What Kind Of Toys Did You Have?

I have to admit I was spoiled as a child. My Dad loved buying us toys. Christmas was also a very important Holiday in our family. Not only the toys but being with family. One Christmas I remember like it was yesterday,although it was over 50 yrs ago. My Grandmother had passed away in November so my Mom didn't want to decorate for the Holiday. My Dad felt very sad for me and my sister,so he went to the store and bought us each a Sassy Susie walking doll. I was 5 and my sister was 6. When we woke up Christmas morning we both had the dolls on the foot of our beds. All these years later my sister and I still have the dolls. When my Dad passed away and I didn't really want to celebrate the Holidays I thought about how sad my children would be so I decided to decorate and then put the doll under the tree and I am still doing that every year.Christmas.jpg

 
I really can't remember too many of my toys. I wasn't interested in dolls from about the age of six but I do remember that my grandfather made me a wooden doll's cot and a doll's swing when I was about three. I also remember having a doll's pram which we used to give the dog rides in. She was happy to wear a bonnet as the price of the ride.

I remember some of the books I was given and the Davey Crockett repeating cap rifle I had to buy myself because no-one thought to give such things to little girls. Mostly we played games of imagination with the other kids in our street; cowboys and Indians, pirates, Tarzan etc and we just ran around all over the place re-enacting stories we had heard on radio or saw at the movies. We made our own props.

I didn't get my first bicycle until I was in high school but it was transport, not a toy. Earlier I did have a scooter with pump up tyres and a foot bake and my little sister had a dinky trike.

At school we played jacks, pick up sticks, skipped rope and played fly. I was hopeless at fly because my legs were too short.

After school we played hop scotch, rounders, countries and French cricket on the road using chalk and pebbles for the former and fence palings and a tennis ball for the latter. We had no TV but would go each Saturday either to the picture show or the municipal baths. Our days were always full.
 
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I apologize for the statement I posted about what my step-dad told me about "shooting sparrows", but I'm sure that most ex-farmers on this forum (if there are any) would know why he said that and why I understood. When a farmer, years ago and today, invests lots of money into farm equipment, "bird poop" all over it isn't the best thing to show off new farm equipment to friends. Come to think about it, my farm buddies had BB guns as well.
 
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