No worries! Great video. I remember when I was kid in the 80s playing cops and robbers in the neighborhood. We would jump into neighborhood backyards and they didn’t mind so we can hide.
Im so happy to find this channel although im a 60s child some of the fabulous fiftiesstuff we played with or watched on tv i love tinker toys i collect em!
oh yeah...and silly putty....along with jacks. Which you were supposed to ONLY be played with the "little red ball" that came with the jacks.. However, once I discovered that a different ball (in my case, my older brother's golf ball) would bounce HIGHER and therefore give you more time to "scoop up" the jacks and win. I started to use it and my friends put the kobosh on that idea, claiming it wasn't fair (which I didn't know at the time or remember that rule) but it was still one of my favorite games and, I might add, I got to play again recently as part of some therapy due to an injury and it actually required playing jacks! What a hoot! I and the people in the therapy class/room all had a huge laugh and a mini trip down memory lane on this very subject. So glad the internet/CZcams is available for us to discuss and enjoy all this history....And I'm glad to have been part of it. Enjoy, everyone!!!
@@WhitneyAbrina It was much better than the smell of the Vacuform, where you poured "goop" into hot molds and made rubber bugs, or stretched thin sheets of plastic over a hot mold smoking up the whole house.
@@glennso47 Simple toys that allow a child to use their imagination are the best. One Christmas we bought our daughter this beautiful expensive fairy princess tent but she preferred playing with the dollar box of crayons from the stocking stuffer instead. 🙄
How about the scent of Mimeograph paper in school? When the teacher would copy tests on the mimeograph machine. The papers always smelled sooooo good. :-)
Play Doh today still smells the same. We bought Play Doh for my teenager when he was little. I remember that white paste, some of my classmates said it tasted sweet, ha ha. The comment about the mimoegraph brough memories: our teachers would allow children to run mimeographs (setting the page and turning the handle) for the class. I remember the smell of the purple ink-ish medium and the damp feel of a stack of freshly run pages. One of my early jobs had a Gestetner machine, it reminded me of a mimeograph.
I am so glad I grew up in that generation. We were outside from dawn to dusk. Thank God I was able to grow up then. Remember catching fire flies in an old mayo jar?.. Thank you for this wonderful trip back to those GREAT TIMES.
I used to love catching lightning bugs in fruit jars. And playing with my friends on their farm which was just across the road from us. We would spend hours climbing around in the hayloft and playing hide and seek. Sometime their father would let me drive the old John Deere tractor when he was baling hay and his sons were picking up the bales to place on the flat bed wagon. I was towing the wagon.
@@glennso47 I lived in the country, and my dad always said, " When the frogs start tweeting, get your but home." LOL Now when I hear them I think of that every time.
Yup, my mom would yell out the window to get home when street lights came on. Btw, stickball, jump the stoop, triangle .... a bunch of street games we played in Bklyn. Those metal roller skates, we played street hockey using a tape roll dispenser as a puck.
Try to find a post-WW2 neighborhood with street lights. Everything built thereafter was cheap developers' crap. No sidewalks, soulless boxes of tickey-tack houses, no street lights, and above all no big trees. Time has only helped with the latter.
I remember in the early days of tv there was a kiddie show called Winky and Me. They had this toy where you would buy these plastic sheets that would stick to the tv screen and you could draw along with the host of the show. Some of us didn't have the kits and would try drawing right on the screen with crayons.I ruined my folk's tv that way! :-(
Aww The good old days when kids had and used their imaginations for fun and even learning with no agenda except to learn how to think, not what to think.
WOW! How right you are. The kids today are brain washed. They have no concept of what it is to have fun and use their imaginations. Kids have no idea how to be a kid. I'm grateful I grew up roller skating in the street, playing hide and seek, bike ride and explore, jump robe, double dutch, etc.
And how to do things together--negotiate what games to play, work out what rules are fair, etc. Now they expect adults to make it all perfect for them or they get triggered.
no one's (?) mentioned color books. I remember coloring. And painting-- water paints came in a tray with 12 colors and then the finger paints, I loved finger painting. Outside, there was also hopscotch.
I loved the sixties and seventies! We were still outside and having fun. My transistor radio, a rocking chair, a lime charms pop and comic book! Now that was fun!
@Michael Klouser I don't know. I just know that MAD has stopped publishing new editions.How about Babylon Bee? It's a satirical website that feels a lot like MAD.
@@billymule961 Remember Flavor Straws? They were a drinking straw that had a little chunk of chocolate or strawberry flavoring inside and the flavoring would disintegrate in milk and create a flavor. And some classmates would bring Flavor Straws to school and those kids were really popular!:-)
My birth year is also 1956. I too remember the toys and games we had. Mom got a lot of our toys from S@H green stamps. Recollection Road does a good job.
born in 2002 but i remember a lot of these, my best friend and i’s parents both made us go outside and actually enjoy childhood thankfully. i will do the same with my children. too many kids play video games all day. instead of baseball cards on bike spokes we stuffed leaves and made dirt bikes lol.
Lincoln Logs, Operation, Easy Bake Oven, Battleship, Slinky, Super Balls. Dirt clod fights! Geee. A few of the pics on this excellent video actually showed different ethnicities playing together.
In the Navy I got to see a real battleship. And to hear those big 16 inch guns going off. Frightful stuff! In Vietnam I was stationed aboard a Salvage Ship. We were on a job once in the vicinity of a battleship that was shooting volleys onto the shore. We were about 35 miles downwind from that thing and it seemed like we were right next to it. When the guns were fired our whole ship quivered and quaked just like we were experiencing an earthquake. WE got to see the same ship up close when our ship docked at Sasebo, Japan It looked even more wicked up close.
Silly Putty, Spirograph, Etch-A-Sketch, Slip-N-Slide in the summer ( a long plastic sheathe on the grass with it's own irrigation to get ya wet) and Lite Brite !
Wayyyy before my time. My most of my older siblings were born in the 50's. Thankfully some of these toys were still around in my childhood in the 70's. #GENERATION X
I'm a 90's child and most of these toys were still available to us as well, you could go to any Toy's R Us and most everything in this video you could still buy. The shift didn't really happen until the late 1990's when video games and personal computers became mainstream.
I remember when my brother and I were little and we would ride the Tonka dump truck down the hill in front of our home and crash into the ditch!!! Man that was fun getting all busted up!! Being a kid was fun in those days. Some parents won't let their kids play outside unless they're wrapped in bubble wrap!!!
Mr granddaughter who is 5 loves to ride a Tonka Dump truck around our house. She's getting a bit big to fit in the box but she puts one knee in the box and uses it like a scooter.
I had a brother and a sister who were developmentally disabled and my dad readily admitted that he bought our first television set for THEM! To heck with me and my other brother who were both fully developed mentally! :-( Sad to say.
I am that mom today. My daughter is 4 and doesn’t use modern technology except tv and the majority of her cartoons consists of poppye, Tom and jerry to Donald Duck!
My grandfather taught us how to skip rocks at the bay out on LI. had Raleigh's idea of banana bikes, Choppers, played hours of tether ball at our Swim Club, my sister had Chrissy & Velvet & remember getting a record player for Christmas w/ the Jungle Book album.
One of my cousins and I used to like playing records at either a faster or slower speed to see how funny they sounded. :-) Some of them sounded funny enough at the PROPER speed though! :-/ And that cousin turned me on to MAD Magazine.
@@samanthab1923 Raleigh Cigarettes that had coupons on the pack so you could save up and get cancer surgery or an oxygen unit for when you got COPD? :-)
Don't forget dodgeball. Dodgeball builds character. Now banned as "too dangerous." Good grief. It teaches you to deal with life. And create strategies to win. When I was 7, I'd hide out and let the big boys blast everyone and each other, then the last big boy standing would figure I was an easy out and lob the ball--which I'd always catch. Worked as long as the same big boys weren't around twice.
Watching this made me think...someone really ought to make playgrounds for old folk. Like me. I haven’t been on a swing in decades. Someone should build a sturdy swing set with seats big enough for our ample butts (and weight). A slide wide and sturdy. Maybe a jungle gym for the more adventurous/foolhardy. Any entrepreneurs out there?
