Toys of yesteryear

[Aggie_Ama]

You know Tulip, I took me a long time to realize how much I do too. That sounds harsh but she is a very cold woman. My mom said she isn't sure she can count how many times she said "I love you" on more than one hand. If I say "I love you Mammaw" she will reply "Uh-huh. Be careful going home". She was born to a woman that didn't know how to show love in 1918 (according to my mom).

I think now all those crafts and keeping the toys was her way of showing love. She is a bit crazy but the world needs more people like her I think. And they need more pot holders, Logstix, Lincoln Logs, craft time, Spirographs and sandboxes full of old pots and pans.

Did you know that an old flour sifter is one of the greatest sandbox toys ever? Hers was so rusty but was great at breaking up the sand when it got all clumpy after a rain or getting the leaves off the pecan tree out of the sand. Oh look, you can get a rusty one on ebay! http://cgi.ebay.com/Neat-old-Very-pr...QQcmdZViewItem

[Aggie_Ama]

Crankin- But my brother had wood Lincoln Logs! He was born in 1976. My mom said her Barbies had they heads you removed to change them around, Mammaw still had a couple of them when I was a kid. I thought they were gross.

[Crankin]

Maybe they didn't sell the wooden ones in AZ? Or maybe your brother had hand me downs.
I don't remember seeing a Barbie with a removable head!

[Aggie_Ama]

You know the wooden ones may have been my dad's from when my grandparents adopted him in 1960-61. I remember my Dad saying he treasured them (and Cootie!) because they were the first toys ever received. It is very likely the Lincoln Logs I remember were my brother's that were at my Nanny and Pawppaw's house because they still had Cootie so I bet they were dad's Lincoln Logs and not the ones that could be bought when my brother was a kid?

[DebW]

I loved Tinker Toys. My grandmother had a wooden set for us. When I bought Tinker Toys for my kids, they were all plastic. My favorite modern building toy is K'nex.

[tulip]

My friends and I used to switch heads on Barbies all the time. My favorite was Ken's head on Skipper's body for some reason. I was probably 7 or 8 at the time.

I couldn't remember the name of Tinker Toys! I loved those and also the math blocks, something like Cuisinart, but of course, that's not right!

[GLC1968]

Oh, I loved tinker toys, too! I remember getting so annoyed at our dogs, because they'd chew on the connectors just enough that the wood rods wouldn't fit into the holes anymore (or wouldn't stay in). I'd forgotten about those!!

[shootingstar]

We never had even 1 Barbie doll. (and I have 4 other younger sisters). Alot of this was related to cost and my parents' friends weren't rolling in much money themselves to feed their own families,, much give gifts like that.
I do recall 1 blonde haired doll with blue eyes, that was shared amongst us all. Curly hair and rough. And the doll, now I remember after all these decades, the doll...wore a blue and white dirndl. LOL. How coincidental, since we were growing up in a German immigrant-based city.

So, most fun was jump the rubber ball, where the girls in our elementary school threw the ball way high against wall of 3 story school, on the side with no windows, and we would try to jump the ball bouncing onto the pavement.

Simple days. And we had hula hoop, jump footsie bell and long marathons of double-dutch skip rope contests. Can't believe I could jump up to 1,000 jumps on double dutch...once upon a time.