I was a child of the 60's.... remember creepie crawlers? Had the goop and the hot plate with molds that you could make plastic insects... A wonder I didn't burn the house down with that thing LOL! Finally ended when I decided I wanted to be a chef like Graham Kerr and tried to make an omelet on the hot plate which resulted in a small smoky mess, best I remember :) I was a sucker for everything that was offered for mail order form comic books and Boy's Life magazine. I think the biggest disappointment were the x-ray glasses which I thought for sure was going to enlighten me on the female anatomy but instead was more of a feather layered between two pieces of plastic that you looked through :) Wish I would of saved all that old stuff!
Now the 2 to 5 year olds are helping their grandparents learn how the computer works😆. I remember fascination and a couple others. I was around 9 so I still loved dolls.
My brother and I had Tinker Toys. He was a bit too old in ‘62 for a number of these toys. I was in the 4th grade so some of these were pretty cool and some not so much. I mostly had Tonka trucks and Matchbox cars. We also had an HO scale Lionel train set with a town. It was on a huge plywood board in our garage.
Love that 50's-60's background music! I have one of the original Fisher-Price Tick-Tock clocks! I bought it at an antique store about 10 or 15 years ago. A few years ago, when I saw they were being reissued I was a little afraid that what I had was a reproduction. So I took it to a local clock repair man (to see if he could fix the music box), and not only did he reassure me that it was an original, NOT a reproduction, he was overjoyed to see this toy because it reminded him of his childhood! While he could not fix the music box (it was too overwound) he showed me how I could manually make it play! He said I really made his day, and truthfully, he really made mine!
We had one too. It still worked when my nephew was born in '69. My younger brother had a toy train that spewed smoke and backed up if it confronted an obstacle, and blew a horn. My Das bought it at a store at Lenox Sq.-when it was still an open mall in the early-mid '60s. I bought one just like it at a thrift store in Cobb Co. for my friend's young son. The batteries were written in German, but it take long to find the 2 AA batteries that worked and he enjoyed it. I had a Chatty Cathy doll and my father got me and my sister a bagpipe, but he had no idea how to play it. I also had a metal playhouse from Sears (aside from the PX at Ft. MacPherson, Sears was our place to get our toys, etc. then-no Target or Walmart yet). when I was 7.
Great memories. I had the airplane and runway toy shown at 0:44. I seemed to be much larger in the catalogue picture and I was disappointed by how small it was when I actually got it. But I got over it and ended up loving it!
I got the "Big T" as a gift one year-it has been lost to the ages, but seeing it reminds me how I have been blessed-and a few tears-thank you for the video!
The Big T was on my Christmas and birthday wish list for two years!!! Never did get one! 😥 Dont know why. Maybe it was to expensive or my parents couldn't find it in the stores.
8:28 "The Stuffy Bagpipe"! What an ideal gift this would make for my snooty sister in-law. Her precious darling (Denis the menace type) that can do no wrong, and gives in to her child's every whim🤣😂! This toy would frazzle her nerves to no end 🤣😄!
I think it was meant for children of Celtic backgrounds who had a relative in the family that played bagpipes and wanted to intoduce their children to it. My dad was used to the Irish pipes-like the late Chieftans Paddy Maloney played rather than these Highland Scottish pipes his friends later in the Shriner's Oriental Pipes Band played. It was too bad I didn't think to ask a member back then how to play the latter. Instead, I chose oboe. My dad learnt to play a Muzzette-an oboe-a double Reed instrument like an oboe in the band. Like father, like daughter, my sister played violin, which my he and my grandpop played.
You might also consider buying the child a xylophone or a drum set. Then show him how to play certain notes repetitively for hours. I’m certain they’ll see just what a marvel and child musical prodigy they have….
SO WELL SAID! It is SO SAD little girls at the age of 7 say they are 'too old; to play with dolls, SAD SAD image these yuppy lib parents are feeding their little girls and boys.... I have no children, but my husband and I see this all the time, the mindless children are on YT making videos instead of being OUTSIDE making forts, treehouses, race tracks for TONKA trucks!
Yep, use your brain, get off their butts and exercise, stop eating junk....wow how revolutionary ! And stop buying junk made by Chinese Communist SLAVES, bring jobs back to the USA !!! Corporations also need to learn they're about more than just profits, unions too (what's left of them) politicians, time to learn we're all in this together ! United we stand - divided we fall....one of the (very)few wise things Barack Obama said or did was this "There are no blue states; there are no red states; there's only the UNITED STATES !!!
