These were truly the good old days. We played outside, no cable TV, no internet, and the only phone I knew was the one my grandmother tied up on the party line. I knew all the neighbor kids. And I didn't give a damn about tv. We only had 3 channels. And the only thing I cared about was Charle brown christmas. And if you missed it you was screwed.
Back when we actually used our own imaginations to play, and people actually did life together. Now everyone is totally disconnected and isolated by electronic devices, and everyone is terrified of each other.
I picked up a ROCK AND SOC EM ROBOTS took it back to My US Navy ship I wish i could relive that day there was a line for NEXT!!!! Grown men just having fun ...... make a Big Wheel in adult size watch what happens on your block
The Electro Shot Shooting Gallery was awesome but I quickly learned not to use automatic fire much because it would wear out the batteries fast, even alkaline D cells. Toys like these didn't have AC adapter jacks. It's almost as if they had a secret deal with battery manufacturers....
Received a Christmas gift of a Mr. Machine at 5 years old. Spent many hours watching the gears and the bell ringer. Then the ringer quit. Took Mr. Machine apart. Realized the plastic had worn out. My Dad patched it back as best as possible. I completely enjoyed putting Mr. Machine together many more times. It was the most influential toy understanding engineering principles. But the fourth most educational toy. The plastic was inferior and easly warped. At age 8, i glued strengthening ribs to the main wheel and gears to keep him functional. By that time Mr. Machine was a toy i never played with but always tried to keep fully operational. Age 10, I completely carved a new improved bell ringer from a piece of nylon from a boat door hinge. Mr. Machine got occasional maintenance and upgrades for about 15 more years. But his plastic outgassed so bad, he fell to pieces and dust on his display shelf. There were some mass marketed educational toys 50 to 70 years ago. Today there are still many educational toys, just not mass marketed.
I am of the age, that I played with a lot of these toys. Yes, they were made to played with...and usually outdoors. I know this will sound trite, but I am glad I grew up in the mid 60's and early 70's.... we drank from the water hose, wore no shoes, rode our bikes with no pads or helmets, and knew enough to come home when the street lights came on. We also knew, if there was trouble, we could run to any house on the block and we would be helped.
I freaked out xmas am when I got the Marx shooting gallery, I refused to go to church so I could play the Marx shooting gallery. Dad removed the batterys. That ended my plan to skip church. 🤯
Toys of that era actually helped teach me analytical thinking. No PC's or video games then, also not a whole lot of out of shape kids as we were ripping and running doing outdoor sports and other outdoor things.
I was a 60s / 70s kid. The toys back then were fun. My kids were 90s / 2000s kids and I would search for old toys, like the foam glider or rubber band airplane, rockem suckem robots and such.. It was worth searching for them.
In 75, I was gifted a Starship Enterprise, with actual action figures of Kirk, Spock and either Mccoy or Scotty, cant remember. I really wanted a big one of Lt. Uhura though!!!
@@Zizzbiz I used to have the home video release Classic Commercials Toys from the 50s and 60s. I think the compilation on that release and here is EXACTLY the same although the home video release had a small VR bug logo on the right corner of the screen. Don’t know why.
I was a kid in the late 50's and early 60's. One of my favorite toys were toy guns and then BB Guns. I guess it was a little bit due to that being the time for all the Western / Cowboy shows that were on during that time period.
That shooting gallery was insane. My friend's father had it, and he let us play with it in the 80s. We both had every Ninja Turtle, Hasbro WWF figure and a dozen Nintendo games each, but we obsessed over that shooting gallery.
i had one when i was a little kid in the 70's, loved it. i didn't realize how much marx toys i had until i got older and wanted to collect my childhood toys.
I never saw any Bonanza toys in the 1960s. What I got was Johnny and Jane West, and Josie West. Also Chief Cherokee and the horses Thunderbolt and Thundercolt. That's as far as I got. Still have them today, but can't reach them. I think Jane and Josie West are still in good shape? 😮
Those were the good old days kids nowadays are wimpy. We used to stay outdoors all day and ride our bikes in the neighborhood and have fun. My mom used to make us baloney sandwiches and twinkies. And a hawaiian punch
I had the Marx shooting gallery!!!OH MY GOD!!!! I HAD TOTALLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT!!!!! Mind explosion On second thought... My older brother probably got it as a gift.
I liked Nylint and Tonka trucks made with real metal and made in USA. Nylint trucks were made in Rockford Illinois and Tonka trucks were made in Mound Minnesota rather than in china.
Oh my gosh Mr. Machine I had one of course everybody my age born in 1958 we all have these cool toys now they're very scary and children of today don't know how to use them so sad. Rodgers marris?? Was a great game to play. How old am I? If it's from Mattel it's swell. 😊😊😊
These commercials were before I was born, so can someone who grew up in this time era explain the Mr.and Mrs Potato head commercial, were those a real potatos?? I'm confused as to how they were advertising the toy, did the potatoes come with it or just the parts to put on a potato, they looked like real potatoes.
At first the Mr Potato Head was just the eyes and ears and mouth and you applied them to real vegetables. Then they switched to a plastic “head “ because lots of parents were complaining that the kids would lose the potato heads and the potatoes would rot. This is the truth.
Mister Machine, Astro-Base And Helmet, Patti PlayPal, Johnny PlayPal, Suzy PlayPal, Penny PlayPal And Shirley Temple Doll & Tea Set By Ideal. Etch A Sketch, Etch A Shrek, Travel Etch A Sketch, Pocket Etch A Sketch, Easter Egg Etch A Sketch, World’s Smallest Etch A Sketch And Valentines Etch A Sketch By The Ohio Art Company. 007 Pen, Disappear Paper And Action Pack, Wrist Radio And The Action Men From Bonanza By American Character. Electro-Shot Shooting Gallery, Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots And Bop-A-Bear By Marx. G I Joe And Mister And Misses Potato Head By Hasbro. Slinky, Slinky Dog, Slinky Mobile, Slinky Hippo, Slinky Elephant, Slinky Caterpillar, Slinky Train, Slinky Seal, Slinky Frog, Slinky Turtle, Slinky Hand Car, Slinky Three Little Pigs, Slinky Junior And Slinky Kitten By Poof-Slinky. Roger Maris Action BaseBall By PressMan. Barbie And Ken And Snub-Nose .38 Shoulder Holster & Greenie Stik-M-Caps By Mattel. Man In Space By Food Marks. Alvin And The Chipmunks And Soaky Speed Toys Toys By Boss Bagemasaman. Gilbert 1963 And Chemistry Toys By Gilbert. Fuzzy Wuzzy By Spin Master. Trik-Trak Road Vally By Transogram. Lionel Science Sets By Lionel. Flying SuperMan By Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. OvalTine Sweet Chocolate Flavoured By OvalTine.
I wish I was born in the 1950's or 60's. The time period I live in is so boring and bland, stuff had more life back in these commercials and in those eras to :(.
You must remember toy guns came out in s time when tv westerns were popular and gun violence was quite low than today. I had toy guns and i am against gun violence in schools but most toy guns are not offensive to me. Responsable gun owners dont let their children near real guns.
