Favorite Childhood Toys, Games, Etc.

[win231]

I got a walking, talking doll for Christmas when I was about 4-5 years old. ... thought she was the best gift ever.

Her name was Winnie:

She looks like "Talky Tina."
"My name is Talky Tina....and I'm going to kill you," she said to Telly Savalas.

 

[Lvstotrvl]

I loved books but my paper dolls were my favorite I had shoe boxes full. I tried to get my girls interested in them, they thought i was crazy! Lol

 

[Repondering]

I had toy weapons: cowboy revolvers, lever action saddle carbines, flintlock long rifles, tommy guns, detective type snub nose revolvers....a fantasy war weapon called a "Johnny 7, OMA" (One Man Army).....7 weapon types on one platform. I had toy swords and plastic armor too. I had plastic dinosaurs....much better quality production than anything I see today. I had toy soldiers as well, WW II type, USA and British uniforms....but I don't recall ever playing with them, they were just collectible, sort of. I had a teddy bear that I never played with either, but it was "mine" a piece of personal property the ownership of which was important to me. Actually I still have it....a few of the dinosaurs, soldiers and a toy Luger pistol too.

 

[Ladybj]

My favorite toy was Operation...loved it. Monopoly was ok.. just too long of a game. I also enjoyed playing outside. Hopscotch (sp), hide N seek, ride by bicycle, barbie jacks.. Oh my, the good ole' days... Priceless. My adult toys: My Lexus SUV, Amazon Alexa and a few others...Priceless!!!

 

[Ladybj]

We played outdoors all the time as well. Loved jacks and fancy bouncing with the indian rubber ball, roller skating and bicycle riding.

Oh yes..I forgot to add skates to my list... I loved roller skating. One day I plan on going to the skating rink.. I will see if my daughter and son are up for it. I know hubby will not be interested..he cannot skate.

 

[Duster]

I got ice skates for Christmas and used them every day the rink was frozen in winter. I lived next to a park that had a gravel lining that was made with 2 foot tall sides all around it. There was a basketball hoop on one end. In the winter the fire department came and filled it full of water to make an ice skating rink. We had a wooden sled and went sledding in our neighborhood. I once smacked into a tree head first and passed out. When I came to, nobody was around and it was getting dark. Not sure how old I was, either 6 or 7. I got the sled and went home, never telling my parents what happened.
I loved my bike, which would be considered vintage, but we just called it second hand. Everyone else had used bikes, too.
In the summer we played endless games of Monopoly and poker, usually with matchsticks, not money. We got pretty good. When I was grown, we were at some friends' house and the men wanted to play poker. They couldn't believe a 20 year GIRL could beat them again and again. Must be beginner's luck! One of my hidden talents.
Having brothers, they got neat things like trains and race cars on tracks. I liked their toys and sometimes got to play with them. I was given a few dolls, which stayed at the bottom of the toy box, unplayed with.

 

[Autumn72]

My Tiny Tears doll with a bubble pipe. They changed a few times, I think I had 2.

Me too, was given it by the nuns too stop me from crying for my mother. Who was in the hospital having the latest addition to the family. We had to stay with the nuns in cribs?! My mother was the youngest of two and her mother was stuck on her oldest sister the one that did all the right steps to a successful life on the 50s.

 

[Autumn72]

I loved books but my paper dolls were my favorite I had shoe boxes full. I tried to get my girls interested in them, they thought i was crazy! Lol
[/I too, had tons of paper dolls, I also made my own with clothes I copied from the newspaper and Sears and Roebucks Catalogs. Amazing what kept us content. Also loved my many paper dolls.

 

[Marie5656]

I liked my books. I had my Raggedy Ann and Andy. I had the usual child hood board games. Life, Mouse Trap, I wish I still had those two games.

 

[treeguy64]

In my moms later years she almost had a museum quality display of dolls, it freaked me out walking through the house. All those eyes watching me.

I dated a nice gal for a month, or so. Unfortunately, the first time I was up in her bedroom (we'd stayed at my place, up to that time) was the last night I saw her: She had hundreds of porcelain dolls EVERYWHERE in that room! I was creeped out, to the max. I told her that those dolls like to come alive, at night, and kill people with poison needles. No way was i staying there. Besides, I was already seeing Janet and another gal, so the break was clean and easy, since she had given me an ultimatum of her, or them.

 

[pleinmont]

I was given a trainset when I was four, but only permitted to play with it when my father was around to do so too. I disliked dolls and girly things as I was a tomboy, boys toys were much more fun. I loved reading it was my favourite activity by far, and still is.

 

[Marlene]

We didn't have a lot of "toys." I had a couple of dolls, but I mostly put them in my bookcase because I didn't want them to get ruined. I had a Davy Crockett doll. We mostly played outside in the summer (biking, running foot races, shooting hoops, playing softball, skipping slate down at the river. . .) and in the winter, we sang, danced, told ghost stories, made shadow puppets, or played paper dolls. We played marbles and jacks (yea, I won all my bother's steelies). My brother and sister played monopoly, but I've never liked board games so I painted and drew or read.

 

[Pappy]

Those cast iron banks:

 

[Llynn]

These were my favorites