Most of these would never be allowed today. A live electrical box in which you pour water? A press you jam down to make play- doh animal figures. Why it would take one kid to stick his fingers under the press and ham it down. Instant lawsuit. Sadly, today’s kids don’t have the common sense to operate these toys.
I was thinking more the fumes from the chemicals and glues. They wouldn't be sold to anyone under 18 now in the USA! My 19 year old son was carded for canned air to clean my computer a couple months ago, and he works for a computer repair shop, go figure! Anyway, you are right about the lead, I just forgot about that. Maybe because I once played with mercury from a broken thermometer as a child. To be fair, my mom, brother, and sister also played with it for a few minutes before my mom took it away. Not sure what she did with it after that, but it probably wasn't safe for the environment! That was around 1986, laws were much more lenient then!
@@jctoad I know my mom knew we shouldn't play with mercury, but she wasn't sure why. I think alcohol thermometers were around, but all of ours had mercury back then. I'd like to have one now because the digital ones die at the worst times!
@@shadodragonette I was just looking on eBay and found no actual mercury thermometers for sale. But eBay and Amazon both have old school style glass thermometers. Some have alcohol and some gallium. Pretty cheap too.
Kids had toys in America in the 1962, and my grandfathers house (actually I think my whole village) saw electricity in their house for the first time in 1962. **wow**
They should have tested that horse trailer with the little boy sitting on it and trying to ride it down a hill. That's what I would have done if i was his age.
Strange. When you research the Popular Mechanics November 1962 issue, you get this cover, but there is no box on the front cover with the "Best Toys of the Year" written on it. It's the same picture, the home made shooting gallery, but where this film shows a cover that states "Best Toys of the Year", all the copies I find state "Crisis How Can We Store Scientific Knowledge" in the same place. Odd.
Update, found a picture with the table of contents for this issue. Evidently there is an article in this issue. My guess for this film they added that box to the cover.
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Does anyone think that kids today would get into playing with those toys? I got a Radio Shack 10 in 1 kit for Christmas one year. I built all the projects before going back to school. Took 4 years of electronics in high school and got an amateur radio license.
Wow. I'm italian and I can guarantee that americand and British kids were a lot luckier than my grandparents living in italy... they didn't have any toys, the most fortunate played with rag dolls and footballs
@@Curtiz2008 oh, yes, i remember. i even wore gloves to church sometimes. i turn 65 next wk, so if this was christmas stuff, i was 8 when it was made. if it was made in, say, summertime, i was 7.
I saw some Lincoln Logs-only they weren't called that anymore (go figure out why). I also saw some very large cardboard bricks I used to play with at a Montessori school in Atlanta when I was quite young, only they were in multicolours, not just red.
@@virginiaconnor8350 Yes mine was the LAGOS and ERECTOR SET. You could make toys out of them and would never get bored with them... But then I might catch some hell from mom when she vacuumed...
I was born in 1959. I had girl toys but also hung with the boys and their toys. Got bored with the girl toys as they turn little girls' brains into mush. I always found boy toys much more interesting. Never developed analytical skills till I started writing code in my later years. What a waste and a shame when little girls were treated as though they will be housewives.
At 08:02, the imbecile announcer pronounced Dino's name as “Dyno.” Hard to believe he'd never watched the show even once, and that *nobody on the filming crew corrected him*.
Radio Rob I’m 68 and retired about 3 years ago. Sadly, I’m sure many of the testers have died by now. I hope they had good lives. I always dressed nicely! My Mother made sure of that!
@@katiemart7 Do you remember, in the later 1960s, on TV, KHJ CHANNEL 9 they repeated that commercial MANY times "take your tubes out of your television or radio,mark them with stickers, put your tubes in a brown paper bag and take them to your grocery or drug store and get your tubes tested" and yes, my dad did just that, and so many other grown men,standing in long lines holding brown paper bags; I remember a couple of them had picture tubes! I wanted to see him test them. Line was too long around at 7:30 P.M. We checked again, at 10:30 P.M., and STILL a long line!
I guess I'm a grumpy old man because I was a kid when all these great toys came out, I was poor and didn't get any of them. But now I have Lionel trains😄
i think she was told to "kiss the dolly" by the film crew. she looks more or less defiantly peeved. plus stage mommy and daddy probably "volunteered" her for the shoot. she probably would have rather been home playing hopscotch.