Never ate Play-Doh but I remember eating white paste back in 1960 in first grade. And yea, using clothespins to attach cards to my bike....I thought I was the coolest thing ever riding on my "motorbike". And with no social media/internet/phones to distract us we were ALWAYS outside playing ball, exploring the woods and collecting frogs/tadpoles, and just hanging out with other kids while playing games like kick the can. A GREAT time to be a kid!!!
That's right, game night was no joke. I remember marathon sessions of Risk, Monopoly, even heated Yahtzee nights that went late into the night. We also played a form of Gin Rummy with six decks of cards, and a table full of friends and family going into the wee hours.
@@maureenc.1129 Yes, the game consisted of seven different hands. One hand you needed like a run and a set, another hand was two sets and a run and so on. It took a few hours and was a lot of fun. We called it Contact Rummy, don't know where the name came from.
Probably the last great (and it was great) universally-played board game was the original Trivial Pursuit. Used to kill everyone in that, except for Sports. Favorite question: what animal are the Canary Islands named after? Answer: dogs.
I’m 57 , me and my wife lay on the floor a few weekends ago playing Yahtzee. We have all our childhood games in one closet. While we do not play very often anymore , we still do from time to time and it is always fun.
I missed this most wonderful era to be alive in. Even though I was a 70s child I enjoyed this very much and I'll be sending this to my mother. I do remember Play-Doh and Mr. Potato Head. I enjoyed playing outside as a kid. It's nothing like today with video games and computers.
I've lived in many towns over the past 20 years of my adult life and I'm amazed how kids don't play outside anymore in all these places. In the 80's we'd be out all the time in groups riding bikes, playing games, even playing wiffle ball on the street! It's too bad the past 30 years or so this has changed.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 This started well before the plague of video games and phones. Two working parents (or one lone parent) have to schedule "playdates" for their kids to get together on the parents' schedules, because no one is home in case the "free rangers" get in trouble. That, plus the paranoia about kidnapped kids (who are not kidnapped or molested anymore than they ever were, but the media feeds off the paranoia).
We used to play with "Jarts." These were large steel lawn darts with fins on them, about foot long. You would throw them into the air and try to get them to land impaled into the ground inside an orange plastic ring. Now can you imagine any such toy being approved by the CPSC for children today? LOL!
Yeah, regular darts were fun too. A "friend" buried one in my thigh once. But I got over it - no drama or psychological damage. In those days we just got over it and moved on to other fun. Today my parents would be on the news, sue his parents and I would need therapy for many years.
@@lohphat Nah. They taught you to aim carefully. Like the games of "stretch" we played, where you got into a circle, threw table knives into the damp ground within two knives' lengths of someone's foot, and they had to stretch the foot to meet the knife. Last one standing and capable of throwing the knife was the winner. If you hit the person's foot, you were disqualified. Ah, the good old days.
My favorite toy if it can be called that, was my American Flyer train layout and trains. I would spend hours at the controls with a couple of my best friends. Other than that, I had some great toy guns, a set of Colt Peacemakers and the Winchester used by Chuck Conners on The Rifleman. I live on the last street on the edge of town, so we did a lot of fort building in the woods. Kids nowadays don’t have a clue as to how great my generation had it growing up. I wish I could take my grandkids back to those days. My 17 year old grandson is probably the only one who would enjoy himself, because the other grandkids can’t pry themselves away from their computes and iPads.
Born in 1965, and our neighborhood had a playground with a swing set and a Jungle Gym. I had a green Columbia bicycle with a speedometer installed and rode it all around the neighborhood!
in 1966 I was in the Navy stationed in Morocco and in the barracks there was a pool table, but mostly they would shoot craps with dice and lots of money would change hands on payday. And of course in the night guys would come in drunk and crash on the pool tables until morning.
Roller skating! We graduated from skates that we put on our shoes with a key, to exciting new shoeskates at the end of the decade. We looked for the sidewalks that were raised up from tree roots, they made great ramps.
Playing Frisbee with the hippys in the park, my stingray bike with the ape hangers and the sissy bar, fire tassels on the handle bars and a light that was powered by a generator that clipped on to the bike tire, everything to me was a spaceship or a rocket, so my mom would keep the model kits rolling in, I would glue the left over bits together and make new spaceships. way before the Borg.
We didn’t have any street lights close by, so I knew it was time to come in when my mom would honk the Model T horn. It was literally a 18” long horn with a big rubber squeeze bulb on the end that was from an Ford Model TT truck. It had a very distinct sound and was loud. There was no missing that the call was for me. It was also used in the house by my parents or me to play practical jokes and scare each other, usually when I was quietly doing homework or my dad was building a model. 😂 My mom had a great sense of humor and it was her way of cutting up.
Favorite memories of that time were drinking Kool-Aid, especially the root beer flavor, on a hot summer day, learning to ride a bicycle, watching Captain Kangaroo, Saturday morning cartoons and the weekly ice cream cone truck.
Born in 1955. I'm pretty sure we invented the concept of the mountain bike, since we rode in the woods as much as on the road. We spent A LOT of time in the woods around our homes and developed A LOT of woodcraft skills. Also did our own versions of westerns. I had a Rifleman large lever Winchester cap gun, a Maverick sleeve derringer, and a Bat Masterson cane. Later we all had BB rifles. and guess what, all those "dangerous, violent" toys did not turn us into psychopaths. We emulated our heroes, learned a bit about honor and integrity, and developed a sense of courage through play, often focused by our own home-brew little morality plays about good triumphing over evil. But I guess those were different times with very different values......
1955 was a great year to be born in. I think us 1950s babies had a lot in common growing up with our stay-at-home-moms and playing outside after dinner until sunset. Catching fireflies in mayo jars. Using our imaginations outdoors - plus all the toys that captivated our minds. At least we have the memories. I feel children born during these fake pandemic times will never know what true childhood is about, not to mention suffering horrendously wearing masks all day. I consider babyboomers fortunate.....until the late 60s when everything in our lives changed - for the worse IMO.
ALWAYS requested a POGO stick when I was a little girl ! Christmas and birthdays went by with no pogo! Finally found one as a grown adult, and man was that fun! 😁 I would love to find a pogo stick again ❤ Thank you for sharing! 👍😜
I was a kid in the ‘80s, but we were poor so I have clear memories of some of these toys. Back then, if we saw a cop, we would run up to them and they would give us free baseball cards. Not the kind you could buy in a store, but special cop cards. Imagine how much things have changed since then....
Officers now usually give the kids police stickers with the city listed on it. My son, who was taught that police, fire, and military personnel are heroes (and sometimes heroes make poor choices or have bad days), had several of those stickers.
@@user-mv9tt4st9k Too bad every kid isn't being taught that. My kids were taught in the 80s to call cops "Officer Friendly" So they know that cops are human and sometimes make errors but they still respect them.
@@user-mv9tt4st9k it's a shame. There are actually people who think it is a good idea to de-fund police. That's anarchy. Is that really what people want? If anything, police need more funding to learn how to de-escalate the situation, rather than applying the firm hand of law. This should include psychiatric training and recognition of mental problems. It should include training in sociology. It should include careful selection of candidates to eliminate those who get off on being bullies. Instead, ever since 9/11, the focus has been on making the police more like a military organization. Now people, in general, fear the police, and with good reason. It's a tough job, no doubt, but to do it well requires multiple skills as well as discipline and compassion.
By the way. I'm not related to the Lego Blocks. I've often been asked that question. Often I get anonymous phone calls from smart aleck kids asking if they could get some of my blocks. I tell them' "sure if you go to the toy store and pay the same price that everyone else pays, you can have all you want." :-)
@@chaosdemonwolf1 me too. When I buy blocks for my grandkids I buy the store brands rather than the Lego blocks. Not only are they cheaper, they work just as well.
