Vintage toys...what do you remember??

[cajunmommy]

Husker Du???? I didn't think anyone else had this game!! Mom picked it up for us with a few other board games at a neighbor's garage sale. The rest were lame, but this one was a favorite. Blue checker-like markers that fit on a round game board. It was sort of like Memory, but the symbols you matched were on a circular piece that you could move, so it changed.

I bet DM still has that one (along with our old LIFE, Monopoly, Sorry and Scrabble games).

 

[stevenpensacola]

Anyone else have a "Whizzer"? It was a gyroscopic top made by Mattel. It would spin for quite while. I've stil got mine somewhere.

Remember the little games where you had to slide around the little numbered squares (or they contained a picture) to get the numbers/picture in the correct order.

What about the paddle ball....the wooden paddle with the el cheapo rubber ball attached with the rubber band. whap whap whap whap whap "dang" whap whap whap whap "mom, he's hitting the ball at me..." whap whap whap
"hey don't spank me with that..."

 

[elismom]

My sister and I had this projecter that had long plastic cards that you slid through. The picture would show up on the wall.
We would pin a bed sheet to the wall
make popcorn(jiffy Pop)
and have are friends over like we were showing a movie
Later we learned to make are own slides on clear plastic and we would make up are own movies
now DS just pops in a DVD.
I miss those kind of toys I think DS would like it

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Anyone else have a "Whizzer"? It was a gyroscopic top made by Mattel. It would spin for quite while. I've stil got mine somewhere.

Remember the little games where you had to slide around the little numbered squares (or they contained a picture) to get the numbers/picture in the correct order.

What about the paddle ball....the wooden paddle with the el cheapo rubber ball attached with the rubber band. whap whap whap whap whap "dang" whap whap whap whap "mom, he's hitting the ball at me..." whap whap whap
"hey don't spank me with that..."

I had the "Whizzers", but I couldn't do it as could as the commercials did.
The paddle ball are made even cheaper now. Anytime my kids got from parties, I'd throw them away.

 

[elismom]

Any one have the wood burning kit.
I burnt many a finger on that one.
Do kids Still get chemistry sets any more there were all ways good for making a stink bomb to get your little brother out of your room,of course you had to sleep with the smell for days
What were my parents thinking

 

[kikipug]

My sister and I had this projecter that had long plastic cards that you slid through. The picture would show up on the wall.

I had this- it came with Scooby Doo filmstrips and other Saturday morning favorites... if only I could remember the name of it.

When the electricity would go out, I'd use it as a flashlight.

 

[stevenpensacola]

My sister and I had a little movie projector that would show cartoons. The film was in a little cartridge, and you had to turn a crank to run the projector.
The projector lamp was powered by batteries. It might as well have been powered by plutonium.

Back then, in our house, batteries were treated like Gold by my dad. To this day, I still feel guilt when I use a flashlight. As therapy, I let my kids play with the flashlights anytime they want.

 

[live4christp1]

http://www.gamepile.com/game15.html

Anybody else have the Dark Shadows Board Game.......think it is still in my mom's closet.

 

[ashjohnson80]

 

[720L]

I don't know about you guys, but I think our toys were much better than the ones now. Especially Barbie stuff, I still have my Barbie Pool. It's huge, with a slide, shower big deck around it. Have you seen the new Barbie pool? It's a piece of ?*&^. I got it for my daughter-it's a blow up pool with a slide shorter than Barbies legs so she really can't slide down it. And no shower! How is Barbie supposed to wash the chlorine out of her hair before her date with Ken?

 

[ashjohnson80]

I don't know about you guys, but I think our toys were much better than the ones now. Especially Barbie stuff, I still have my Barbie Pool. It's huge, with a slide, shower big deck around it. Have you seen the new Barbie pool? It's a piece of ?*&^. I got it for my daughter-it's a blow up pool with a slide shorter than Barbies legs so she really can't slide down it. And no shower! How is Barbie supposed to wash the chlorine out of her hair before her date with Ken?

I agree! I had a 4 story Barbie dream house that had a spiral staircase and a porch swing. It even had a terrace on top for barbeques. Now the houses are just so so.

 

[oldkicker]

Big Loo!

This gut brislted with armaments. He had rockets, darts, red plastic balls and even squirted water. His eyes light up and there was a cross-hair sight in the middle of his head. I remember he was as big as I was when we got him for Christmas. My brothers and I took turns tormenting my sister with this guy!

 

[bgirldeb]

LOL! I posted another thread with popular audio and video from the 70's early 80's - remember "Time for timer"? The little yellow guy with a top hat and cane that danced around singing about food and snacks? Well the video that this website shows is him singing about making popcicles with toothpicks! How did we survive without shoving toothpicks down our throats???!! LOL!

I think I replied to that thread- I remember that commercial- My mom made those for us, and I remember being so excited about them.