Fun Toys From The 60’s You Won’t See Today

It was always a challenge to modify toys to make them more dangerous. A bunch of us had toy pistols that took a large red plastic cap. It was pretty loud. We all drilled out the solid barrel and it could then shoot through a Kleenex or make a small burn on your skin. :D
 
I had several of the toy's listed as a kid, there were Creepy Crawlers all over our house. One of my favorite things as a kid was my Wrist Rocket slingshot, still have it somewhere. My father used to supply my ammo,he would bring me home pounds of 1/4" ball bearings from where he worked, nothing was safe in my neighborhood.
 
67tempest said:
I had several of the toy's listed as a kid, there were Creepy Crawlers all over our house. One of my favorite things as a kid was my Wrist Rocket slingshot, still have it somewhere. My father used to supply my ammo,he would bring me home pounds of 1/4" ball bearings from where he worked, nothing was safe in my neighborhood.
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I've heard telephone booths were no match for a Wrist Rocket.
 
whelenshooter said:
... I'm glad I grew up when we had fun stuff to play with. It must be boring to be a kid nowadays with all of the potential for harm removed...
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Love it! They certainly don't make childhood like they used to.

I remember making guns out of brass pipe, that held a firecracker and fired lead pellets. As I recall, I'd cut a "V" into the threaded end to let the fuse stick out and some kind of lamp (?) fitting threaded on - a breech-loading firecracker gun :)
 
We had those air rifles that shot corks. After about 30 minutes the corks were gone and sticking the gun in dirt was more fun.
When playing with lawn darts (Jarts), one had the advantage with the sun to his back.
I always had my Barlow in my pocket until it got stolen from my gym locker in 7th grade.
My Erector set sliced my fingers up so bad that I gave it away.
I never got burned from my Creepy Crawler set. I even made some fishing lures with it. They never caught a fish, but it was cool.
Pop can cannons that used lighter fluid and tennis balls were the most fun.
My Clackers were made of glass balls. They didn't last on the market long.
 
Had all the good stuff as a kid. M80's, cherry bomb's and silver salutes, numerous different fire cracker and M80 powered IED's, zip gun's, sling shot's and BB gun's, Estes rocket's, mini bikes and go cart's. I still have all my fingers, both eyes and some of my hearing, some of my contemporaries were not so lucky. Life was good back then, you used your imagination to keep yourself occupied, not an electronic device. The kid's today don't know how to have fun, they don't know what they're missing!
 
I had a lot of those toys as a kid. Seemed like every girl I knew had an Easy Bake oven.
I remember the kid next door had a spring powered bazooka that fired plastic rockets. Darn things hurt at close range. :eek:
Yep, A lot of that stuff could hurt you. But you learned quick and didn't do it again. That was all part of the experience.
Kids today are so protected that they never have any fun. :rolleyes:
 
O Boy memories!-:D

One of my favorite toys was Atom Pearls. Sufficient it to say I went through a big bunch of them. So easy to use just sprinkle a few on a floor/ground and wait till they get stepped on normally buy a unsuspecting person!

I have mentioned this before, our extremely handyman neighbor used to make his own slingshots. Lets just say even if they were a bit crude they were the Weatherby magnum equivalents way outdoing the best slingshot that you could buy!

I have probably slinged way over a 100 Cherry Bombs and ashcans back in that era. It was a team thing. I would put the explosive in the slingshot and my buddy would light it and the second the fuze lit it would get launched.

Used to shoot it over the school annex and they never figured out where the loud boom came from. Use the sling also a lot at our summer camp out on the lake. Same deal a two person launch and you could get the bomb out quite a distance over or in the water. (They had about a 10 second fuze)

If you wanted it to blow on the water just shoot it plain. If you wanted it to sink and sort of make a depth charge out of it use a little piece of duct tap and tape a small rock to it so it would sink.
 
Chuck24 said:
I was wondering how long it would take to get to lawn darts
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Check out Facebook for a video of Air Force Personal "dropping" giant lawn darts off the the loading ramp of a C17 attempting to hit a giant dart board target on the ground! Hysterical!!
 
67tempest said:
I had several of the toy's listed as a kid, there were Creepy Crawlers all over our house. One of my favorite things as a kid was my Wrist Rocket slingshot, still have it somewhere. My father used to supply my ammo,he would bring me home pounds of 1/4" ball bearings from where he worked, nothing was safe in my neighborhood.
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My brother and I and my dad had wrist rockets and dad also brought home bearings for ammo. Dad went to shoot a stray cat and didn't get his left thumb out of the way. He had to relieve the blood blister under his nail with the drill press. Then the nail split down the middle and he patched it with JB Weld. Resourceful old gent.
 
My favorite toy was a cap gun that was supposed to look like an over-under pirate pistol. I would lay a firecracker in each barrel with fuses sticking out. Would then light both fuses then tip the barrels back quickly so each firecracker would slide backward. Then level the barrels at the “enemy” for two quick shots. Like shooting a real gun.
 
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