Do you remember these?

I remember a kalidescope & "Etch a Sketch." But my favorite toy was Play Doh. I really liked it because it tasted sweet.
It must have been non toxic because I ate lots of it & was OK.
I also liked "Silly Putty." I didn't eat it, but I did chew it.
 

Keesha said:
One dollar for silly putty.😳
Yep! It’s an old ad for certain.
Great stuff though.
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We only received it for Christmas as it was too expensive for our limited pocket money we were broke most of the time as kids we didn’t get an allowance.
 
Lc jones said:
We only received it for Christmas as it was too expensive for our limited pocket money we were broke most of the time as kids we didn’t get an allowance.
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We only got things like this at Christmas also and my parents could afford it. We only got a .25 allowance on our 2 week yearly camping trip but that ended when we stopped camping at 12 years old 🏕
 
Keesha said:
We only got things like this at Christmas also and my parents could afford it. We only got a .25 allowance on our 2 week yearly camping trip but that ended when we stopped camping at 12 years old 🏕
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It sure was a different world when we were young but it taught me to appreciate everything
 
Esslinger "Party Quiz" beer cans had facts printed on the can which you then turned into questions to ask your drinking buddy. Of course, they had to be opened with a "church key" which was used to punch two triangle holes in the top.

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About that football game Pappy showed. It was a game nobody played. You only turned it on once, and never played it again. You had to line up 22 little "men". You turned it on an they all moved any way which they wanted. They mostly just spun around. There were other flaws. There was this tiny felt football, and this "kicker" type thing. Even if you could get that to work, really, who was going to catch the ball? Yeah, which one of the plastic men was going to catch it? That's why those games were always pristine- they were lousy to play.
 
I tried to find a pic of my boyhood bike, "Nike". Back then you had to name your bike, I chose the name of a new missile. The space race and all. It had thick round tires, fenders ,a electric horn (but never any batteries), and painted blue. Boys used to beat the hell out of 'em. That's why today, most vintage bikes are girl's bikes. Then a friend got one of those bikes with the skinny tires. UGH.
 
I actually owned a variation of each of the four. My gas station was Sears/Allstate, my Gilbert chem set was very similar, My Gilbert American Flyer train set was much more like a realistic 40s steam train (and I had an engine unlike the cars only set in the picture). I liked the American Flyer better than Lionel because AF ran on a two rail track whereas Lionel had a three rail system. I also had a couple of BuddyL trucks.

These toys were really rugged. When I outgrew them, I gave them to some younger cousins who also enjoyed them for years.
 
Nihil.....I painted a paper towel tube black and ran a black thread though the center. Then I had a ball that just fit though the tube. When someone put the ball in the tube, it went right though. But, Pappyo-the-great took the ball and put it in the tube, holy magic Batman, I would gently pull on the back thread and it would keep the ball from going though the tube.

I would look through my magic catalogs and try to duplicate them.
 
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