Favorite Childhood Toy

[KrenzyRyan]

That is awesome! Love the plow!

 

[RobS]

It’s an obsession! I’ve found my second favorite childhood toy. It’s a BuddyL Country Squire station Wagon and TeePee camper. Sure was fun as a kid! Circa 1963?

 

[MossRoad]

AWSOME!!! :thumbsup:

 

[spitter]

Back in the day toys where cool lot better than the garbach they sell nowadays . When my kids where little I went to toys r crap to buy them cap guns the manger freaked on me and said WE DO NOT SELL GUNS HERE and you should not let your children play with guns anyway. Went to buy them GI joe 's and found them to be about 1/3 the size I had . No lawn darts no click clacks plastic erector sets chemistry sets without allthe good chemicals . Worst of all no cherry bombs or m 80's.:drink:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Back in the day toys where cool lot better than the garbach they sell nowadays . When my kids where little I went to toys r crap to buy them cap guns the manger freaked on me and said WE DO NOT SELL GUNS HERE and you should not let your children play with guns anyway. Went to buy them GI joe 's and found them to be about 1/3 the size I had . No lawn darts no click clacks plastic erector sets chemistry sets without allthe good chemicals . Worst of all no cherry bombs or m 80's.:drink:

When I was of that age, I wanted a Gene Autry cast iron cap pistol; they looked so real to a first grader.

GENE AUTRY GUN cast iron | Etsy

This says 1940's, but I suspect earlier than that. They didn't make many toys during the war. In any case, I bought my little brother a Mattel Shootin' shell six shooter, that was great! Lawn darts (Jarts) were very dangerous, it's good they are gone...although my Granddad taught me to make my own out of a corn cob, chicken feathers and a big nail...not to mention the lethal cedar shingle missal "toy" he showed me how to make.

Clackers? Don't know why they quit making them, although they became irritating after a while. Erector sets, and Mr. Potato Head were fun, but not at night if you stepped on the parts bare foot. Loved cherry bombs; but had to be careful. Would blow up a mailbox, a toilet or blow off a couple fingers.

 

[spitter]

click clacks two hardend pieces of plastic with a string held together had chips fly off and people got them in the eye. Shoot your eye out kid.:laughing:Lawn darts ,+,beer = :cool2: m80's cherry bombs + cigarette extended fuse keep fingers:cool2::drink:

 

[Doofy]

Thompson Submachine Gun (squirt gun) early 60s.
I loved playing "Army" and this made an awesome Flame-Thrower when filled with gasoline. No clue why I am still alive.

 

[Botaskinner]

American plastic bricks..predated legos by 30 years or so. My Brother and I spent countless hours building houses with them. The set included half bricks, lintels, opentable windows and doors. Also had angled bricks for a slanted roof with green cardboard slats to span the structure. Lots of fun in those days.
But our best toy wasn't a toy at all.

Our parents were able to buy a tract house In Saratoga California in 1963. 1/3 acre corner lot that was on old orchard land, lots of hard clay.
Dad wanted to bust up the neglected ground, so he found a used Massey Harris Pony. It came with a mid mount grader blade made from a piece of split culvert pipe, and a set of rippers out back.
Our instructions were to not hit the house, but break up the backyard so he could plant fruit trees and a veggie garden.
We had more fun on that Pony, spent the summer on the back of that thing and enjoyed every minute of it. I was 8 and my brother was 11. Never got it out of first gear.

 

[RobS]

American plastic bricks..predated legos by 30 years or so. My Brother and I spent countless hours building houses with them. The set included half bricks, lintels, opentable windows and doors. Also had angled bricks for a slanted roof with green cardboard slats to span the structure. Lots of fun in those days.
But our best toy wasn't a toy at all.

I had American Bricks as well, I thought they were much nicer than Legos!

 

[Doofy]

The Battle of the Blue and Gray by Marx. This Civil War game occupied many of my hours for several years.

 

[Doofy]

Cap guns were always great fun and when the gun broke there was always the hammer and sidewalk.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I collected those. A rock or magnfying glass would be fun too. Or just setting fire to the roll. Those little round caps were a pain.

 

[/pine]

just whack the whole roll with a hammer...!

 

[Industrial Toys]

The newer cap guns were fun. They had individual plastic cartridges like a starter gun but held together like a speed loader. Of course I would drill out the bbl, and proceed to blow the crap out of a toilet paper roll with the muzzel flash.

 

[Botaskinner]

A buddy of mine had a 1911 lookalike that took those caps in a strip form, 20 or 25 shots to a strip. I recall they were louder than a regular cap, but more expensive too.
Every shot would trim and eject the spent round. Quite a mechanism for a toy!

The Greenie stickum caps were most fun in school. One guy stuck a whole sheet of them to a hardcover book and slid it across the floor to one of his buddies. Teacher wasn't impressed.

 

[Industrial Toys]

These were just a round red plastic rim of 6 or 8 shots.

A few minutes ago, I was wondering what ever happened to all these great toys. Then you reminded me. Many were confiscated at school!

So, we had to make covert ones. Bought ten cent ballpoint pens, and using a bobby pin and the original spring, put some Eddy Lites in there, and when you pulled and released the trigger, it would be like a stink bomb, ressembling a pen.

 

[/pine]

We used to press BB's into the red plastic caps...they would pop when they hit something...we usually shot them with sling shots...

 

[bullbreaker]

Man oh man some of you guys were behind the times ! My favorite childhood toy was a "candy striper" who my parents paid to keep an eye on me when they had to leave town for a day and a half on occasion on weekends to check on my grandma 250 miles away .

Because i suffered from insomnia she would share with me a couple shots of Cutty Sark from dad's medicine cabinet and read me a bed time storie late at nite !!!

 

[Doofy]

Stick matches slid down the barrel of your bb gun would make a heck of a bang against brick or concrete. Nice fire and smoke sometimes too. God, being a kid was fun! I feel sorry for today's kids.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I had these other pistols that I liked that shot a .22 cal or so, silver ball with some kind of weird clay composition. It only shot by trigger operated spring tension and would never feed if the muzzle was held downward.

Anything that fit would have been tried, crammed into the bbl of my .117 Hungarian Air Rifle. A wax bit or eraser would make quite the welt on the body of a "friend".