Candy tastes have changed since the latter half of the 20 th century, with candies like Slo Poke, Sugar Daddy and Bit O' Honey falling out of favor with the younger crowd, but older folks are still nostalgic for the long-lasting chews. I’ve looked like crazy, but have never found this toy on any website. Two colorful acrylic spheres measuring about 2 inches in diameter were suspended from two strings. Hope your holiday is filled with many a delight. The biggest problem with this toy is that it didn’t have any real padding, so kids and adults were basically hurling themselves onto a thin piece of plastic over pretty hard grass. The click clacks that left you with bruises on your knuckles and wrists and arms, not to mention your head once in a while … LOL. Below are some of the toys we played with in the 60’s that were “must haves” for kids: • G.I. But all good things come to an end. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I cannot believe I had a resin pouring kit when I was 10 or 11. First developed in 1978, the Speak & Spell was a must-have for any kid learning how to spell. Does anyone remember a toy in the early 60’s that was essentially a gigantic painted or enameled metal bowl? ToyMax went out of business around 2002, and yet another company, Jakks Pacific started producing a similar toy starting in 2006. https://img0.etsystatic.com/009/0/5873511/il_570xN.465191104_4d38.jpg, https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/87/3f/57/873f572087b938da95d4b84a5006d1bc.jpg. Back in the 50s and 60s, there was no consumer … However, after a mail-in campaign by fans, Tiger Electronics created a real version of the Talkboy, which debuted in 1993. I also had Creeple People and Incredible Edibles, but neither of these was as cool as the original Thingmaker. The slip ‘n slide which would leave you with scabs from hitting the slide when there were rocks underneath them. You can find Talkboys on eBay for as low as $10. Looking for smart ways to get more from life? Their popularity could be attributed to their emotional manipulation — their hangdog eyes and sad face hanging out of a cardboard doghouse were impossible for kids to ignore on the shelf. Clackers were discontinued when reports came out about kids incurring injuries while playing with them. I burned myself more than a few times and have the scars to show. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Nearly all of the examples I have seen have extremely sharp edges that would never pass CPSC standards today. There is no way this toy would pass muster today because the surfaces were quite hot and children could easily burn themselves. The Slip ‘N Slide and related products attained sales of more than 9 million units from 1961 through 1992. HitClips were mini stereos … Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . I had one and thought it was the greatest. It too was made out of tubular metal…the only other thing you needed was a tether ball so you could smack someone in the face and knock their teeth out!! The slider’s forward momentum drives the body into the neck and compresses the spinal cord.”. Nevertheless, I wish I had it now, but all I have is a film my dad shot of that birthday and the little roller coaster cars not staying on the track! And some of them are still around to this day. This recording technology would become outdated by the next decade, and was set aside for more portable toys without cassette tapes. Erector Sets were super simple, but super popular. We’d end up in the grass and that was the end of the ride. Perhaps this creepiness led to Cathy's discontinuation in 1966. Love the memories. I loved overfilling the metal molds just slightly so I could peel off the excess. I am so happy to see the comments and the old toys on here. From the 1940s-1960s, lithographed metal dollhouses were the dream of many a child. I cannot find anything on it. But this page has some similar cereal premium figurines. Clackers went by many hilarious names in the late '60s and early '70s: Clankers, Click Clacks, Knockers, Bonkers, and Ker-Bangers. Not to mention the fact some of the accessories were also made of metal and there were many tiny parts that presented a choking hazard for younger children. Joe • Die-Cast Model Cars & Trucks like Corgi & Matchbox Jasmin Piterson Uncategorized January 29, 2020 1 Minute. In the 50s/60s in Germany we had plastic figures of ships, trains, cars, etc., about 40 mm in height and wide and and about 5 km thick. Ridiculously dangerous!! Cigarette ads featured babies and parents together. I never saw the roller coaster, however, that sounds like it would have been fun. It attached to a water hose and when turned on, allowed you to run around underneath the falling water. You'd slide the loop onto one ankle, and have it swing around your feet in