Collecting Items from your Youth

[TheHobbyist]

Wondering if anyone here has run into this. From my youth, there were a couple items that somehow made an exodus. In my 'free time' I have found some items, particularly, that relate to my youth.

I found a 1995 (?) TPX baseball bat for change. Bought it. Any 'Cool Kid' back in the day had one that played baseball. Back then, this was around $100.00 for the bat. Think I paid like $ 5.00 in good shape.

Sports were huge, especially to a kid in the 90's, I found a specific basketball that I had as a child for $2.00 at an estate sale. Like new. Woah!

It is striking how this can bring back memories and thought I would share. What are your finds that take you back?

 

[mckenney99]

Spent most of my time as a kid in the 60's playing with the old all steel Tonka trucks & construction equipment and Hot Wheels. There was usually a house under construction somewhere on our cul-de-sac with a dirt mound that provided endless hours of harmless fun. I can't afford the "old" indestructible Tonka stuff now days.

 

[jeffsmith]

I still have my 50+ year old Tonka Jeep on my "Memory Shelf"

it was "Lost" several times while camping but fortunately always found

There are other items from my childhood & more recently on that same shelf

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I still have my 20 GA Sears (Savage) Single Shot.
And my yet another Sears (Western) Buffalo Skinner Knife.

 

[Mule Packer]

I was a baseball nut. For a while there, I lived baseball. And while my dreams of ever becoming a major league second baseman eventually faded, in the back of my 73-year old mind, I still imagine I can turn a double play just as well as I did years ago.

As a result, a while back, I found a Wilson A2000 infielder's glove at a second hand store. Excellent condition. Now, for the uninitiated, the Wilson A2000 is undeniably the very best ball glove out there. Don't believe me? Just ask Google what the best baseball glove is. Dollars to donuts it will say "Wilson A2000."

Anyway, they normally go for about $300. I got this one for twelve bucks. Yep. Twelve bucks.

So, now I can sit in my chair by the fire, throwing the ball into my Wilson A2000, and dream about playing in the majors.

 

[VM]

I still have my 50+ year old Tonka Jeep on my "Memory Shelf"

it was "Lost" several times while camping but fortunately always found

There are other items from my childhood & more recently on that same shelf

I like the Tonka Jeeps too, even the Girly ones!

 

[arjay]

Skis,snowshoes,fly rods,bikes..I could go on lol

 

[Rustyt1953]

Chip, you are dead on. I have had hand in experiences with A2000's.

Neatsfoot, a hardball/softball and a ball of twine and it becomes married to your hand. If they could bottle the smell of a well used ball glove I would bathe in it.

 

[30-30remchester]

Pocket knives with fancy celluloid scales.

 

[Bajadoc]

I have a big tool box in my garage. Half the tools in the box were my dads and I remember them from my childhood. I like to tinker and I remember, and thank, my wonderful dad every time I use his tools. Great memories.

 

[Chuck24]

Still have my Pinewood Derby car from mid 60s

 

[Chubbo]

Items from our youth

The Items from my youth, go much further back in time, than, that of you young ens.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint, My beloved wife, disposed of most of my insignificant collectable items, as fast as I collected them. If she hadn't our humble abode would have resembled the homes 'picked' by the actors of the TV series 'The Pickers'.

Chubbo

 

[DUSTYDOGDAN]

1973 Honda CT70

We had one of these when I was a kid. I've also bought a 1973 Honda XR75.

 

[altbrewer]

I still have a Blue Tonka P/U with white stake trailer my Grandmother bought for me in the late 1950s in Napa, CA. I remember going to the store with her and picking it out. I just checked Google street view and see that the toy store is now a coffee bean store. My Granddaughter plays with the truck now.

I also have a green and orange Tonka stake truck that goes back further than my memory. It is also going strong.

Mike

 

[Moo Moo]

Being a child of the 1980's, and a hoarder according to my wife, I've still got my Vintage Star Wars figures along with GI Joe, Action Man (UK version of 1/8 scale GI Joes), and Masters of the Universe toys.

This is just the figures. Heaps more vehicles and Snake Mountain.

 

[SS336]

Come on over Mule Packer and we will play some catch.

My old Denkert pro series Frank Malzone autograph glove.
I used to play a lot of baseball. High school, Pony league and industrial league when I got out of the Navy. When I got too old for hardball played slow pitch softball for a few years. Great memories.
My old glove is about as worn out as me.

 

[JohnRippert]

Baseball has always been my first love. I have given up on most sports but still love baseball. I have both my ball gloves still. My first was a Rawlings Nolan Ryan RBG36. My favorite glove is a Dudley Thunder DFG 200 softball glove that I never played softball with, just baseball. Both are in my closet with balls sitting in the pocket. I do have a lot of family knick knacks, and a few of my own. Some of my favorites are a couple of domino sets. One made of hardwood by my paternal grandfather, who was a carpenter. The other bought by my Mom's family in the early half of the 20th century made of ivory. Grandad's old pocket watch and pocket knives. Some coins from Dad's coin collecting days. I carry a Mexican 1871 silver 50 peso piece in my pocket every day. It used to be a silver Liberty dollar but I gave that to my best friend's daughter after he passed away. I like old school cool.

I have a big tool box in my garage. Half the tools in the box were my dads and I remember them from my childhood. I like to tinker and I remember, and thank, my wonderful dad every time I use his tools. Great memories.

I too have lots of Dad's and his father's tools in the garage. Still have a toolkit that Grandad made for his. Four feet long, a foot wide and almost two feet tall. After I retire I plan to clean and refinish it.

 

[Chukar60]

My life has been a straight line.
When I was a kid I could care less about sports.I played Optimist football one year. After that I was shooting my bow, cleaning dad's guns, keeping the fishing tackle in order or working our pointer.
Today, I could care a less about sports. Have never watched them more than once in a blue moon when boredom has overtaken me.
I am living what I did and wanted to do as a kid. Work interrupts it on a regular basis, but I can still get out there regularly and it is actually more enjoyable now.

 

[Willyboy]

Old Toys

I was a kid in the 50's, and occasionally I will look for old toys from that era.
You can find just about anything on the online auction sites. Willyboy

 

[Kenna]

Still got pinewood derby cars, bbgun I found in abandon house without stock, Dad and I made a new one.