Oh my goodness, this video brought back some funny memories for me, and I bet it will for everyone here that was a child of the 60’s too. How many do you remember playing with and what were your favorites? Definitely GOOD TIMES, and today’s kids don’t know what they are missing!🤣
Larry

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I had Creepy Crawlers, VacUForm, Slip N Slide, Clackers, Water Wiggle, Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, Bop Bag, Fanner 50, Hippity Hop, Chemistry Set, Super Ball, and my sister had the Easy Bake and Magic 8 Ball. Fun times. I also remember having a revolver and lever action rifle that fired plastic spring loaded bullets. That thing could sting pretty good. Obviously, it was one of my all time favorite toys.

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Or something like that . . .

Little did we know we had the Kydex empire and millions in our hands

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Hipcocked & Locked

Don't pack a WMAM-O Blaster with mud and shoot a playmate.
Don't ask me how I know...

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"I also cook."

I had both the Gilbert chemistry set and the Gilbert atomic set. I remember little about the atomic set, other than that I had one. I also had a Gilbert erector set, sold it for a pretty good price on eBay maybe 10 years ago as it was still complete with all parts and manual.

I had one of those too. And a bunch of cap guns with the roles of powder charges. Good clean all-American fun stuff to play with back in the day.

LOL I played with many of those toys.

Believe me we plugged anything that shot air with mud and had wars. We were quite creative. We had some powerful slingshots and made slings.

I can tell you what we had fun doing though was hitting rocks out of the driveway with my dad's tennis racket. They would sail a long way. He was pissed and had to have the racket restrung.

Take a cherry bomb light it and toss it up in the air while your buddy goes full send with the racket.

These were too much fun!

We used to do that with a slingshot.

Etch o Sketch. Not sure what was in it. Always wanted to break into one but Mom wouldnt have it!
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I had many, if not most, of the items mentioned, including lighting and shooting cherry bombs, M-80s and Silver Salutes from a slingshot. Never injured by any of them. Thank The LORD He saw fit to allow me to live in those days where the expression "Land of the Free" still meant something instead of our current "Nanny State.

Not only could I take guns to school but we shot them on our basement ROTC range. I have also carried a pocket knife since I was 5 years old with nothing ever bring said by the school! As a teenager I could carry a rifle on a public city bus without anyone raising an eyebrow. This was in Omaha, NE, not some rural village!

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Gunsmithing since 1961

Lots of experience with cherry bombs and M80s from about age 5 on.
Play kitchen stove that would boil water as fast as a real kitchen stove was probably more dangerous. I melted some of Mom's tupperware, she cut the cord off.

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I was wondering how long it would take to get to lawn darts

I had the revolver. Made by Mattel, I think (?),like the belt buckle derringer, which I also had. Anything like that wouldn't even make it to market these days, being deemed "too dangerous". At the very least it would come with protective glasses, mandatory safety stickers and manual. And of course a Proposition 65 warning. And cap guns? Yeah!

And the Etch-a-Sketch. Too much fun! And apparently still being manufactured. The stuff inside is aluminum powder.

How on earth did any of us get to our present age intact?

Anyone have a Meccano set? All those green girders and little nuts and bolts...

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"I drank WHAT?" (Socrates)

Walter White made Termite from the stuff inside an Etch o Sketch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am_6...BetterCallSaul

You know, when I read that it contained aluminum powder, "THERMITE!" was what immediately came to mind

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"I drank WHAT?" (Socrates)

We had quite a few of those toys.
Including the Vac-u-form, chemistry sets, the sonic blaster and many more including the cannon. Later had a mortar that was quite similar.

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Either I or one of my cousins had most of that stuff. 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.

One of my cousins and I each had a Johnny Reb cannon. When we lost our cannon balls we discovered that one of my girl cousin's curlers made better projectiles than the original cannon balls. They had better range and higher velocity. When we shot them at each other from about 30 feet away the SOBs would sting! That just gave us better incentive to not get hit by them and to make sure we hit the other guy!

