Do you remember the 60's?

Does any body remember having a toy Thompson submachine gun like the Marines and the Army carried in WWII and Korea? I think it was made my Mattel or Marx. I took mine to school and all the other boys were jealous. It had a brown plastic stock and the rest was black. You pulled back a lever and it made a ratatat sound. This one didn't have an orange tip either. It was given to me for Christmas in 1963. It fired auto or single fire. It fired caps also. If anybody knows where one is let me know. It looked almost realistic.
William <lpcc614@juno.com>
MS USA - Tuesday, November 26, 2002 at 11:45:47 (EST)

Reguarding the SST zippper strip cars. Does anyone remember the demlition version of these cars. I think it had ramps that and two cars that you would run at each other and when they made contact the doors, trunk and hood would fly off. Goop was the greatest invention. Making your own spiders, scorpions etc to scare your mom and sister with, then they made those stupid flower power version that girls made jewerly with. GI joe (Desert set) with the six wheel car and the pith helmet.
Jon
USA - Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 09:10:08 (EST)

Am I dreaming? Does anyone remember a doll, about 18", dressed as a ballerina (ballet shoes & all), from the sixites? I was reliving my childhood searching through the Crissy dolls for auction on Ebay, when I had a quick flash of holding this doll and wishing she were mine. She belonged to a pal of mine. Did such a doll exist and what on earth was her name? Please put me out of my misery. Cheers, Rory I
Rory <Rory5@hotmail.com>
Peterborough, Canada - Friday, November 22, 2002 at 16:38:08 (EST)

WOOLWORTHS!
Patti <regency_era@yahoo.com>
NYC, NY USA - Thursday, November 21, 2002 at 16:57:08 (EST)

DOUBLE STICK POPSICLES!!!The light blue raspberry flavor was the BEST! Now light blue usually means bubble gum flavored, ick! DRAKES CUPCAKES, they came in light chocolate or dark chocolate frosting, nothing today compares..
Dalilah <avalondrift@yahoo.com>
L.A., CA USA - Thursday, November 21, 2002 at 16:50:35 (EST)

Does anyone remember the birthday corsages? Sugar cubes for sweet sixteen, gum drops -at what age?, tootsie rolls,-? bubble gum-?? I need to know what corsage we gave for each year. Thanks for your help!
maureen <maureen_corso@ffic.com>
Huntington, NY USA - Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 15:56:55 (EST)

I'm only 27....but my mom grew up in the 60's and has always told my sisters and I about "BONOMO TURKISH TAFFY" and her love for it. I thought it would be very special if I could give her a gift of some (or any) pictures or whatever on this candy. I realize it has since been discontinued...but I'd love to give her any reminders of her love for this candy as a child. Thanks in advance!!! ---Willow
Willow <HiltonHeadSeeker@aol.com>
Sevierville, TN USA - Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 15:11:03 (EST)

Hi! I posted earlier (in July), but after reading all the great messages since, I had to post again! Though I was born in 1952, my "baby" sister was born in 1959--and through her childhood, I got to know a lot of great toys I wouldn't have experienced otherwise. She had a talking plush Casper the Friendly Ghost from Mattel (his head was so hard, we could use it as a weapon!); a bubblecut Barbie (which she exchanged at our local Zayre in 1967 for the new "Twist and Turn" Barbie with Bendable Legs!); all the great Soakies, especially the monsters; Fuzzy Wuzzy Soap (which wasn't really fuzzy...looked more like mold!); Chatty Cathy; Charmin' Chatty; Thumbelina (remember her?); View-Master (awesome toy); Incredible Edibles (they were gross!); Easy Bake Oven; Kookie Kamera; something called "Glo Globs," which was essentially glow in the dark putty (it came in neon colors, I recall); Lite-Brite; Spirograph; the introduction of Barbie's little sister, Skipper--oh, I could go on and on. For myself, I was VERY big into monsters! I had all the Aurora kits, plus some cool monster puzzles (pretty gruesome, too) by Jaymar and all the monster Soakies. Nostalgia is great--but what saddens me most about it is the passing of some great cultural icons. We just lost Jonathan Harris, who made me laugh uproariously as "Dr. Zachary Smith" on Lost in Space. He'll be greatly missed! I'll never forget Lucy, Jackie and Jack Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Richard Nixon (yes, for good or for bad), Pat Nixon (poor woman), Milton Berle, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Fred MacMurray, Fred Gwynne (my favorite, and I miss him terrifically); Hugh Beaumont (a stern but loving TV dad); my own dad; my grandparents; Elizabeth Montgomery (who'll always be young and beautiful to this Boomer!); Grayson Hall, Joel Crothers, Louis Edmonds, Dennis Patrick, and Joan Bennett, from Dark Shadows; DeForest Kelley; John Lennon, George Harrison, and many more I've forgotten to mention--but they haven't forgotten in my heart! The Sixties was a golden time for a kid, and I'm glad to have lived through the entire decade. There'll never be another one like it! Rod
Rod Labbe <rod1152@gwi.net>
Waterville , ME USA - Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 10:35:04 (EST)

