I remember reading 'Jenny Lind and her Listening Cat'!

How fun to find someone else who enjoyed it! :D

That would be ME.......street skates with skate key you kept on string around your neck, Toni home permanent baby doll, scooter with two wheels, tinker toys, pick up sticks, jacks. orange and hard Christmas candy in stocking, 45 RPM records with plastic disks that fit in the middle to fit the record player...also 78 RPM records that broke easily and were scratched, 33 1/3 RPM albums.....poodle skirts, can can slips....BOOKS....Black Beauty, Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames...comic books....coloring books....Betty Grable, HopaLong Cassidy, Roy Rogers and Trigger....transitor radios....I could go on and on lol.

Margie

BIke, I used my green bike if I could not use my skateboard for transport, I loved my green bike.
YoYo
Lego, we had a lot of it :)
Barbie, I even had a real barbie catamaran for my Barbie so in summer I put that in our swimmingpool(not a build in-wich was not very large)
Rollerblades you must tie on your shoes and
I loved my skateboard, I took it almost everywhere
33 and 45 records with little white recordplayer from Philips
I had a vieuwmaster but it didn't live long. My brother and I broke it in a fight. What a thrill when my Granddad a few year ago gave me a box with two Vieuwmasters and loads of pictures to vieuw and that pics are the first ever came out! It's a real treasure to me! :)

I wanted a Holly Hobbie doll but never get one.

Yes I remeber these! Didn't like it because my knuckles were al the time hurt!
I like this memorylane topic.

Speaking of sleds......I had a Flexible Flyer...and it is still with me.....in our garage.....LOL!

I had a strawberry shortcake portable record player... I'm sure I didn't get it new though, I was born in 1981. I also remember I had a red bike with a banana seat... oh it was such a cool bike!

You are so right! It never came up to buy a HollyHobbie Doll for myself. Thanks :)

Why dont you MAKE yourself one. When they were popular I made and sold them one year for Christmas. I used mohair yard for their hair, curled it around a pencil for the long hair. They had muslin underwear/pantaloons with lace and dresses with pinafores and little black Mary Janes made out of felt with tiny buttons. Ask if I kept one? I made them for my youngest daughter and I think she gave it away when she was a teen SIGH.

Margie

:) :) :)

I had chatty Cathy.

I had Lincoln Logs, a Toni doll, loads and loads of paper dolls, dollhouses and furniture, larger doll furniture, skates, scooters, bike, jacks, coloring books, and those books you painted with water to make the picture.

And I have one more I don't see listed here.
Pete and Repete dolls twin dolls made by Ideal

I also got Storybook dolls for Christmas and birthdays. I think these were probably the Hollywood Dolls of the 1940's and 1950's. Very elaborately dressed and only about 6 inches tall. I remember one with a red dress with silver hearts all over for Valentine's Day and one with green shamrocks. My daughter has the surviving dolls. She also has my Toni and another doll with red hair and a black lace gown and robe. I had forgotten about those dolls.

Well I just got a good ole classic for Christmas this year.....A Red Ryder BB Gun!!

Come to think about it I still have a lot of my toys that I played with and still buying more.

Billy

Anyone ever make dolls out of clothspins & the silk from corn for the hair? Or Using a big button & string a string through it through two of the holes, then twirl it several times & pull on the strings to make it go back & forth? Pick up sticks. Or play Annie Annie over? You would through a ball over the house & the person on the other side tried to catch it. The only way you would know it was on its way over is when the person said Annie Annie over. We were very poor so had to be creative. These were the funnest for me as a kid.

Clothes basket (wooden apple basket) and clothes pins. Mom would drop me in there and I played for a long time. Have a photo from when I was around 2-3.

Odd Ogg Odd Ogg Half Turtle and Half Frog.
fuzzy wuzzy bear soap that grew hair
trolls, shirley temple, marbles, those flat discs that you'd snap into a circle- tiddly winks
Thanks for the memories......

We had spirograpgh. Also a game called ministeck- anyone remember that?
Lego was the go-to toy. And jigsaws.
My parents did not go in for fad toys so I didn't get the other stuff you mentioned. Never got a brand name doll, although I wanted one, and skates, and a toy typewriter, and lots of other things I saw advertised!
Did have a yo-yo and a hula hoop though, and a I rememebr a nice spinning top. I sound like I grew up in the Victorian era, dont I, but this was in the 1970s!

Ok, not sure of the name of this but it was two hard plastic balls on a strong string with a ring in the middle of the string. The plasic balls would "clack" together. Maybe called Clackies? I clunked myself in the head and arms plenty of times with it. Also loved lawn darts.