What things do you collect from the 70s?
djd
>>
>Here's what I have:
>
>Easy Bake Oven (in the box)
>Big Burger Grill (in the box, complete with unopened batter
>packets--yuck!)
>Suzy Homemaker washer
>Suzy Homemaker stove (actually, I have 2)
>Miniature Suzy Homemaker washer
>Miniature Suzy Homemaker sink
>Mr. Peanut Peanut Butter Maker (in the box--you put the peanuts in his
>head, turn the crank, and the peanut butter comes out his ear)
>7-UP dispenser
>Panasonic Panapet radio
>Rockem Sockem Robots
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>What toys do you have? What toys do you *wish* you had??? This will be
>fun...
>
>Lisa Shaw
>moz...@aol.com
You got Rock'em Sock'em Robots!!!??? Oh man, I wanted those!!!
Never got them though. How much you want, huh??? Huh? Huh?
C'mon, how much!!?? C'mon!!??
Duane
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SunnyDeb
writes:
>Easy Bake Oven (in the box)
I always wanted one of those!
Deb Perry
Sean Wagle
I have an (almost complete) collection of Mad Magazine from 1973-1981.
Collecting those helped fill the gap since my modern history books in
elementary school only went up to the early 60s....
Robert Alpert
* LPs
* HiFi sets (especially with BSR Minichangers)
* Radios
* TVs
* Telephones (rotary dial)
* Cars (most recent is '75 AMC Hornet)
* Computers (early micros from late '70s)
* Betamax VCRs and tapes
In fact a visit to our house is like taking a trip back in time!
--
Bob Alpert
alp...@netaxs.com
L. Sutton
I collect "Have A Nice Day Stuff"- my favorite piece is a coffe mug for
the tranquilized Melloril wioth a happyface & the phrase "Have A Nice
Day" under smiley. What were they thinking????
I also have a huge collection of "music on tv" memorabillia- Tons of
Partridge Family stuff (including a plastic bus with little figures of
the P-Fam), Brady Bunch, Bobby Sherman, Krofft Stuff- my house looks like
a museum.
My fave recent find: A "Schoolhouse Rock" Cell from "3 is a magic Number"
of "Faith & Hope & Charity." As if that wasnt enough, I found it with 2
cells of "Timer" (I hanker for a hunka-a little slab or chunka-Ihanker
for a hunk of CHEESE!!!)
Thanks for letting me brag!!!
- Have A Nice Day
Eric Young
Gregory <sn...@eskimo.com> wrote:
> There was also another electronic game that I don't remember the name of
> - it was round, and had four large buttons of different colors on top.
> The buttons would light up in a different order and the object of the
> game was to repeat what the game did by pressing the buttons in the same
> order.
It was SIMON
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Eric Young
> What toys do you have? What toys do you *wish* you had??? This will be
> fun...
Always wanted "Incredible Edibles", the rubber critters that you baked in
molds and could eat.
I had a Hot Wheels "Sizzler" set with Fat Track that we thought was soooo
cool. The cars were rechargeable with the"Juice Machine" and the "Goose
Pump." It was one of the first Ni-Cad battery uses in toys that I can
remember.
nick
1987 and collected to 1991 and that was when everyone gave those to thrift
stores so I have about 2000 to 2500. My other collection begun
simultaneously was cover songs and I have about 10000 albums and 38
versions of Hey Jude and 23 of Impossible Dream and six of Sounds of
Silence - electronic, marching bands, the Golddiggers and Japanese lutes
of Hey Jude and children whistling and country Western version and a Texas
yodeler of Hey Jude
I think Yesterday is the most coverded song but they are wierd because you
don't have to like the Beatles to get into the irony
--
nick
soc...@bayou.uh.edu
L. Sutton
1967) and a bunch of unprepared food packets too!
I just picked up a really cool item- a set of Dutch Partridge Family
Cigar Bands!!!!!!
thomas conroy
save, aside from some LPs, is a GI Joe, one with fuzzy hair and beard.
Stuff I once had and wish I'd been foresightful enough to keep:
-Evil Knieval plastic figure with motorcycle
-Farrah Fawcett-Majors poster
-Vertibird helocopter
-Hot wheels
-Rock`em Sock`em Robots
-Wacky packages cards
-Famous Monsters of Filmland collection
-cereal box cut-out 45s
-Yo-yos
-various logo decorated tee-shirts
among other things
Tom
Eric Young
<tdb...@delphi.com> wrote:
> thomas conroy <con...@bu.edu> writes:
>
> >Stuff I once had and wish I'd been foresightful enough to keep:
>
>
> >-Vertibird helocopter
>
> Oh my gosh!!! Until I read your post, I had completely forgotten about my
> vertibird !!!! It was sooooooo much fun!!! How could I have forgotten!?!?!