Lego blocks were created by a Danish woodworker named Ole Christiansen. They were originally wood but in the 1950s they switched to plastic. The name “LEGO” was a coined name from two Danish words meaning “Play Well.” That’s similar to the DuPont name Nylon. Nylon is a blending of the abbreviation for New York (NY) and London (Lon) . I have no idea what my nationality is but some relatives have traced my family back to Austria in about the 15 th century. They weren’t able to go any further than that.
a kid of the 70's here and most of that stuff i remember....riding and racing my bike, making jumps, catching and releasing grasshoppers, climbing and hiding in trees...didn't have many toys but being outdoors alllll dayyyyy was so much fun....kids played outside while all the parents gossiped and drank....haha good times
I also had a Betsy Wetsy doll. She would drink and wet. Also played with Mr. Potato head with real potatoes. We used to have hula hoop contests in our neighborhood to see who could keep the hoop up the longest!
3 boy's born in '57'/'58/'59, then a girl in '61.... can you imagine the destruction we caused for my "stay at home mom"? My DAD never COMPLAINED ABOUT WORKING!
Hide and seek when younger, Ring-o-levio, War, building forts in the woods when older. We'd get on our bikes and disappear all day 'until the street lights came on'.....except for a quick lunch pit-stop. Only 5 channels on our NY TV, with rabbit ears. Good times. Also, remember Pez candy dispensers?
Playing outside?? When it hit 30 degs. and above, the knuckleheads in my neighborhood LIVED outside. I think thats why at 60 yo, if its Saturday and Im not at work, I HAVE to be outside doing something.
One of my granddaughters has Prader- Willi Syndrome and she often would eat all kinds of stuff whether it is edible or not, Prader-Willi is a kind of autism where the part of the brain that controls the desire to eat or not didn't develop and the child has to be controlled from the outside when it's time to eat or to stop eating. She can't do it herself. Often she complains her tummy is empty right after she has sat down to a big meal. Her body doesn't tell her that she has already eaten.
Playing and growing together taught us how to be kind, to share and care for your peers. Now it’s all me, me, me, I want this, I want that - parents succumb to their demands, at long term costs!
I’m nearly 80 and well remember both my mom and grandmother using play doh to clean wallpaper. The first time I opened a can of modern Pay Doh for my toddler son I immediately recognized the scent and said to my husband, “wow, this is wallpaper cleaner!” Only difference? The wallpaper cleaning play doh was not brightly colored. It was a light gray. When Mrs. Homemaker rolled it over the wallpaper it would turn a dark gray as it picked up dirt and soot from the old coal fired furnaces.
Reading comic books on the front porch when it rained. Going to the library on your own riding your bike was freedom at best! Our bikes were our horses and we raced them,wearing our cowboy holster and cap guns.
I used playing cards in the spokes of my bikes. Because of their coating, they sounded better, at least to me it did, and lasted longer using clothespins.
@@stevec.9713 I was in the 11th grade in high school. We had just come back from lunch break and I was in study hall when someone came into the room and announced that Kennedy had been shot. Then a few minutes later the same person announced "He's dead". About an hour later they closed school and sent us all home. After study hall we had English Class and the teacher couldn't teach, she was so broken up. I remember that Sunday my folks going to visit my grandma and one of my uncles informed us that Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot right on live tv.
@@glennso47 yes, my mothers friend called and told her they shot Oswald on live t.v. I always remember Cronkite trying to keep his composure while announcing our President had passed.
Lawn darts deserve a show of their own. No one I knew ever got hurt, but the potential was sure there. I think we ended up taping smoke bombs and firecrackers on ours.
As an adult, i worked in a factory warehouse and we used to like to take bubble wrap and put it on the floor and drive a forklift over it to pop the bubbles. It always sounded like someone farted. :-)
I loved and Played outside in Summer and played with Plastic Brick sets , Lincoln Logs and Erector sets in winter and on rainy days ALWAYS building things and using my Brain and Imagination .. 50"s were an Amazing time to be a Kid ..
I just bought a container of play-doh at dollarama a couple months ago just to have it on my coffee table. I just open it and take a sniff once in awhile to bring me back to being a kid again.
@@obtomSD ya my aunts worked for Knotts berry farm and hunts factory 1950. ya good oh Disneyland got 8 mm film 1955 ,my dads friend painted Disneyland as it was being built. lots of orange groves then , my friend (60 years old) parents sold his land to Knotts berry farm his grand parents family bought the old Spanish house in 1880 Buena park ,after USA paid Spain for California
To this day, I regret that I didn’t play more Scrabble. Remember Risk? Stratego? Life suddenly got too fast and you could never finish a game of Monopoly... nah we can’t play it, it takes too long. Life, Trouble... and of course one of my favorites... Pretty Pretty Princess... because it gave me a chance to play a game that my daughters could play and understood (yeah, I took the black ring many times).
As a kid in the 50s I had Mattel Fanner 50 gun and holster, Lionel electric train, Howdy Doody board game, Cootie game, tinker toys. Great fun and great childhood memories. I'm 73 now.
That's great, I gave my Lionel train set to my nephew when I went into the Marines March 1967. That train is long gone now. I wish I still had it. I'm glad you kept yours.
I grew up in the 70's , but we still played outside so many games we made up on our own, also sports of all kind. I do remember in the summer playing outdoors until dark and you would hear everyone's moms calling for their kids to come in. Today technology has changed everything and in many ways not for the better, children won't get to use their imaginations like we all did as kids, board games were family fun that allowed families to interact with each other instead of being on cell phones or playing video games like today. I really believe the 50's, 60's and 70's were the best times to be a child.
I grew up in the 70's and remember staying out playing everyday during the summer. In our backyard we would play crochet and Jarts, which were a cross between javelins and darts. I'm surprised we never got injured.
Born in 1950. We used balloons on our bicycle wheels. They sounded more realistic than cards. Who else can remember using balloons? I feel so lucky to have grown up in those times! We could just be children.
we loaded up a huge net with water balloons and strung it in the trees above the street. When a white convertible Cadillac came through the older boys cut the rope. It was a bullseye buy me and my brother ran so fast we didn't get to see all the action.
@@incog99skd11 When I was in Navy boot camp some one made a huge net out of string and tied me in my bed. Then they yelled "fire" and I couldn't get out of my bed. They kept harassing me until one big husky black guy came over and said "Let's trade beds and I'll teach those guys a lesson. " They came back and started harassing what they thought was me. And they found out that I was not in the bed. Wasn't pretty what that black guy did to them. It was quiet the rest of the night.
Some of my 1960s & 70s childhood favorites....riding bikes, pedal cars, tricycles, Barbie dolls, baby dolls, making doll clothes, playing at cooking with all kinds of flower bed _ingredients_ , play houses, being outside with the neighborhood pals, po-go sticks, climbing trees, running through the sprinkler (the oscillating "wave" kind), coloring books, drawing pictures, paper dolls....all kinds of kid things GALORE! 😄
Kid up the street loaded a bunch of caps into a tire pump to imitate a dynamite push box. It worked, but the rod shot right into him. He survived, but no one ever did that again!
One of my dad's coworkers in an auto repair shop tried to say that if you threw a lighted match into a can of gasoline the gas would just extinguish the match. My dad, thankfully, never tried it!
@@glennso47 You better do it fast- I've heard that story too. I can tell you first hand not to drop an electric drill motor into a pan of gas...........
Damn, this made me cry, because I did exactly that. Put Mickey Mantle cards in my bike spokes. I hated the Yankees and loved the Reds. Today i have some great Joe Nuxhall and Vada Pinson cards.
@@tonybells131 He was a great, hall of fame candidate, never made it. I have his first card from 59 ( they didn't do his rookie year of 58). His perfect card is worth $1 a perfect Mantle card was just sold for $95k.
All of these toys existed in my 1970s childhood. Jacks was one of my favorite games. My ten speed was my escape pod, roller skates or a skateboard got us across town. We also had Lite Brite, Spirograph, Etch-a-Sketch, and Carom boards . We played Chutes and Ladders, the Game of Life (I still have our well worn edition), Parcheesi, and Monopoly (my teenager will play until bankrupt). Yahtzee was kept separately, it was the adults game and they would have weekend Yahtzee game parties.
