Favorite Childhood Toys

[lvponies]

1960 for me

I loved the Johnny West stuff too. Had a barn with fencing, all the tack and stuff. A couple of years ago we found one of the West horses with his harness attached to a buckboard wagon at a flea market. The horse has wheels on his feet to pull it along. I then went on ebay and they have lots of Johnny West stuff, so bought Johnny and Jane who came with all their plastic clothes. Love it!! When I was a kid, I was all about getting horsey stuff. I was never into dolls, Barbies or anything like that. Just horsey stuff.

I remember copying comics from the Sunday papers with Silly Putty too and playing pick up sticks with my brother & sister. Also...did anyone have Barrel Full of Monkeys? That was fun too. Loved being outside and riding my bike everywhere. Also, have always loved to read so had lots of books and a library card. Still love reading today.

Great thread that brought back good memories!!!

 

[justagirl]

ok ... I just realized I was deprived as a child ... I didn't have any of these cool toys......

my favorite "toys" were , mud , the creek , and my pony Flip .

 

[AppyLover2]

Toys...it was soooo long ago it's hard to remember. I'll be 65 next week :new_shocked:. One year I got my Christmas lists mixed up and gave the same one to both my mom and dad (they were divorced) so I got 2 Tony dolls. You could actually give them perms. Wasn't one to play with dolls but the perms were cool. Used to use my Easy Bake oven. I remember once I cut up some radishes and cooked 'em. Once boiled (took 3 or 4 hours) they tasted a lot like turnips. The best toys though were the animals and the stream on our property. I used to transplant flowers to "my" spot in the woods. Wouldn't trade growing up in the country for anything!!!!

 

[CKC]

Jill-Ellen just had that milking cow on her show recently.

I was working on my scrapbook with the pictures from my childhood.There is this one picture of a fuzzy(flocked) palomino horse with flexible legs. It was in 1977 at Christmas. I was sitting on a new big wheel and I had this horse. I still had that horse when I moved to my current home, but I can't find it now. I don't know what happened to it and have looked everywhere. It's not here. I have looked on Ebay often to see if I could find a replacement. I really want another one.

I know I loved my barbies, stuffed animals and horse models.

 

[Connie Ballard]

ahhhh Jane & Johnny West....and Chief Cherokee....Thunderbolt and Lightening...and all their tack....I played for hours with them...saddle up...etc. Wish had them still...gave them to my nephews when I thought they were of age and would appreciate them too....they RODE them and broken them! UGH

Silly Puddy/comics....oh man YES.

Anyone remember the machines at the grocery...put in 50cents in...was a wax molder ... it would pour a president bust and drop it down...get it out like a can of pop...had a smell you'd never forget...hot molden wax...lol.

Mom said stopped buying me dolls at age 3 in Iowa...cause I never played with them...just horses, indians, cowboys, red rubber toy wagon with yellow rubber wheels. Hi-Ho Cherry-O game....my gun set...yeah...its true...had a gun belt with cap gun...remember playing cowboys/indians with neighbor kids...tripped on the slab of the dry well...knocked wind out of me...swear I'd been shot! LOL Didnt have much but we had fun.

Strap on those metal roller skates with the key....played "These boots are made for walking" and my neighbor and I would skate fast as we could around the big furnace in her basement....had concrete floor!

She had Barbie stuff and I just couldnt get into it...kept thinking...what is the point putting all these different dresses on a doll....she prolly thought same about me saddling up horses all the time! LOL

Great post Jill...made me smile thinking of all these old things.

 

[Bess Kelly]

My HI-OH, SILVER comic books :aktion033: I can remember I couldn't wait for the next one. 10¢ then and that was good deal from my 25¢ weekly allowance!! Most of you aren't old enough to know about these

: , mayby appy-lover remembers them. ALL about a wild horse band and, of course, Silver (the Lone Rangers horse) when wild. Gosh, why don't they have those NOW??

I was truly beserk when my mom threw away a box of them when cleaning a garage to move many years ago. Actually, wasn't aware they were still there but, she shouldn't have told me! " You WHAT??"

Had to ad those to my list. :aktion033:

Got my first horse at 11, when my dad (Bless his heart!) traded a wooden rowboat to a single sailor, on detention for 6 months, for the horse. We were in Guantanamo and when we left, had to sell him. Joker, a great bay gelding who hated men, put a few in the hospital from bucking them off, and absolutely LOVED being the calm & steady steed for this little girl who adored him. Inseperable and devoted to each other. AHHH, such wonderful things are horses.

: Heck, I even brushed his teeth

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[tagalong]

Etch-A-Sketch!! I still love them...

And I loved my pre-Breyer horses - I think they were Hartlands? Anyway - a bay Thoroughbred family... a gray Arabian family and a buckskin Quarter Horse family...

 

[PaintedPromiseRanch]

I was born in 1962.

A couple of little "neat" things I remember playing with that I liked, were "Gumby", a green rubbery bendable stick man type thing, and I believe he had a red dog as his partner, but Gumby was the one I had :bgrin

I was born in 1961... and Gumby's pal was a red HORSE named Pokey... i think Pokey was my first horse

: . also something i have not seen on here yet - KIDDLES! anybody remember them? they made great children for the Barbies (yes this was back when they only made grown-up Barbies!) and i loved my roller skates... and i was probably in my late teens when Breyers came out but i immediately started collecting the stablemates (couldn't afford the bigger ones). and of course books books books!!!

