Chrome desktop executive toy

Chrome executive toys

If ever there was a tacky representation of the 70's and 80s then the Chrome executive toy must be a top candidate. Apart from the Chrome NEWTONS CRADLE Executive Gadget the rest were pretty well awful. With chrome rowing and skiing men or tightrope walkers, horse riders and kids on see saws, the chrome desktop executive ...

Tickle Me Elmo

Tickle Me Elmo

Tickle Me Elmo is based on the character Elmo from the children's television show, Sesame Street. Tickle Me Elmo was invented by Ron Dubren and Greg Hyman, two veteran toy inventors. In 1992, They had no intention to make it a sesame character until toymakers Tyco lost  the rights to do Looney Tunes but gained the rights to Sesame Street, thus starting Tickle Me Elmo. The ...

Drainpipe Trousers : Fashion

Drainpipe Trousers : Fashion

Back in the 50's fashion and early 60's the beatles trousers were the thing to imitate. Every lad had a pair of drainpipe trousers. It all started back in England where the "Teddy boys" addopted it as part of there uniform. Drainpipe Trousers - Good Times from the 1960s The trousers were normally made of lightweight 100% ...

Janet and John or Alice and Gerry?

Janet and John books

Many kids were brought up on Janet and John You could say the old-fashioned way, but was it the best way Innocence really did exist in these days. Mabel O'Donnell and Rona Munro from New Zealand, and published by Row Peterson. Originally there wer known as Alice for Janet and Gerry for John. Then James Nisbet bought the rights ...

Camberwick Green Toothpaste

Camberwick Green Toothpaste

Camberwick Green Toothpaste Camberwick Green Toothpaste, now how wrong is that!? After having Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green they decided it was time for a Toothpaste for kids. These soft plastic tube depicting Captain Snort from Pippin Fort or Dr Mopp were full of strawberry or orange flavoured toothpaste. Gordon Murray’s peerless creation defined the genre in so ...