Originally Posted by Deara
I had a doll I called Baby Thumbalina (not sure of the spelling).
Had Chatty Cathy too. Another toy you strapped to your ankle with a short plastic rope and a plastic ball attached and you moved your leg and skipped over it. Was it called Skip Ball? Did anyone else have one of these? Sandi |
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easybake oven thumbelina doll handheld transistor radio schwinn bike, when the bananna seats came out skate boards skates pogo stick stilts tether ball Barbie dolls and all of her friends doll house similar to legos, but they were little tiny realistic bricks the toy with the lit screen and you used black paper and little plastic colored pegs to make pictures that lit up? toy robot that was on lost in space 45rpm and 33's LOL 8 track tapes cassette tapes Pong game Nintendo Playstation hot wheels, garage, tracks barbies, cars, asst accessories teenage ninja turtles and accessories Strawberry Shortcake doll and accessories Rainbow Bright and accessories hand held games skip its bikes inline skates skateboards computer baby dolls/carriages/beds/etc... |
paddle ball
slinky jacks howdy doody marionett BOOKS marbles little plastic horses with bowlegged cowboy riders that fit in the saddles chutes'n'ladders scooters bikes teeny electric chain-stitch sewing machine little metal dishes and pots and pans tiny china tea set tiny plastic dolls from all nations - never got the whole set but still have 'em stamp collection side note: amma, how young ARE you? |
can anyone remember toys from during the war (to end all wars)?
i'll start: pots and pans with wooden spoons rubber band balls clothespin dolls with clothes |
omg this will either make me smile or cry...lol
Midge colorforms spirograph Beatles tunes on 45's silly putty that worked! wax lips chinese jumprope marbles old maid card game candyland paper dolls bicycles hula-hoop wishniks! rabbits foot paint-by-number kits edit: paddle with small ball attached to long string large ball with elastic on end that you just bounce back and forth on your hand. metal slinkies yo-yo's - the kind with the string...haha sigh... |
Originally Posted by amma
similar to legos, but they were little tiny realistic bricks
the toy with the lit screen and you used black paper and little plastic colored pegs to make pictures that lit up? Nintendo Rainbow Bright and accessories The light-up thing is called a Lite-Brite, I had a few of those I still have my original Nintendo, from the early 80s, but my brother got rid of all the cartridges at garage sale, so I've slowly been buying more. I can't remember all the games I used to have. I also have my Super Nintendo, and my N64 :) I used to have a bunch of Rainbow Bright books, though never the doll. My friends did, though. My dad had an Atari when I was a kid, I sort of remember it. |
I was a small child during WW11 and so most of my toys were made by my mother and grandfather. I had lots of cloth dolls and lots of matching outfits that were made with the scrapes from my clothes that my mother made me. I had several sets of Raggedy Ann and Andys and all the books, and she also made me all the animals characters in the books, yoyo clowns (my great aunts made me), puppets and marinettes (my grandfather and mother made), Wooden stilts ( grandfather made quite a few sets which increased in height as I grew) Wooden sleds (we lived in New York and it snowed) Barrel hops my bothers and I would roll using a stick. We had a huge box of building blocks my grandfather made us.
Grandfather used make me dolls using coconut shells for the heads and sticks for the bodies and arms and legs and I would dress with my doll clothes. We had hobby horses and rocking horses and lots of pull and push toys made by my grandfather. I also got sewing cards (simple outline pictures that had holes drilled about 1/2" apart that were painted on thin wood panels and long boot shoe strings that I would lace in the holes. I have seen cardboard versions and got some for the grand daughters 20 years ago. I think I am going to make some of these for the great grands when they are a little older. I also had wooden puzzles that my grandfather used to make. He cut them with a jigsaw but I make lots of these using my scrollsaw. |
oh, barbs
at last!! someone who remembers as far back as i do LOL! :lol: :lol: i remember everything everyone mentioned, but i remember back further, too. i lived in new york city, so some of my toys were different, but a lot were exactly the same. do you remember long strings and wooden beads the size of wooden thread spools? some of them were thread spools. did you have oilcloth animals that you sewed around the edges, like cats and cows? they were stuffed but were still flat. did you play cat's cradle? once my father came home, i always had crayons and scrap paper and scissors because he was a stationer. i swapped scrap paper for fabric scraps with a girl whose dad worked in a dressmaking factory. we never had money, but we had such fun. :lol: |
did you play cat's cradle?
I lived in Brooklyn until I was six and played Cat's Cradle too. My Dad worked at Sunrise Market and he brought home butcher's twine for me to use. I played hop scotch on the sidewalks too and jump rope with other little girls in the neighorhood. Those were days when it was safe to play outside. My Dad taught me how to play a game of ball bouncing it off of the steps. (He called it stoop ball). One bounce a single, two a double and so on. Caught before hitting the ground was an out. Dad also taught me how to play hand ball. Those were the good old days. |
I still have both of my Cabbage Patch kids along with my My Buddy
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