My brother had the Vertibird, I had the "Hairy Canary" stunt plane. It
worked the same as the Vertibird, except you had to crank the handle to
make it go. NO BATTERIES! (That was weird for the 70's!) I finally got it
to do a few loops, but it didn't survive very long. The cement floor of
the basement was too much for it. :-)
- Eric
AlenSmithe
or find the master tapes from them(!) and put them all on an
indestructible CD! I think those were the coolest things, but I never had
any because my mom would never buy those cereals because they were bad for
me! I had to eat Wheaties, yuk!
I do have a Ghostbusters II contest record, a flexible plastic record that
came in Ghostbusters Cereal though! I bought it just to get the record!
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There's nothing we wanna watch on TV tonight, but we're still gonna watch
something great- with our RCA VideoDisc player and VideoDiscs! Just flip a
switch, and on OUR TV we see Airplane or The Pink Panther, The Godfather
or Grease, Muppets, monsters, Mickey, MASH and 100 more, starting as low
as $15! And the player costs less than 500! Put it this way; we're
watching a GREAT MOVIE! And you're watching- us.
BRING THE MAGIC HOME ON RCA!
John Kolesar
> Anyone remember Creepy Crawlers and Fun Flowers?
> What was the name of the kit like that where you could make "edible"
> candy bugs, etc.?
That would be Incredible Edibles! (How could you forget a name like that? :)
Then later on, they made Kooky Kakes.
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thing that had the head of a seahorse and it came with a hair-thin string
that you were supposed to tie to your shirt button. Anyway, you maneuvered
it around your hands and it looked like it was moving of it's own free
will.
I still have my collection of marbles from the 70's as well as my star
wars bubblegum cards (geeze the blue and the orange set were a pain to get
even when they were new!)
I wish I'd have kept all the special slurpee cups you got from 7-11. The
ones with monsters on them or star wars characters.
Does anyone remember pencil fights, or was that a southern california
thing. I lost more pencils in that idiotic pasttime.
Gooshie
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David
>these large balls of rel=ally hrd plastic on either end of a string and
>you would grab the string in the middle and klack the balls together as
>fast as you could. They made the most obnoxious noise--it was great. I
>got mine taken away from me when I accidently hit my kid brother with them.
>(at least I think it was an accident)
I think as kid I saw more klic-klacks haning from powerlines above my
street than I actually ever saw at my friends houses. Later in high school
when you couldn't buy klic-klacks (or yours were victims of said crime)
the object of choice to hang from powerlines were tennis shoes tied
together with the laces. Is this a common occurance with everyone?
-dave
Eric Young
Goo...@deltanet.com wrote:
> I had a Squirmles (Squirmals?). It was basically a big fuzzy worm-like
> thing that had the head of a seahorse and it came with a hair-thin string
> that you were supposed to tie to your shirt button. Anyway, you maneuvered
> it around your hands and it looked like it was moving of it's own free
> will.
Man! I forgot about that thing. I bugged my mom forever to get me one...
and she did! (Good ol' mom!) Didn't it use a piece of wax (or goop) to
hole it to the string? Or is this a far off, whacko memory?
It was cool, but I can't remember what ever happened to it.
- Eric
Chuck Holcomb
>Somewhere I also have Go to the Head of the Class, Candyland, and UhOh
>Cheerio (was that the name?)
Hi-Ho Cherry-O, one of my sister's games.
>>I also loved Klic-klacks ( I think that is what they were called) They were
>>these large balls of rel=ally hrd plastic on either end of a string and
I still have my "Clackers," as they were called here. The most coveted
ones were the clear ones with sparkles inside. I had a bruise on my
forearm for months from those things.
>Oh, I loved those, too. I remember they were supposed to be really
>dangerous though - they could shatter and injure kids' eyes. Think
>they were taken off of the market after a short time.
Mine, which saw hundreds of hours of use, eventually started to show
some pitting and chipping in the contact areas, but I _never_ heard of
one shattering. I think the main fear was that the knot could slip out
of the end of the string, and you'd have a 3-ounce missile sailing
across the room at about 50 mph.
-
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Kevin Dougherty
: >I also loved Klic-klacks ( I think that is what they were called) They were
<<misc deleted.
: when you couldn't buy klic-klacks (or yours were victims of said crime)
: the object of choice to hang from powerlines were tennis shoes tied
: together with the laces. Is this a common occurance with everyone?
: -dave
I know it's way off charter but the story I heard was that it was a
tradition to toss your sneakers up on the power line when you graduated
High School...
Kent Parks
: Somewhere I also have Go to the Head of the Class, Candyland, and UhOh
: Cheerio (was that the name?)
I believe you mean HI-HO Cherri-o? Where you'd spin the dial and 'win'
cherries into your little bucket, but if you got a crow <?>, then you had
to put them all back, or something?
Do you remember "Which Witch"? What about those 'tunnels' made of
cloth-covered wire that little kids could crawl through? What about a
CLOSE-N-PLAY phonograph!! I used to love to get in my 'tunnel' with my
Close-n-Play and play records! (I was VERY young so it was probably late
60s, truth be told, but I did retain these items into the 70s...)