 

[minimule]

Johnny West and the whole gang! My maiden name is Knight and we had the Silver Knight that was really Sam Cobra. Even the horse had armor! Still have the horse but sold the knight. Actually, still have all the horses! Mom has the covered wagon at her place but it will come here soon.

We had all the Barbie stuff. Would set up these elaborate houses and fill the living room completely up. Then we'd go outside and play!

 

[AppyLover2]

Yes Bess, I definitely do remember them. Had a ton of comic books myself. What a shame your mom got rid of your collection. They'd be worth a small fortune now.

 

[Miniv]

To be honest, I didn't have any favorite TOYS.........

My earliest memories were of books and of making up stories with paper and pencil. I also had stuffed animals, but they weren't toys -- more like "comfort buddies".

MA

 

[SWA]

My older sister had one of those 3ft tall dolls, and at the time it was about my height. Boy, that thing ALWAYS gave me the heebie jeebies! :new_shocked: I never did "get" the whole playing with dolls thing.

: But then, I "did" grow up with FIVE brothers.

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Favorite childhood toy....???

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Aside from hours and hours and ENDLESS HOURS spent with playing with my cousin's Breyer Horse models, when we weren't out riding our ponies...

: I think my favorite child hood toy was my "Easybake Oven" where I baked a brownie for my mom and dad for the very first time, and they shared it between the two of them with such loving laughter and smiles. I don't think ANTHING was ever more precious to my heart, ever.

: I doubt they even remember, but boy, I sure do.

: Even nearly 30 some odd years later.

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Here's a pic of my mom and my "real" dad.... back in "the day"...

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I'm not sure what year this was taken, but it was definately sometime back in the 60's, "I think" sometime after they were married.

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His name "was" Thomas George Butler, Jr., her name "was" Glenda Fay Butler...now, Glenda Fay Keoppen.

I miss my daddy....sooo, so much.

 

[frekles93]

[SIZE=14pt]I was born in 74 and I ALSO had the Milky Milk cow... SO ironic is that I milked cows for 8 years from 94 to 07 as an adult LOL. I now have 2 of these I got off of Ebay !! Of course I had a LOAD of My Little Ponies.... and a Breyer Stable mate set that I still have to this day minus the Drafter :-( [/SIZE]

April

 

[BigDogs & LittleHorses]

1970 here.

I can think of lots of them either I had or friends had:

Big Wheel (our street had a "gang" of them)

Evel Knevel Stunt Cycle set

Lincoln Logs

Simon

Cooties

Mr. Potato Head

Sit-N-Spin

Hot Wheels / Hot Wheels garage

Electronic Battleship

Stomper 4x4s

Water Wiggle (they are banned now because they could strangle you or smack you in the face!)

Slip-N-Slide

Hoppity-Hop

Superman Spinball Pinball (it sucked though!)

Speak N Math

Rubick's Cube

Atari

I also loved playing phonograph records and making cassette tapes. My folks picked up stacks of records and record players at garage sales for me. They had to hide their own records or I would destroy them!

Daryl

 

[lovinarabs]

1976

Yep, My Little Pony and Barbies, but my favorite were my Breyer horses. I used to cut horses out of magazines too and use them like paper dolls. I think my favorite thing to do was play in the hay loft though and make "forts". :bgrin

 

[justjinx]

Born in 1955.

Liddle kiddles, trolls, breyer horses, hartland cowboys on horses (roy rogers, paladin, etc)...

halter breaking calves and riding horses my grandparents owned....

jennifer :saludando:

 

[maranatha minis]

1973

I had the weebles, I loved My Little Ponies, I had the fisher price barn and animals, i think mine still moo's when you open the door. I had near 100 breyer horses and the barn and paddock, lost them in a house fire in 1994. I had the milking cow, i think my aunt has it now. I loved stik horses and rocking horses too. See a pattern here? HORSE stuff everywhere.

Shelley<><

 

[luckymeacres]

Born in 1965

Little People Playhouse

Anything horse

I also had a "Milky" cow, I wonder what ever happened to it.

 

[RallyZ]

1958

- Barbie, Skipper, Tuttie

- Comanche - the jointed palomino horse from the Johnnie and Jane West set, he was ridden by Barbie, Skipper and Tuttie

- Liddle Kiddles, I had Nancy Niddle and Trikey Triddle. LOL

- Pokey, Gumby's horse pal, he was ridden by the Liddle Kiddles

- Clackers - those very dangerous marbles on a string

- indian rubber Superballs - they would bounce sooooo high

- skipping rope - for double dutch

- elastic - for jumpsies

- rowboat, canoe, raft - we lived on a river and spent a lot of time on the water, catching turtles and frogs, swimming etc.

My sister and I also liked to set up a stand in front of our house and sell turtles that we had caught, or perhaps some baby white mice, to passers by that were on their way to or from the park that was down the street. My mother was always happy to give us margarine containers to send the mice home in. As far as she was concerned, there were always too many in the cage to suit her.

 

[Cara]

i had a little black and white appy plush toy named, sparky lol