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So, this is a spinoff of what we were discussing in the SS thread, I'm having a lot of fun reminiscing all these things we HAD to have when we were kids. ( or for your kids or grand kids ) I thought maybe some people who aren't participating in the SS might have some fun discussing it too!
Some of the things mentioned were Cabbage Patch Kids, (I still have mine) Easy Bake Ovens Tamagotchi Furby Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls Those metal roller skates you tied to your own shoes (that was before my time but I had something similar) At add to that list, (keeping in mind I am a child of the 80s) -Big Wheel -Cricket the talking doll, she had a tape recorder in her back and her mouth and eyes moved. I saved my birthday money and allowance for*ever* to buy that... Can you imagine a 7 year old blowing 100 bucks on a doll? -Pogo ball -Skip-it What else do you guys have to add to that list? |
My three year old daughter adored her Cricket... thought she was real, until her uncle put a Rolling Stones cassette in her and she(Crickett) went psycho!
Etch a Sketch Spirograph and Chatty Cathy top my list of fad toys from my childhood. |
OMG, Spirograph! Yes, I was just telling my friend I wanted to get another spirograph kit. I got the one that was out in 1986, I think, in the blue box. I think I might buy one off ebay when I have more money. You can get the kits with *almost* all the parts for really cheap! I wonder why the companies who made these products don't relaunch them...
I also had and etch-a-sketch, or two. I had one at home and I'm pretty sure I had one at my grandmother's place too... What about Light Brite? I remember getting yelled at because I never picked up ALL the little lights, I always missed one here or there and someone else inevitably stepped on it or whatever... |
Originally Posted by Mamagus
My three year old daughter adored her Cricket... thought she was real, until her uncle put a Rolling Stones cassette in her and she(Crickett) went psycho!
Etch a Sketch Spirograph and Chatty Cathy top my list of fad toys from my childhood. |
Originally Posted by Mamagus
My three year old daughter adored her Cricket... thought she was real, until her uncle put a Rolling Stones cassette in her and she(Crickett) went psycho!
Let's see. I'm going to date myself here. Shirley Temple doll Roller skates that attached to our shoes with a key Pogo stick Stilts Barbie doll (just the doll in her bathing suit, no accessories or extra clothes, if I wanted more clothes I had to make them myself, which I did) Some type of building toy - I had building blocks and Lincoln Logs and my brother had Tinker Toys and an Erector Set Etch a Sketch Record player for 45 records (I wanted a new stereo record player that played LP records so badly, but never got one until after I got married) I guess the record player wasn't really a fad and doesn't even qualify as a toy, but I loved it. |
I had tinker toys too :)
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Baby First Step (I still have her)!!! Barbie dolls.
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I'm dating myself here - Tiny Tears doll
Revlon Doll Toni Doll paper dolls (hmmmm - seems like I played with a lot of dolls!) And for reading pleasure The Bobsey Twin books and Nancy Drew Books |
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 |
Oh, I had DOZENS of My Little Pony toys, I forgot about those!
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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 |
My List
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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I had a "samantha" doll, from the show Bewitched! she had on a black outfit, complete with hat...
My brother had a tonka jeep..that i used to take, and use for my barbies..! Little skittles (dolls) i also had a doll house, that one one floor, on legs,with room dividers, and a magnetic wand that you used underneath, to move the little people around. thanks for the memories..! |
deara,
yes. and hit the penny. did you do that? jumprope and double dutch? did you bounce a ball and turn your leg over it while you recited rhymes, like "a my name is alice and my brother's name is al, i come from arizona and we sell apples". every time you came to an 'a' word you turned your leg over the ball. then you went on to the b's and so on. if you missed, you started all over again. whoever got through the alphabet first, won. |
There was a Samantha doll? Wow! Didnt know that.
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Wow, what memories you all are bringing back!
I wouldn't call most of these "fad" toys. For example, that LiteBrite that Baren* mentioned was something I had back in the late '60s. Also the spirograph. Thos eand colorforms were things I just adored. Anyone remember Little Kiddles? They were tiny dolls that came inside perfumed lockets. I adored them. For some reason, my mother got me plenty of Barbie dolls (and clothes), but wasn't happy that I preferred Little Kiddles and only gave me one, I think. She did get me a book of Little Kiddle paper dolls, which I played with until they fell apart. Speaking of paper dolls, I also loved the Betsy McCall paper dolls that came in McCall's Magazine. Superballs Jacks was definitely a fad that came and went. It was hugely popular when I was in 6th & 7th grade. Easy-Bake ovens, someone mentioned those. Board games: Anyone remember Careers? That was my flat-out favorite. Second favorite was probably Chutzpah, a very humorous Jewish takeoff on Monopoly. Books were also favorites with me. My mother wanted me to read, of course, but she felt like buying books was a waste of money since I could get them at the library. You couldn't get Dr. Seuss or Nancy Drew at the library in those days, though, so I had some of those. Oh, here's a fad toy I had (as a teen): beanbag frogs. Also stuffed snakes, for some reason. These were like 6 or 7 feet long. I never had them, but I remember friends having those little troll dolls. They keep coming back every so many years. |
Originally Posted by butterflywing
did you bounce a ball and turn your leg over it while you recited rhymes, like "a my name is alice and my brother's name is al, i come from arizona and we sell apples". every time you came to an 'a' word you turned your leg over the ball. then you went on to the b's and so on. if you missed, you started all over again. whoever got through the alphabet first, won.
In our case, the chant was more apt to be, "A my name is Amy and my husband's name is Andy and we come from Alabama and we are astronauts."" |
What a walk down memory lane!