My bike was my favorite and most used possession. I grew up in northern Va. and biked everywhere. My favorite ride was to Fort Ward Park, a civil war era fort in Alexandria. After high school I lived in Mt. Vernon and rode my bike to work in Old town Alexandria, about 14 miles, most of it on the bike trail next to the Potomac River. Needless to say I was in pretty good shape back then. I didn't realize how good I had it. Time is a thief that robs us of something we can never get back. Enjoy what you have right now, it's only temporary.
Father worked for Disney. My brother and I had it all. From a Minny Mouse Light switch to posters to pennants. The first memory of Disneyland was in 1957 at 4 years old. Magical. Teacups, Frontier Land, Jungle Cruise, Pirate Boat. OMG. The memories of those years and the '60s.
Did you know that Walt Disney did not actually create Mickey Mouse? That belongs to an animator named Ub Iwerks who worked along side Disney. Disney himself was a businessman and a huckster and a promoter.
I have been a fan of Disneyland for over fifty years! Do you have any other memories of Disneyland you would like to share? Thanks so much My name is David 😀
Not too particularly old but I remember getting whistled at to come in for dinner as a kid and even in high school I still had to come home for dinner but after dinner I could do whatever I wanted.
I remember watching the Mickey Mouse Club on tv and wanting my parents to buy me a Mickey Mouse hat. I learned to spell "encyclopedia" from watching Jiminy Cricket singing the little jingle on the Mickey mouse wan'tRogers and Dale Evans. Followed by the NBC Cavalcade news show with John Cameron Swayze. It was only 15 minutes long at the time.
OMG ! I'm so grateful to you for reminding me how wonderful my childhood was during those times! I was born in 1952. When my cousins and I got a few years older, enough to build plastic models with glue and paint, that opened up another joyful time in our lives. I'd go back in time all over again if I could. Thanks again !
10 kids in my family. Our mom would lock us out all day. When we were hungry, she'd tell us to eat the fruit off the trees. We had a cherry tree, a plum tree and an apple tree. We had carnivals in the garage to get change to go buy candy.
hopscotch, frisbee, hula hoops, yathzee with the felt lined cup which dampened the sound of the dice (unlike the new cup!), scrabble, risk, monopoly, stratego, hang-man, roller skates with the metal wheels and the adjustable body with the key, jump rope, hand ball, baseball, badminton, horseshoes, riding bike away from home for many many hours, just to return home starving and Mom making awesome food!
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I don't understand why my upload of yum yum featuring a traditional American breakfast was restricted to those 18 years of age & older by CZcams 🤣🤣🤣
No worries! Great video. I remember when I was kid in the 80s playing cops and robbers in the neighborhood. We would jump into neighborhood backyards and they didn’t mind so we can hide.
Oh it’s fine CZcams just does that sometimes (It’s pretty dumb). Well thanks for your great content!
Im so happy to find this channel although im a 60s child some of the fabulous fiftiesstuff we played with or watched on tv i love tinker toys i collect em!
They should bring back park and shop Mall version
I’m so grateful to be born in 1950 enjoying all these wonderful things!
I was born this day in 1957! We were truly blessed to grow up in those times. Great memories
Ditto, in December.
Best time to be a kid in ALL American history. From late 40's to mid 60's it was like a dream. Feel so blessed. Feel sorry for kids today.
I agree with you Brock
Me, too! I totally agree with you!!
I remember the smell of play doh when you opened a can. Memories.
I love the scent of play Doh.
oh yeah...and silly putty....along with jacks. Which you were supposed to ONLY be played with the "little red ball" that came with the jacks.. However, once I discovered that a different ball (in my case, my older brother's golf ball) would bounce HIGHER and therefore give you more time to "scoop up" the jacks and win. I started to use it and my friends put the kobosh on that idea, claiming it wasn't fair (which I didn't know at the time or remember that rule) but it was still one of my favorite games and, I might add, I got to play again recently as part of some therapy due to an injury and it actually required playing jacks! What a hoot! I and the people in the therapy class/room all had a huge laugh and a mini trip down memory lane on this very subject. So glad the internet/CZcams is available for us to discuss and enjoy all this history....And I'm glad to have been part of it. Enjoy, everyone!!!
@@WhitneyAbrina It was much better than the smell of the Vacuform, where you poured "goop" into hot molds and made rubber bugs, or stretched thin sheets of plastic over a hot mold smoking up the whole house.
Yeh and it was always cold when you touched it.
@@jenniferdjaslowskj993 I was cleaning out my closet 2 weeks ago and found an egg of Silly Putty. I opened it up and its still good.😄
Me and my brother could spend all day playing outside in a fort that we made from large cardboard boxes. We also loved to play marbles.
Same thing here! I would make forts from cardboard boxes and my friends and i would play for hours in and around them.
A new Refrigerator was the best gift a child could get. When we got one in it became a rocket ship and we landed on Mars with it.
It seems that little kids would rather play with the cardboard boxes than with the toys that came in the boxes.
@@glennso47
Simple toys that allow a child to use their imagination are the best. One Christmas we bought our daughter this beautiful expensive fairy princess tent but she preferred playing with the dollar box of crayons from the stocking stuffer instead. 🙄
Refrigerator boxes were the best. We use to turn them into 'tanks'
Who else remembers the scent of Play-Doh? As good as the smell of those jars of paste we had in school.
My mom used to make Play-Doh instead of buying it.
How about the scent of Mimeograph paper in school? When the teacher would copy tests on the mimeograph machine. The papers always smelled sooooo good. :-)
Play Doh today still smells the same. We bought Play Doh for my teenager when he was little.
I remember that white paste, some of my classmates said it tasted sweet, ha ha.
The comment about the mimoegraph brough memories: our teachers would allow children to run mimeographs (setting the page and turning the handle) for the class. I remember the smell of the purple ink-ish medium and the damp feel of a stack of freshly run pages. One of my early jobs had a Gestetner machine, it reminded me of a mimeograph.
I used to eat it but I ate a lot of things like wall paper glue too.
@@glennso47 We used to sniff it fresh off the machine and try to get "high" even though we really didn't know what that meant, LOL.
I am so glad I grew up in that generation. We were outside from dawn to dusk. Thank God I was able to grow up then. Remember catching fire flies in an old mayo jar?..
Thank you for this wonderful trip back to those GREAT TIMES.
I used to love catching lightning bugs in fruit jars. And playing with my friends on their farm which was just across the road from us. We would spend hours climbing around in the hayloft and playing hide and seek. Sometime their father would let me drive the old John Deere tractor when he was baling hay and his sons were picking up the bales to place on the flat bed wagon. I was towing the wagon.
You couldn't get us in the house either. Unless it was time for Moms great cooking and baking!
@@shortchange26 Or it starting to rain, lol.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 Sometimes not even then!
@@glennso47 Nope.
Pick-up sticks, tiddlywinks and sometimes just making mud pies!!
I remember having to come in when the streetlights came on. Those were good days.
Sometimes the street light bulbs were burned out or broken so they didn't come on. But I still had to come inside. :-/
@@glennso47 I lived in the country, and my dad always said, " When the frogs start tweeting, get your but home." LOL Now when I hear them I think of that every time.
Yup, my mom would yell out the window to get home when street lights came on. Btw, stickball, jump the stoop, triangle .... a bunch of street games we played in Bklyn. Those metal roller skates, we played street hockey using a tape roll dispenser as a puck.
Try to find a post-WW2 neighborhood with street lights. Everything built thereafter was cheap developers' crap. No sidewalks, soulless boxes of tickey-tack houses, no street lights, and above all no big trees. Time has only helped with the latter.
No street lights in our suburban neighborhood. We just played until we couldn't see anymore.
I had completely forgotten about "Coloforms" until I saw it on this video!
I loved those!
In the mid 70s, they came out with Color Forms in 3D where the board stood up.
I remember in the early days of tv there was a kiddie show called Winky and Me. They had this toy where you would buy these plastic sheets that would stick to the tv screen and you could draw along with the host of the show. Some of us didn't have the kits and would try drawing right on the screen with crayons.I ruined my folk's tv that way! :-(
@@glennso47 Yeah that was Winkey Dink and Woofer. (1968-69)
Aww The good old days when kids had and used their imaginations for fun and even learning with no agenda except to learn how to think, not what to think.
