All-time favorite playthings

[Sodbuster]

In the spirit of the season as it relates to wild-eyed kids and their visions of sugarplums, I was hoping everyone that cared to might chip in with what stands out as your favorite source of amusement from your childhood, be it a toy, a trike, bike, rag doll, electric train, pet pooch, little brother, anything at all. Mine was little square blocks of 1x2 wood I'd toss a mile high in the air like a frisbie and when they came down I'd belt them with my big brother's hand-me-down baseball bat for all I was worth. I don't know how many times the yankees and the dodgers slugged it out for supremacy of all the civilized world back when, and how I hated getting called inside for the night.

[Revet]

Money was in very short supply for us in the years after the war. Somehow my dad scraped together enough to get me a beautiful blue 1950 Ford pedal car. I toured the world in it, or so I imagined.

[Oldgringo]

My momma said, If you don't quit....

[Charles L. Cotton]

Money was in very short supply for us in the years after the war. Somehow my dad scraped together enough to get me a beautiful blue 1950 Ford pedal car. I toured the world in it, or so I imagined.

That's a great story; it makes a grizzled old trail lawyer swallow hard.

Chas.

[seamusTX]

Books. I would read almost anything. Of course, that was back when television had five channels, and video games and the Internet were barely imagined.

My bicycle ranked pretty high.

I had a bunch of toys and games that I played with for a while and then got tired of, or they broke.

- Jim

[anygunanywhere]

World Book Encyclopedia for when I could not be outside shooting anything with my Daisy Model 94 lever action BB gun.

Anygunanywhere

[quidni]

I think I was 3 when I found my Mighty Wonder Horse next to the Christmas tree. I had a white cowboy hat and a pair of "nickeled" cap guns (real paper caps, too...) and I rode many a dusty trail as a little girl. I didn't get interested in dolls until I was in elementary school. My Mom tells me that in my first years, if it didn't have 4 feet and a tail I wasn't interested.

And I still have my little "Blackie Lamb" stuffed animal. Much worn, much loved, good memories.

[HighVelocity]

Hot Wheels and Lawn Darts

[stroo]

My Dad owned a lumber yard so I had all the scrap wood and nails I wanted. I built a navy out of 1x 4s, 2x 6s, etc. Had a aircraft carrier, battleships, cruisers, destroyers. It was great.

[Oldgringo]

Seriously, I always enjoyed putting together models. It could be the wooden Monogram ships or the plastic Revell boats/ships, cars and planes or military armor. I loved it and still do. The models at Hobby Lobby, etc. have become a lot more expensive in the past half century.

I must have missed something though, it never ocurred to me that glue was for sniffing? Where did I go wrong?

[Fangs]

I must have missed something though, it never ocurred to me that glue was for sniffing? Where did I go wrong?

You can eat the paint chips too, just make sure it's lead-based, that's the good stuff.

I'd have to say that LEGOs were my all-time favorite playthings before I got to computers. Used to have a pile that would cover most of my room's floor, and my little brothers and I would spend days building our own little worlds.

[skip]

My old Evil Knievel SST toy pops into mind.

[Daltex1]

Had to be the BB-Gun. Just like the movie Christmas Story.

[Lodge2004]

For me it was trying to get Johnny and Jane West through the next suprise attack from Geronimo and Chief Cherokee.

[lrb111]

The 26" full size AMF bicycle from Western Auto. It was personal freedom, without boundaries.