpegQuoted from Mr68:Not long ago I saw a grade school kid walking to school backwards. Backpack and all. Reminded me of me.
Anybody see how far they could walk with their eyes closed before chickening out? I bet all of us did. I'm gonna do it tomorrow at some point now that I'm reminded.
Did you ever run up or down in the opposite direction of a moving escalator? I thought it was big fun until one day I fell and got nasty bloody scrapes all over my arm and shoulder. Never tried that genius move again...
01817995-0938-4A7F-921F-65EF1EDA16C4.gifWhen I was about 3 or 4 years old, my Mom got me these Snippy electric safety scissors for cutting paper. I’ve always thought these scissors were supposed to look like a bird, but I see now 60 years later that it’s a fish!
8220A3A8-E932-48E9-9060-449D41A390FF (resized).pngC453FD48-1A82-414E-A685-5D753795B681 (resized).jpegQuoted from Rezdog:Couldn’t agree more and have wanted to say the same thing to you for weeks. Sorry I haven’t until now. Please keep em’ coming!
Thanks guys. It’s getting harder to come up with stuff. I’m scraping the bottom of my memory barrel. I love all the old funny stories from childhood everyone is posting.
Ever chew on an icicle? Whenever I found a reachable row of long clear icicles hanging down, I couldn’t resist cracking one off and chewing on it like a carrot. But I don’t recall ever taking more than maybe two bites of one, since they were usually flavored with a hint of roof dirt.
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I remember a big toy horse like this one taking up a whole lot of floor space in my bedroom when I was around age 4. It was sort of a rocking horse held up by tense springs. I think it was a gift from my aunt. I couldn’t stand the damn thing and never wanted to ride on it. My Mom eventually gave it away.
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That Game-to-TV connector reminds me of the kind of stuff hiding inside a few boxes marked “Wires” sitting somewhere in my garage untouched for years.
2BBB1EBC-F222-4912-81DF-0C6F1A360555 (resized).jpegDid you ever eat cereal out of a “Kel-Bowl-Pac?” Each little box from a Kellogg’s Variety Pack has instructions for cutting the box open and pouring milk into it. I did this many times and had great fun with it. Uh, oh... You’d better be quick to grab a box for yourself or you’ll be stuck with Product 19.
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DC3CE291-0899-486B-AA05-47D8B6660E34 (resized).jpegQuoted from ghostbc:Looks like Spam to me.
Why bother with TANG or SPAM when you could eat ASSI?
D0C12BAB-6790-462A-9EDC-FC638C489CC2 (resized).pngQuoted from Rezdog:Wish I still had this. First toy I’ve posted where I want to play it now.
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One toy that I wish I had again is my Beany-Copter, as seen in Post #2430. If I ever get my hands on one again, there will be a hopelessly deranged old man playing with this thing out in the street in front of my house.
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Spam n’ Oreo Burger, please! Extra Mayo!
6A6C617D-C839-46DD-A1A3-F98D154E01D7 (resized).jpegOne of my favorite toys that my family first bought in the late 70s was a microwave oven. Sure it cooks food, but it’s main purpose is to nuke various items for experimental mischief and entertainment. My favorite 3 items: Raw Egg, Marshmallow Peep, Mustard Packet. I’ve just read about nuking 2 grapes. I’ll have to try that.
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651F9CF1-2FD0-463E-8FA2-72272FCC0784.gifAnyone ever collect these Top-40 radio station “song surveys” in the 60s and 70s? I grew up in Chicago and had dozens of WLS and WCFL surveys taped all over my bedroom door in high school.
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Ah, that at least partially explains why so many of your childhood toys and memories are similar to mine! I was born in Chicago in 1957, and grew up in Northbrook, IL.
Then you’ll remember this! 
Quoted from DCP:Woah...The Magic Hands!!! We loved that show! What channel was it on? They were short films, so it must have been on as part of another show.
Trick and Treat was shown on “Garfield Goose and Friends” hosted by Frazier Thomas, which aired weekday afternoons after school on WGN. In between puppet skits, they showed various short cartoons and films like Clutch Cargo, Spunky And Tadpole, The Mighty Hercules, The Funny Company and the timeless classic Chatter’s World.
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Did you ever save Mallo Cup points? I never did, but a high school buddy of mine had piles of these points cards in his desk drawer. Supposedly, you could mail them in for money. I wonder if he ever did.
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Putting the beer can hat on that Tiki dude is hilarious! 
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There were a few good games for Atari 2600. I had fun with Kaboom and Yars’ Revenge. Adventure was fun with the dragon trying to eat you and the bat stealing your stuff.
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Anyone remember these RC Cola bottle caps that said “Look Under Liner” for a chance to win some cash amount? I always liked Coke, but I was tempted by this promotion a few times to choose an RC. I think I got a 10 cent winner once.