circles, hopping over it every time it passed your other leg — or else you'd trip and fall, or whack yourself with it. That was it………Montgomery Wards. Before television was 24/7 and five-hour marathons of Law & Order and Hoarders didn’t exist, people used to go to bed no later than 1:30 am, when television programming ended for the evening. I always loved biking and still do, but I will not ride without a helmet. They would NEVER go back to the original shape once they were uncompressed. Because molten plastic is totally skin-friendly. Pound Puppies were created by Mike Bowling in 1984, and were sold by popular toy truck brand Tonka. A "Twilight Zone" episode called "Living Doll," was essentially based on Cathy, except that this doll was named Talky Tina — and Tina was even voiced by the original Chatty Cathy, June Foray. It would never be sold today. I remember that we spun so fast that the entire thing lifted up off the ground. Kids came home and had to fend for themselves—and if had an older sibling to watch you, your parents probably weren't in any rush to get home. :(", followed by 216 people on Pinterest. Now they put children on this ridiculous level where people are afraid of punishing them or kids’ rights. With Christmas just around the corner and millions of kids eagerly waiting to open presents, I thought it was a good time to look back at a few toys of the past. I will bookmark your weblog and check again here regularly. According to The Guardian, the earlier iterations of the Game Boy were discontinued in the early 2000s, and the Advance followed in 2007. I know my kit was from the Sears Wish Book and I made a paperweight with a silver Mexican coin. Barbie is one of the most popular and enduring doll brands of the past six decades — but that doesn't mean we don't miss the others that have been lost along the way. The '60s were all about teens having fun in beach movies. My friend Joan absolutely loved this wondrous backyard toy and we would play on it endlessly during the summer. Those punch me’s were fun too. Wow…Clackers! You had to pick them up with some tongs they provided, or you would burn your fingers (as we did many times despite the tongs).This toy would never be allowed today. I think my Dad (Parents) had just as much fun watching me play on these with my friends…yet now I think WOW, how dangerous!! I remember the tissue was white, but it didn’t matter – you just kept going. 52 Iconic Stores You Grew up With That Are No Longer in Business Those born in the '50s and '60s will feel like they're traveling back in time. The roller coaster, teeter totter thing and the whirly bird!! You could really get it going, over and over very fast. Also Read: 22 Things We No Longer See in Manila. It was little more than a tubular slide set. They were whitish in colour on a flat bottom, any idea were they came from? Toys like G.I. It could recognize your voice, perform tricks, and even talk to other Poo-Chis. That’s pretty much what we had. Echo dolls were larger than most dolls, coming in at 13 inches. I have been looking for any evidence for that roller coaster toy for years and your comment is the first one that verifies that my own backyard roller coaster was sold somewhere in the US back then. Until one of them went home, jumped on the computer and found it posted…so thank you for your post and this site, reliving my childhood!!! We did not need someone always hovering over us. It was basically a heating element covered with a plastic dome with a rotating cover. As long as there have been kids, there have been toys: in fact, kites and yo-yos have been around since 1000 BCE. Chatty Cathy really earned her name — if you pulled a string on her back, she'd say one of 11 pre programmed phrases. My friend Myra once fell off her bike and suffered some bad scrapes on both knees and an elbow. Leggys were 10 inches long, with legs that consisted of at least 75% of that. Courtesy Sony 03 June 2019. Making resin casts is a fun and popular craft project that can be done at home. Thanks for writing – I don’t know since this is not an area of expertise. We almost broke our forearms in 4th grade with those things. But Micronauts fans can rejoice. After that, you rolled into the grass. Looking back, the "high-tech" Pocket Locker wasn't so hip after all. List View | Expand View . I was in KG and 1st grade when we lived in Greenwich and when we moved to metro Detroit during the summer of 1964 my folks sold it to someone there rather than moving it. Joe, Twister and Operation can still be found on toy shelves around the world. There was a handle in front that you would pull towards you and then push towards the person sitting across from you to make the Whirly-Bird spin. Today I'm feeling a little nostalgic, so I decided to go on a hunt to seek out as many of your memories from the 50s and 60s that I could find. One huge problem was stopping the thing. It dropped about 6 feet then went over a little hill and then the track ended but the wheels were rubber with flanges inside the rubber tires to ride on the tubular rails. Skip-Its were released in the '80s, and received a makeover as well as Nickelodeon commercials in the '90s, which turned them into one of the hottest toys of the time. These toys will make you wonder how these toys ever made it to stores or maybe why we don’t have these toys anymore. