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| Iceboy53 Quote | Reply | | Toys you had when young posted on: 7/1/2005 1:12:40 PM Can you remember what toys you had when you we're younger. it would nice to see the generation toy gap,like what was hot when you we're young. i remembeer: traing train set 1960s chad valley slide projector 1960s wind up boats cowboy outfits anyone else with any inputs ? |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/1/2005 1:40:06 PM Blow-up ship - late 1940s. Cap-guns, including the gun-belt and holster - early 1950s. Davy Crocket 'Racoon' hat/cap - 1950s. A friend's first electric train set - c.late 1940s - 1950. A solid tyred 'Hercules' bike, late 1940s. My first 'serious' toy, bought as a gift, in the mid-1950s - a 'Timex' wrist-watch. I think it finally disintegrated after a year or so. Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/1/2005 3:00:03 PM i had a timex watch as well, it was na hoppa long cassidy one, really cute but crap with the time. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 7/1/2005 6:17:42 PM I know that the kids from our school (LM Junior) featured on the box of the first Spirograph (about 1968). I had one but always made a mess with it. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/1/2005 9:04:44 PM oh yes, i remember those spirographs, drawing circles and things wasn't Robert. can you remember using two tin cans with string tied in each one and using them as talking devices. |
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annancliffe
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replied on: 7/2/2005 11:12:31 AM I had my first timex watch when I was 7 years old. Any one remember whip and top ? Ann Marie |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/2/2005 11:48:03 AM We always had whips and tops for Pancake Day-I liked the window breakers-we used to make patterns on the top with coloured chalk. Bus conductors outfits-consisted of a little money bag and tickets-thought they were great- today children don't know what a bus conductor was. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/2/2005 12:35:21 PM Ha ha... the 'two tin' walky-talkies. I should like to have tested those beauties with at least 700 feet of string. It was easier to talk without them and their five foot connection string. Hoarse throats said so. The 'Whip and Top' scenario = stinging shins on many occasions, when trying to help a particular pretty girl keep her 'top' spinning. Talk about ungratefulness. In one case, one girl even snatched my Racoon of my head, and whipped it ferociously, to - "stop it getting away". The sheer blasphemy of it all. But then again, boys didn't hit girls in those days. It taught me a lesson, always wear your Davy Crocket Racoon securely. Spirograph. I could never get it to do a graph in any shape or form. My Daughter excelled at it though. The Timex watches only told Mongolian time - endlessly. Azzabuv. 
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/2/2005 2:32:48 PM Continuing the 'Whip and Top' debacle, which to me it always was. A few kind hearted girls tried to show me the secret of the spinning top. First, you would wind the cord in the grooves of the top. The tops with the metal points at the bottom were the best. Next, you gave a deft flick of the wrist, the cord unwound rapidly and the top spun happily at your feet. But for me, the spinning top ALWAYS did one of three things. On release, it would either head, at the speed of sound, towards the nearest hedge bottom, where it would promptly disappear, ranging from either a few minutes, to for ever more. Secondly, it would spin happily to the edge of the kerb, then commit suicide by falling onto the iron grate beneath it, or.... putter to a yard away from where it was originally released, wiggle from side to side several times, then collapse on its side lifeless. A complete waste of energy. I personally found that the best way to instill sudden life into the inane piece of wood, was to give it a hefty kick, where upon, it would fly through the air gracefully towards walls, cars passing by, or even house windows. To know how to run swiftly was an asset. As time past and the 'Whip and Top' fad was the rage again, as it was at times and seeing a spinning top, we would either put our foot on it and grin evily at its chargrained owner - especially if she was younger/smaller than us, or on approach to a 'Tomboy', take a running kick at the top and then roar with laughter as the enraged girl threw her tirade of insults and 'unusual' language at our retreating figures. Ahhh, great, happy times. They don't bash my 'Racoon' for nothing. Azzabuv.
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/2/2005 4:15:26 PM remember the bicycles of old for christmas, sturmy(was that how it was spelt) archer three gears with the little tool bag on the back incase you got a puncture on your way to matlock. outside for endless hours and never a worry or a care in the world. |
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welfare
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replied on: 7/2/2005 7:38:44 PM a length of orange rope - tied to the cross-bar at the top of the lamp-post we took turns to swing round and round Happy days in the 1930's |
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annancliffe
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replied on: 7/3/2005 8:13:21 AM What about the hoola hoops too .... I remember my Dad buying me a bright orange one from Frosts and I walked up Market Street with him as pround as punch trying to get the hang of it. Ann Marie |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/3/2005 10:02:48 AM Great waist slimmers, Ann. Although i didn't use one, being a boy/lad. Too sissyfied for the lads about Town. Definitely only for use by the fairer sex. Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/3/2005 3:18:44 PM i could never understand the thing about the hoola hoops, bit like the stick and wheel..why? |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/3/2005 4:46:32 PM Iceboy, i think the "Stick and Wheel" routine is described on the Heanor 'Past Games' Site. It was arm-aching at times, especially if you ended up with a fat car tyre or similar. Have you ever tried an old tractor tyre. It wasn't bad once you got it moving with a brush stail and a couple of mates help. No one got in the way of the unstoppable thing and it was very interesting when the 'Immovable Object' met the 'Irrisistable Force'. It was best not to hang around at such times. Who's Bob? Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/3/2005 10:41:56 PM i didn't have a stick then got my first bike from currys across road from woolworths in heanor, think it was about 2/ a week. that bob |
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