1. Dolls pram......
I had a scaled down version of a real pram (Triang I think). It was white metal with real solid white rubber wheels with a brake, a blue spotted hood and a rain cover that fixed on with press studs. The press studs were impossible for a child to undo and the hood folded ... Read review
Advantages: They kept me occupied for a good long time (Happy days) Disadvantages: They show my age and I haven't got them anymore
1. Dolls pram......
I had a scaled down version of a real pram (Triang I think). It was white metal with real solid white rubber wheels with a brake, a blue spotted hood and a rain cover that fixed on with press studs. The press studs were impossible for a child to undo and the hood folded down with a metal arm which was evil for small fingers. I didn't have many dolls but my brother and I used to load it with teddies and push it about ... ...coach. It was also excellent on the path as you could lean forward and take your feet off the ground and zoom along.
2. Dominos...........
We had a set of Domino's. They were black, heavy, shiney , smooth bakelite I think . They came in a White box with a lid.
We would take them out and build little tiny houses with them or use them to make edges of 'roads' for the matchbox cars to drive along. I don't remember ... more
1. Dolls pram......
I had a scaled down version of a real pram (Triang I think). It was white metal with real solid white rubber wheels with a brake, a blue spotted hood and a rain cover that fixed on with press studs. The press studs were impossible for a child to undo and the hood folded down with a metal arm which was evil for small fingers. I didn't have many dolls but my brother and I used to load it with teddies and push it about pretending we were football managers and it was the team coach. It was also excellent on the path as you could lean forward and take your feet off the ground and zoom along.
2. Dominos...........
We had a set of Domino's. They were black, heavy, shiney , smooth bakelite I think . They came in a White box with a lid. We would take them out and build little tiny houses with them or use them to make edges of 'roads' for the matchbox cars to drive along. I don't remember playing actual domino's with them ever.
3. Dolls house..................
My uncle made me a beautiful dolls house with opening lattice windows. It was a bungalow with brick paper and a green roof. I had some really old dolls house furniture which was made by 'Blue Ribband' .There was one of those radiograms on legs with a record player in a cupboard and a bureau with tiny little opening drawers (which got lost ofcourse). Over the years many characters inhabited that dolls house including 2 speedway motor cyclists who were in permanent sitting positions with their arms out front (perfect to sit at the table and appear to be eating).
4. Wimsey dogs...................
When I was about 13, I bought myself a little Wimsey model of a mongrel dog puppy. My father who wasn't very interested in kids toys and fad things gave me the money to buy the other 9 in the series because they were so nice. They were made of some sort of china and realistically painted.
5. Batman and Robin.........................
My brother and I used to watch Batman on Television and occassionally were bought marvel comics with the various super hero characters in. We had little cone shaped Batman and Robin figures with a marble in the base. You played with them on the floor or a smooth table and they would whizz across the surface. Bro also had a big plastic batman with a plastic cloak that could come off. Unfortunately the head came off with it. I had a blue plastic mask with elastic which dug in around my ears and Bro had mums blue flowery apron ,he ofcourse was batman and I being younger was robin.
6. Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds.....................
I had a lady penelope puppet which was articulated .She was dressed in a silky green trouser suit. The head and hands were plastic and the body was just the clothes joined on to the head and hands,she had blonde nylon hair . Sadly the puppets were wasted on me as the thin nylon strings tangled so easily. She also got into some very unlady like behaviour climbing mud hills and trees in our garden. My brother had Scott Tracey complete with gun and fob-cap, he met a similar fate.
7.Teeny-tiny-tears............................
I really wanted a Tiny tears doll because my friend had one. She told me it could be dressed and undressed and if you gave it water ,it peed! Sadly they were very expensive and my mum told me she couldnt afford it. So I was very pleased to get 'teeny-tiny-tears' for christmas. She was obviously smaller but still could be given water to drink and would wet herself HOORAY! She was made of some sort of vinyl and had a painted face and nylon white blonde hair. If you squeezed her after you had given her a bottle , she cried from two holes in her eyes. It was interesting to feed her tea or paint water and see her cry other stuff too. This didn't help when you filled her up and then left her in your clothes drawer as she leaked.
These were a fad toy of the 1970's. They were 2 heavy balls with white nylon string going from one to the other and a tab in the middle of the string to act as a handle. The Clackers were held up by the tabbed handle and you had to lift and lower your hand rythmically to start the balls swinging one away from the other. Once you built up the momentum, you swung harder and harder until the bals could be wacked together above the handle and below it over and over. Mine were orange and about the size of a satzuma but you could get clear coloured versions too. They were usually made of glass. The craze died out when people were injured by the balls shattering or children hitting themselves or each other in the face.
Every girl of about 10 had a set of jacks. There were ten in a set and a small red rubber ball. The Jacks were 6 legged star like blunt ended objects about the size of a die. They were usually made of a heavyish alloy. The object of the game was to scatter the jacks and then bounce the ball and snatch a jack, then 2 ,then 3 all the way up to 10. Then the same in 2's then in 3's etc. You lost your turn when you missed a jack or dropped a jack. There was no prize ,it was purely a playground pass time. You still see them in some toyshops but they are often light weight plastic which is no good really for the proper game.