I remember back in the late 70's or as late as the early 80's I bought a whole box of Chum Gum because someone had started to make it again. Too bad,someone could make some money if they brought it out again.
Richard Sharp <sharpsound7@cs.com>
Moore, OK USA - Tuesday, November 05, 2002 at 15:37:18 (EST)

Anyone remember a playground song sung by girls around 1967 in IOWA. They held hands in a circle and sang, one girl would be called to go to the middle and dance and shake her hair. Vague memories, but it was a great tune. A uptempo Chant sort of with lots of words. Arman
arman <heartsofgoldnet@aol.com>
rochester, mn USA - Tuesday, November 05, 2002 at 11:43:59 (EST)

This is a fun site. It brings back memories of my Kabala game. I was born in 1960 so I must have been 8 or 9 when I got it. Kind of like a ouija board, a game I would never buy for my own kids! I'm sure my mother destroyed it! We used to play the game in the bathroom because that was the only room without windows and it glowed in the dark. We would set the plastic game board on the toilet! The magic words were Pax, sax, serax, hola, noa, nostra. I loved my troll dolls and had a troll house. It was a plastic suitcase that unfolded into a troll cave. I also remember Tip It, Mystery Date, Hands Down, Klackers, soap that grew hair, Chatty Cathy, Barbie and Midge, and Kerplunk. I had a Creepy Crawler fun Factory and Incredible Edibles. My sister had Fun Flowers. We watched the Banana Splits, The Fantastic Four, the Brady Bunch, Gumby, Davey and Goliath, the Bugaloos, HR Pufinstuff, Lidsville, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and The Adams Family in our 60's tract house in California. At night we watched the Viet Nam war on the news.
Brenda Johnson <UtahBrynners@aol.com>
North Logan, Ut USA - Monday, November 04, 2002 at 00:36:54 (EST)

WOGGLE STICK? Curved piece of 'plywood'..placed your foot on each 'end' and wobbled around...was declared 'dangerous' sometime mid-sixties. Anyone remember?
Gary <vgvegas@hotmail.com>
Henderson, NV USA - Sunday, November 03, 2002 at 16:46:41 (EST)

Love your site !!! I am well 40. I have collected tippy toes, talking cinderella from mattel, velvet, (the hair doll.) Those pizza wheels made me HUNGRY!!!Does anyone have the talking snowhite? I am dying to get her. I seem to remember fuzzy wuzzy bear soap, but can't find that either. Write if you have a link, or the doll. I am poor, but can pay some! MJN
Mary Jayne naumann <killy_kollys_mimi@yahoo.com>
Gouldsboro, ME USA - Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 19:01:59 (EDT)

Does anyone remember the doll called a "Baby Kick & Cry"? It was a hard plastic doll that ran on batteries, and it kicked its legs and made a crying sound, and I remember it being really heavy. I got one for my second Christmas in 1967 and would really like to find someone who has one to sell.
Linda <lingayro@aol.com>
Jonesboro, AR USA - Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 13:47:41 (EDT)

I am also looking for a Tricky Tommy Turtle. I accidentally broke a Tommy Turtle that belonged to my twin brother when we were very young and he has never let me forget it to this day ;) If anyone has information please contact me @ tjones@identityconcepts.net
Teresa Jones <tjones@identityconcepts.net>
Jamestown, OH 45335 - Monday, October 14, 2002 at 14:45:03 (EDT)

I remember Tommy Turtle. Others here have referred to this wonderfully blue and yellow toy that comes when you blow a matching blue and yellow whistle as "Tricky Tomy Turtle" and "Tootle Turtle," but I remember him as Tommy Turtle. If anyone has one that is in working condition or in otherwise good condition that they would be interested in selling, contact me and let's dicker. Remembering Tommy made me think of the puppet I had based on Mister Ed. A pull-string and he would say a lot of the words from the show. I still have this one, though he's not in very good condition and the voice box is broken. Why do we hang on to some of these? Memories, I guess. . .fun ones! :)
Feather <feather@earthling.net>
Mendocino area, CA USA - Friday, October 11, 2002 at 02:27:11 (EDT)

