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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.

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.

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

Revet wrote: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.

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

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

Anygunanywhere

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.

Hot Wheels and Lawn Darts

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.

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?

Oldgringo wrote: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.

My old Evil Knievel SST toy pops into mind.

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

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

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