Kent
Kent Parks
: ZBP...@prodigy.com (L. Sutton) wrote:
: >Boy- is THIS MY TOPIC!!!!
: >I also have a huge collection of "music on tv" memorabillia- Tons of
: >Partridge Family stuff (including a plastic bus with little figures of
: >the P-Fam), Brady Bunch, Bobby Sherman, Krofft Stuff- my house looks like
: >a museum.
: This sounds great -- I love all the stuff you mentioned. I have a
: sort of mini museum of pop culture here, too. :) Old collectibles:
: kitschy snowglobes
: '60's-'70's games (KerPlunk, Silly Safari, Mystery Date, etc.)
: Viewmaster reels - Partridges, Brady's, etc. etc.
: '64-'65 NY World's Fair stuff (I was only 4, but it was great :)
: vintage jewelry and clothes
: 1950's-'60's retro kitchen stuff (dinette, dishes, etc.)
: old tv book tie ins (i.e. Partridge Family books)
: I was born in '61 and I really love having all this old fun stuff
: around!
: Trish
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>From: cav...@ios.com (Kevin Dougherty)
>Subject: Re: What things do you collect from the 70s?
>Date: 23 Mar 1996 06:35:31 GMT
>: -dave
The power lines near our railrooad station are adorned with lots of sneakers.
The more things change...
Cheers!
Carl
Walter Five
Kent Parks <pa...@ruby.ils.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>Do you remember "Which Witch"? What about those 'tunnels' made of
>cloth-covered wire that little kids could crawl through? What about a
>CLOSE-N-PLAY phonograph!! I used to love to get in my 'tunnel' with my
>Close-n-Play and play records! (I was VERY young so it was probably late
>60s, truth be told, but I did retain these items into the 70s...)
>
the name of it, that looked like a tv, but was a projection machine, and
showed film strips while you played a record on the turntable that was built
in on top of it...the high-end ones had a.m./f.m. radios through a mono
speaker...but these film strips were like "Treasure Island", and "Gulliver's
Travels and other classic literature...they played my Beatles 45's GREAT, as
I recall, to my father's eternal regret...
Later Y'all!
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Kent Parks
: I wish I'd have kept all the special slurpee cups you got from 7-11. The
: ones with monsters on them or star wars characters.
Wow! Slurpee cups! How could I forget! I remember when it was baseball
players on them, then football players. The 'medium' size, which at the
time was 20 cents <!> (yes, small was 10 and LARGE was 30!) was the one
that had the special cups. I didn't even LIKE sports, or know who the
players were, but my friend next door got me collecting them just as
avidly as he did, much to our mothers' dismay! Come to think of it, I have
NEVER seen any of these cups at the numerous flea markets and such I
attend fairly often. Gosh, either they're quite rare, or else nobody
cares enough to mess with them...
Kent
Rick Inzero
Chuck Holcomb <chu...@NetHeaven.com> wrote:
>tr...@swsmail.atlanta.com (Trish) wrote:
>
>>>I also loved Klic-klacks ( I think that is what they were called) They were
>
>I still have my "Clackers," as they were called here. The most coveted
>ones were the clear ones with sparkles inside. I had a bruise on my
>forearm for months from those things.
>
>>Oh, I loved those, too. I remember they were supposed to be really
>>dangerous though - they could shatter and injure kids' eyes. Think
>>they were taken off of the market after a short time.
>
>Mine, which saw hundreds of hours of use, eventually started to show
>some pitting and chipping in the contact areas, but I _never_ heard of
>one shattering. I think the main fear was that the knot could slip out
>of the end of the string, and you'd have a 3-ounce missile sailing
>across the room at about 50 mph.
Yes, I remember they could shatter, with eye injuries. Perhaps the kids
in your area didn't figure out that while klik-klacking, if you
drop your hand very fast, then raise it fast (and repeat), you
can klik/klack at the bottom AND the top of the ball's travel. This
took a lot of speed, and put a lot of force on the hard plastic balls.
Back then, my mother wanted me to throw mine away because of news
reports of this, but I convinced her they were harmless if I merely threw
away the round ring in the middle (where you hold it), so I still have them.
Now that I'm grown up, I'm free to ignore Mom's "advice", and
have replaced the ring. :-) (But I sure won't be showing any kids
how to do the upper/lower clack.)
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Rochester, NY r...@cci.com
JnCwolf 77
writes:
>I remember those tunnels! Those *were* cool! I had a thing, I don't
remember
>the name of it, that looked like a tv, but was a projection machine, and
>showed film strips while you played a record on the turntable that was
built
>in on top of it...the high-end ones had a.m./f.m. radios through a mono
>speaker...but these film strips were like "Treasure Island", and
"Gulliver's
>Travels and other classic literature...they played my Beatles 45's GREAT,
as
>I recall, to my father's eternal regret...
