We like to keep up to date and out of date when it comes to fashion. We loved reviewing 80s Clothes last month but now we go further a field in with our Amazing Vintage Fashion Sites. So we thought we would introduce you to a selection of sites we are currently following. Of course let us know ...
Tag Archives: 1960
Scooby Doo Underscore – Where are You?
Searching for the Scooby Doo background music has been a project and a half. I notice that like me, the internet is full of retro cartoon fans wondering why Hannah Barbera have never released the great background music from the early 70s Scooby doo episodes. We are not talking about the Scooby Doo theme tune as this ...
Busy-Blocks
Tupperware Busy Blocks had 26 hinged A to Z alphabet blocks each made in yellow, red or blue. The blocks have a capital and a small letter on one side, a picture that represents the letter on another side, 2 sides with "puzzle patterns" and 2 sides with diagnal stripes. "Tupperware Busy Blocks were for educational ...
I-SPY
These badges were available with their corresponding book. The I-SPY books are spotter's guides written for British children, and particularly successful in the 1950s and 1960s. The I-SPY Tribe was based on the I-SPY Books, some forty small volumes that sold in hundreds of thousands. Each book covered a subject such as I-SPY Cars, I-SPY on the ...
Movie Maker Board Game
Rediscover Movie Maker Board Game the rare monopoly game in the Hollywood world. Any one ever played the rare board game from Parker or Palitoy called Movie Maker? In summary it was a type of monopoly game in the Hollywood world. With the need to buy directors and actors, scenes and cinemas, the game provided a ...
Kelloggs Frosties
Kelloggs Frosties, They're greeeeaaaatttttt They're simply corn flakes with sugar They guaranteed to rot your teeth - well thats what mum told me! The cereal was first introduced in 1952 as Sugar Frosted Flakes. Kelloggs Frosted Flakes or (Frosties) competed against the Honey monster with there very own Tony the Tiger - though very similar to the Esso Tiger in the Tank Tony the ...
12 Movies I Know You Have Never Seen at the Cinema!
Magnetic Fish Pond Game
Back in the 1920s this old family favourite started to make its way into the local toy shops namely Spears Magnetic Fish Pond Game. The game was made up of four fishing rods with magnets attached. The four section collapsible cardboard aquarium is beautifully printed with two different fish scenes around it and acts as the ...
Space 1999
How cool was this toy. Based on Space 1999, it was the first attempt since the demise of Star Trek in 1969 at producing a large-scale weekly science fiction series, and the show drew a great deal of visual inspiration (and technical expertise) from the Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The show's special ...
100 Greatest Toys
UK viewers we were recently treated to 100 Greatest Toys. Maybe a few suprises in their from some of the votes but no suprise Lego was number 1 Certainly few will argue that Monopoly in at number 2 as the greatest board game ever. additionally great to see Scrabble and Risk along with Cluedo (Clue) making the top 30 It's ...