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Car54

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 02:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I work taking care of the computers for a chain of retail stores, and Friday I was in a store trying to troubleshoot a cash register problem...

and I had the whole thing torn apart...

could not figure out where this strange "ticking" was coming from...

turns out it was a dump display of Mexican Jumping beans that was on the counter beside the register. They were jumpin like crazy!

Sia

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 02:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My brother and I ordered Sea Monkeys from the back of a comic back back in the 60s. I remember being disappointed that they were so tiny and that they didn't have FACES like the ones depicted in the illustration (read: artist's rendering) in the magazine! Oh, those were the days. I just added the Sea Monkeys Magic Castle to my current Amazon order! I am looking forward to sharing this experience with my kids. Thanks so much for the reminder.

Dogdoc

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 05:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Arn't the sea monkeys just brine shrimp that you can buy in any aquarium store? Suitsmefine, the spools and rods were tinker toys, weren't they. Any one else go back as far as Lincoln Logs. I last saw them at an antique store. Remember the turtle bowl with ramp and palm tree. I just paid $130.00 for a turtle tank set up.

Draheid

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 05:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I know it's not the original, but almost as fun
slinky

Lyn

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 06:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember having turtles as a kid, but they always escaped and we wouldn't find them for days. YUCK! Is it illegal in the US to have turtles as pets? (They were banned in Canada in the late 70s)

Draheid, I love your slinky gif!

Whit4you

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 06:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We made alot of forts as kids - tons of them inside and outside. Only fort I remember from BB was in BB 1.

Dogdoc

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 06:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lyn, due to salmonella problems the sale of the small red eared sliders was banned in the states too in the 70's. Larger ones ( I think the cut off is 2") may be sold.

Gidget

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 07:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The spool and rods were tinker toys, one of my all time favs.
But since we're on sea monkeys (kid rip offs) does anyone remember the small piece of furyr fabric with 2 eyes that would undulate if you pet it?

Jmm

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gidget - I know exactly what you mean. How in the world did that entertain us for so long?

Lyn

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pet rocks lol

Bizee

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Easy Bake Oven, That toy where you heat the goop and make spiders (for the boys) and flowers (for the girls) Forts, during the rainy season in So. Cal, made dams in the gutter til it ran all the way across the road :) . Spirograph, All weekend Monopoly games (played in the fort of course).

Costacat

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OI, I *loved* clackers. Until they got outlawed from school. I was the best on 'em -- hardly ever got bruised!

LOL... the HG's just talked about Twister for the POV!

Gidget

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Creepy Crawler?

Ladydewtel

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my husband still has the clackers. Brings back memories.

Hypermom

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmmm...Chatty Cathy doll, Barbie camper, domino's, lincoln logs, tether ball, child size kitchen to play restaurant with, paper dolls, kickball, 4 wheel rollerskates, Operation game, Atari, Barrel of monkeys, pick up stix, record players for 45's, etc.

Bizee

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
yep, Creepy Crawlers! Can't recall the one for girls that was flowers though.

Jacks, Yo-Yo's, homemade scooters, Sissybar on my bike

Putting a playing card in back tire spokes with clothespin.

LightBrite, Life

Suitsmefine

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 08:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dogdoc , yes I think were called tinker toys "in our day", OMG, Gidget....the furry fabric critter was one of "oh you are a loser" prizes at the county fair(I HAD MANY,LOL)!!!Lyn, While in JR. High myself and a classmate drove our civics teacher CRAZY, with this stupid pet rock we passed back and forth, and named, and sometimes used as a substitute for test....She was not impressed!!! She still teaches at our school, since I volunteer there I see her often...she still asks about "Rocky"...ROTFLMAO!!!!

Allietex

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Magic Rocks

Draheid

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic :)
They actually brought that out again, but I think they changed the name ...

Whit4you

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did any of you make those boxes out of paper? Don't remember how they were made or what we called them but boy did we make alot of them in school. The size of the ones we made I believe.. were hmm about maybe 4 inches by 4 inches (or something like that. We made alot of things out of paper - those sailer shirts..boats..and of course airplanes. Just wondering if it was a local thing or if kids elsewhere made those little paper boxes... and um why we made them - lol.

Whit4you

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
FYI for anyone enjoying this thread - this is a prime example of the kinda threads we have in the TVCH General discussion area.. (We actually had a thread just like this one a couple years ago that was extremely popular 300 or 400 posts I think)

If you don't know how to get to the General discssion area and would like to check it out check the thread here in the BB area called

"New TVCH BB fans AND lurkers WE are talking about you!!"

:)

To keep this even remotely on topic here - I think of all the games we played growing up the one that most reminds me of BB would be "Red Rover" - remember that?

Dmarcomb

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Simon Says would be a great challenge...just make it BB Says!

edited to add that I feel like a true member of the TVCH now that I have received my first ever "File Locking" error!

Hummingbird

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can really go back in time with this one! My favorite toy as a young child was a View Master. My favorite reel was "The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth." And yes, I remember the actual coronation. What does this have to do with BB3? I missed the connection.

Snee

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
-mood rings
-knit magic
-that plastic ring thing you put around one ankle with the rope attached and a ball at the end. you jumped up a little so the thing swung around on the ground and every time it circled you'd raise your other foot so the rope part would go underneath. what the heck was that called?!

Hummingbird

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Never mind, I looked back and read where this all started. Funny thread. My kids ad the sea monkeys and nothing developed. Big rip off!