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Hummingbird

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Re: paper boxes
Made me think of cootie catchers. Anyone else ever make them?

Krmit

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There is a store at Citywalk Universal Studios here in Hollywood CA that you can buy Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Slinkys, Lite-Brite and tons of PEZ dispensers.

Whit4you

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wouldn't it be funny - if as we are posting in this thread - they set up a "blast from the past" POV competition in which they have to do some of these things we just talked about

(you know like build a lincoln log house to look like a picture they have .. and a lego house and so on and so on? )

LOL

They did have lego's in there didn't they?

Puck1021

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Erector set's, homemade kites, hotwheels, SST's, flashlight tag, freeze tag, x-ray spec's, 10,000 army men for a dollar, the 50 cent surprise packages, and tire swings. These are a few of my favorite things.

Lyn

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Snee we used to call the plastic ring w/ball thing a Skip-It

Dodgeball, Soccor-baseball, AM radio, Pooka Shells, clogs...I'm loving this thread!

Puck1021

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh and how could I forget slingshots and marbles, there were plenty of neighbors that wished I would have. Anyone remember playing poison with the marbles we didn't shoot with the slingshots, Boulders and cateyes, clears and solids, fudgies moving your shooting hand. Way before video games. Now my son plays virtual marbles with his x-box, sometimes it makes me want to cry.

Wargod

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I got clackers for my last birthday from a friend. Said when she saw them she knew I'd love them, LOL. Course, she may have remembered me buying sea monkeys a few years back and those magic rocks? The ones you add the solution and they grow? I'm such a kid at heart!

Ricki55

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Chia pets (water them and they grow hair)

Hungry-Hungry Hippos Game

Crocodile Mile Slip-n-Slide

Cabbage Patch Kids, My Little Pony, Pipi Longstocking, Rainbow Bright, Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears (I know I am showing my youth here)

Sometimes I used to take a paper sack and cut the bottom like fringe and pretend I was a Hawaiian dancer.

Marcellasfan

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 11:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mystery Date Game, Tiddly-winks, wallebees, Stretch Armstrong, love beads, Smiley faces.

Marcellasfan

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 11:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, and Gum wrapper chains! I still have mine that I made 30 years ago. It's 30 feet long. Oh, the junk we keep.

Snee

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 09:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
THANK YOU, lyn! that was bugging me. and i'm really impressed that you actually knew what i meant from my description!

Gidget

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 10:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
In case you weren't wasting enough time watching bb here's a fun site for this thread

http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/memories/show_mem.php?ID=TY1014&page=2

Lyn

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
A Barrel Full of Monkeys and Gumby & Pokey, playing matchbox cars on the Hot Wheels loop-d-loop track

Snee, as soon as I saw what you were talking about I jump in my chair. I LOVED my Skip-It so much I took it to school with me every day. Thanks for reminding me of it :)

Allietex

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 04:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anyone mention roller skates, the kind with the key? You could adjust them so one size fits all. And cinnamon sticks in the little bottles. They were just toothpicks in a jar of liquid cinnamon but were they hot. You sucked on the toothpicks until all the cinnamon was gone. Our school finally banned them because the whole school was smelling like cinnamon and someone was afraid someone was going to inhale a stick and choke.

Mystery

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 04:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mystery Date! My sisters and I loved that game although we couldn't figure out why the "dud" guy was a dud. After an hour or so of Mystery Date, though, we had to regain our balance with a few rounds of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots.

Did anyone here play Chinese jump rope?

Dogdoc

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 07:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Allietex, I remember the skates you tightened with a skate key. We skated on the sidewalks and the skates made such a neat sound. Cracks and grass were hazzards. I can probably still find scars on my knees.

Mrdisguise

Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 07:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
anyone have those rubber/plastic rings which had a little container of water. you wore the ring on your finger, filled the container with water and squirted the water at people by squeezing the container. there were different styles of rings- usually animal faces. DO they still sell these rings?

I loved Chupa lollipops, Bubbalicious gum, jawbreakers as a kid.

Ricki55

Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 07:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Remember the neverending jawbreakers Mrsdisguise? I would try really hard to finish it but eventually my tongue would bleed.

Crazydog

Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 07:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Seamonkeys, ah the memories. I had some that developed but I could never manage to keep them alive. I do recall being enormously disappointed that they didn't have faces. I also remember there were lots of "Seamonkey playsets" you could buy. There was one that was set up like a race track and you were supposed to put your seamonkeys in there and watch them race each other.