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. The design was just like a metal slide with the steps up and the cart latched at the top while the rider climbed aboard and then you pulled the handle and off you went. The toy was a long sheet of thin plastic with a lengthwise heat-sealed tubular fold running down one side. I cannot remember anyone wearing a bike helmet when I was a kid and somehow my friends and I all escaped with minor injuries. No one was hurt, but you could see where it could really do some damage. Kids, including your truly, would get their jollies (mainly during school recess) by swinging them up and down so they banged against each other, making a clacking sound. It’s not that we were more resilient or had harder skulls – it’s because no injury surveillance systems were in place monitoring these injuries. The top child would lean over to start the motion and the whole thing would rotate like a Ferris Wheel, shooting the kid on the bottom to the top and around and around. Speak & Spells stopped being produced in the '90s, and now there are hundreds of apps that kids can use that do the same thing — but without the weirdly endearing robot voice. So glad I grew up when I did. Thank you. If you got this thing moving really fast, it made a whirring noise. I spent hours in my room playing with this and spilling plastic goop on my carpet. I loved it back then… . I wonder if today’s kids really enjoy this as much as we did – perhaps late Baby Boomers are the primary customers. Popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I remember having several of these toys in the third or fourth grade. You wanted your ride to continue as long as possible down the driveway, which as someone mentioned, was a good deal. The product is intended for children, not adults. things from the 60s that no longer exist. It was a lot of fun, but no way it would pass modern safety standards today. there's always some toy kids are obsessed with, kites and yo-yos have been around since 1000 BCE, smack together so forcefully that they'd explode, received a makeover as well as Nickelodeon commercials, inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998, popularity of Pound Puppies was declining, enduring doll brands of the past six decades, earlier iterations of the Game Boy were discontinued, Echo dolls were only produced from 1962 to 1963, 22 photos that people born after 1999 won’t understand. Our coaster toy just went down, like a slide chute, and then had two raised “bumps” on the ground. The first Game Boy was released in Japan in April 1989, and the world of gaming was forever changed. You sat in the seat and put your feet on a bar below. There were a lot of “hot” must have toys in the 1960’s. Dec 15, 2020 - Explore Kissfan's board "Stores that are no longer around. But who knows? I don’t remember anyone getting hurt, do you? You just held on and stayed in place by centrifugal force!! Our Whirly Bird was predominately white and red. I was wearing flip-flops (I know, really brilliant), and when one of them grazed my bike, I naturally put my feet down and scraped the skin off all of my toes. Of course, placement was crucial. Between 1973 and 1991, seven adults and one teenager reported injuries suffered while using Slip ‘N Slides including neck injuries, bone fractures, quadriplegia, and paraplegia. The Vac-u-Form, also called Vac-u-Former, was a toy manufactured by Mattel in the 1960s. See more on this topic Comments. Micronauts, as established by a Marvel comics storyline, are too small for the naked eye to see and are constantly raging war against the evil Acroyears. All of Nintendo's heavy hitters appeared in Game Boy games, and a few even made their debut there, like Pokémon and Kirby. Considering the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) didn’t exist before 1972, late Baby Boomers got away with playing with a lot of toys in the 1960s-early 1970s that would never pass muster today. Well if kids today had an imagination these totally awesome toys would not be lame! My new search will be for an old catalog. Damn that was dangerous, but the burning wood smell lives on in my memory! Do you remember the name of it. People looked at me like I was crazy. Even though Cathy could be considered unnerving today, she was