Mr.Owl...How many licks does it take to get to the the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop? Remember Casper The Ghost cereal? Anyone ever cut open a Stretch Armstrong and taste his flesh? Kung-Fu Grip G.I. Joes were deLIGHTfully flamable. Who needs Nintendo when you've got Rock-em Sock-em robots? Born in '67. Why did my parrents dress me in those polyester clothes? Couldn't they have sent me off to reform school or something? I'm still itchy.
E. Gochnour <egochnour@cox.net>
New Orleans, La USA - Monday, October 07, 2002 at 15:19:21 (EDT)

I was born in 1961 and remember my older sister(1954) listening to the Beatles "i wanna hold your hand" I also remember tne big deal about the moon landing I was watching it on the special program that night they landed. Also, slang used the ...groovy, flake off, farout ect ectra. Dippity Do and the make up and hair styles ...Oh. yea everone loved "That girl" and" Mary Ann"... oo la -la. One lasting memory is how my older 3 cousins and brother enlisted in the army so they could go to "Nam" three did go and two saw extensive combat there they all came back which was lucky.
ingemar Lloyd woods <inkspot61us@yahoo.com>
springdale, wa USA - Saturday, October 05, 2002 at 13:21:47 (EDT)

TO: SANDY MACE- In regard to that dry-shampoo from back it the 60's- I still have the oval carton it came in, believe it or not!!-And it's called MINI-POO SHAMPOO-LOVED THE COMMERCIAL TOO...
Lisa Cox <lisarco@msn.com>
boynton beach, fl USA - Sunday, September 29, 2002 at 16:08:28 (EDT)

Oh God! This is too much! GI JOE space capsule! Verty Birds!!! GREAT TOY! Now...I MUST have some SST cars, you know, the fly wheel wonders with the "zip-strip" you pull through the roof. I remember "The Blue Falme?" a dragster and some others. Any ideas where I could at least get photos of them if not buy a few? Oh yes HOTWHEELS! Major Matt Mason! M-3 machine (cap) guns with the crank on the side! I am haveing a pre-mid-life crisis, crisis! HELP!
Tom Lauten <tomlauten@hotmail.com>
United Kingdom - Sunday, September 29, 2002 at 10:41:58 (EDT)

FORTUNE HUNTING ?....other the the ole OUIJA BOARD.. . . What about that FOLDED PAPER trick where you "cubed" a piece of plain paper into different wedges and by moving your fingers inside them you could answer a FUTURE question by selecting a number: 1 - 2- 3 or 4 ? (The answers would be already written on INSIDE the folded to be selected by another fried). Whenever we exhausted every other game, we always came up with that folded paper 'wedgies'. Don't remember what they called it.
Norma <hesperia13@bellsouth.net>
WPB, FL USA - Friday, September 27, 2002 at 10:15:05 (EDT)

I remember Winky Dink and the song "Winky Dink and you, Winky Dink and me, Oh what fun we're gonna have together". Man I didn't even buy the kit, I just drew all over the TV screen. I loved my Batman Colorforms, Green Ghost game, Feely Meely game, and all the GI Joe stuff. Man I wished I saved that stuff. I was also into Creepy Crawlers and Creeple People. Remember going to the candy store to find the new candies that were just coming out. Man all you see now is the same stuff they sold for years. Does anyone remeber the 4-wheeled pedal toy you would stand on and alternate moving your feet to go down the street. It was so hard to do and I don't ever think I ever learned. Lots of great memories!
Jon <jonedwards1@msn.com>
Albuquerque, NM USA - Thursday, September 26, 2002 at 07:03:47 (EDT)

The thing I remember most about the 60's was I was the only kid in my neighborhood who didn't have "monster" nightmares! Mine all came from the TV tube! My biggest nightmare nemesis was, believe it or not, the original NBC Peacock! I hated that thing! Everyone in my family thought it was beautiful- I thought it was a MONSTER! I used to run & hide when that deep voice would say,"The Following Program Is Brought To You In Living Color On NBC!" I laugh about that stuff with my friends now!
DJ Khromedome Kevin <danceplanetdj@aol.com>
Nashville, TN USA - Monday, September 23, 2002 at 00:01:39 (EDT)

I remember the 60's as the only kid who didn't have "monster" nightmares- mine came from the TV tube! My biggest nemesis was, believe it or not, the original NBC Peacock! Everyone in my family thought it was beautiful- I thought it was a monster! I had too many nightmares of that back in day! Now I can laugh at that stuff!
Kevin A. Walker(DJ Name: Khromedome) <dancplanetdj@aol.com>
Nashville, TN USA - Sunday, September 22, 2002 at 23:34:32 (EDT)

As a toddler in early 50's, had a cloth-covered stuffed dog with tubular legs and flat, round discs for feet---any leads on this?
Robin Daley <adrift@adelphia.net>
USA - Friday, September 20, 2002 at 14:40:25 (EDT)

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