FULL Virtual Tour | Toys of the '50s, '60s and '70s | Heinz History Center 

I still like the box better.

I've often said in the 60s we were the best armed adolescents ever. And yes the Johnny 7 was a bad mamma jamma. And I find it funny how much modern weapons look like the toys from the past

I used to take my car down to the local slot car tracks in the small town where I lived. We would race our cars against each other and afterwards go to the Rexall drug store for ice cream sodas and comic books. Simpler times.

Kent M, Those were the days. It was sad to see those old local track shops disappear, but nothing lasts forever.

I had slot cars. Only they were real cars. I played with them on US Highway 52. 😁

@@Archer335 Except for some government departments and regulations. They last for ever.

my brothers loved their slot cars,,,

Fortunately, no kids were involved because Ken......................

lol.........

My brother stole my Barbie recreational vehicle and painted it olive camouflage for his GI Joes. lol.....

Lol!

I had four brothers - my barbie became a GI Joe casualty. :)

Yep - Our parents made things from scratch or early box mixes.....and we did too with our little ovens... Our parents didn't have delivered meals such as Hello Fresh and other fully processed meals for the family.....like a full pan of lasagna or salad in a bag.

@@kfoster3616 right?? Exactly!

EXACYLY!

@@passwordbosco407 -- TOALLY!

New have a penis and Women have a vagina ! I love toys!

My sister used to masturbatory to barbie while kissing her. My mom found out and quickly got rid of the doll.

Hi Keith! I'm not positive when it opened, but my 1st visit was in 1991. A terrific way to spend the day. The Smithsonian partnered up with them and expanded the space. Definitely a "must-visit" when ur in town. 😁🖤✨️💛

Probably to "pique ur interest" so you would want to visit. A TON of interesting things to see and learn from. Smithsonian are partnered up with them now. Terrific way to spend the day. 😁🖤✨️💛

I think this must be it!! (1952) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xzD3XvqBWRo.html The comment section describes it more! "The Magical Amazing Robot"...... this game looks so awesome,I would have loved it being born in 1960 but never saw it before now...! :-)

@@ellengauthier3430 You think correct that's it, Thank you so much that brought tears to me, WOW amazing when you have a slight memory of something and and with the help of someone like you has found this. You have truly made my day, as I told you I only remembered the little figure with a pointer on a mirror. I can't thank you enough you made an old kid happy I'm73 March. Now let me see if I can remember something else LOL Bernie

So glad I was able to help you find that childhood memory!! I just Googled the keywords you used to describe it and that game popped up ...I found one of my old games and old books that way ,too; I know the special joy in seeing something once again from one's past, like a feeling of relief that you didn't just imagine it +also thought you might like this link to a clip of an episode of one of my favorite "Twilight Zone" shows about revisiting childhood memories~ its comment section really hits the nail on the head for this particular clip, I know ,cuz I'm just a big kid at heart, too! Lol, precious memories! This episode and its background music gets me everytime 😭......enjoy! I'll post episode link below.......it's called"Walking Distance" and it's very bittersweet and unforgettable. Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QUn2BNydxIY.html

realcanadiangirl64 I still have my iron

I burnt my hand when I tried to use my sisters easy bake oven, I'm not meant for cooking so I just kept playing with my army men and G.I. Joes

I've made a note of that.

I had a chemistry set that included real uranium. I suffered no ill effects from it at all-->🤪🤩😎🥺🤢🤮😵😵👻

@@summerngeorge but did your company commander hand you a rifle and tell you to”light them up!”.

Same here, I was born in 59. We had good stuff!

I was also born in 1960 and I remember having a Twister game. If I played it now, I'd be on the floor in a heap.

Fun times!

Still have the pipe?

@ Madeline Cesnalise Yes! I had a little blonde boy called "Biff Boodle" ! LOL!

Yes, i have several including a matching pair that are earrings...lol

I had little kiddles but don't remember their names. I had the blonde hair one and l think another(l'm 'old' and memory fails) l had a few pieces of kiddles size furniture too. They disappeared years ago. My 2yrs younger niece had a blonde doll too. She chewed off the hands and feet; l asked her why? she said l was hungry.

Absolutely! I had a bunch

Especially when my uncle Joe gave me pictures of the women with no clothes on.🥴🙄😁

I'm sorry that this happened to you. My brother also did this. Sometimes we just cant fathom the depths of depression.

Man, I loved my Jimmy jet!!

I grew up at the same timeframe but never had the toy you described. But I did have the pot holder maker where you put the stretchy colored loops on the square metal frame & wove potholders. We sold them as kids!