downright innovative in 1959, and there are plenty of kids who grew up in the '60s that love and miss their Chatty Cathy dolls. since. Made it to adulthood, so guess overall, they weren’t as bad as today’s snowflakes make them out to be. Steel dollhouses were first introduced around 1948 and dominated the 1950s decade, continuing into the 1960s, before being replaced with plastic or wood. The name says it all: Little Miss Echo dolls would echo anything you said using a tape recorder hidden inside of them. Don’t like to think what was in it! The super popular toy was manufactured by Mego from 1976 until 1980 before the company sadly went bankrupt, taking Micronauts with them. The tubes slipped over one another and one climbed to the top of the slide, and sat on a cart with wheels that were molded to ride the tubes. LOL, I remember a lot of those toys. Unfortunately, Fisher Price was too early for the pocket music trend, and Pocket Rockers were only on the market from 1988 until 1991. HitClips were mini stereos that came with little memory-card like cartridges that played 60-second clips of your favorite songs. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Even though you can do pretty much everything a Talkboy could do on your smartphone, you won't look as cool as Kevin McCallister and his gadgets. You rolled on for another five feet before encountering two small bumps that slowed you down before you rolled off into the grass. I’ll check in if I find something. Also, the candy cigarettes you could buy at the liquor store that you could puff, and powder smoke would come out. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Your email address will not be published. 5. Ours was blue and that toy was used so much. It was made of a round, tubular metal frame (like a wheel with a seat built inside), white I think, with red lettering. One version of this toy had a red bell-shaped object (that jingled inside) tied to a 2-foot plastic cord with a large yellow plastic ring on one end. I have a blue hard thick plastic seat that is roundish, made by Marx. These kits are still available today, but are recommended for adults or older kids with adult supervision – and a respirator, gloves, and eye protection. On a positive note, at least this toy encouraged physical activity, but I think today’s kids would say, meh! I just discovered a company in Michigan revived this toy in 2010 and they are available online. Still, we wouldn't mind seeing Poo-Chis make a comeback. Required fields are marked *. I have this and wondered how much it would be worth? Like what you see here? Maybe that's why they haven't stood the test of time: Leggys were only around from 1972 and 1973. Defunct beer brands are plentiful, thanks to quirks of distribution systems and mergers. The metal doll house which I had. 20. Everyone thought vinyl was done forever too, and now record players are on sale at Urban Outfitters. Great toys, great memories. The Whirly-Bird was manufactured by Hedstrom and we had the four-seat version. I like the valuable info you provide in your articles. I’m quite sure I will learn lots of new stuff right here! The '60s was the golden age of the tan–and no UV protection. I have not been able to find anyone else who remembers it, nor have I been able to find a picture. Micronauts were Transformers-esque action figures with their own interesting backstory. Clackers (also called Ker-Bangers, Klackers, Click Clacks, Klik Klaks, Klappers, Zonkers) were a simplistic toy that enjoyed some popularity in the late 1960s-early 1970s. Also, no kidding, I had the Marx doll house which I just bought on eBay for my girls, the footsie, the stingrays (with streamers). Thom McAn was a chain of shoe stores that had over 1,400 stores at its peak in the 1960s. Does anyone remember a 2 person merry go round that ran off of a garden hose ? This toy really doesn’t fit into the unsafe or lame category, but I had to include it because it was briefly one of my favorites. Share the love. When I turned 6, I scored the mother of all S&H green stamps toys when my mom redeemed an enormous number of books at Wieboldt’s for an awesome Chein tin toy roller coaster. Here is a link to a plastic version of the same thing that Walmart used to sell, but this one is only 40 inches tall, and I am quite certain that the metal/tubular rail version in the 1960s was 5-6 feet tall. While there were far more dangerous toys, the concept of these is pretty lame and I don’t think today’s techno savvy, iPhone-toting kids would give them much thought. Back in the late ’60s or early 70’s, I had a helicopter toy that ran along a twine that was strung around the room. It was part of a swing set and was on one end just like the sliding boards were. I still have the original 4-seater Whirly Bird riding toy and am wondering if anyone