Flatsy was a rubber doll about 5 inches tall and flat as a pancake, with a painted on face . She was wired so that she could be posed and the model I had came as a picture of a green car (it was in relief and plastic).The doll sat in the car and was dressed in a green vinyl car coat ,trousers and green cap. She had bright green hair. You could buy 3 dimensional clothes for Flatsy which were almost impossible to get on and off. I think her popularity waned in the first 3 months.
...particular order, here are my top ten toys from childhood:
Cheekaboo
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This is a strange one which no one I have spoken to remembers very well. Cheekaboo’s were these weird monkey faced cuddly toys which had a soft body and a plastic head. They were quite grotesque in appearance and could give impressionable children nightmares for years to come! Some were very basic cuddly toys, just with ugly faces. But the ones I loved the most ... ...it was always on the top of my Xmas list, but my parents deprived me of my one true wish! I was gutted for years afterwards. Mr Frosty, is a plastic snowman, which you fill with ice and add an assortment of disgusting E laden colourings, which enable you to make your own ‘ice lollies’. The funny thing is that my son asks me for one of these every year, and I always say: “I’m not paying £15 for a piece of plastic!” And I’m always denying that I’m ...
purplelynne 23.11.2004
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...you placed the negative on top of the blank ;sun paper, and held it so that it pointed towards the sun or up to a light bulb [not too close to the light bulb] . In a few minutes your 'picture' was developed and it appeared right on your formerly blank piece of paper -- your photos photograph. This little item cost about fifty cents in the beginning. AND< you can still purchase this paper from a company called PORTERS [that's a photography store] ... ...and ask for their totally free catalog in the mail. Here's the webpage : http://www.porters.com/
and here's their contact information : Online Store: Store Front
Phone: 800-553-2001 (orders)
319-268-0104 (other questions)
Fax: 800-221-5329 or 319-277-5254
e-mail: pcsgeneralmail@porters.com Porter's Mail-Order Office:
Mail Address: P.O. Box 628, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613
Street Address: 411 Viking Road, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613
Click for Map ...
Finno 04.01.2005
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Advantages: Things were appreciated and respected. Disadvantages: None
...Here goes with my top 10, sad but true!!
1. I didn't actually get this toy but wore my friends out as my mum wouldn't let me have one she said they were for boys!
A Bus Conductor set, complete with Hat, Ticket machine, money & tickets.
2. Tiny Tears. A cute doll I played with her for hours. she came complete with dress bottle and nappy. She had to go though when I gave her an haircut and put eyeshadow on her with a biro :-( .
3. My own lockable ... ...nightie every time I was leaving home!!
4. Bontempi organ. It was second hand but I loved it. I thought I was the bees knees while I played all the tunes and the oldies sang along.
Bit out of tune mind you but I wouldn't have said that at the time.
5. Scrabble. An enjoyable board game that made you use your brain. You had to make a word from the 7 tiles you had chosen earning points for the words. No such thing as a computer to help you cheat ...
shelleyone 15.08.2007
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Advantages: Hours of fun! Disadvantages: None (well, maybe a few bruises from some toys!)
...could clack them at the top and bottom. We used to have competitions with these at school to see who could keep them going the longest, but boy did they hurt when they hit your wrist!! Massive bruises!! I think mine went in the dustbin after one of the balls flew off over the garden wall - I was quite happy to tie it back on but mum wasn't too keen (I wonder why?!)
Fuzzy Felt
I think nearly everyone must have owned a fuzzy felt at some time during ... ...mine must have been a top of the range one because it had wheels with quite chunky tyres and even had a brake on the back. Great for steaming up and down the garden.
Jack Straws
This was a game which came in a smallish box. There were loads of little plastic tools like pickaxes, saws, hammers. The idea of the game was to tip all the ‘tools’ into a pile then try to carefully pick them out with a little hook one at a time without moving any of the ...
Donnydiva 15.12.2004
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Advantages: Years of Fun and Games! Disadvantages: None, I loved them all!
...So here are my top ten:
1) Big Yellow Teapot - I desperately wanted one of these. It was the big teapot house that the little family lived in with their little cat! 2) Spirograph - As all children do, I loved to draw and make pretty patterns so spirograph was excellent! I wasn't very good at working out how to position the little plastic shape things and twirl my pen around though!
3) Scalextric - This was actually my brothers but I loved it just ... ...cars round the front room it was great! I never won though :-(
4) Etch a sketch - This was the little square box with a stylus where you drew on the screen and then could magically wipe away what you had drawn! After a while though the eraser thing didnt work very well and you could faintly see your old drawings.
5) Tomy Big Typewriter - I wanted to be a writer when I was small (as well as a vet and an air hostess) so this was my fave toy where ...
karenes 02.12.2004
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