Ramp Walkers

Ramp Walkers

I bet no one remembers the ramp walkers! Back in the 1960's when battery operated toys were normally an expensive dream the ramp walkers took full advantage of clean free gravity.Made by Marx Toys mine was a Yogi Bear & Huckleberry Hound Ramp Walker.   They were easy enough to use, stick them at the top of ...

The Space Explorers

The Space Explorers

The Space Explorers was a 1958 cartoon series: It's rare when a lost classic retro cartoon such as "The Space Explorers" is rediscovered after 50 years in some old dusty film archives. A new website TheSpaceExplorers.com was recently made to share the rediscovery with Baby-boomer sci-fi space fans. If you were a kid growing up in ...

Fuzzy felts

Fuzzy felts

Fuzzy felts were family fun right from the 1950's. With 40 squares and 30 circles in a variety of 4 colours yellow green red and blue, several basic shapes like flowers and tractors a boy and a girl, you could make millions of different pictures - as long as they included a tractor, a boy, ...

Soccer Cards

Soccer Cards

Soccer cards came in all forms over the years but as we are looking and a more nostalgic point of view then I'm afraid we won't be discussing Pannini stickers and Match Attax today. That's another days blog. Today we are talking older Topp's cards and Football A&BC Gum cards - they were the ones that ...

Brooke Bond Tea Cards

Brooke Bond Tea Cards

Did any one else collect Brooke Bond Tea Cards or something similar? I still have a huge amount stashed away and was a proud collector as a kid. Additionally I collected cards that came with crisps and candy sweets too. If it looked like a card I collected it. Even lollipop ice-creams started releasing cards to ...

Liptons Supermarket

Liptons Supermarket

Liptons Supermarkets seemed to rise and fall overnight. During the Gateway, Spar, Somerfields and Safeways growth in towns and villages Liptons Supermarket came and then went. Yet it has a good backbone as it was created at the end of the 19th century by Sir Thomas Lipton in Glasgow, Scotland. His enterprise soon flourished and ...

Model Animals

Model Animals

Model animals for farms, zoos or circuses were always a part of childhood for me. Most toy shops had model sheep, cows, crocodiles or was it an aligator, giraffes, elephants, monkeys, pelicans and so on. Everyone needed a lion as he was king and nobody wanted the pigs and there was always one model that ...

Green Shield Stamps

Green Shield Stamps

Now much saliva do you have on your tongue - why? Because we have 10 books of Green Shield Stamps to fill up in the drawer and we need to get nan a present! All sound familiar? Well if you grew up in the 60's or 70s you may remember the Green Shield Stamps. Popular in ...