>
>Later Y'all!
Wasn't that a "Show and Tell " projector? I think it was made by Kenner.
Rich Burroughs
>>I also loved Klic-klacks ( I think that is what they were called) They were
>>these large balls of rel=ally hrd plastic on either end of a string and
>>you would grab the string in the middle and klack the balls together as
>>fast as you could. They made the most obnoxious noise--it was great. I
>>got mine taken away from me when I accidently hit my kid brother with them.
>>(at least I think it was an accident)
How many bruises did you collect with your set of "Clackers". I know
my wrists were black & Blue!
"The music of the seventies was the blueprint that bands today can't
build!"
Rich Burroughs
Jackson, TN USA
Carl Virtanen
: Yes, I remember they could shatter, with eye injuries. Perhaps the kids
: in your area didn't figure out that while klik-klacking, if you
: drop your hand very fast, then raise it fast (and repeat), you
: can klik/klack at the bottom AND the top of the ball's travel. This
: took a lot of speed, and put a lot of force on the hard plastic balls.
it was the wickedest thing to look at and listen to, mostly because it
seemed so dangerous. Mind you, i did bonk my noggin quite a few time
while learning how to do this!
carl
Daniel Constien
: In article <4iv4bv$7...@tofu.alt.net>,
: Chuck Holcomb <chu...@NetHeaven.com> wrote:
: >tr...@swsmail.atlanta.com (Trish) wrote:
: >
: >>>I also loved Klic-klacks ( I think that is what they were called) They were
: >>>these large balls of rel=ally hrd plastic on either end of a string and
: >I still have my "Clackers," as they were called here. The most coveted
: >ones were the clear ones with sparkles inside. I had a bruise on my
: >forearm for months from those things.
: >
: >>Oh, I loved those, too. I remember they were supposed to be really
: >>dangerous though - they could shatter and injure kids' eyes. Think
: >>they were taken off of the market after a short time.
: >
: >Mine, which saw hundreds of hours of use, eventually started to show
: >some pitting and chipping in the contact areas, but I _never_ heard of
: >one shattering. I think the main fear was that the knot could slip out
: >of the end of the string, and you'd have a 3-ounce missile sailing
: >across the room at about 50 mph.
: Yes, I remember they could shatter, with eye injuries. Perhaps the kids
: in your area didn't figure out that while klik-klacking, if you
: drop your hand very fast, then raise it fast (and repeat), you
: can klik/klack at the bottom AND the top of the ball's travel. This
: took a lot of speed, and put a lot of force on the hard plastic balls.
: Back then, my mother wanted me to throw mine away because of news
: reports of this, but I convinced her they were harmless if I merely threw
: away the round ring in the middle (where you hold it), so I still have them.
: Now that I'm grown up, I'm free to ignore Mom's "advice", and
: have replaced the ring. :-) (But I sure won't be showing any kids
: how to do the upper/lower clack.)
: ---
: Rick Inzero uupsi!cci632!rdi
: Northern Telecom, Inc. rochester!cci632!rdi
: Rochester, NY r...@cci.com
I had mine for about 10 years or so and this year, *sniff* they cracked
in half as i klacked :(
dan
BobbyKY
late 70's. I have lots of 12" vinyl and many of the full length disco
versions on CD.
Carpe Noctem Magazine
(Carl Virtanen) wrote:
> Rick Inzero (r...@cci.com) wrote:
> : Yes, I remember they could shatter, with eye injuries. Perhaps the kids
> : in your area didn't figure out that while klik-klacking, if you
> : drop your hand very fast, then raise it fast (and repeat), you
> : can klik/klack at the bottom AND the top of the ball's travel. This
> : took a lot of speed, and put a lot of force on the hard plastic balls.
> I loved doing that! Took alot of practice to get it going but once it did
> it was the wickedest thing to look at and listen to, mostly because it
> seemed so dangerous. Mind you, i did bonk my noggin quite a few time
> while learning how to do this!
YES!! Many Klik Klacks could be seen hanging from telephone wires in my
neighborhood from trying to master this technique. Now they make a
similar product, but it's two balls connected with plastic to a handle.
All of the noise without all of the maiming. Too bad....
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My husband collects Starsky & Hutch Toys...the show ran in the mid
70's. He now has a whole room full of stuff.
>Rick Inzero (r...@cci.com) wrote:
>: In article <4iv4bv$7...@tofu.alt.net>,
>: Chuck Holcomb <chu...@NetHeaven.com> wrote:
>: >tr...@swsmail.atlanta.com (Trish) wrote:
>: >
>: >>>I also loved Klic-klacks ( I think that is what they were called) They were
>: >>>these large balls of rel=ally hrd plastic on either end of a string and
>: >
>: >I still have my "Clackers," as they were called here. The most coveted
>: >ones were the clear ones with sparkles inside. I had a bruise on my
>: >forearm for months from those things.