Collection THX1138 tech

Little known fact: the prototypes used cadaver heads from the local morgue. Market testing families were suitably aghast when that detail was revealed (the leather covering occasionally came apart). Lawsuits and outrage eventually forced the substitution of bags of broken glass, fashioned into crude head/potato-like shapes.

And if you forgot where you put it, it would turn rotten and smell really rank. Lots of fun there!

@@commentatron Oh! What fun! I love playing with broken glass and cadavers! 👻🤪😈

@@glennso47 I actually played with Broken Glass and Cadavers (the metalcore band).

Yes,he most definitely was

Connie Bliss - It's funny, where I grew up, when those troll dolls came out, they were all over the place and I collected them when I was little. But they were called Wishnicks. Anyone else know them by that name?

I have a lot of things that I call “Damn Things.” I had a 1973 Chevy Caprice that I called a Damn Thing because it spent lots of time in the repair shop.

I had the entire Major Matt Mason series of toys! I wanted to become an astronaut as a young fellow and my family indulged my hunger for all space related toys. I still have all my Matt Mason toys including two Matt Mason figures and one Sgt. Storm still in their original, unopened, packaging. Thanks for remembering such a great offering from Mattel.👍🏼

I have cap gun

Or, a toy sub machine gun, with real ratatat sound.

I had both! Born in 1960.

I was I remember I was born in 1960

I had a cap gun with eagle on the stock both side of the stock had an eagle on it

Lincoln logs. One of my favorites. Coolest toy from the 60's I ever got and have the most memories of was my "Johnny 7". I played with that thing and fought so many wars with it over the next few years until it was finally so beat up and worn out and retired to the garbage can.

Christina Rath Lol

In your backyard?

We’ll forgive you for that. 🙏🙏

Me too 1964

@@dmax64 I had 1960 Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe, Master Matt Mason

I sold my original Barbie & Midge dolls and my possessed Chatty Cathy to a collector several years ago.

My co-workers gave me a beautiful re-issue of the original Barbie on the 30th anniversary of the Barbie doll. She looks just like the original, two outfits came with her, a striped bathing suit and the fitted black evening gown. I left her and other collectibles in a locked closet when I left my second husband. His girlfriend broke the lock and sold my collectible dolls and other stuff. She got $700 for all of the things that were in the closet. Years later I found another one of that re-issued Barbie and I still have her. Shes not worth much money, but it was really good to get her back.

How about how you had the toys is focusing on the toys it shows that you enjoy them when you were a kid too

Um nobody did that crap back then...be realistic

Social Justice Warrior toys

Judith Sides agreed, the woman seems to not so subtlety imply that if your son is wasn't prancing around he needed girl's toys.

And don't forget Erector Sets and Lincoln Logs. Actually made from real wood.

Sarah Lee doll?

Foghorn Leghorn Nope, not everyone is so intent on proving how racist and misogynistic things were back in the 50s and 60s. Its a shame that that's your point of view.

Can't tell if you're just trolling me here...

Foghorn Leghorn Yikes. Now I'm not sure if you were serious with your first comment! I thought you were. Okay, how can we figure this out? I genuinely watched the video to see the old toys, not to look for evidence that we were too gender-specific or evidence of racism. Ok, now it's your turn to explain. Was your initial comment serious? (I thought it was, so my answer was serious, not a joke). I think that in the 50s and 60s there wasn't the pervasive racism or anti-woman attitude that that era is criticized as having. Maybe I just didn't notice it back then. Maybe the idea that girls and boys enjoyed different kinds of toys just didn't seem to be a problem to me. I know racism was a real thing in some places, but even so at the time it seemed to me that people in general were working to stop racism. So, was your first comment serious? I noticed the narrator's very obvious attempt to make these toys seem offensive. Now THAT seemed offensive and a little forced to me.

I think i understand your comment now. Im thinking that we both were annoyed at this narrator. Am i correct?

It's true that sarcasm doesn't always work in RU-vid comments. I think many people agree that we came to this video for the nostalgia but got instead a healthy dose of someone's SJW gender nonsense.

David Keeler i remember that but dont know the name either. Gonna google it lol

David Keeler - My brother and I had one each - it was called Super Bird. It had a little cape. I had a white one, my brother had a red one. You pull a string, set it on the wall, and the spring-loaded wheel with suction cups made it climb the wall. There was an earlier version of it called Yogi Bird wall walker. It was pretty much the same thing, only instead of a pull-string, it had a key on it's side to tension the spring. Was it one of these you were talking about?

Yeah, it was a bird with a cape!

I had a similar toy but it was Howdy Doody.

Yes. Me too. 😁🥴

I don't think a full display of toys is the point of this video.....

Leave partisan politics out of toy discussions.

Exactly the point