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The only game my Dad would ever play with me was Night Driver. He laughed whenever he crashed.
DBDF3B1E-90DE-450C-8CA1-A89C5946AEB3.gifMy favorite Cold War Era childhood memories: When I was 6 or 7 years old, I found this little yellow book on the living room table: “Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack.” I read and understood enough of it to scare the crap out of me. Then at school, we started having “Air Raid Drills” and they gave me Civil Defense book covers for all my books reminding me daily that when I hear a wailing siren, it means ATTACK IMMINENT! 
WTF?!
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723636A9-AD9B-4347-A150-ED19F356DD55 (resized).jpegDid you have to do a “Science Fair Project” each year in grade school? I did and I hated it. I could never come up with any idea I liked for a project, and usually waited until the last minute to work on it. I wish I would’ve had as much fun with it as these kids...
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My parents used to complain that they couldn’t sleep because my HEADPHONES were too loud. Not sure why, but even though their hearing is better, younger people need louder music than older people. My friends and I all had parents yelling at us to turn down our loud music. Why was it so loud? I don’t seem to need it that loud now. My one buddy had a powerful stereo in his basement that he blasted away when his parents weren’t home. He would play Deep Purple records so loud that we couldn’t hear ourselves yelling to each other.
20BC27B0-31E1-4CCB-884D-77B5B57DD62A.gifQuoted from dirkdiggler:Always a sucker for fisher price[quoted image]
Dirk— you posted a Fisher Price radio music box way back at post #1204. I had that same one as a kid, now long gone. You made me buy another one!
4D278316-D9C7-4796-9946-96D51A173925 (resized).jpegQuoted from CubeSnake:tiny (1") cars that would speed around on a track. I believe gravity was the fuel, but I could be wrong. It had elevators to bring the cars to the top of the track
Cosmo Roller Coaster?
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B0A15435-E3D3-4959-B4A1-324956D4DDDE.gifQuoted from CubeSnake:My 1st calculator...
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I remember that thing! My Dad had one of those.
He had one of these “adding machines” too.
8ECD0313-3725-47CD-AA9B-CE00AA62B3BF (resized).jpegQuoted from cottonm4:OK. I see we are moving from toys to office equipment. .
Keep feeding my memory banks !
Speaking of office equipment...
When I was a kid in the 60s, we had a regular boring Smith-Corona manual typewriter at home. But at my Dad’s office, they had IBM Selectric typewriters. Instead of using individual skinny little hammers to type characters when you pressed the keys, the Selectrics used a way-cool electrified futuristic silver ball. It was fascinating to watch it in action. Whenever I got the chance to run rampant at his office, I would immediately head for one of these typewriters to give it a vigorous round of recreational abuse.
668AE41A-E000-4AD7-B2A7-D2080DD7F7AF (resized).jpeg999723CF-508D-4303-ABE1-DD94ADE1224B (resized).jpegI remember sitting on the floor in pre-school noisily hammering wooden pegs into this Playskool bench. After pounding about a half dozen pegs into the top hole, one would come out from a hole in the end.
6BA19DC6-EAED-4704-8B4A-836A2E62188D (resized).jpeg6CDA0DCA-9E48-4B87-A65B-D6AC40057D3A (resized).jpegQuoted from Rezdog:Office toy?
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Along with that 4-color Bic pen, in 7th grade I also had the only fountain pen I’ve ever owned. It was a cheap one that I found at a store while buying school supplies. It made my handwriting look cool. I would practice signing my name fancy like John Hancock.
2F10C903-9DA7-40C1-AE50-0779C4D9C73C (resized).jpegQuoted from Mr68:I kinda miss watching a quick handed vendor give out change. Thought it would be cool to have one too.
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The ice cream guy had one of those.
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6E010028-7055-48A9-99EC-6EE62FE5B19D (resized).jpegC79F8A14-E291-4B7A-9269-489A73780EC3 (resized).jpegQuoted from cottonm4:When I was in third grade, we went on a school field trip. We came to the big city where I have been living for 50 years and toured the Borden milk plant where Elsie the Cow lived.
I remember that Elmer the Bull on Elmer’s Glue was the fictional cartoon boyfriend of Elsie the Cow on Borden milk cartons.
2348C755-4FED-4F04-A802-DA4AF68F0C2B (resized).jpegQuoted from Mr68:I guess that's how they made those baby cartons.
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I think they used Elmer’s Glue to seal the cartons because I always had a hell of a time opening those as a kid.
14480B23-1ED6-4941-8718-21DAD0793711 (resized).jpegQuoted from girloveswaffles:"It slices! It dices! It makes Julienne fries!"
A024FEE6-CA83-4B34-9538-F3C9D52CCA67.gifI remember being wildly curious about a new toothpaste in the 60s called Stripe that had colored stripes in it, years before Aquafresh. I persuaded my loyal Crest-buying parents to buy me some Stripe just so I could figure out how the heck stripes came out of it.