WOW! How right you are. The kids today are brain washed. They have no concept of what it is to have fun and use their imaginations. Kids have no idea how to be a kid. I'm grateful I grew up roller skating in the street, playing hide and seek, bike ride and explore, jump robe, double dutch, etc.
You are so right it is soooooo sad what is going on in America now...
And how to do things together--negotiate what games to play, work out what rules are fair, etc. Now they expect adults to make it all perfect for them or they get triggered.
no one's (?) mentioned color books. I remember coloring. And painting-- water paints came in a tray with 12 colors and then the finger paints, I loved finger painting. Outside, there was also hopscotch.
Finger paints had a smell all their own!
@@terryrussell3849 I just enjoyed getting all messy with 'em while at the same time creating some "beautiful" picture to show my mom.
My granddaughters still like water color paints. They still come in the little trays though I've seen sets with more that 12 colors.
I loved the sixties and seventies! We were still outside and having fun. My transistor radio, a rocking chair, a lime charms pop and comic book! Now that was fun!
And a MAD Magazine
The grape Charms pops were my favorite. Remember big buddy, the giant bubble gum stick?
@Michael Klouser I don't know. I just know that MAD has stopped publishing new editions.How about Babylon Bee? It's a satirical website that feels a lot like MAD.
@@billymule961 Remember Flavor Straws? They were a drinking straw that had a little chunk of chocolate or strawberry flavoring inside and the flavoring would disintegrate in milk and create a flavor. And some classmates would bring Flavor Straws to school and those kids were really popular!:-)
@@glennso47 How about Fizzies? Tasted like flavored Alka Seltzer.
Thanks Mom and Pop for letting us be kids. We'll meet again.
What a great comment. Made me tear up.
I was born in 1956 and I remember most of the toys and games that were featured in the photos in this video.
Very well done, Recollection Road.
My birth year is also 1956. I too remember the toys and games we had. Mom got a lot of our toys from S@H green stamps. Recollection Road does a good job.
1954 here
1955. Going outside to play all day on Saturdays throughout the neighborhood was the highlight of my week.
born in 2002 but i remember a lot of these, my best friend and i’s parents both made us go outside and actually enjoy childhood thankfully. i will do the same with my children. too many kids play video games all day.
instead of baseball cards on bike spokes we stuffed leaves and made dirt bikes lol.
Lincoln Logs, Operation, Easy Bake Oven, Battleship, Slinky, Super Balls. Dirt clod fights! Geee. A few of the pics on this excellent video actually showed different ethnicities playing together.
In the Navy I got to see a real battleship. And to hear those big 16 inch guns going off. Frightful stuff! In Vietnam I was stationed aboard a Salvage Ship. We were on a job once in the vicinity of a battleship that was shooting volleys onto the shore. We were about 35 miles downwind from that thing and it seemed like we were right next to it. When the guns were fired our whole ship quivered and quaked just like we were experiencing an earthquake. WE got to see the same ship up close when our ship docked at Sasebo, Japan It looked even more wicked up close.
Omg dirt bombs! Completely forgot about throwing those at one another 😆
@@samanthab1923 I ''always'' got hit in the face.
Ȼ.Đ ЩꝋłƑ I'm sorry. Was never a good thrower/aimer. Tried to avoid them too.
@@samanthab1923 Yeah it wasn't my game of choice.
Silly Putty, Spirograph, Etch-A-Sketch, Slip-N-Slide in the summer ( a long plastic sheathe on the grass with it's own irrigation to get ya wet) and Lite Brite !
and "Operation" game
Spirograph!!!
Had every one of them!
And lawn darts. Don't forget lawn darts. They taught you real quick how to aim well.
Yes. All of those. Loved the spirograph. Lots if time riding bikes also
Wayyyy before my time. My most of my older siblings were born in the 50's. Thankfully some of these toys were still around in my childhood in the 70's. #GENERATION X
same here
I thought the same thing. My 1970s childhood had the same toys and board games. We were outdoors with our little tribes whenever we could be.
I was born in the 80' s but my grandma had kids 50's-70's she had 9 kids. I remember lincon logs and some of my youngest aunts toys from 70's.
I'm a 90's child and most of these toys were still available to us as well, you could go to any Toy's R Us and most everything in this video you could still buy. The shift didn't really happen until the late 1990's when video games and personal computers became mainstream.
@@josephalvarez9920 yes, I made sure my children had a '50's-60's childhood in the 90's.
I remember when my brother and I were little and we would ride the Tonka dump truck down the hill in front of our home and crash into the ditch!!! Man that was fun getting all busted up!! Being a kid was fun in those days. Some parents won't let their kids play outside unless they're wrapped in bubble wrap!!!
Mr granddaughter who is 5 loves to ride a Tonka Dump truck around our house. She's getting a bit big to fit in the box but she puts one knee in the box and uses it like a scooter.
Nowadays you can probably see that "busted up" Tonka truck getting restored on CZcams!
Born 1945. Assembling plastic models, especially airplanes, was a favorite.
And smelling the glue. EEEWWW! I could never get those models to go together right. They would often turn out to be a blob of plastic.
Bet you watched Sky King and did model planes.
@@colinhalliley111 Yup.
@@janblake9468 😊
Yep, did the model planes thing, also did a panzer tank and a cabin cruiser.
Remember when our moms would say turn that TV off and go out to play! Miss you 👩
I had a brother and a sister who were developmentally disabled and my dad readily admitted that he bought our first television set for THEM! To heck with me and my other brother who were both fully developed mentally! :-( Sad to say.
I am that mom today.
My daughter is 4 and doesn’t use modern technology except tv and the majority of her cartoons consists of poppye, Tom and jerry to Donald Duck!
We never watched TV in the day time but my mom was definitely happier when we were outside.
@@sofiabravo1994 HOORAY! At least there is 1 normal kid out there. Good job!
Yes in the 1960s outside and play wasn't allowed to be glued the TV.
The skip it, banana bike, tether ball, monkey swing ,crissy doll, record player ❤️❤️❤️🥰
My grandfather taught us how to skip rocks at the bay out on LI. had Raleigh's idea of banana bikes, Choppers, played hours of tether ball at our Swim Club, my sister had Chrissy & Velvet & remember getting a record player for Christmas w/ the Jungle Book album.
One of my cousins and I used to like playing records at either a faster or slower speed to see how funny they sounded. :-) Some of them sounded funny enough at the PROPER speed though! :-/ And that cousin turned me on to MAD Magazine.
@@samanthab1923 Raleigh Cigarettes that had coupons on the pack so you could save up and get cancer surgery or an oxygen unit for when you got COPD? :-)
Don't forget dodgeball. Dodgeball builds character. Now banned as "too dangerous." Good grief. It teaches you to deal with life. And create strategies to win. When I was 7, I'd hide out and let the big boys blast everyone and each other, then the last big boy standing would figure I was an easy out and lob the ball--which I'd always catch. Worked as long as the same big boys weren't around twice.
Back when kids could be kids, and a Potato Head could be Mr. and Mrs. I was born in 1963 and had a lot of these toys and games.
born in 55....those were the good ole' days !
I was born in 1965
@@Poloco65 55 here too. Too bad Mr Potato head isn't around any more. Taken off the shelves because Bidumb got tired of everyone callin' em that.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 I guess there'd be over a hundred different potato heads now to be inclusive anyways.
@@jerryleroy9187 Good point.
Watching this made me think...someone really ought to make playgrounds for old folk. Like me. I haven’t been on a swing in decades. Someone should build a sturdy swing set with seats big enough for our ample butts (and weight). A slide wide and sturdy. Maybe a jungle gym for the more adventurous/foolhardy. Any entrepreneurs out there?
I'd also like to see baby bouncy chairs made in adult sizes.
Woke playground
There was a Twilight Zone episode about some elderly people who played kick the can and some other kid's games.
@jamie ericcon Yes!