can direct me to an owners manual? But not all toys have stood the test of time in that way. The possibilities were elatingly endless. Their popularity was revived by a 2010 animated TV show, also called "Pound Puppies," but the show ended in 2013 — and with that, sadly, the merchandise disappeared as well. I would not give up one thing from those days. Poo-Chis were the dream gift for any kid whose parents wouldn't let them have a living and breathing pet. I don’t know what to call it, but it does have Marx embossed on it. Who knows, maybe the film will inspire a new version of the toy. Selling toys isn't all fun and games. However, Erector Sets became more and more complicated, end began including power plants, trains, and even a fully functioning Ferris Wheel. It needed to be "fed," and would have a different personality depending on how often you trained it. 11. OK, you probably didn’t own this exact Luke Skywalker action figure with double-telescoping lightsaber when you were a kid, because there are only 20 known toys in existence. wikipedia.com Does anyone remember a toy that you sat in and rocked forward and backward until it went head over heels? This one doesn’t have the little hill(s) in the track after the first drop either. I’m surprised that it did not come with more tubing, as it probably could have rolled for ten to twenty feet. There was that water wiggle too – we had that one. Without a doubt, the most dangerous toy of the 1960s-1970s was not a toy at all, but a bicycle. How about the wood burning set! Consumer Grouch is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Kids were directed to pull a string on said base, causing the Sky Dancer dolls to spin and fly. In the next decade in the United States, employment is expected to increase by 11.5 million, but it is also projected that manufacturing and federal government jobs will decline. No, this doesn't just refer to the log ride at Six Flags. Chip, thank you for your post – I had all three. I’ve been trying to find it online for years and I can’t find it. Gobots. In hindsight, Chatty Cathy might have been a bit creepy. Another favorite was pulling you out of the room by your ear. In "Home Alone 2," Kevin uses his Talkboy to record his voice and distort it to make him sound like an adult — seems like a useful toy, right? Problem was I couldn’t remember the name of it and I was just describing it as something that had four seats and you would sit on it and push and pull and it would go really fast. Thingmaker Creepy Crawlers by Mattel was by far my absolute favorite toy as a kid and I got my first one in 1968. See more ideas about childhood memories, the good old days, vintage mall. While modern dolls put these to shame, they retain a sense of nostalgia we can't quite shake. I also had the coaster, the whirlybird, teeter totter, jungle gym, and a huge hill in the backyard. There were plastic cubes that when heated up in the chamber, opened up into monsters or dinosaurs. I sure wish that I could find some photos of one or know who the company was that built it. This toy never worked correctly and it wound up in the back of my closet. I completely forgot about it but I’d spend hours heating those little plastic pieces and watching them unfold. By 1988, the popularity of Pound Puppies was declining and they eventually disappeared from shelves. Eventually our school banned them, no surprise. I cannot believe I played with this toy totally unsupervised starting at the age of 10! Some of this might be for the better, like discontinuing Clackers, but others toys are still sorely missed, like Pound Puppies. Louis Marx was among the manufacturers of these super cool steel houses. Did you ever come across something called the Doozy Wheel? I haven’t been able to find any information about this toy since. Discovery Zone: 1989–1999. I actually had that bicycle and it was great. Your email address will not be published. Too many bells and whistles have changed why this simple toy was so popular to begin with. The Original Whirly Bird, Two Seat and Four Seat Models where also Invented and made here along with many, many other back yard toys and swing sets and including the Original Snow Dish ( of Hollywood Movie fame ) and Snow Wing sleds. eye injuries, scratched corneas, and incidents of temporary blindness, broken teeth, a mild concussion, a broken rib, and facial lacerations that required stitches.". You pushed a release and down you went, all of five or six feet at a gentle slide angle. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Overnight Camp Ushers in the End of Carefree Days and Childlike Innocence, http://boingboing.net/2015/07/20/why-the-strange-change-machine.html, http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/Premiums.html. 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