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I may not be remembering this 100% on the "how we did it" part, but I know we used to take the role of caps, wrap it tight in masking tape and stick a safety pin through it. Then curled the end just a bit. Attached to a string. Anchor it down and pull the string = a big bang.

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.

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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.

I've heard telephone booths were no match for a Wrist Rocket.

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

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"I drank WHAT?" (Socrates)

To that, I would add: It's too late to grow up now!

I had many of these toys. I remember getting smacked on the head by a water wiggle and a hot plastic burn from the vacuforming toy. You learned quick. We had lots of cap gun fights. Such fun.

These days the snowflakes are afraid of everything.

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No baby we aint

Clackers! (Two hard plastic balls on the ends of a string)

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Dean
SWCA #680 SWHF #446

Those toys taught us "Stupid Hurts" something most of today's kids never learn till it is to late

We had different "toys" like sling shots and cherry bombs, plastic cars and firecrackers, garbage cans and M-80's and.... well you get the idea.

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So many S&W's, so few funds!!

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.

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Waiting For The Sun.

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!

Didn't watch the video, but I've always wondered what happened to those shotgun like pump guns that shot ping pong balls?

That said, I did work for a guy who'd lost an eye in a bb gun fight.

Annual vacations in Georgia meant limited access to M-80s, Ashcans and Cherry Bombs as well as bricks of Black Cats. Before guns and ammo our individual wealth was measured by fireworks amassed.
Regards,

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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.
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.

Johnny Seven O.M.A - The One Man Army Gun

O Boy memories!-

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.

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14 S&W Revs none with locks!

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!!

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.

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I need ammo, not a ride.

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.

M-80s with a rock would stun/kill fish...real dynamite was better...every farm had some...when the perch were running my father would set fikes from side to side in a stream...I'd throw M-80s and chase 'em up stream into the net...when it was full he'd close the net. We only did that a very few times when he really needed the money. We were poor 'nuff I didn't have many toys. My cousin and I made nitro glycerin one time...crude of course...his father was a chemistry teacher. Wasn't much...a medicine bottle. We didn't have a way to set it off...so we put it in the old outhouse on the other side of the chicken house...hot August day..Bout 2 o'clock the stuff went off...shortly thereafter he came home to the scene of the disaster before we could clean all the debris up. He was just a little perturbed...a little was an understatement. after a little butt whooping he really fixed us. He sold us into bondage to a local farmer or two for 4 days...we got to pick small cucumbers for the pickling plant for a couple days...and cantaloupes were just starting so we picked them for a day...and the next day we got to pick early watermelons...for a long day. ...wander through a 10 acre field looking for the early ripe fruit.. Unk got paid for our work...slavery/bondage

And We wonder why todays kids are such wusses.

Christmas in 66 or 67 my brothers and I received what look like single shot percussion rifles and pistols that fired cork balls with a low powered cap.

We used and lost the caps and cork balls pretty fast, but it was fun while they last. We all came out with our eye-site intact, but our beagle hated those things.

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Big Bang carbide cannon?


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I have a scar on my wrist from catching Lawn Darts.

How about potato(spud) guns.

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I was a freak for erector sets! Absolutely loved them. I built a million different things, tore each down to it's basic components to put back into the box, then started all over again. I look at all the pieces and parts that were in those old sets and think it would make any current helicopter mom pass out from apoplexy!

Kids these days honestly don't know what they are missing...

I had 2 erector type sets given to me as a child.
One I believe was a Gilbert’s the other I can’t remember.
One of them can in a compartmentalized wood box.
I’m guessing it was from the 20s or 30s. One of the “models” shown was a Bleriot Monoplane from around 1910.
It’s was unused in the box until I got it. I trashed them both.

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Anybody remember water rockets? A small plastic rocket you filled half full of water then put onto a hand pump. You pumped air into them, pulled back the locking mechanism, and they launched into the air (or at your friends). One bunch would be the Russians, the other the Americans. We'd take turns launching "nuclear missiles" at each other.

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I had one of them. We just called it a water rocket. The old original ones were pretty impressive. I found one many years ago and bought it but it was lackluster. Wouldn't build real pressure like the ones from the 60's.