I swing at the park sometimes when there aren't many people around. :)
Never ate Play-Doh but I remember eating white paste back in 1960 in first grade. And yea, using clothespins to attach cards to my bike....I thought I was the coolest thing ever riding on my "motorbike". And with no social media/internet/phones to distract us we were ALWAYS outside playing ball, exploring the woods and collecting frogs/tadpoles, and just hanging out with other kids while playing games like kick the can. A GREAT time to be a kid!!!
Too bad all that's gone now.
Great stuff born in 62 remember so much seems like it was best of times. Than you wanted to get older. Wish I could go back 50 years.
Tell me about. I'd be 16 again
That's right, game night was no joke. I remember marathon sessions of Risk, Monopoly, even heated Yahtzee nights that went late into the night. We also played a form of Gin Rummy with six decks of cards, and a table full of friends and family going into the wee hours.
Same here!
I think you’re talking about Progressive Rummy. My husband’s family loves that game!
@@maureenc.1129 Yes, the game consisted of seven different hands. One hand you needed like a run and a set, another hand was two sets and a run and so on. It took a few hours and was a lot of fun. We called it Contact Rummy, don't know where the name came from.
Probably the last great (and it was great) universally-played board game was the original Trivial Pursuit. Used to kill everyone in that, except for Sports. Favorite question: what animal are the Canary Islands named after? Answer: dogs.
I’m 57 , me and my wife lay on the floor a few weekends ago playing Yahtzee. We have all our childhood games in one closet. While we do not play very often anymore , we still do from time to time and it is always fun.
I missed this most wonderful era to be alive in. Even though I was a 70s child I enjoyed this very much and I'll be sending this to my mother. I do remember Play-Doh and Mr. Potato Head. I enjoyed playing outside as a kid. It's nothing like today with video games and computers.
I've lived in many towns over the past 20 years of my adult life and I'm amazed how kids don't play outside anymore in all these places. In the 80's we'd be out all the time in groups riding bikes, playing games, even playing wiffle ball on the street! It's too bad the past 30 years or so this has changed.
Blame video games and smart phones.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 And 'helicopter' moms.
@@hazcat640 'Helicopter' moms?
@@chaosdemonwolf1 This started well before the plague of video games and phones. Two working parents (or one lone parent) have to schedule "playdates" for their kids to get together on the parents' schedules, because no one is home in case the "free rangers" get in trouble. That, plus the paranoia about kidnapped kids (who are not kidnapped or molested anymore than they ever were, but the media feeds off the paranoia).
We used to play with "Jarts." These were large steel lawn darts with fins on them, about foot long. You would throw them into the air and try to get them to land impaled into the ground inside an orange plastic ring. Now can you imagine any such toy being approved by the CPSC for children today? LOL!
Well....they were pulled from the market for good reason: people were getting maimed or killed.
Regular old darts were another fun hazard.
Yeah, regular darts were fun too. A "friend" buried one in my thigh once. But I got over it - no drama or psychological damage. In those days we just got over it and moved on to other fun. Today my parents would be on the news, sue his parents and I would need therapy for many years.
@@lohphat Nah. They taught you to aim carefully. Like the games of "stretch" we played, where you got into a circle, threw table knives into the damp ground within two knives' lengths of someone's foot, and they had to stretch the foot to meet the knife. Last one standing and capable of throwing the knife was the winner. If you hit the person's foot, you were disqualified. Ah, the good old days.
My favorite toy if it can be called that, was my American Flyer train layout and trains. I would spend hours at the controls with a couple of my best friends. Other than that, I had some great toy guns, a set of Colt Peacemakers and the Winchester used by Chuck Conners on The Rifleman. I live on the last street on the edge of town, so we did a lot of fort building in the woods. Kids nowadays don’t have a clue as to how great my generation had it growing up. I wish I could take my grandkids back to those days. My 17 year old grandson is probably the only one who would enjoy himself, because the other grandkids can’t pry themselves away from their computes and iPads.
I loved Colorforms! Also had hula hoop, Chatie Cathy, Mr/Mrs Potato head and Barbie!
We were very poor. We went out early in the morning and played until 9pm
Us too, although we didn't know it....until i met with people from the burbs
Born in 1970,still we went outside to play and those were the best of times
Born in 1965, and our neighborhood had a playground with a swing set and a Jungle Gym. I had a green Columbia bicycle with a speedometer installed and rode it all around the neighborhood!
in 1966 I was in the Navy stationed in Morocco and in the barracks there was a pool table, but mostly they would shoot craps with dice and lots of money would change hands on payday. And of course in the night guys would come in drunk and crash on the pool tables until morning.
Roller skating! We graduated from skates that we put on our shoes with a key, to exciting new shoeskates at the end of the decade. We looked for the sidewalks that were raised up from tree roots, they made great ramps.
Oh, yeah! I remember marathon games of RISK and MONOPOLY that sometimes took days to finish!!
Remember little packets of stickers and baseball cards ? They always had that square of powdered pink bubble gum. That gum always smelled so yummy.
Yup
Playing Frisbee with the hippys in the park, my stingray bike with the ape hangers and the sissy bar, fire tassels on the handle bars and a light that was powered by a generator that clipped on to the bike tire, everything to me was a spaceship or a rocket, so my mom would keep the model kits rolling in, I would glue the left over bits together and make new spaceships. way before the Borg.
Before the days of ac... I remember my mother telling all of us to " go outside to play it's too hot in here".
We didn’t have any street lights close by, so I knew it was time to come in when my mom would honk the Model T horn. It was literally a 18” long horn with a big rubber squeeze bulb on the end that was from an Ford Model TT truck. It had a very distinct sound and was loud. There was no missing that the call was for me. It was also used in the house by my parents or me to play practical jokes and scare each other, usually when I was quietly doing homework or my dad was building a model. 😂 My mom had a great sense of humor and it was her way of cutting up.
Did they have some pet Canada geese? They can sure honk loudly!
Favorite memories of that time were drinking Kool-Aid, especially the root beer flavor, on a hot summer day, learning to ride a bicycle, watching Captain Kangaroo, Saturday morning cartoons and the weekly ice cream cone truck.
Born in 1955. I'm pretty sure we invented the concept of the mountain bike, since we rode in the woods as much as on the road. We spent A LOT of time in the woods around our homes and developed A LOT of woodcraft skills. Also did our own versions of westerns. I had a Rifleman large lever Winchester cap gun, a Maverick sleeve derringer, and a Bat Masterson cane. Later we all had BB rifles. and guess what, all those "dangerous, violent" toys did not turn us into psychopaths. We emulated our heroes, learned a bit about honor and integrity, and developed a sense of courage through play, often focused by our own home-brew little morality plays about good triumphing over evil. But I guess those were different times with very different values......
1955 was a great year to be born in. I think us 1950s babies had a lot in common growing up with our stay-at-home-moms and playing outside after dinner until sunset. Catching fireflies in mayo jars. Using our imaginations outdoors - plus all the toys that captivated our minds. At least we have the memories. I feel children born during these fake pandemic times will never know what true childhood is about, not to mention suffering horrendously wearing masks all day. I consider babyboomers fortunate.....until the late 60s when everything in our lives changed - for the worse IMO.
I had a clear yellow plastic Yo-Yo by Duncan. It was my favorite toy for several years.
I still have one although mine is a wooden one.
Great memories! Thanks!
Yup, my childhood! And I especially loved to play jacks, and to clamp my skates on to my Keds.
Thanks for letting me visit my childhood for a little bit.
ALWAYS requested a POGO stick when I was a little girl ! Christmas and birthdays went by with no pogo!
Finally found one as a grown adult, and man was that fun! 😁
I would love to find a pogo stick again ❤
Thank you for sharing! 👍😜
I had one!! Got It for Xmas 1972 or 73. I has in third grade. Also color forms, Batman and spiderman color forms
@@Mark.G475 I had one and tried it ONCE. When my foot slipped and I got it in the nards that was it......never again.
I was a kid in the ‘80s, but we were poor so I have clear memories of some of these toys.
Back then, if we saw a cop, we would run up to them and they would give us free baseball cards. Not the kind you could buy in a store, but special cop cards.
Imagine how much things have changed since then....
Now kids want to kill the cops.
