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Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Sorry that I'm mainly remembering toys today! I'm a collector and they're just important to me!

I used to love junky things like these. The magnetic scottie dogs were found in gumball machines, but I remember them having more of a rocking sort of bottom



We would try to get them to smell each other's butts (it took and still takes very little to amuse me...) but they would just spin around and kiss each other.

These fortune telling fish were very cool too. We'd get them in vending machines when we went on a road trip with my father in his semi. He would let us buy junk like this just to shut us up.




For those unfamiliar with the fish, you put them in your palm with fingers outstretched, and the cellophane curled up...no, it told your fortune, yeah that's it!

The other thing I HAD to get on these trips, were the smoking monkeys. I do have 2 unopened ones here, but I can't find them on the internet! The ones I found on Google don't look right at all. One day maybe I'll scan them so you can see them. You lit the little cigarette and the monkey would puff away. They had a very distictive smell, and I can remember it now that I'm writing about it!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Yes Twinkie, I do! I had a pink Princess phone when I was around 16 or so.



All I have now are a mini pink and a blue princess phone on a keychain. I think they were advertising gimmics for New York Telephone. They look like this:





Cinnamongirl
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01-10-2001

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cinnamongirl a private message Print Post    
Pep Chews & Cuban Lunch

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Speaking of home delivery of milk

My neighbor (yes, that same brat who had the uber cool Varoom engine on her bike and was also my best friend...) had potato chips delivered to her house! YES, potato chips! They were called Charles Chips and came in a big can that they would get refilled. We'd beg our mother for them, but we didn't get too many chips.



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
One final one for the day. Crazy Foam! My sister Lee and I usually took our baths together when we were little. If we got Crazy Foam it was a bonus, otherwise we'd just use soap, and we would draw letters on each other's backs and have to guess what was being written. Of course we both liked our backs scratched, so we would act like we couldn't guess, lol!



Naja
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06-28-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I hope this counts. I had this exact easy bake oven in the 70s before they started making them to look like microwaves.

easy bake

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Of course it counts, Naja if it's YOUR good old days! Our good old days don't have to be the same time period!

I still have my Easy Bake Oven, got it around 1964. Mine is yellow like in the box shown. I bought a blue one on E-Bay a few years ago, too. I also have a Suzy Homemaker oven, from E-Bay. I tend to buy things that I'd always wanted as a child. Makes me have happy insides!






Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Crazy Foam was fun! We used to love to take Mr. Bubble bubble baths. You'd have to do the whole commercial when you took it "No Grandma, it's me!"

We used to hit the caps with a hammer.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Heh. LOVE this thread!!! Easy Bake Oven was the SHIT when I was growing up. My teenage aunt lived with us when I was a kid, and she had a collection of vinyl records (45's and 33's) that I still wish I had in my collection. Tommy James and the Shondelles was my favorite, Crimson and Clover would make my younger sister WAIL, which hello!! Baby sister crying is always to be recommended.

crimson_clover

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Did she cry over and over?

Naja
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06-28-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Holy crap, I didn't even know they had made easy bake ovens that look like ranges.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    

Etch a Sketch and Viewmaster.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Does anyone remember this Mad Magazine flexi-disc MAKIN OUT? (Everybody's Makin' Out But Meeeeeee!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GSxbW89tQ8

Loved this funny little tune. I wore the groove out on this! It's fun trippin' down memory lane... grooooooooovy baby!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 5:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I used to have Partridge Family show reels for my Viewmaster.

Kc103
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07-13-2004

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 5:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
Huk, I still have my yellow Easy-Bake Oven, just like in the picture in your post, too. Haven't tried it in a number of years now, but I'm assuming it still works. My favorite thing to make it in was little Winnie-the-Pooh cookies. For Christmas one year I got a companion set of the Pooh character cookie cutters along with some cookie and cake mixes. :-)

Kc103
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07-13-2004

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 5:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
Here's another way I remember spending a lot of Saturday nights growing up:



Sadly, my Thingmaker stopped working years ago. I've looked on eBay a few times for a set, but the prices were too high for me on the sets in good condition. I'll keep looking though! (If I remember correctly, I think there was also some question as to whether these were safe or got too heated when used.)

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 6:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
KC, I didn't have the Fun Flowers, but that darned neighbor did! Yes, those heating elements were dangerous, but I guess we didn't know any differently... I see the plastic tray in front. Remember we had to put water in that and when the Plastigoop had cooked just right, we'd use those squeeze together things and put the tray into the water to cool. Hisssssss! There was a needle like thing on the end of a plastic handle, and you'd peel the thing out of the mold.

Kc103
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07-13-2004

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 6:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
Oh, I remember that well! I still have some of the things I made packed away somewhere. My brother had the Creeple People set. (ick!) We'd have our Thingmakers all spread out on the kitchen table on a Saturday night...working away.

Kc103
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07-13-2004

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
One more oldie but goodie for now:


My best friend always wanted to get the dud because she thought he was the cutest out of all the guys. (Can you tell I'd much rather sit and reminisce tonight rather then do the cleaning I should be doing?)

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
OMG, Kc103 - I totally forgot about the Funflower toy, but we sure had one or two around the house.

Spygirl
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04-23-2001

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spygirl a private message Print Post    
Here are some of the toys that I played with as a child...

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Spygirl
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04-23-2001

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spygirl a private message Print Post    
I have been trying to find one toy in particular but am having no luck. It was a long wand-type hand held synthesizer that was blue and white...and the keys were flat. I've searched to no avail.

However, here is one other thing that reminds me of being a kid:

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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 8:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
OMG Spy, I was JUST coming in here to ask if anyone remembered the name of the game where you made graphs. And you JUST posted it! Love TVCH, it's surreal. LOL

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 8:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    


Bet the 'boys' remember this one!

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
some old commercials (that i totally remember)

Slinky

Lite Brite

Hungry Hungry Hippos

Play Doh Barber Shop (not a commercial exactly, but amusing...to me, anyway)