Toys of our youth

[f6john]

    As a young boy I used to get the small friction motor cars made in Japan from tin cans. And while I enjoyed them for a while I always ultimately took them apart to see how they worked with no thought of ever putting them back together. My parents quickly picked up on this and things changed. I got very few toys but the ones I did get were made to last. I still have these after going through me my cousins and then my sisters kid and then back to me for my son. Maybe my grandsons will get some use out of them too.


My Corvair rampside pickup



And my Ford pickup and trailers




  There was a sprint car that rode on the little flat bed trailer that was lost along the way. I also have my old Lionel 027 gauge train set. Any of you guys still have any of your early toys. Mine are from the late fifties and early sixties.

[ridingron]

My mother threw most f them away when I wasn't looking. When I got older I was better able to hang on to them. But too many moves and not enough space ..... 

[Oss]

I do have some books, and saved the kids favorites  Also saved my sons Harry Potter hardcover books just in case anyone will still read books in the future

My in laws have boxes of toys and doll houses in their big basement that my girls used to play with.

In our basement I have 3 big boxes of toys if I am ever lucky enough to have grandkids.  Sadly I blew up most of the trains and models with explosives as a teenager............ I had bought those with money from babysitting or the paper route

Watching pt109 take forever to sink in the pond (plastic took longer than the original wood )    along with the Yorktown the  Bounty and many others

I remember getting one matchbox car at chanukah was a really big deal as a child, gave em to my brother who still has them

[Jopson]

I have a shelf in our living room with about half a dozen 1:32 scale tractors and farm implements on it.
I managed to convince my wife that they are all collectors items and quite valuable!
Reality is, I just like looking at them! 
Sometimes I play farms with my daughter though, which I think makes my wife suspicious if the actual monetary value of said tractors!...
Used to have quite a large toy tractor collection, and various barns and sheds for my 'farm' but a lot of them got broken or given away to younger cousins.

[signart]

Didn't have any of those toys, but I have some now in my collections. I love that rampside Corvair, there was a real one at the last Somerset Ky. cruise in Oct. I also like the extras for your toys such as the U-Haul.  I also have a collection of pedal tractors, unrestored. I like them "as played with".

[f6john]

Growing up in rural Kentucky we were rich in some ways but money was in short supply even though my parents did an excellent job of insulating me from that reality. I spent many hours in the winter pouring over the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Started out fascinated with the assortment of pedal cars, none of which I ever got and then moved to the couple of pages of motorbikes. Never got one of those either. Mother was afraid of motorcycles so I was 24 and married before I bought one. When my son was born motorcycles went away and it would be another 20 years before the Valkyrie came home with me.

[signart]

Yep, the Sears catalogue and especially the Christmas edition with all the latest. Stuff dreams were made of when I was a kid. Even before my time you could buy a Sears car (Allstate) which was a Henry J with some distinctions in the early 50's. You could even buy a house with all the lumber, plumbing, roofing, windows, plans, ect. delivered to your property. I know where one stands today that a grumpy old school teacher bought and built. He lived in it til he died just a couple years ago.

[f6john]

Didn't have any of those toys, but I have some now in my collections. I love that rampside Corvair, there was a real one at the last Somerset Ky. cruise in Oct. I also like the extras for your toys such as the U-Haul.  I also have a collection of pedal tractors, unrestored. I like them "as played with".

   You would love all my old toys then. If you look closely at the rampside there are some small holes in the roof and the a pillars. It came with plastic side mirrors and air horns on the roof which didn't survive. The plastic back window of the Ford truck has a corner broken, much like you might expect to see it you came across a full size version today. They have their original paint and I don't even clean them, never know when a kid may need to take them outside to play.

[f6john]

Yep, the Sears catalogue and especially the Christmas edition with all the latest. Stuff dreams were made of when I was a kid. Even before my time you could buy a Sears car (Allstate) which was a Henry J with some distinctions in the early 50's. You could even buy a house with all the lumber, plumbing, roofing, windows, plans, ect. delivered to your property. I know where one stands today that a grumpy old school teacher bought and built. He lived in it til he died just a couple years ago.

   Now don't tell me you didn't flip over to the bra section on occassion. 

[baldo]

As a kid, I was big-time into model building. Planes, cars, trucks, it didn't matter. They're all long gone now, many by way of my Dad's .410 over and under.......

[DK]

Many of these old toys are worth some fairly serious money to collectors.

[old2soon]

WWII aircraft model and there is a cursed good chance I built at least one of each from the allies and the axis powers. Cars ships and big truck models. At one time had a Huge Lionel train-the passenger cars were about a foot and a half long give or take. Dad bought Me and Ross an American Flyer train because the A F was more real cuz of 2 tracks stead of 3. I believe the locomotive was a 4-6-2 and made smoke. The Lionel was based on an electric loco and the loco was dark green and the 3 cars were a lighter green with pictures in the windows representing people. Had a gas model airplane I bought with paper route money-string tethered roundy round with an .049 gas engine. After looking at prices NOW wished I would have kept my Pez dispensers. Wouldn't mind having my old Schwinn back with the knee action front suspension. Ross and I spent way more time outside then we did inside. Summer or winter no matter-outside. RIDE SAFE.

[Beardo]

Toys...not too many when I was a kid. We got to "play" with chop pails, mix mills, steers, heifers, square bales, calf pullers, post pounders,  fence stretchers, burdizzos, tractors, swathers, bale pickers, rock pickers, halters, lassos, etc. Thankfully we also had rifles, dirt bikes, ATV's, dirt roads, bicycles and "neighbours" that lived only a few miles away.

Wouldn't have wanted to grow up any other way.  

[f6john]

Toys...not too many when I was a kid. We got to "play" with chop pails, mix mills, steers, heifers, square bales, calf pullers, post pounders,  fence stretchers, burdizzos, tractors, swathers, bale pickers, rock pickers, halters, lassos, etc. Thankfully we also had rifles, dirt bikes, ATV's, dirt roads, bicycles and "neighbours" that lived only a few miles away.

Wouldn't have wanted to grow up any other way.  

I agree, great way to spend your youth. I could have done something similar if I had of applied myself, both grandparents had farms, cattle grain,dairy and tobacco. I would be a better person today if that had of worked out.