A Ten Cent Glider

[Jazzy1]

Who remembers Balsa Wood Planes?

 

[jim_slim]

I remember having one of those…..fun times!

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Now they are closer to $9 each.
I enjoyed them a lot as a kid.

 

[IrishEyes]

When they broke I made corrals for my Breyer horses out of them.
Umm, I may have broken a few each time I got a new horse on purpose.

 

[Rich]

the fancy ones had a propeller with a rubber band connected, you could wind it up and it would uhhh... fly!

 

[Pappy]

Had those back in the fifties too. Some cereals gave them inside their boxes.

 

[Pappy]

1950s gliders.

 

[bobcat]

I had them too. If you moved the wings forward in the slot, the plane would fly straight and if you moved the wings back, it would do loops.
Got them at the dime store, along with yo-yo's (Another novel way to enjoy life as a kid).

 

[Sunkist]

Had those back in the fifties too. Some cereals gave them inside their boxes.

That's what I was going to say, too- in cereal boxes- although I found them in the early 1960s.

 

[Pappy]

Not a gliders but I do remember this one.

 

[jujube]

There were always a couple of them on the roof....keeping company with the Frisbee and taunting the kites in the tree.

 

[Sunkist]

Not a gliders but I do remember this one.
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Yup- clip out ad from comic books, and send in fifty cents..

Also, the ad must have been from a long time ago- no zip codes!!

 

[Murrmurr]

When those cost 10 cents, a loaf of bread was 11 cents, so me and my brothers only got those gliders from Santa, when he put them in our Christmas stockings.

I understand now why my mom would get so upset when any of our gliders got irretrievably stuck in a tree or whatever. You might as well have tossed a whole loaf of bread up there. (only minutes after buying it )

 

[Aunt Bea]

and when you didn’t have two nickels to rub together…

 

[Murrmurr]

and when you didn’t have two nickels to rub together…

And if you were really good at it, not only did you save a dime, you got a bonus; other kids' admiration. Or even better, envy.

 

[TeePee]

the fancy ones had a propeller with a rubber band connected, you could wind it up and it would uhhh... fly!

Those were neat!

 

[TeePee]

There were always a couple of them on the roof....keeping company with the Frisbee and taunting the kites in the tree.

Also in the trees with the kites that got stuck in them!

 

[bobcat]

the fancy ones had a propeller with a rubber band connected, you could wind it up and it would uhhh... fly!

The real expertise there was in knowing just how much you could wind that rubber band before it would break.

 

[JustDave]

Not the 70s for me, but the 50s I bought many of those.

1950s gliders.
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Yes, that is the exact one I remember. Now I don't want to get pedantic about it, but those other two planes are not technically gliders.