>: >
>: >>Oh, I loved those, too. I remember they were supposed to be really
>: >>dangerous though - they could shatter and injure kids' eyes. Think
>: >>they were taken off of the market after a short time.
>: >
>: >Mine, which saw hundreds of hours of use, eventually started to show
>: >some pitting and chipping in the contact areas, but I _never_ heard of
>: >one shattering. I think the main fear was that the knot could slip out
>: >of the end of the string, and you'd have a 3-ounce missile sailing
>: >across the room at about 50 mph.
>: Yes, I remember they could shatter, with eye injuries. Perhaps the kids
>: in your area didn't figure out that while klik-klacking, if you
>: drop your hand very fast, then raise it fast (and repeat), you
>: can klik/klack at the bottom AND the top of the ball's travel. This
>: took a lot of speed, and put a lot of force on the hard plastic balls.
Kent Parks
reminded me of some of those commercials--Slinky, of course, and Wheel-O,
but for some reason all that stuff reminded me of those things with a ring
that you'd put on your ankle, tied to a rope, at the end of which was some
kind of plastic thing, for weight basically, and you would make it spin
around, while jumping over it with the other leg? WHAT were those things
called?
Kent
Debbie Lake
originals. He had a bunch of monster models (Frankenstein, Dracula, The
Creature). Now he kicks himself for throwing them out 20 years ago.
Deb
Dave Ranson
>
> but for some reason all that stuff reminded me of those things with a
> ring that you'd put on your ankle, tied to a rope, at the end of which
> was some kind of plastic thing, for weight basically, and you would
> make it spin around, while jumping over it with the other leg? WHAT
> were those things called?
I think they were called "Footsies." A yellow ring, and a red weight at
the end of the string? Another great schoolyard fad.
But it explained why, when characters on TV and in the movies said
something like "she was playing footsie with him in the restaurant,"
all us kids (the ones I knew anyway) were totally puzzled. It would be a
few years before we realized that the Footsie toy that we knew was not
the footsie they were playing on TV.
D.
Steve
>I know it's way off charter but the story I heard was that it was a
>tradition to toss your sneakers up on the power line when you graduated
>High School...
Here in Philadelphia, kids throw there sneakers on power lines
everytime they get rid of an old pair. It is a time honored
tradition.
BTW, does anyone know any other names for those things, besides
Klic-Klacks? I know there was another name I just can't think of
it. I still see them around from time to time. And they are still
cool.
Steve
ChuckSSMUG
60s and 70s. They just don't make music like that any more.
Best,
Chuck Humbertson
Megan Brown
: In article <4iv4bv$7...@tofu.alt.net>,
: Chuck Holcomb <chu...@NetHeaven.com> wrote:
: >tr...@swsmail.atlanta.com (Trish) wrote:
: >
: >>>I also loved Klic-klacks ( I think that is what they were called) They were
: >>>these large balls of rel=ally hrd plastic on either end of a string and
: >
: >I still have my "Clackers," as they were called here. The most coveted
: >ones were the clear ones with sparkles inside. I had a bruise on my
: >forearm for months from those things.
: >
They were all the rage in the Seattle area among grade school kids in the
late sixties/early seventies. At my school there would be hundreds of
kids doing them during each recess. The racket was incredible. I had
beautiful pair of clear turquise clackers. The idea was for them to hit
at both the top and bottom of their arc for as many times as you could do
in a row without missing. There were kids who could do up into the
thousands.
Megan Brown
mbr...@fred.fhcrc.org
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
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Joi Ball
>
> BTW, does anyone know any other names for those things, besides
> Klic-Klacks? I know there was another name I just can't think of
> it. I still see them around from time to time. And they are still
> cool.
I don't know how to spell it, but 'ka-nip ka-nop'? (Probably spelled with a
'silent' K -- knip-knop)
When they were the rage, my dad was the elementary school principal. He had
to ban them from school. Too many kids getting whomped with the balls. And
then some of the bigger sets, the plastic was cracking and sending sharp
shards into eyes and such....
Kent Parks
: I don't know how to spell it, but 'ka-nip ka-nop'? (Probably spelled with a
: When they were the rage, my dad was the elementary school principal. He had
: to ban them from school. Too many kids getting whomped with the balls. And
: then some of the bigger sets, the plastic was cracking and sending sharp
: shards into eyes and such....
I think you are thinking og "Gnip Gnop", which was a game you could buy
that involved 'shooting' plastic balls back and forth inside a plastic
chamber. (It's "ping pong" spelled backwards)
Kent
Eric Young
> BTW, does anyone know any other names for those things, besides
> Klic-Klacks? I know there was another name I just can't think of
> it. I still see them around from time to time. And they are still
> cool.
Clackers.
- Eric
RobertaQ
foot through and put it around your ankle, then there would be a long
plastic line with a plastic ball on it. The object was to swing it around
your ankle and skip over the line and ball as it came around each time. I
recall having one and playing with it, but can't recall the name of it!
