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

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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!🤣
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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.
 
boykinlp said:
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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Don't pack a WMAM-O Blaster with mud and shoot a playmate.
Don't ask me how I know... :o

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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.
 
TX-Dennis said:
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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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.
 
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.:mad::mad::mad::mad:

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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...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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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? :confused:

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