Officers now usually give the kids police stickers with the city listed on it. My son, who was taught that police, fire, and military personnel are heroes (and sometimes heroes make poor choices or have bad days), had several of those stickers.
@@user-mv9tt4st9k Too bad every kid isn't being taught that. My kids were taught in the 80s to call cops "Officer Friendly" So they know that cops are human and sometimes make errors but they still respect them.
@@user-mv9tt4st9k it's a shame. There are actually people who think it is a good idea to de-fund police.
That's anarchy. Is that really what people want? If anything, police need more funding to learn how to de-escalate the situation, rather than applying the firm hand of law.
This should include psychiatric training and recognition of mental problems. It should include training in sociology. It should include careful selection of candidates to eliminate those who get off on being bullies.
Instead, ever since 9/11, the focus has been on making the police more like a military organization.
Now people, in general, fear the police, and with good reason.
It's a tough job, no doubt, but to do it well requires multiple skills as well as discipline and compassion.
I thank God I was born in the '50s and experienced the best of American life. Seems like a different country these days.
The 50s was a special decade.My fave toy was The barbie.I continued collecting and I know have other 500 vintage and playline dolls.
Lego blocks and Matchbox cars were the things my childhood dreams were made of.
By the way. I'm not related to the Lego Blocks. I've often been asked that question. Often I get anonymous phone calls from smart aleck kids asking if they could get some of my blocks. I tell them' "sure if you go to the toy store and pay the same price that everyone else pays, you can have all you want." :-)
@@glennso47 I was always more partial to lincoln logs and tinker toys.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 me too. When I buy blocks for my grandkids I buy the store brands rather than the Lego blocks. Not only are they cheaper, they work just as well.
@@glennso47 Yup.
Lego blocks were created by a Danish woodworker named Ole Christiansen. They were originally wood but in the 1950s they switched to plastic. The name “LEGO” was a coined name from two Danish words meaning “Play Well.” That’s similar to the DuPont name Nylon. Nylon is a blending of the abbreviation for New York (NY) and London (Lon) . I have no idea what my nationality is but some relatives have traced my family back to Austria in about the 15 th century. They weren’t able to go any further than that.
We used to have pretty powerful Walkie Talkies. You never knew what other conversations you might hear.
I remember them all, such fond memories, those were definitely the good old days!
We had alot of theses toys in the 60's and had alot fun. Thanks for sharing 😍
I was born in 66...but still had a lot of these things...70s were great as a kid!! ❤😌
Loved plane old simple Blocks.
Nothing these days is just plain old or simple. You practically have to have a degree from MIT just to take some of the stuff out of the box.
a kid of the 70's here and most of that stuff i remember....riding and racing my bike, making jumps, catching and releasing grasshoppers, climbing and hiding in trees...didn't have many toys but being outdoors alllll dayyyyy was so much fun....kids played outside while all the parents gossiped and drank....haha good times
I also had a Betsy Wetsy doll. She would drink and wet. Also played with Mr. Potato head with real potatoes. We used to have hula hoop contests in our neighborhood to see who could keep the hoop up the longest!
I also had a Betsy Wetsy Doll.
I had a Pat- a-Burp doll, did anybody have that? you Pat her and she burps
There are dolls now that literally wet and poop.
@@sonyafox3271 Me too!
Definitely hoola-hoop and Monopoly !
3 boy's born in '57'/'58/'59, then a girl in '61.... can you imagine the destruction we caused for my "stay at home mom"? My DAD never COMPLAINED ABOUT WORKING!
John/Taylor. when it was just a bunch of fields...... you know!
Same here! I was the oldest of 5 & my dad was an Ironworker out of NYC. Never once did he ever say Im too tired to take us somewhere or do something.
Marbles, baseball cards, tricycles, and croquet 👍🏼
I’d sure take all those board games and family time over Facebook and ANY social media crap they got today
Amen to that.
Nobody will play Pit with me.
Can’t believe the grandkids don’t want to yell at Fun Grampa! 😢😁
Hide and seek when younger, Ring-o-levio, War, building forts in the woods when older. We'd get on our bikes and disappear all day 'until the street lights came on'.....except for a quick lunch pit-stop. Only 5 channels on our NY TV, with rabbit ears. Good times. Also, remember Pez candy dispensers?
I was born in 1959 and had everything featured in this video plus loads of outdoor fun riding my bicycle and playing sports. 🚴 🏈🏀⚾
Playing outside?? When it hit 30 degs. and above, the knuckleheads in my neighborhood LIVED outside. I think thats why at 60 yo, if its Saturday and Im not at work, I HAVE to be outside doing something.
Sometimes in the winter we'd stick our tongues on something metal and the tongues would stick there until someone could pry you loose.
@@glennso47 Holy crap its the fire department!!!
Been There? Done That?
I was born in 1950 and as a child play out side with my sister in the creek that ran down the hill and climbed 🌳 too.
I used to eat play dough when I was a child. I liked its salty taste.
One of my granddaughters has Prader- Willi Syndrome and she often would eat all kinds of stuff whether it is edible or not, Prader-Willi is a kind of autism where the part of the brain that controls the desire to eat or not didn't develop and the child has to be controlled from the outside when it's time to eat or to stop eating. She can't do it herself. Often she complains her tummy is empty right after she has sat down to a big meal. Her body doesn't tell her that she has already eaten.
I did the same thing in nerresh school i ate play dod. Too.
Playing and growing together taught us how to be kind, to share and care for your peers. Now it’s all me, me, me, I want this, I want that - parents succumb to their demands, at long term costs!
I’m nearly 80 and well remember both my mom and grandmother using play doh to clean wallpaper. The first time I opened a can of modern Pay Doh for my toddler son I immediately recognized the scent and said to my husband, “wow, this is wallpaper cleaner!” Only difference? The wallpaper cleaning play doh was not brightly colored. It was a light gray. When Mrs. Homemaker rolled it over the wallpaper it would turn a dark gray as it picked up dirt and soot from the old coal fired furnaces.
Reading comic books on the front porch when it rained. Going to the library on your own riding your bike was freedom at best! Our bikes were our horses and we raced them,wearing our cowboy holster and cap guns.
I had an Annie Oakley outfit and a "pearl" handled cap gun! 💜
Chatty Cathy! Yes! Colorforms! Yes!
Thank you for all your work. Very impressive. Enjoy the back and the day lifestyle.. Stay blessed
I used playing cards in the spokes of my bikes. Because of their coating, they sounded better, at least to me it did, and lasted longer using clothespins.
I used to cup a square out of a margerine container lid. Wow was it loud. I called it my Hardly Davidson. LOL
I played Sorry! with my grandkids last time they were here.
The classics never fail.
And now they understand ‘sorry’ much better. 🇨🇦😏
I was playing Tether Ball on the playground at school in 3rd grade when the teacher called us in for John Kennedy had been shot.
The beginning of the end of innocence.
I was in the 3rd grade as well when Kennedy was shot...
I was 3 when Kennedy was shot. Baby sitter screaming. My first memory of childhood.
@@stevec.9713 I was in the 11th grade in high school. We had just come back from lunch break and I was in study hall when someone came into the room and announced that Kennedy had been shot. Then a few minutes later the same person announced "He's dead". About an hour later they closed school and sent us all home. After study hall we had English Class and the teacher couldn't teach, she was so broken up. I remember that Sunday my folks going to visit my grandma and one of my uncles informed us that Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot right on live tv.
@@glennso47 yes, my mothers friend called and told her they shot Oswald on live t.v. I always remember Cronkite trying to keep his composure while announcing our President had passed.
Lawn darts deserve a show of their own.
No one I knew ever got hurt, but the potential was sure there.
I think we ended up taping smoke bombs and firecrackers on ours.
As an adult, i worked in a factory warehouse and we used to like to take bubble wrap and put it on the floor and drive a forklift over it to pop the bubbles. It always sounded like someone farted. :-)
@@glennso47 Did that one too. Pallet jack races were another one.
I loved and Played outside in Summer and played with Plastic Brick sets , Lincoln Logs and Erector sets in winter and on rainy days ALWAYS building things and using my Brain and Imagination .. 50"s were an Amazing time to be a Kid ..