Walter Five
a Lemon-Skip? I remember these, but what I remember, is that the "ball" was
a piece of plastic fruit, a lemon, and hence, the name "Lemon Skip".
Jada Lewis
They are neat!
Jada
Matthew Coon
>In article <robertaq-060...@robertaq.vip.best.com>,
>RobertaQ <robe...@best.com> wrote:
>>Does anyone remember that toy that had a plastic ring you'd stick your
>>foot through and put it around your ankle, then there would be a long
>>plastic line with a plastic ball on it. The object was to swing it around
>>your ankle and skip over the line and ball as it came around each time. I
>>recall having one and playing with it, but can't recall the name of it!
>
>a Lemon-Skip? I remember these, but what I remember, is that the "ball" was
>a piece of plastic fruit, a lemon, and hence, the name "Lemon Skip".
>
and made a humming/buzzing noise as it orbited your ankle?
I can't remember the name of this one, either...
m@t
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In article <4k8ntf$6...@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, co...@omni.cc.purdue.edu (Matthew Coon) writes:
-> In article <4k5qcs$b...@brewich.com>, Walter Five <wal...@brewich.com> wrote:
-> >In article <robertaq-060...@robertaq.vip.best.com>,
-> >RobertaQ <robe...@best.com> wrote:
-> >>Does anyone remember that toy that had a plastic ring you'd stick your
-> >>foot through and put it around your ankle, then there would be a long
-> >>plastic line with a plastic ball on it. The object was to swing it around
-> >>your ankle and skip over the line and ball as it came around each time. I
-> >>recall having one and playing with it, but can't recall the name of it!
-> >
-> >a Lemon-Skip? I remember these, but what I remember, is that the "ball" was
-> >a piece of plastic fruit, a lemon, and hence, the name "Lemon Skip".
-> >
-> Wasn't there a version of this where the "ball" was shaped like a beehive
-> and made a humming/buzzing noise as it orbited your ankle?
-> I can't remember the name of this one, either...
My little sister had one of these in the late 60's/early 70's. The weight
at the end of the tether was a red bell that had a smaller, chromed metal
ringer inside. As I remember, this little critter went by the name of
"Footsie" or something very similar. I recall my sister and her friends
each having one and walking (skipping?) up and down the sidewalk with one
on their ankles. After a while, I think my sis could manage one on each
ankle.
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>"Footsie" or something very similar. I recall my sister and her friends
>each having one and walking (skipping?) up and down the sidewalk with
one
>on their ankles. After a while, I think my sis could manage one on each
>ankle.
Mike
That was Footsie, allright. There was also musical footsie with a bell on
it. Some of us less coorinated kids would trip all over these things and
land smack on our chins. This is another of those great dangerous toys
like "Water Wiggle" (Man that water spray hurt!) and "Slip And Slide"
(watch out for that sprinkler head! OOOH!)
Actually, Slip & Slide was taken off the market because a nuber of adults
were paralized while using it. (Something about the adult anatomy cant
handle it).
ALSO: I saw an amazing product at Target a few weeks ago: Water Fun
Twister! It took the cop-a feel fun of the original Twister and combined
it with the break your ass fun of slip and slide witha wet t-shirt
contest thrown in! Whatll they think of next!
Philip A. Shane
>
> Does anyone remember that toy that had a plastic ring you'd stick your
I think that toy was called the Skip-n-Step. I had one too.
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djd
>Steve wrote:
>>
>> BTW, does anyone know any other names for those things, besides
>> Klic-Klacks? I know there was another name I just can't think of
>> it. I still see them around from time to time. And they are still
>> cool.
>
>..on some of the bigger sets, the plastic was cracking and sending
>sharp shards into eyes and such....
Yeah!! And don't throw pencils, you can take somebody's eye out!!
AND DON'T RUN WITH THOSE SCISSORS, YOUNG MAN!!!!
(Eventually, we all turn into our parents..) ;)
Duane
djd...@ix.netcom.com
Steve Mihelcic
think). You would move your hand real fast so that the balls would knock
into each other under and over your hand. They got taken off the market
because sometimes the balls broke and Ithink some kids got glass in their
eyes.
CLock7193
wish I still had it.
Catherine
CLock7193
basically just a big wet piece of plastic that you lay on the hard ground,
run towards as fast as you can and then do a belly flop on it and slide
til you fall off the other end. Just because I criticize doesn't mean I
didn't love it.
And the Water Wiggle...don't get me started.
Eric Buxton
>In <31654A...@inna.net> Joi Ball <jb...@inna.net> writes:
>>
>>Steve wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW, does anyone know any other names for those things, besides
>>> Klic-Klacks? I know there was another name I just can't think of
>>> it. I still see them around from time to time. And they are still
>>> cool.
