One of the neighbors that I grew up with was into theater
and the family was very crafty. One day they had a bounce of
cardboard boxes "pinball size" and the such all deferent sizes
and they were all glued and plumbed together long ways and
into zig/zag formations and right angles all on the ground.
It was the "MYSTERY CAVE" once inside you had to figure
out how to get out. Sometimes you were on your hands and knees
other times you had to shimmy on your tummy to squeeze through
the small openings. and other times you came up on a dead end.
some dead ends you had to open the box flaps in order to go into
the next chamber. Cheap thrills!

kids

My cousins had one of those that had Disney's haunted house ghost cartoon.
I liked going fast then slow and then forward and backwards with the film.

I still have mine. Although, a lot of the parts that go to them are broken.

I know... You had to say it.

My brother would take our dads matches and use some lighter fluid and burn his and mine
plastic car models. I had an Aurora "Witch" model and of course he had to "burn the witch".

Ya, My brother had one ... The family dog chewed it up.

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 )

I was able to dumpster dive and save some stuff that I still have.

Simply to die for. LOL

Never herd or seen anything like that before...Must be a regional thing.

Me too... My sister was pissed because I wanted to know how the pull-string mechanisms worked
inside her talking dolls. So... into my dads vice goes the dolls and crunch/snap/pop goes the body and all the little
parts come out all over the place...

ROFLOL. Sometime you just can't.

Cap bombs
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I forgot about this thing.

What I find interesting is the stuff I never have seen. It seems like some toys are regional
and others more global. I guess it has to do with the individual suppliers of the times.

The Mexican Jumping Beans! bought one set at Knott's Berry Farm.

One of the "cool kids" in are neighborhood had the thing-maker and it's accessories...
My dad said NO! to the device.

Dang! Lucky

I didn't have that.. but I did try to play "pit and the pendulum"
with a crudely put together Aurora model and one of my dads single blade razor attached to it...
Ah, the joys of having to kill tomato worms.
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LOL!! Man you are having me pee in my pants!
I just lost it.

On a side note, there was a guy ( friend of the owner of a shop I would work at ) who was into explosives...
He would come along into the shop with plastic milk jugs and add his favorite concoctions to them...
Check this out! One jug he put on the back corner side of the shop building... Carefully using one of those
long neck lighters, he had us pressed against the opposing wall ... click, click, BOOOMMM! It was deafening
loud. The building shook, car alarms in the opposing neighborhood went off... etc,etc,etc.
I think he got into his car and left before anybody could figure out what just happened.

No, thank god.
But my dad has told a few stories about that
contraption: during his good ol' days.

Here's one toy that my dad got made at me because I kept breaking it...
What is advertised...
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What you had to constantly buy that never had the colors you wanted...
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Plus these, because the end product was never right...
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The real reality of the final product,
the stuff that they never show you.
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Ah, the joys of DIY Hot Wheels.

My sister had this...
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One year for XMas my sister figured she was old enough, and along with my brother and I made are parents easy bake breakfast. My dad was mortified.

I did that!
A sharp flame came out of the left top slot socket and toasted the top of the plastic insert.

I did not have access to Playboy Magazine...
But TG&Y had puzzles...
$4.95 "can" puzzles never knew what you where going to get...
Me and neighbor bought a PB "can" puzzle and it ended up being the Asian girl.
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I remember to this day, Brian's mother, Deloris, saying
"There she is".

As young kids, living in a house with a concrete smooth sloped down driveway, we got to play
"roller coaster" with my dads creeper.
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Thanks for posting these pictures. Now I know what that action figure is called...
Capt. Lazer: Me and my cousin got one of these figures for Xmas at my grand parents house.
The only thing was is that they came with no box/packaging. I think they got them as
loose packaging thrift store specials. Xmas was in early 1970's, so if the item was made in
late 1960's then I guess it was left over stuff that needed to get dumped.

7¢ I cried when the price bumped to 8¢ and I had to pay tax.

Or lights up a cigarette. I have come across many older gals that have
face scares from the flammable stuff.

Ah! Sprouse Reitz novelty store

That reminded me of this:
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I remember this coffin toy bank being glow-in-the-dark.

Almost thirty years ago, I got to fix one of these:
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I was quit surprised at all the movements this toy bank did.
The last part of having the tongue pop out and lick the outer rim
was the piece de resistance.

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.

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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Goonies! The older brother was working out with that springy thing.

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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I bought some tricks from Disneyland.
I never found any magic shops from where I was living at the time; till much later.

One day when the family was at my grandmothers house in Los Angles,
a next door neighbor came by and shared this electric bear toy.
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But as I remember it, the bear in the bed was reading the book...
I could not find a picture of the one I remember, but these two pictures come close.

My dad throw away mine.

My Aunt had these peanuts dolls on her back bed frame.
The bed frame was made like a bookshelf.
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Never knew existed. Thanks for posting.

I saw a vending machine in a bar once, and it had some toiletries...
But mostly stalked with condoms. The place looked like it was once a dinner house
that fell into hard times. The place had dark imitation wood trim with red wall paper
walls throughout the place. The popcorn ceiling was painted chocolate/black with
pieces of reflective glitter.

My dad drilled a hole in the middle of the concrete driveway for one of these.
Tetherball.
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I think my family played with it over the summer months.
Eventually, the rains came and filled in the hole in the driveway with muck...
Never set it up again... never knew what happened to it.

As a kid my dad had a set of these cardboard punch out cars.
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I remember they had Cracker jacks in them.

My older brother did not "break" my things... he would simply sell them off when I was not home.

It's not as bad as what happened to my cousins.
They got in really bad trouble. I do not know what it was, but their dad started a
fire in the fireplace and he made them put all of their cherished stuff into the fire; one at a time.

OMG that is pure crack!

Burger King live action commercials from the seventies/eighties.
Side Note: The guy that did the live action commercials is a professional dancer.
---------- He got to work with Connie Stevens. He is still in excellent shape and is a ginger.

Vampire Blood: the kids in the neighborhood staged a fake fight...
we all smeared the stuff on the knuckles of are free hand and proceeded to
whomp each other in the face.

One guys mom freaked out and called the cops.

My dad has a small one, that was made out of metal that fit in your pocket.
It had a lot of odd symbols on it. To this day I still don't know...

Something new I never knew.

Reminds me of the ice cream cone package at the grocery store

A relative of my moms had one when I was little and he made me and my siblings watch has he
shuffled across the floor... in effect it looked like he was floating across the floor like a stop
motion picture.

There is a cartoon about the pet setting the house on fire... The cat jumps up and down gleefully
exclaiming " mouse flambe'! ".

I redid a Barbie for my niece. I "Punked" the figure out... I called it "Bad Girl Barbie"
Complete with black lipstick, cut hair, and torn up clothes.
She sighed, and asked why did you do that!

LOL!

No. But I was forced to wear 'Angles Flight' black pants with no pockets in high school.
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