Others: Spirograph, Shrinky dinks, Colorforms, Master Caster (make your own wax cars)

Phatcat

Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 06:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sugar Daddy's, Milk Duds, cootie-catchers, mood rings, Jon Gnagy's Learn To Draw, paint-by-numbers, Red Ryder BB Gun, Red Rover, hop-scotch, some kind of thing we made out of a spring clothes pin...took it apart, reversed the spring some way and it would shoot out a match and strike it as the match left the contraption...I nearly burned down our house with that one. Horse=drawn popcycle wagons, rubber ball connected to paddle by a long rubber band. Button on a string, pump it with your hands and the button spins like crazy. LOL Mumbledee Peg...where you take a pocket knive and flip it off your finger, your nose, your elbow, etc. and try to make it stick in ground. The one who loses has to get a very short peg out of the ground with their teeth. Gee, I was really a tom-boy. What was that thing where someone held a rock...oh, yeah...Rock School. You guessed which hand the rock was in and got to move down one step on your front porch if you were correct. First to reach bottom was winner. Clover chains.Cranking the ice cream freezer.

Oh, by the way...Cracker Barrel has many of these old toys. My, my, my...what fun. Saturday afternoon western movies for .15 cents with the weekly serials so you had to come back next week. The Shadow on radio. Watching test pattern for hours on first TV. LOL

Draheid

Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 06:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember my Dad sending me to the corner gas station to fill the 1 gallon can for the lawn mower ... it cost me 35 cents for a gallon! :)

Gidget

Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 07:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I fell behind. This may have already been mentioned. What were the strips of paper with the little candy dots?

Moderator

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 09:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
~Moving this to the regular General Discussions area ~

Moderator

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 09:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
~bump~

Whit4you

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 05:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Boy this thread didn't survive the move from the BB area did it? I really enjoyed reading it and the memories...>:)

Suitsmefine

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 08:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG!!!!I started this thread SSSSSOOOOOOOO LOOOONNNGGGG ago, I'd forgotten to check on it , Thanks to all of you for sharing your memories of childhood with all of us , I truly enjoyed all of the posts and the floodof memories they brought to me. We all seem to have grown up with ALOT in common!!!! LOL!!!

Sia

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 08:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suitsme, this thread inspired me to buy the Sea Monkeys Magic Castle from Amazon.com/Toys 'R Us, and it arrived, to my delight! I am debating whether to just get it started or keep it for Christmas! santacat

Vixeninvegas

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 04:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suitsme - I just sat & read this entire thread - what wonderful memories it brought back - I am also ordering a set of Sea Monkey's.

I still have my click clacks - they are pink & I had them to thank for many a bruise on my arms & legs. My mom thru them away like 20 years ago & I dug em outta the trash & saved them. I'm so glad I did. I will have to do some digging again & see where they are stored. Ty all for sharing the wonderful memories

Whit4you

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 05:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do any of you remember playing that game

"See see oh play mate come out and play with me...."

Where you'd sit across from someone and clap your hands back...then front then clap then clap your thighs and so on?

And that string thing where you'd take turns pulling the string off each others hands making various shapes? (know what I mean?)

Draheid

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 06:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whit4you: I don't recall the others, but are you referring to Jacob's Ladder for the string game:
Jacob's Ladder

Whit4you

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 06:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dra well ya that's the idea with the string = but we played it with a friend ... like

Ok I'd grab one string from each side with a pinky - and then move my thumb and index fingers around and.... anyone know what I mean? LOL We did that for hours and hours and hours (gawd knows why!)

In our school there was this huge marble trading thing going on too ... I had the most incredible collection of marbles, and steelies and so on. I was very good at odd's and even's and the other various games we played... and also very good at making trades.

My roommate right now has thousands of marbles, some very rare ones and incredibly beautiful ones, makes my old collection pale in comparison but back THEN - I had one of the nicest collections in school.

I wonder if it was just our school that did this or if other schools did too? I am guessing if it was not just a local thing, that it was eventually disallowed because it's a form of gambling..?

Heyltslori

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 09:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was about 10 when my brothers and sisters and I got Sea Monkeys for Christmas. We were all very excited and followed the directions carefully and then eagerly awaited our fun new pets. Each day we would peer into the fish bowl expecting to see the little monkeys dancing about...but day after day nothing happened. My mom started complaining about the smell from the fishbowl...but we convinced her to wait just a few more days. We were certain that our monkeys were just taking awhile to hatch. Well...one morning we looked into the bowl and TA DA! there were these long white things floating on the surface of the water! Now...being very naive children we were sure that this was just some sort of pre-monkey cocoon type stage. We watched them all day long...before my mom...who apparently grew tired of tormenting her easily fooled children confessed that the previous night she had dumped out our unfortunate monkeys, filled the bowl back up...and added some rice. Nice. Thanks mom. She still enjoys telling that story to people and having a good hearty laugh. :)