Can you identify this object?

[waltsgirl]

Of course, once the whole scare happened with chipping and flying glass they may have been considered more dangerous, but that was after we enjoyed our time with them!!!

 

[wdw4us2]

Okay, I'm a bad example.

I still have a pair of the original Clackers. I found them at an antique store about 10 years ago. I tried them out - it took a few minutes to get back into the knack of "clacking". Boy, did my wrist hurt the next day from all the misses I had.

Anyway, my daughter found them a few years ago and asked me what they were, After I had her put on eye protection, she tried them out and loved them. They still have the plastic type available now, but they're not nearly as good.

 

[sajetto]

You hold the top of the string, with the balls hanging down and then slowly start moving your hand up and down so that the balls start moving back and forth (this really isn't sounding very good ), clacking against each other. They can really get going and whack a person in the head.

No, not sounding very good at all

These things had to have been before my generation because I've never seen them. Thanks for the description Tig

 

[Luv'sTink]

I guess we were not loved because we ALL had them! But then again my parents let us do a lot of things that would be a NO! NO! today!

 

[poohandwendy]

OMG, click clackers! I loved them. Man, did it hurt if you got whacked with one!

But, was it just a local thing or did they always end up hanging on the telehone wire? I remember, back in the 70's, you couldn't drive 3 streets without seeing a pair of them dangling from the wires. (that and high-top tennis shoes) For some reason kids loved throwing things up on the wires. It sucked because if it was your pair, you were SOL.

(bet the utility companies also had something to do with their being taken off the market)

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

Another unloved kid here. I had them too. And I remember every so often you run into a set that had been slung up on a utility line (like sneakers). Which takes me in a whole new direction. I used to love to go by the old wooden utility poles after the phone man had been working and get all scraps of brightly colored wire to make rings and such with. Ahhh, I wish life was a simple now as it was then.

 

[pfishgirl]

yup... Ka Bangers is what we called them...
and Yes... dangerous enough to give myself a black eye..

 

[Kae]

I had purple ones & my sister had green or blue ones. Loved them. We called them klackers.

Kae

 

[Tigger&Belle]

No, not sounding very good at all

These things had to have been before my generation because I've never seen them. Thanks for the description Tig

And I really wasn't trying to sound this way this time. I don't remember the plastic ring, though. Or I didn't use them the way described, which is why I was really bad at it.

 

[zippeedee]

I think there is a purple pair at my mom's house. She saves everything!
I must have been unloved too. We called them Clackers, and no one was maimed or killed. At least not that I remember...maybe I got whacked in the head with them a few too many times!

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

Oh, Click Clacks was what we called them. I had pink ones, my best friend had some too. They definitely were dangerous, but so were a lot of things back then!

 

[rie'smom]

We called them Click Clacks. It hurt like the dickens if it hit your hand but it was fun otherwise.

 

[DisnyMama]

My sis and I had so many of these over the years back in the late 60's. We loved them and had a great time with them...while they lasted. I never knew of anyone who got hurt with them thank goodness.

 

[AZKathy]

Had a couple of them. We called them clackers, then they were outlawed when kids got hit in the heads with the toys.

 

[FroggyinArk]

clackers,, mine were green, and aftera few trys to perfect the throwing style they made realy fun things to throw at my younger brother.

 

[Blondie]

Somehow my older brother got a hold of a pair and ended up throwing one at me! Ofcourse, I promptly went running to mommy and told on him!

 

[Pam]

I had a red pair.

At first I thought it was a coconut bra - I have one of those, too! Although it's been relocated to the attic!

 

[Blondie]

I had a red pair.

At first I thought it was a coconut bra - I have one of those, too! Although it's been relocated to the attic!

A coconut bra? Do tell......

 

[T1130]

I had them.

 

[JunieJay]

Clackers. I had a purple set. Some kid down the street smashed a pair and hit his little sister in the eye, and that was the end of my clackers.

Of course, looking back I now realize no one ever met that kid down the street who almost put his sister's eye out. I think it was urban legend that spread to all parents. Clackers were removed from the homes like wildfire.