Toys From Our Childhood

[Ron]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Two games that I remember having:

I remember Mouse Trap.

[WyoPastor]

Originally Posted by Ron

I remember my mom hanging the clothes from the washer to dry on a clothesline.
One day my mom washed our white sheets & they were hanging out to dry.
I had one of those pump air rifles & I found out if you jammed the rifle end into the dirt pumped the rifle & shot, the dirt made a neat projectile!

What made me decide to use the clean white sheets as target practice, I'll never know, but I was 4 years old so I plead temporary insanity.

Back then whipping a kid with a wooden spoon wasn't considered child abuse!

I didn't repeat the same mistake!

I remember when I was about 10 we had a building out back that we used for a shed that was made of bricks. The boys in the neighborhood used it as a clubhouse.
One day we discovered some loose bricks on the backside, so we decided we needed a back entrance.
My dad discovered the back entrance as we were leaving for church one Sunday morning. Even Sunday morning didn't save me from the belt. It was rather difficult to sit down in SS that morning.

[Esther]

I remember my brother had cap guns with holsters, he had a rifle but I can't remember if it shot caps also or not. He had a stick horse and cowboy hat. Lincoln logs and GI joe plastic men. He had a blue metal car you peddled and my other brother had a yellow tractor you peddaled.

I had a Tammy instead of a Barbie and lots of babies. I had a 3' bride doll that I was not allowed to play with, we could just look at her.

I had jacks, pick up sticks, hula, baton that I play golf with.

Pin the tail on the donkey, bingo and old maids were the only games I can remember.

Books: The three little pigs, Sambo, Little Red Riding Hood

I had a piano I banged on that made a tinkling sound. For some reason the adults always wanted me to play outside with that.

Wooden blocks, bouncing balls and push metal trucks and cars, and a set of tin pots and pans, and dishes.

We never had an abundant amount of toys and 4 kids shared their toys.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Ron

I remember Mouse Trap.

I loved Mouse Trap and Operation and Clue! I still have my Scrabble game that I got when I was eight - 44 years ago. It's probably worth some money - it's an antique!!!

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by Ritamuffin57

I'm probably the only one who had a brown hair, brown eyed, freckled face Chatty Cathy. I believe she was the first talking doll. It was 1962.

Chatty Cathy was my favorite doll! She had such a cute voice too.

I remember that one of her phrases was, "I wanna drink of water!"

I'd play that because I wasn't allowed water after supper because I wet the bed! I didn't think it was fair that Cathy could ask but I couldn't!

[HeavenlyOne]

I also had a Baby Alive doll. I wasn't into dolls after I was about 7, but I thought she was cool cause she peed when I gave her water.....LOL!

I also had a doll that would break out in a chicken pox rash but it would disappear with water, or something like that. Sadistic???

[HeavenlyOne]

I always wanted Shrinky Dinks. My mom refused to buy them. I could never understand why!! LOL!

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by tstew

I was an "Encyclopedia Brown" nut.

I love mystery books anyway, and since we didn't have TV growing up, I read every Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown book ever written about ten times each.

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Two games that I remember having:

Coincidentally enough, that's how she found true love.....LOL!

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by OneAccord

I remember 1960's video games. You didn't know we had video games back then? Well, we did.

Turn the TV off, take your finger and play Tic-Tac-Toe or draw faces in the dust on the TV screen. Works best if you live on a dusty gravel road like we did! Works well on any dusty surface. Back window of a station wagon was great!

Why is it not difficult for me to imagine you doing this........LOL!