I forgot about these!My brother and I used to play this all the time. Especially when it was storming outside and we couldn't go outdoors.
B-4!
You sank my Battleship!
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Remember These???
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DanaTA
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Well, the ones in that picture were water pistols. Unless you put vinegar or worse in it, it was just water and it didn't come out with much force. The second, yes...caps. No projectiles. A little smoke from the small explosion. I had one of those. Sometimes kids would take the roll of caps and pound them with a boulder to get a larger bang. That could be dangerous. But...just about anything could be dangerous in the hands of a child. The fallen branch from a tree. Rocks. A jump rope!
Dana
DanaTA
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I don't deny the possibility, but I never saw it happen, unless someone purposely set them on fire...which I'm sure happened. Many things are dangerous if not used properly.
It's amazing we survived to become adults, isn't it?
Dana
eclark1894
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It's the 50th anniversary of The Big Wheel! I was too old to have one. Never could understand what the thrill was. I had the tradition tricycle when I was a kid. To me a Big Wheel was just a plastic tricycle. I didn't get it. But I remember the commercials.
Terre
Renowned
Lots of memories here.My brother and I used to play this all the time. Especially when it was storming outside and we couldn't go outdoors.
B-4!
You sank my Battleship!
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Over half of the cartoons you guys have posted I do remember.parkdalegardener
Adventurous
Lawn Darts
eclark1894
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When we were kids not only weren't we encouraged to wear helmets or padding, but at least half the toys were designed to test our survival skills - that's how you prepare kids for adulthood.
"Here son, take these weighted, pointy metal darts, throw them as high as you can and watch them come down... now remember to try to wait until the last moment to jump out of the way."
"Here son, take these weighted, pointy metal darts, throw them as high as you can and watch them come down... now remember to try to wait until the last moment to jump out of the way."
eclark1894
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Anybody remember these? Now to be honest, all my slingshots were homemade and not really made of wood. We'd make them in school, usually with a rubberband and a wad of paper. if the wad was "damp" so much the better.
eclark1894
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You were allowed to jump out of the way??!! Wuss!
robert952
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I play Battleship with my 7-year-old grandson. They re-released the older version of the game and box. We have played on line, too. A great game for that if both parties have a game board. The re-released game doesn't have the fancy stickers on the lid as shown in the above image. Guess Who is the same way.
Agent-0013
Inspired
Indeed I do! They were called Sugar Daddy, and there was a chocolate coated version called Sugar Mama. They were hard to chew caramel candies. Another one produced by the same company was called Sugar Babies, also a caramel candy.
Of the Sugar Daddy candy, can you remember the really big ones? I'm talking about the version that was about 20 or more times the size of the small ones. They were special promotional ones given out to any student that made a certain amount of door to door sales in a fund raiser for some upcoming school event. I earned four, but never ate any of them. I gave them to my brothers and sisters, as I am not that fond of caramel.
eclark1894
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I remember my mother owned one of these back when I was about four or five. My hand got caught in the rollers once and after that I was scared to go near the damn thing. In case you're wondering, it was a washing machine. Like I said, I was only about 4 or 5, so I have no idea if this was state of the art back then.
Funny it ended everything in the 80's for us as well , and was no more sold due to restrictions of the political situation we go through
My mother owned this one , it was a brand new model Frania 1969 .. the best woman can get to enjoy her Saturday's big laundry day!
seriously you needed some muscle to work the rollers , especially with bed sheets and blankets.
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DanaTA
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My wife's mother had one with the rollers in her basement, but it was retired. In the early 60s, my mom had a Maytag fully automatic washer, so, no, that one with the rollers was not state of the art in the 60s. She had to hang the clothes on the outside clothes line, operated on two pulleys, to dry the clothes.
Dana
Dana
eclark1894
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Well, we've always had outdoor clothes lines. Even when my sister bought my mother a dryer back in the 70s.
eclark1894
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Games from the seventies... I had the pool table and the Football game. Never had the Hungry Hungry Hippos or Rock'em Sock'em Robots.
eclark1894
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Just curious if anyone will get this one. Name the show, character and Actor in this picture. An additional hint, show is from the 70s.
