Kaiser Bill Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I remember "Froggy The Gremlin"... I think it was on around 1950-52?? Anyone remember the Frogman that came in Kelloggs boxes?? Put baking soda in his flipper, and he would surface and sink and surface. Simple toy for simpler times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemarie Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I was a "simple" child. I liked toys that were "Batteries Not Included". I didn't necessarily want the toy, I wanted the "Batteries Not Included"! Keep in mind that I was also one of those kids who would play with Tin Foil for HOURS, but got bored by toys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I watched "Soupy Sales". He was a real trip, even before anyone knew what a trip was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Pilsbury space sticks anyone? I remember making fun of Ron's cap snaffler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Pilsbury space sticks anyone? I remember making fun of Ron's cap snaffler. lol, yep, my mom bought my sister and I the space sticks. and the carnation instant breakfast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Kaiserbill... "Hi, I'm Buster Brown, and I live in a shoe; here's Froggy the Gremlin, and he lives there too!" <grin> Don't recall the frogman, but I do recall the submarines that came out soon after the Nautilus was launched. They made great bathtub toys! How 'bout making crystal radios? Erector sets (no relationship to Cialis) or Lincoln Logs? Playing marbles of one sort or another at recess? Kids wearing Cub Scout or Boy Scout knives openly on their belts as a badge of honor rather than something to have their folks put in jail? And then using them to play "stretch" on the playground and even occasionally challenging a teacher to play? (Mine always declined.) Lady teachers always wearing dresses? Rifle drill teams for virtually every Jr. Hi and high school? Making "guns" out of a wooden spring-loaded clothespin and some tape that would light an Ohio Blue Tip when one shot it? Heck, for all that, Ohio Blue Tip? Bull Durham tobacco hand-rolled in Jr. Hi 'stedda wacky bakky? I can't recall the cartoon character whose show sold uncounted plastic sheets one would put onto one's TV screen to then use to color or trace stuff... Gabby Hayes' and Gene Autrey's tv shows? (Gene roping a Brachs candy display?). Clarabelle the clown? Nellybelle the Jeep on the Roy Rogers shows? Sky King? <sigh> m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 milod...I only remember "Tige" that lived in Buster's shoes. Lincoln Logs and erector sets...original hula hoops, Lionel trains (metal not plastic), Nautilus subs, Etch-a-Sketch, Operation, Skunk (still have the dice), and a bevy of kids games. Mr. Potato head (using a real potato). Monopoly with cast metal pieces, and Chinese checkers. Ahhh the good ol' days...hee hee. BTW... my mom made crystal radio sets for bombers in WW2 at a place called Bliley Electronics. They are still in business in my hometown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 KB... One thing I remember I'm about half ashamed of, and you may recall if you had younger siblings... "We" didn't have all that many "toys" after the war, but my little brother, 5 years younger, around '53-54 seemed to get "stuff" unimagined when I was his age because the wartime industries hadn't really retooled. I remember feeling a bit jealous. Meanwhile... since Dad had a small town car and motorcycle dealership, I got to play with engines and batteries and radios and various other "parts" that was great fun. Helped boil out carburetors and rebuild them (which came in handy later), learned more about electricity etc. Funny thing though, that younger bro didn't hang out in the shop and learn that stuff, but ended up with Dad's tools and being a very good car/pickup diagnostician and mechanic. After I hit 20 or so, I did very little of that kinda thing. And... bro and sis didn't get to sit through Mom's college lit and history classes from age 10, either, or Dad's grad school philosophy/ethics classes. Life's funny sometimes. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 milo...I have a sister thats 18 months younger than myself. She is/was bipolar...not much fun to be around. She broke most of my toys as a kid. I haven't seen her since dad died in '88. Last I heard she was in Oklahoma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 and by my user name, and pic, its pretty obvious i'm a horror fan. classic horror, and not so classic. i love old cheesy horror movies. so bad, their great... i grew up watching Count Gore Devol's Creature Feature on Saturday nights, out of Wash. Dc. Ive gotten to meet him a few times at horror conventions, lol... but the $5 question is......do you know (w/o looking it up) what Boris Karloffs' last working part was, and why he did it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyMoon Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 but the $5 question is......do you know (w/o looking it up) what Boris Karloffs' last working part was, and why he did it? I dont think this is his last but this is how "Black Sabbath" got there name...from the 1963 movie... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQvrbh6SeJE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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