Google up a pic of your favorite childhood toy or pastime

[SoCalDem]

I LOVED jacks..(but we used golf balls instead of the puny little ones that came with the sets)






and Monopoly.. ( I still have the game i got for Xmas when I was 9)

[mykpart]

1. I tried, but I couldn't find any

bald naked Madame Alexander dolls.

[evlbstrd]

2. We used to set these on fire.

[Elidor]

3. Kung-Fu Grip

[TimeChaser]

4. Hnn...

kinda like this:


I called him "Bouncy"

[SoCalDem]

8. My boys loved the "Wonder Horse"

:)

[mark11727]

13. "Spring Covers for Added Safety"....?!?

...c'mon. Half the fun was avoiding getting something CAUGHT.

[TimeChaser]

27. Ah... the memories...

[enigmatic]

5. Evel Knievel Supercycle

I loved this; went through 4 or 5 of them. My friend and I used to film them jumping the roof of our houses and going off bridges w/ our Supr8 cameras; I wish I still had those films..

[auntAgonist]

6. here's some

snakes & ladders




hula hoop




baby dolls

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Reading...

I learned to read when I was two, and I apparently read more library books than anyone else in any grade in the school when I was 6 years old...even got a certificate...yes, I was a geek (and still am).

[enigmatic]

9. Nothing wrong with that

I collect young adult books from the 50's and 60's (Whitman made a pile of them)and there were great books to read then, as well as now, too.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. I have fond memories of a lot of the books for younger readers...

published in the '70's-early '80's, too. I was born in '77, and reading on about a sixth-grade level by the time I was 6 or so...so quite a few of my favourites were from the early-mid '70's timeframe. I think I started outgrowing kids' books by the time I was 8 or so, though. I was already reading stuff like Conan Doyle's Holmes stories by then (and I'd moved on to Stephen King by about 10 or so)...didn't make me many friends, though. I was the weird kid who always read at recess and skipped class to go to the library :)

[enigmatic]

21. If you ever hit the thrift stores..

See if you can find them; the Brains Benton, Power Boys, and Three Investagtors books are still a blast to read after all these years..

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. There's an excellent used bookstore nearby, actually.

I'll take a look next time I'm there. One of the few bookstores I can walk into and pretty much decide "I want everything in here".

Everything from genre fiction to a WHOLE FUCKING CASE of SIGNED Burroughs, Bukowski & HST first editions.

[enigmatic]

23. Bukowski???

My man! Bukowski is my hero; I've got just about everything he's published, including some of the broadsides he did in the mid 60's.

That sounds like one hella bookstore..

[mark11727]

32. Grew up with a TON of Dr Seuss...

...our mom gave them to our neighbor's kids when we got older.

Of course, I had to buy them ALL OVER AGAIN (thanks Costco!) when we started our own family.

It's one of those "Circle of Life" things.

[LeftyMom]

10. My first computer

I still have it too.

[Heidi]

11. My favorite childhood book:

[lpbk2713]

12. First thing that came to mind ......

.... was the things like the toy garages and warehouses and such.




.... and I'd spend hours with my Lionel train set.

[enigmatic]

14. Train sets

Oh man, I loved my HO layout I made; it wad nothing special, but I got alot of hours of fun w/ it..

[SoCalDem]

15. My 30 yr old son still has his garage

it's a little beat up, but he save his hot wheels stuff & that:)

My 26 yr old still has all his He-Man stuff in original boxes:)

We are a family of savers:)

[tridim]

17. Lego: Best Toy Ever!

[deadparrot]

16. 'kay...

Lincoln Logs...


reading...


Irish dancing...


there's more, but I'm tired and not at my sharpest...

[alarcojon]

18. The Big Wheel

[SoCalDem]

19. GAWD ALMIGHTY.. Those things made us SO BROKE

3 boys (daredevils, all) went through those things like crazy.. They also had Green machines (they are making a new one that lightweight adults can even ride)..and they had the whole flintstone riding set.. wagons, flintstonemobiles....

[hunter]

24. I watched ants and I played with fire.

I never mixed these two obsessions.



My parents later learned I could be distracted with legos.

[unsavedtrash]

25. When I wasn't climbing trees, I was on one of these. (wow that rhymed)

or

[Jamastiene]

26. I loved the Stretch Armstrong action figure I had

and my Sea Monkeys. I had a little race track with a pit stop and everything for them.

Stretch


Sea Monkeys and their race track
can be found at this link
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//www.netfysh.com/prods/et700b_c.html&ei=zUf8QqSoG4-oaJ-YgG4

[SoCalDem]

33. My boys managed to break their Stretch Armstrong

3 boys vs 1 stretch was apparently not a fair fight:)

[Jamastiene]

34. My cousin, a boy, broke mine.

I always hated for him to come visit. He'd always break something. I hid Stretch when I heard he was coming. Only I didn't have time to hide him well enough because I didn't find out he was coming until he and my uncle and aunt were on the front porch. He didn't break Stretch so much as poke a hole in him with his nails. Of course, Stretch "bled" to death after that and what "blood" (maple syrup or something was what it was) didn't come out dried up. He looked like the andromeda thing had killed him in the end. I sure missed him.

My sea monkeys got killed by another student at school. She came home with me for a play date and picked up their little aquarium not 5 minutes after she got in my room. Dumped them out all over the floor. It was a hardwood floor so I was down there trying to rescue them but they were too small even for my little fingers to be able to pick them up and put them back in the water. A few survived but I didn't get the salt packet water treatment back in the mail in time to save what few survived and they all died. I still had eggs, but no food and at the time sea monkeys were the last thing on my mother's mind to buy more for me. I still have the eggs somewhere. Who knows? I may start another sea monkey habitat someday. I don't think this trailer is strong enogh to hold a 10 gallon aquarium so I can have a big sea monkey habitat, but I could get a smaller one and adjust the amounts of salt, food, etc to add my eggs to the ones that come with the kit and have a little family tree started. Okay, I dream too big. I don't have time to scientifically keep logs of what happens in the little world to do that. I'll learn C# programming in college starting this coming Monday and count that as my latest hobby....

[Whoa_Nelly]

28. I lived for these!

[SoCalDem]

29. Me too.. I still have my skate key somewhere

Skinned knees and ruined shoes bedamned.. i loved to skate too:) Still hear the sound of metal on concrete in my head :)

[ahem]

30. My Oscar Goldman doll with the exploding briefcase was my

favorite for years and years.



I took Oscar everywhere. I even remember playing out my concept of "what grown-ups do" with Oscar and my Barbie (sometimes Barbies.) Boy, did I have the logistics of that all wrong.

[NMMNG]

31. I liked lots of things but two of my favorites were:

Books


and riding my bike

[shugh514]

35. Mouse trap