The sound the Fisher Price barn makes when you open the front doors is a core memory.
Nostalgia - Childhood Toys
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Those were great for the pre adolecent testing their first doses of testosterone boys!!
On the farm, I had a sting ray bike. Drove down the hill toward the barnyard and jumped off a ramp made from a cinder block and an old small square baler chute. heavy as hell but it didn't move. I would mark my record jumps with a stick in the dust where I landed.
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OMG! I totally forgot about this. I had this and LOVED it. I think I had another one similar, but I definitely had this exact one! Crazy! Thanks for the memory!!
I imagine the pitch meeting for it was like, "OK how can we make Fashion Plates something boys would buy?"
Had it!
I was trying to find random photo online, but was unsuccessful. Didn't think to check for video.
That's cool you still have a lot of the cars. I think I gave mine to my nephew at one point. He probably still has some, I should check that.
Where'd your dad keep his? Mine kept his stack in the back corner of the garage.
Christmas, shortly after my dad died in 1961, my older sister wrapped this (or something very similar). The package was the most beautiful gift package I had seen in a troubling time in our lives. I received a stylish sweater, I was seen wearing it in a couple of years in class photos. I was 9 and she would have been 14.
My sons asked me once what I played with as a kid and then made fun of my toys.
They couldn’t grasp what paper dolls were. Wondered if we were too poor for real dolls. I told them I had a Barbie, and they said which one? I think there was just one Barbie then, but when I had surgery when I was five, my grandparents got me a Midge. My kids asked me if that was some kind of insect.
I also got hand me down plastic green soldiers, farm animals, and a yo-yo from my brothers. At some point, I got an Etch-a-Sketch and a Wheel-O, that was big time toy peak.
They couldn’t grasp what paper dolls were. Wondered if we were too poor for real dolls. I told them I had a Barbie, and they said which one? I think there was just one Barbie then, but when I had surgery when I was five, my grandparents got me a Midge. My kids asked me if that was some kind of insect.
I also got hand me down plastic green soldiers, farm animals, and a yo-yo from my brothers. At some point, I got an Etch-a-Sketch and a Wheel-O, that was big time toy peak.
still have electronic football and all the buttons work. I can't believe non of them are squishy.
I would love to know how many hours I spent playing with my Ewok Village. Hands down it was my favorite toy.
I thought I did some stupid things but BB gun fights were never a part of it. My brother did shoot me in the ass once and damn it hurt.
We did do bottle rocket fights on the Fourth of July. We made our own hand held launchers and had 2 teams. You’re hit you’re out. I’m actually surprised no one lost an eye now that I think of it.
Oh my…I remember now. Hobby craft store downtown Burlington. Wood plank floor. Ford Fairlane model and Testors bottles of paint. Long bicycle ride up hills to get home.