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Here’s you and me the first day with a Rubik’s Cube.
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BA89B675-B852-4A93-965F-211FCFB55DD0 (resized).jpegBABBDCB6-2A52-4DDC-B75A-406648952689 (resized).jpegQuoted from bssbllr:Was my mom the only one that had these creepy face mugs around.
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My grandmother had a whole curio cabinet filled with that kind of stuff. But I guess they’re not any creepier than all my ugly-ass tiki mugs.
A1924DDD-B9D3-4BB4-8FBF-DDA0640C582F (resized).jpegQuoted from pinworthy:Not Dennis the Menace but I still have the Campbell Soup Boy spoon (need to try and find my Welch’s Jelly Flintstone glasses)[quoted image]
I also got this “Goofy Grape Sings” record in the mail. The cornerstone of any serious vinyl collection. The ad for it was somewhere in the Sunday newspaper comics in 1966.
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Anybody remember seeing one of these stuck on top of a car antenna? First it was these Union 76 balls, followed later by a zillion other kinds. I once put a Mickey Mouse one from Disneyland on my car’s antenna, but it got stolen the same day. 
28967581-2751-4B2D-B7D7-BB2119BCF846 (resized).jpeg759FDE27-B09E-4EB6-982E-F5C1C84D91FF (resized).jpegQuoted from zombywoof:Here are a few relics from the kitchen:
The oldest artifact in my kitchen is this old wore out Tupperware drinking cup by the sink. My Mom bought it at a Tupperware sales party in the late 1950s around the time I was born. It sat by our kitchen sink the whole time I was growing up, wherever we lived. My Mom still had it by the sink when she passed 7 years ago. And there it sits by my sink today.
408E0330-BF3D-4DB8-B4AE-EDE7696DA4FD (resized).jpegWhen I was a kid, I was creeped out by the idea of voodoo dolls. They appeared in so many places in 1960s popular culture that I thought they were something real, like the Easter Bunny.
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Here are a couple examples from voo doo museums in New Orleans circa mid 1990's.
LTG : )
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Yeah, but now I’m old enough to know that those dolls are basically Bourbon Street gift shop novelties rather than supernatural demonic torture devices trying to kill me.
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LTG : )
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I have a Corelle Spaghetti’Os dish, too!
FFCF77EC-E2A7-43B2-B5C6-1BB1B859D401 (resized).jpegQuoted from LTG:Damn. I'm sorry. Now I hope it doesn't work. I was going to hold a cigarette lighter under a foot to give you a hot foot and the damned thing flared and burned right up.
I sure hope you are okay.
LTG : )
Feeling a bit warmer than usual today.
9519AC76-ABFD-426D-B861-F487D9388E79 (resized).jpegQuoted from cottonm4:I loved those Swanson Chicken TV dinners. The short version was just chicken and mashed potatoes.
And don't forget the fish sticks.
My favorite TV dinner of all-time was the Taste O’Sea Seafood Platter. It had a piece of fried fish, shrimp, scallops and a fish cake with some tater tots. I savored every morsel of this wondrous feast. My Mom made it for me on Friday nights when my Dad worked. I sat on the couch eating this from a TV tray table usually while watching either The Flintstones or Time Tunnel.
BAB74D13-F97F-41A9-8951-93B71E66E5E9 (resized).jpegQuoted from kyle5574:Skill Squares (aka Starcades), made by Tomy in 1983. Little wind-up toys with moving targets inside to shoot at. There were six of them. I had a couple. Shootin' Gallery was my favorite. I've been re-collecting them and I just made a video about them.
While checking out Kyle’s TOMY Skill Squares, I stumbled upon these other little 1980s wind-up games: Milton Bradley’s T.H.I.N.G.S.
My inner child then decided that he needed a “Sir Ring-a-lot” that he found on eBay.
35ECF90F-24CF-470E-8AFC-E11ABB3EA7FA (resized).jpegBD6C3DA5-AEE6-4C3F-A92C-75B2B5DFC51B (resized).jpegA 1960s ad campaign by Avis Rent-a-Car used the slogan “We Try Harder”- meaning that since Avis was the #2 car rental company, they tried harder than #1 Hertz. They gave away millions of little badges with this slogan printed on it, then made millions more with the slogan translated into several languages. Somehow I had a bunch of these badges, even though I was a non-car-renting little kid. The slogan even got into a Peanuts special and on the cover of MAD Magazine.
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http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/
It’s an incredible treasure trove of old department store Christmas catalogs with loads of old toys.
I’ve just started looking at them, but have already found a toy I had that I completely forgot about!
It’s the Plazer Ray Gun on page 498 of the
1966 Sears Christmas Book.
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