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For most my childhood i was haunted by knitted items. It seemed the war overlapped into my life 50 years on. Can you beleive that at our infants school, for drama and PE (Pyhsical Education) parents were asked to Knit leaotards for the girls and shorts for the boys. Well apart from the fact that ...
Watch with Mother which included Andy Pandy, Muffin the Mule, the Wooden tops and Poggles woods to name a few, were often the first tv memory kids had in the sixties and seventies. For many years there was little else except this lunch time treat. Then the after school slot kicked in in the early seventies ...
The Superfast Matchbox number 09 AMX Javelin was one for every boys collection. This was a seriously fast little car and would give most cars a run for their money on any racing track. The car was first produced in 1964 and normally was seen in green though other rarer colours are known such as blue ...
Collecting match box labels was another hobby in the seventies. I Don't know why, but I had a phase as a kid of a bizarre need to collect match boxes. Most kids would be keener on what you could do with the matches - not me. It seems that the fact that there were so ...
In 1968 a book entitled "What do People do All Day?" was released by Richard Scarry. This gem of a book has continued to be a massive seller. With incredibly detailed illustrations, kids would spend hours and hours on a journey of detail scanning and double scanning each page of illustrative detail. The book is about what ...
Talk about politaclly and morrally incorrect. In the 70s if you could teach kids the wrongness of smoking from an early age, then rot their teeth at the same time! today they are known as candy sticks, which keeps everyone happy and means the red tip is no longer needed on the end of the ...
I never had one, but boy as i grew up i wish I had. They were chunky and clunky, with moving wheels, and clicking dials, dingers and squeeks and stronger than a Tonka truck. This really put a new spin on kids going to work. The unit comprised a mirror, a hare and tortoise slider, a ...
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 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 ...
This blog wouldn't be complete without the good old Whoopee Cushion. The joke was funny once and once only. Ten out of ten for novelty factor. Whoopee Cushions Poo-Poo Cushions or even Raspberry Cushions were a practical joke toy that has withstood the test of time and still raises a chuckle today (for the first few ...