I just bought a container of play-doh at dollarama a couple months ago just to have it on my coffee table. I just open it and take a sniff once in awhile to bring me back to being a kid again.
Roll it on the comics to lift off the image
these was the days great days , Disneyland opened up and was heaven for us kids
We would go to knott's berry farm just before Disneyland opened.
@@obtomSD ya my aunts worked for Knotts berry farm and hunts factory 1950. ya good oh Disneyland got 8 mm film 1955 ,my dads friend painted Disneyland as it was being built. lots of orange groves then , my friend (60 years old) parents sold his land to Knotts berry farm his grand parents family bought the old Spanish house in 1880 Buena park ,after USA paid Spain for California
@@onlythewise1 A lot of history for you.
@@obtomSD yes
To this day, I regret that I didn’t play more Scrabble. Remember Risk? Stratego? Life suddenly got too fast and you could never finish a game of Monopoly... nah we can’t play it, it takes too long. Life, Trouble... and of course one of my favorites... Pretty Pretty Princess... because it gave me a chance to play a game that my daughters could play and understood (yeah, I took the black ring many times).
I used to like the Sorry Game.
@@glennso47 I don’t recall playing that much .. did it have a Pop-O-Matic😀
@@JimAllen-Persona Not the ones we had.
As a kid in the 50s I had Mattel Fanner 50 gun and holster, Lionel electric train, Howdy Doody board game, Cootie game, tinker toys. Great fun and great childhood memories. I'm 73 now.
I still got my Lionel trains from the 50's and all of em still run perfect and I'm 66
That's great, I gave my Lionel train set to my nephew when I went into the Marines March 1967. That train is long gone now. I wish I still had it. I'm glad you kept yours.
@@wallacegeller2111 So am I. The sad thing is that anyone born after the 70's wouldn't have a clue on how ones like us grew up.
You are so right. God Bless.
"Been there...Done that" The young life of mine was great! I see those years come back to me when I notice the kids of today do what I did.
I grew up in the 70's , but we still played outside so many games we made up on our own, also sports of all kind. I do remember in the summer playing outdoors until dark and you would hear everyone's moms calling for their kids to come in. Today technology has changed everything and in many ways not for the better, children won't get to use their imaginations like we all did as kids, board games were family fun that allowed families to interact with each other instead of being on cell phones or playing video games like today. I really believe the 50's, 60's and 70's were the best times to be a child.
I grew up in the 70's and remember staying out playing everyday during the summer. In our backyard we would play crochet and Jarts, which were a cross between javelins and darts. I'm surprised we never got injured.
I miss these times.
Born in 1950. We used balloons on our bicycle wheels. They sounded more realistic than cards. Who else can remember using balloons? I feel so lucky to have grown up in those times! We could just be children.
we loaded up a huge net with water balloons and strung it in the trees above the street. When a white convertible Cadillac came through the older boys cut the rope. It was a bullseye buy me and my brother ran so fast we didn't get to see all the action.
@@incog99skd11 When I was in Navy boot camp some one made a huge net out of string and tied me in my bed. Then they yelled "fire" and I couldn't get out of my bed. They kept harassing me until one big husky black guy came over and said "Let's trade beds and I'll teach those guys a lesson. " They came back and started harassing what they thought was me. And they found out that I was not in the bed. Wasn't pretty what that black guy did to them. It was quiet the rest of the night.
Some of my 1960s & 70s childhood favorites....riding bikes, pedal cars, tricycles, Barbie dolls, baby dolls, making doll clothes, playing at cooking with all kinds of flower bed _ingredients_ , play houses, being outside with the neighborhood pals, po-go sticks, climbing trees, running through the sprinkler (the oscillating "wave" kind), coloring books, drawing pictures, paper dolls....all kinds of kid things GALORE! 😄
My friends and I would play tag, ride bikes, did hop scotch and all kinds of things. I’m 60 years old now and I still see my childhood friends. 😁
Kid up the street loaded a bunch of caps into a tire pump to imitate a dynamite push box. It worked, but the rod shot right into him. He survived, but no one ever did that again!
My cousin blew the tip of his thumb off making a bomb out of gunpowder.
One of my dad's coworkers in an auto repair shop tried to say that if you threw a lighted match into a can of gasoline the gas would just extinguish the match. My dad, thankfully, never tried it!
@@glennso47 You better do it fast- I've heard that story too. I can tell you first hand not to drop an electric drill motor into a pan of gas...........
Damn, this made me cry, because I did exactly that. Put Mickey Mantle cards in my bike spokes. I hated the Yankees and loved the Reds. Today i have some great Joe Nuxhall and Vada Pinson cards.
Wow, Vada Pinson ! Cincinnati Reds !
@@tonybells131
He was a great, hall of fame candidate, never made it. I have his first card from 59 ( they didn't do his rookie year of 58). His perfect card is worth $1 a perfect Mantle card was just sold for $95k.
All of these toys existed in my 1970s childhood. Jacks was one of my favorite games. My ten speed was my escape pod, roller skates or a skateboard got us across town.
We also had Lite Brite, Spirograph, Etch-a-Sketch, and Carom boards . We played Chutes and Ladders, the Game of Life (I still have our well worn edition), Parcheesi, and Monopoly (my teenager will play until bankrupt).
Yahtzee was kept separately, it was the adults game and they would have weekend Yahtzee game parties.
My bike was my favorite and most used possession. I grew up in northern Va. and biked everywhere. My favorite ride was to Fort Ward Park, a civil war era fort in Alexandria. After high school I lived in Mt. Vernon and rode my bike to work in Old town Alexandria, about 14 miles, most of it on the bike trail next to the Potomac River. Needless to say I was in pretty good shape back then. I didn't realize how good I had it. Time is a thief that robs us of something we can never get back. Enjoy what you have right now, it's only temporary.
Father worked for Disney. My brother and I had it all. From a Minny Mouse Light switch to posters to pennants. The first memory of Disneyland was in 1957 at 4 years old. Magical. Teacups, Frontier Land, Jungle Cruise, Pirate Boat. OMG. The memories of those years and the '60s.
Did you know that Walt Disney did not actually create Mickey Mouse? That belongs to an animator named Ub Iwerks who worked along side Disney. Disney himself was a businessman and a huckster and a promoter.
The Matterhorn Bob Sled !
I have been a fan of Disneyland for over fifty years! Do you have any other memories of Disneyland you would like to share? Thanks so much My name is David 😀
Not too particularly old but I remember getting whistled at to come in for dinner as a kid and even in high school I still had to come home for dinner but after dinner I could do whatever I wanted.
They whistled at me and the dog came to dinner
I remember watching the Mickey Mouse Club on tv and wanting my parents to buy me a Mickey Mouse hat. I learned to spell "encyclopedia" from watching Jiminy Cricket singing the little jingle on the Mickey mouse wan'tRogers and Dale Evans. Followed by the NBC Cavalcade news show with John Cameron Swayze. It was only 15 minutes long at the time.
We played Yahtzee at work. Sometimes for money
I was born in '72. When Star Wars came out, I had a Star Wars board game. Man I wish I still had that!!!
OMG ! I'm so grateful to you for reminding me how wonderful my childhood was during those times! I was born in 1952. When my cousins and I got a few years older, enough to build plastic models with glue and paint, that opened up another joyful time in our lives. I'd go back in time all over again if I could. Thanks again !
10 kids in my family. Our mom would lock us out all day. When we were hungry, she'd tell us to eat the fruit off the trees. We had a cherry tree, a plum tree and an apple tree. We had carnivals in the garage to get change to go buy candy.
hopscotch, frisbee, hula hoops, yathzee with the felt lined cup which dampened the sound of the dice (unlike the new cup!), scrabble, risk, monopoly, stratego, hang-man, roller skates with the metal wheels and the adjustable body with the key, jump rope, hand ball, baseball, badminton, horseshoes, riding bike away from home for many many hours, just to return home starving and Mom making awesome food!
I was born in 1954. Yes, I remember these beautiful times. Lot's of outdoor neighborhood fun.