>
>>
>>..on some of the bigger sets, the plastic was cracking and sending
>>sharp shards into eyes and such....
like an accident waiting to happen! The sets I remember from the early 80s
were "shatterproof" plastic, which seems a bit more safe. With the amount of
time spent by my sisters and myself with the glass clackers, I am surprised
we don't have patches over at least one eye ;)
As a related note, does anyone remember a similar item that was much safer:
A metal rod held 2 long plastic rods that were shorter on one end, and they
head a round top with cut outs to make it look like a face. The objective
was to start the plastic pieces spinning around and around in opposite
directions. The set my family has is the only set I have ever seen. One
side was white plastic, the other a pinkish.
Eric
Susan Hough
>RobertaQ wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone remember that toy that had a plastic ring you'd stick your
>> foot through and put it around your ankle, then there would be a long
>> plastic line with a plastic ball on it. The object was to swing it around
>> your ankle and skip over the line and ball as it came around each time. I
>> recall having one and playing with it, but can't recall the name of it!
>
>I think that toy was called the Skip-n-Step. I had one too.
I haven't seen one in a while, but they were revived at one point around
1990: they were popular among my daughter's friends when they were in
1st/2nd grade. I remember them from my own childhood as well...Skip-Its,
perhaps?
Sue
Kev Flynn
Kev
ABC
of the commercial. I liked the song. "Come on everybody, we're having
fun. We gotta new kick, and its number one." ..... something, something,
something..... and the chorus was, "Footsie, yeah....everybody's having
fun. Footsie, yeah... I'm gonna get me one!"
Cyberwave
>
>cav...@ios.com (Kevin Dougherty) wrote:
>
>
>
>>I know it's way off charter but the story I heard was that it was a
>>tradition to toss your sneakers up on the power line when you graduated
>>High School...
>
>Here in Philadelphia, kids throw there sneakers on power lines
>everytime they get rid of an old pair. It is a time honored
>tradition.
>
>Klic-Klacks? I know there was another name I just can't think of
>it. I still see them around from time to time. And they are still
>cool.
>
>
>
In Calgary, we drop them in oil wells.
Tim Claremont
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> Newsgroups: alt.culture.us.1970s,rec.toys.vintage
> Subject: Re: What things do you collect from the 70s?
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> Joi Ball <jb...@inna.net> wrote:
>
> >Steve wrote:
> >>
> >> BTW, does anyone know any other names for those things, besides
> >> Klic-Klacks? I know there was another name I just can't think of
> >> it. I still see them around from time to time. And they are still
> >> cool.
>
> >'silent' K -- knip-knop)
>
> (Savannah and Atlanta), we called them Clackers.
>
> Trish
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They're called Ker-Bangers!
You know:
"Ker-Bangers on the left
Ker-Bangers on the right
Ker-Bangers all around
Ker-Bangers out of sight!"
-Tim
Andy Daniel
counter that records how many times it goes around (they can't leave well
enough alone!)
Andy Daniel
Tom Schoeneweis
>I don't know how to spell it, but 'ka-nip ka-nop'? (Probably spelled with a
>'silent' K -- knip-knop)
Where I grew up they were called "Clacker" or "Click-Clacks" at least unofficially. I think you might be
remembering the gam "Gnip-Gnop" - definitely pronounced ga-nip ga-nop. This was a small plastic box with
three white and three yellow balls. One person sat on either side beginning with all of the same color balls.
There were three buttons, one for each ball, which by pressing or tapping them would send the balls to the
other person's side. There was also a plastic barrier in the middle with three holes in it just large enough
for one of the balls to pass through. You won the game when all of YOUR balls were on your opponent's side.
The inventors of the game saw it as sort of a play on ping-pong, hence the name Gnip-Gnop which are the
ping-pong words spelled backwards.
We had one. Anyone else??
Tom
Stuck in the '70's
Ellen
> >> BTW, does anyone know any other names for those things, besides
> >> Klic-Klacks? I know there was another name I just can't think of
> >> it. I still see them around from time to time. And they are still
> >> cool.
> >..on some of the bigger sets, the plastic was cracking and sending
> >sharp shards into eyes and such....
Shatterballs .... ? I swear, at least a few people called them
that. Wouldn't have known what else to call them.
As a sort-of-related item, what other names are there for
those 5 strands of heavy balls (golf-ball sized), where you hold
one (or 2) out to the side, drop it(them), and the one on the
other side flies out -- besides "perpetual motion machines"?
Those are cool.
--Ellen
James Bartlett
In article <31711E...@sgtec.com> Tom Schoeneweis wrote:
>
>The inventors of the game saw it as sort of a play on ping-pong, hence the
> name Gnip-Gnop which are the
>ping-pong words spelled backwards.
>
>We had one. Anyone else??
>
Yep.
