oldtimer Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Well, yeah!! It was hard playing foosball with bricks... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtmudd Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 On 4/2/2018 at 8:23 AM, Ceptorman said: Probably my favorite toy Ive ever received was a used Montesa 125 dirt bike for my 10th birthday. Until my 15 year old brother and his friends decided to take it off some nice jumps and destroy it 1 hour ago, Ceptorman said: You guys had all the cool toys. I don't remember any of my friends .. At 10 years old With a motorcycle... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 1 hour ago, richieb said: If I remember correctly you grew up the son of a brick mason?! Please don't tell us all you were given to play with were bricks and cinder blocks ?!?! And you walked five miles to school, uphill each way. You poor thing --- ?!?! You have the first 2 sentences correct. I had 5 brothers and one sister, we never really had the latest inside type of toys. I think I was about 8 when I got my first BB gun, then probably 12 when I got my first 22. The delicate toys just never lasted around us I remember my dad letting me drive home from Little League around 12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 we didn’t have toys at the orphanage. they told us to use our imaginations, so i wrote a bunch of songs about how much they sucked. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 1 hour ago, Ceptorman said: You have the first 2 sentences correct. I had 5 brothers and one sister, we never really had the latest inside type of toys. I think I was about 8 when I got my first BB gun, then probably 12 when I got my first 22. The delicate toys just never lasted around us I remember my dad letting me drive home from Little League around 12. Thats good. Not the latest or delicate toys but you were driving at 12 ?!? Pretty cool -- 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sputnik Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 46 minutes ago, BigStewMan said: Everyone bring your favorite toy to the pilgrimage. forget the booze, food, and live music --- play with classic toys...... Depending on who shows up, it might be a good idea to keep the Jarts out of reach. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted April 4, 2018 Moderators Share Posted April 4, 2018 It's very sad and is going to change people, it already has. Kids have no use for any of these toys, they have all they need or it seems so. They can all sit at a table and not even need to talk with each other. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 4 hours ago, dtel said: They can all sit at a table and not even need to talk with each other. I heard someone say this once and liked it so, I stole it. "I want to be where my feet are" Think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 11 hours ago, richieb said: Thats good. Not the latest or delicate toys but you were driving at 12 ?!? Pretty cool -- I had big thighs for a boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rxonmymind Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 12:47 AM, Deano1974 said: One of the best toys ever ever made, well i thought so at 8 years old Sent from my LG-H990 using Tapatalk I had one of these! How did I forget? Wow thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rxonmymind Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 1:51 PM, Ceptorman said: You guys had all the cool toys. Sometimes I didn't want the toys. A simple game with three soda cans against a wall and a baseball from a distance would occupy me for couple hours. I'd nail them. Bottles we're best though! Of course I'd have to sweep them up later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 On 4/4/2018 at 12:21 AM, sputnik said: Depending on who shows up, it might be a good idea to keep the Jarts out of reach. After a few martinis the safest place to stand will be in the circle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtmudd Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 dangerous for today's kids We all have fond memories of these toys. Image: TolToys Kid Growing up in the 1960s meant growing up with some of the best toys on the market. We had Hot Wheels, Barbies, G.I. Joes — not to mention all the adventures we had playing outside. Although toys were great in the 60s, they were also kind of dangerous. Looking back, it's hard to imagine how we made it into adulthood without being scarred for life with these nine toys. But alas, we made it! And these toys arguably made us stronger and ready for the real world. How many of these toys did you have? 1. Super Elastic Bubble Plastic This toy, manufactured by Wham-O, was like a step above blowing bubbles. You squeezed out a little bit of liquid plastic, rolled it into a ball, and blew through a straw to create colorful durable bubbles. Sounds harmless, right? Of course not. The bubbles contained chemicals like polyvinyl acetate (found in glue) and ethyl acetate (found in nail polish remover). And if you inhaled it, you got a mouthful of toxic fumes. It's no wonder the toy was discontinued in the 1980s. Image: Remembering the 70s 2. Creepy Crawlers Mattel gave us this gift in 1964. The danger factor not only included noxious fumes, but an exposed hot plate which kids were supposed to heat up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The point of this game was to create plastic bugs. In order to do so, kids poured a substance called "Plastigoop" into metal molds on the hot plate and let them bake. (Words like "Plastigoop" are never a good sign, right?). The instructions said to let the bugs cool off before removing them, but we're guessing kids chose to ignore those instructions. Image: YouTube 3. Little Lady Stove The Little Lady Stove may be quaint and petite, but it packs a much more powerful punch than the Creepy Crawlers hot plate. In the 1960s, officials wanted to ban it because it generated too much heat — 600 degrees Fahrenheit to be exact! That's more powerful than most real stoves need to be. Image: icollector.com 4. Jarts Jarts were heavy lawn darts with metal spikes designed to fly in the air, and they were also a recipe for disaster. The toy had already been banned once, but officials ruled they could come back as long as they were labeled for adults only. But that didn't stop kids from using it. In the late 1980s, a seven-year-old girl died after accidentally being hit with a dart. This prompted her father to successfully lobby to get them banned for good. Officials found that in the eight years leading up to the girl's death, a whopping 6,100 people went to the emergency room because of the lawn darts. 81 percent of those people were 15 and younger. It's probably good this toy isn't around today. Image: www.expertlaw.com 5. Water Wiggle Wham-O is a repeat offender when it comes to dangerous toys. The Water Wiggle was a popular summer toy like the Slip 'n Slide, but it was a little more dangerous. The toy would whip around in every direction, sparing no one from its wrath. Just watch the YouTube video and watch the Water Wiggle wrap itself around a little girl like a boa constrictor. That can't be safe. Image: Top of Texas Gazette 6. Swing Wing It's like a Hula Hoop… for your head! Transogram Games developed the simple concept in 1965, and it probably gave kids vertigo, whiplash and neck problems for years to come. Image: YouTube 7. Sixfinger Sixfinger was the quintessential "you'll shoot your eye out" toy of the 1960s. But not only was Sixfinger dangerous, it was also really bizarre. Obviously kids found it really cool to have a sixth finger that doubled as a toy gun, but did the manufacturers really think people would be fooled that a cold, plastic object could be mistaken for an extra finger? Image: YouTube 8. Vac-U-Form Another toy, another exposed hot plate. The Vac-U-Form was similar to Creepy Crawlers in the respect that kids got to create their own toys. To do that, they had to heat up a sheet of plastic, form a mold, and then suck the plastic down over the mold so the toy would form. Image: www.spookshows.com 9. Luscious Limbs Luscious Limbs isn't so much dangerous as it is weird. The fun part was kids got to create body parts out of a mold... But that wasn't all. Kids also got to eat those body parts. That's right, hands, feet, and ears were fair game. We don't even want to think about all the 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillyBob Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 that's the problem with toys nowadays folks seem to think that play should be safe. So they sit the kids behind a desk with a computer. to find that Johnny is now Vitamin D deficient and is in terrible physical shape -- 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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