The Olden Days

[Annie]

Wow, many of these predate me! The metal cabinets in kitchen-I remember those!

retrolife

It takes awhile to load.

 

[Xenophon]

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid.

 

[Annie]

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid.

Funny the things you remember! The 'wooden nickel.' The ice cube trays above the freezer! For that matter a freezer that wouldn't hold more that 4 of todays bags of frozen vegetables!

 

[KittenKoder]

As long as no one says the "olden days" were better ... it's fun to look back at how hard we actually had it in the past. Even ten years ago it was tough compared to today.

 

[Annie]

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid.

Missing: Silly Putty, Fizzies, Slinky, Whamo Slip n' Slide...

 

[KittenKoder]

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid.

Missing: Silly Putty, Fizzies, Slinky, Whamo Slip n' Slide...

We still have all that in Seattle, mostly at the dollar stores though. Pop Rocks were one thing I missed ... until I found them at the dollar store ... woohoo!

 

[Xenophon]

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid.

Missing: Silly Putty, Fizzies, Slinky, Whamo Slip n' Slide...

Playdough.

I had this toy that could kill, they took it off the market, was called 'click clacks' that if you brained someone with it, they were dying.

 

[Annie]

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid.

Missing: Silly Putty, Fizzies, Slinky, Whamo Slip n' Slide...

We still have all that in Seattle, mostly at the dollar stores though. Pop Rocks were one thing I missed ... until I found them at the dollar store ... woohoo!

Pop Rocks were more the 80's! Trust me, the silly putty, etc., today are not what they were back when. I know, I bought the remakes for my own kids.

 

[Xenophon]

Another of my favs, Lincoln logs:

 

[strollingbones]

lincoln logs and click clacks them damn things could hurt ...

you forgot the first skateboards.....a skate taken apart and literally nailed to a board and scootters....

 

[Annie]

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid.

Missing: Silly Putty, Fizzies, Slinky, Whamo Slip n' Slide...

Playdough.

I had this toy that could kill, they took it off the market, was called 'click clacks' that if you brained someone with it, they were dying.

I remember click clacks, used to get them in birthday goodie bags! Rock'em Sock'em Robots and Man from UNCLE briefcase.

 

[Gunny]

As long as no one says the "olden days" were better ... it's fun to look back at how hard we actually had it in the past. Even ten years ago it was tough compared to today.

How do you figure? There were a LOT of things back during that era that were better than it is now. Technology may be better than it ever was. People however suck a WHOLE lot more than they did then.

You'll have to define "tough," because I disagree with that as well.

 

[Xenophon]

Another popular item was plastic cowboys & indians, they went well with the logs:

 

[Gunny]

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid.

Missing: Silly Putty, Fizzies, Slinky, Whamo Slip n' Slide...

Those pics are mostly 50s, with a few early 60s. The stuff you mention is more early-mid 60s, IIRC. Not saying they shouldn't be there. Just that it appears the person who did this is focused primarily on the 50s.

 

[Xenophon]

We had the earliest electric games, like the very lame 'operation'

 

[Gunny]

Another of my favs, Lincoln logs:

Another popular item was plastic cowboys & indians, they went well with the logs:

BASTARD! NOW I know where my toys went.

 

[Xenophon]

As the 70s hit, we had cool stuff like AFX slot cars.

I actually had ol #7

 

[del]

bang!

 

[Xenophon]

BASTARD! NOW I know where my toys went.

That stuff is worth some nice money now as collectables.

I saw a matchbox car from the early 1960s in an antique shop for $80!

 

[Xenophon]

Another common one, plastic army men, in this case armed with M16s, my brother and I had over a thousand of these at one time.