I "loved" my baby Thumbalina! (I was 2!) How about Baby Crawl-a-long? (Named her Cynthia, and she required Daddy surgery within a month!) Aggrivation (marble game) Bright blue Schwinn with a banana seat and streamers (man! was it cool!) Kitchenette set...cupboard,sink, stove, and refrigerator! Lot's of empty food boxes to stock the Kitchen A playhouse made from an old refrigerator box(made by my older brother...really cried when I had to give it up! It came in July, but was one of the best gift I've ever gotten.) Do kids these days truly know the appreciation of a well thought out gift? :?: |
OOOOH! Forgot about the Trolls! I had a gajillion of them! I actually had/have one of those horrible snakes. My boys kind of adopted it and it stuck around.
How about Tiddly-winks? |
Someone just gave me a game from 1949 called Cootie. Anyone ever heard of it before?
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I had a troll doll, I think it had orange hair. Didn't care to collect them, though.
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
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: Yes, I remember to wooden balls, spools and blocks that you strang on the laces. When I moved to Mill Valley right after the war I met a girl friend who liked to sew and do crafty things and we used to make small dolls, kind of like the ones we are making in one of the threads here on the board and stuff out of pinecones or what ever we found. We also made a knitting loom with small nails and a large wooden tread spool and made long strands of woven/knitted yarn that we curled and sewed to make potholders and hot pads. I think we called them spoolies. Now there is the same idea made out of plastic and much larger. We also used to weave squares on small steel looms and made afgans and pot holders. |
cootie, yes, i had that, it was a spider, with legs you attached i think..
the dolls, i referred to little skittles, were actually "little kiddles",lol! thanks liszanne for the real name! ! there are a couple places you can still some of these toys..i was just looking at a catalog at my SIL's yesterday... tiddledy winks,gumby and pokey,kaleidoscopes..they were metal or tin, Mrs. Beasley was a favorite too! along with my samantha doll, i had a "Tressy" ? you could dye her hair with a magic marker, and the hair "grew" out from the top of her head.. we used kleenex boxes for beds and furniture, "pick up sticks"..i was really good at! oh and, we made pot holders, with the steel rack and you weaved the cloth bands under and over... |
Yes, the Cootie game has been around for years... :D :D :D
We used to play a LOT of board games...checkers, monopoly, risk, sorry, we had them all as they came out...they were great winter entertainment. My thumbelina gift was when I was around 4 and mom was expecting my youngest brother LOL I thought the diapers that came with her were so cool...but got in trouble when I told mom that "My baby crapped her pants" LMBO I guess "good" little girls didn't say that "word" :roll: I forgot about all of the troll dolls....I made clothes for them mainly out of felt...and decorated them with whatever I could find 8) We played hop skotch...four square...marbles...kick the can Jump rope...dad always had long lengths of rope, so we would see how many we could get jumping at once :wink: :lol: |
Originally Posted by watterstide
cootie, yes, i had that, it was a spider, with legs you attached i think..
the dolls, i referred to little skittles, were actually "little kiddles",lol! thanks liszanne for the real name! ! there are a couple places you can still some of these toys..i was just looking at a catalog at my SIL's yesterday... tiddledy winks,gumby and pokey,kaleidoscopes..they were metal or tin, Mrs. Beasley was a favorite too! along with my samantha doll, i had a "Tressy" ? you could dye her hair with a magic marker, and the hair "grew" out from the top of her head.. we used kleenex boxes for beds and furniture, I remember so many of these as well, how about the hula-hoop?? I just brought one, ( this one is weighted and my grandkids laugh at me)) My younger granddaughter Rayna can do it pretty well, me it just falls to the floor. We used the kleenex boxes as well for beds. Jamie & judy dolls. pick-up sticks, we'd play with these for hours. Checkers, what fond memories you have all brought back. "pick up sticks"..i was really good at! oh and, we made pot holders, with the steel rack and you weaved the cloth bands under and over... |
Butterfly wing, your list sounds the closest to what some of the things I had. I remember playing with jacks and the skates that went on your shoes. I bought a used bike when I was about 11. It cost $3 and I paid 20 cents a week, more when I had it. Are those the good days????? Maybe not for me.
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I am loving this. So many fun memories.
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Originally Posted by watterstide
cootie, yes, i had that, it was a spider, with legs you attached i think..
tiddledy winks,gumby and pokey,kaleidoscopes..they were metal or tin, Mrs. Beasley was a favorite too! along with my samantha doll, i had a "Tressy" ? you could dye her hair with a magic marker, and the hair "grew" out from the top of her head.. we used kleenex boxes for beds and furniture, "pick up sticks"..i was really good at! oh and, we made pot holders, with the steel rack and you weaved the cloth bands under and over... How about Rockin' Sockin' Robots? I battled with my DB with that game... All of the playschool brand toys that have been around forever...3 generations atleast :D :D :D Jack in the Box...stacking rings... |
We played board games, life, Clue, monopoly, yatzee, my favorite board game I had one uncle something when I was young, I cannot remember the name. games and reading were my favorite things while young.
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wow, this is great. Forgot about a lot these things. How about Tinker Toys and Lincoln logs (the real wood ones not the new plastic stuff).
I had a Betsy Wetsy doll and one of the first life size dolls, about the size of a three year old. Had metal doll house that my Father put together on Christmas Eve, the tabs cut his fingers to pieces. I loved that doll house and had it for years. Probably so much I can't remember, but sure have loved reading what of you had, so familar and so funny |
Oh there was a doll. It was my last doll I ever got. It thought it was Thumbelina but it wasn't. It had pink soft body. I wish I knew what it was.
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My Thumbelina was a wind up...soft bodied, rubber head, hands and feet. When you wound her up, she squirmed around like a real baby. The knob was where her belly button would be.
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