Anybody else collect various yellow smiley-face paraphernalia? I've got
mostly ceramic stuff: cookie jar, bank, coffee mugs. I've seen
salt-n-pepper shakers, but not since I started actually buying the stuff.
jim
L. Sutton
I collect Smiley Face stuff too. Ive got some AMAZING pieces. My favorite
is a promotional mug for a heavy tranquilizer called Melloril with a
smiley face on it. Its unreal.
The origin of the happy face came in 1968 at a bank in Seattle. They were
trying to create a feeling of warmth in the turbulent times (a lot of
hippies & runaways hungout in the downtown area which was causing tension.
) A young ad man named Micheal Stern came up with the Idea of passing out
the little yellow smiley buttons to promote a feeling of happines, at
least at the Savings & Loan who hired him. He never copyrighted the image.
A few weeks later, a market across the street started doing the same
thing. Not wanting to cause any animosity, the bank let it slide. Within
2 years it had become a nationwide fad. Norms restaourant chain in Los
Angeles has often been creditied with starting the trend (they gave out
smileys in early 1970 with any purchase).
I wrote an article on this subject which you can read in greater detail
on a newsgroup I run over on Prodigy (shameless plug, I know , but Im
proud!) called "Disco Biscuit" (If youve got P, check it out.)
Tony & Robin
ZBP...@prodigy.com (L. Sutton) wrote:
>I collect Smiley Face stuff too. Ive got some AMAZING pieces. My favorite
>is a promotional mug for a heavy tranquilizer called Melloril with a
>smiley face on it. Its unreal.
>
On my homepage I have the coolest Smiley Face! You'll love it!!
Robin
http://brutus.bright.net/~phantoms/robin.html
Texican
No one ever had a pet rock?
Mood rings, bean bags, puka shell necklaces.
Polyester pants with a white belt and 2" heels on your boots...the
ones with zippers on the side.
"BUT I"M VINNIE BARBARINO!!???
an...@map.com
Star wars, star wars, star wars, and oh yeah STAR WARS!! :)
Andy
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Andy Curto
Student of Kajukenbo that's always looking to buy Star Wars Toys :)
"May the Force Be With You"
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Margi Harris
I had hiphuggers, vote shirts, army jacket, peace symbols in various
venues i.e. necklaces, earrings, posters, a husband and a baby.
Keep on Truckin and Right on
Tim Irvin
I had a ton of free Freakies stuff in a Snoopy and Woodstock lunchbox.
There are about 30 plastic figurines, about 50 magnets, a few of the
plastic "cars" and a couple of "Freakies are Forever" patches.
I ordered a Snorkeldorf Freakies T-shirt when I was about 9. I still
have all that junk around somewhere, unless my parents threw it out when
they retired and moved up to Oregon.
But I had the *worst* time trying to get Gargle and complete my set of
the plastic figurines.
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In article <320810...@ott.net>, Margi Harris <mar...@ott.net> wrote:
>Texican wrote:
>>
>> No one ever had a pet rock?
>> Mood rings, bean bags, puka shell necklaces.
>> Polyester pants with a white belt and 2" heels on your boots...the
>> ones with zippers on the side.
>> "BUT I"M VINNIE BARBARINO!!???
>
>I had hiphuggers, vote shirts, army jacket, peace symbols in various
>venues i.e. necklaces, earrings, posters, a husband and a baby.
>
we said were" Don't get so Hot and Hairy".....Big Whoopie Ding...."Big
Tickle" and what about those CPO jackets, now that I think about it, they were
very uncomfortable and itchy.........chuck / 70's still on my mine
Paul Goldschmidt
I collect fusion jazz & funk albums from that era when I can find 'em.
I recently found Romantic Warrior by Return To Forever and an early
Allan Holdsworth on CD.
an...@map.com
> I collect fusion jazz & funk albums from that era when I can find 'em.
> I recently found Romantic Warrior by Return To Forever and an early
> Allan Holdsworth on CD.
Would tapes full of cheesy movies count? I have lots of them :)
Andy
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Student of Kajukenbo that's always looking to buy Star Wars Toys :)
"May the Force Be With You"
Please wear your safety belts
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jaymike
tex...@twave.net (Texican) wrote:
>No one ever had a pet rock?
>Mood rings, bean bags, puka shell necklaces.
>Polyester pants with a white belt and 2" heels on your boots...the
>ones with zippers on the side.
>"BUT I"M VINNIE BARBARINO!!???
Some other 1970's fashion items:
Shag hair-do's
dark colored stockings or panty-hose
clackity-clack balls (2 acrylic balls on a nylon rope, which you flip
back and forth very fast to get a clack sound)
hot pants/boots
Back in High School (1970-75) I had a crush on a girl named Melissa
who wore hot pants with a mini-skirt attached to them, with a zipper
in the front along with white vinyl 2" heel boots. She also had a
navy blue hot pants/jacket outfit as well. Man...she looked good!
Drove the guys nuts! (as well as some of the single male teachers,
too!!)
Just wondering if these fashion items are making a comeback?