Because they were invited to test toys. Back then, if a child did something in public, they dressed for it. Hard to imagine today. I am old enough to remember there were casual restaurants where you wore jeans, and fancy ones where you wore a tie. You dressed for church. You dressed up on he first day of school, and you looked very good on any other day of school. You dressed up to travel by plane, and--although it was the tail end of it--when I was really little ladies still wore fine gloves when out and about. Although this film is about 6 years before my time, if I had been invited to test toys--and there were cameras there!--I would have been dressed in my Sunday best. Totally changed today. I saw a woman in shorts attending a wedding.
i was 7 or 8 when this was made. i can laugh about it now, but my mama would certainly have had me dressed like this. i would have dressed in a similar manner for school or shopping, and much fancier for church. also, my mother would often have worn gloves and a hat for shopping and such occasions, as well as making me wear gloves and hat for easter. i was really glad to get a bit older (think hippie era) and be able to wear much more comfortable clothes.
I was a child of the 60's.... remember creepie crawlers? Had the goop and the hot plate with molds that you could make plastic insects... A wonder I didn't
burn the house down with that thing LOL! Finally ended when I decided I wanted to be a chef like Graham Kerr and tried to make an omelet on the hot plate
which resulted in a small smoky mess, best I remember :) I was a sucker for everything that was offered for mail order form comic books and Boy's Life
magazine. I think the biggest disappointment were the x-ray glasses which I thought for sure was going to enlighten me on the female anatomy but instead
was more of a feather layered between two pieces of plastic that you looked through :) Wish I would of saved all that old stuff!
I WAS BORN IN 1953, THEY'RE ALL MY AGE, AS I WAS THEIR AGE BACK IN 1962, LOTS OF GREAT TIME THEN.
😳😊💥🙏
This was indeed educational😬
Love it
Now the 2 to 5 year olds are helping their grandparents learn how the computer works😆. I remember fascination and a couple others. I was around 9 so I still loved dolls.
My brother and I had Tinker Toys. He was a bit too old in ‘62 for a number of these toys. I was in the 4th grade so some of these were pretty cool and some not so much.
I mostly had Tonka trucks and Matchbox cars. We also had an HO scale Lionel train set with a town. It was on a huge plywood board in our garage.
when I saw that Play Doh I could smell it!
You never forget that smell!🙂
But where is it made now?
Love that 50's-60's background music! I have one of the original Fisher-Price Tick-Tock clocks! I bought it at an antique store about 10 or 15 years ago. A few years ago, when I saw they were being reissued I was a little afraid that what I had was a reproduction. So I took it to a local clock repair man (to see if he could fix the music box), and not only did he reassure me that it was an original, NOT a reproduction, he was overjoyed to see this toy because it reminded him of his childhood! While he could not fix the music box (it was too overwound) he showed me how I could manually make it play! He said I really made his day, and truthfully, he really made mine!
spy4863 THERE ARE MANY OF THOSE TOYS ARE STILL OUT THERE AND ARE COMING BACK IN STYLE
spy4863 I have one too ! The music still plays perfectly. 😀
My daughter purchased the Fischer Price clock for her 2 year old son. It's his favourite toy.
We had one too. It still worked when my nephew was born in '69. My younger brother had a toy train that spewed smoke and backed up if it confronted an obstacle, and blew a horn. My Das bought it at a store at Lenox Sq.-when it was still an open mall in the early-mid '60s. I bought one just like it at a thrift store in Cobb Co. for my friend's young son. The batteries were written in German, but it take long to find the 2 AA batteries that worked and he enjoyed it. I had a Chatty Cathy doll and my father got me and my sister a bagpipe, but he had no idea how to play it. I also had a metal playhouse from Sears (aside from the PX at Ft. MacPherson, Sears was our place to get our toys, etc. then-no Target or Walmart yet). when I was 7.
Great memories. I had the airplane and runway toy shown at 0:44. I seemed to be much larger in the catalogue picture and I was disappointed by how small it was when I actually got it. But I got over it and ended up loving it!
I had the Steve Canyon cockpit @0:41 but got mine in '59. By '62, just a memory.
I got the "Big T" as a gift one year-it has been lost to the ages, but seeing it reminds me how I have been blessed-and a few tears-thank you for the video!
Yes, I had a very blessed childhood. 🙏
My girlfriend loves Big T.
LOL The "play ordeal"!
I was born August 18th, 1962, I'm going on 60.
that kids in 60s are the grandpa and grandma today haha
Edi you are right I am 65 years old & I am a grandmother & a great grandmother also ☺Praise the Lord December 5, 2019
Ira, just wanted to say thank you for uploading all these little videos of history
I enjoy your videos everyday
🙏
I had that big Model T. I remember the glue and spray paint it took to build it. I don't think I've recovered to this day....
I was 7 in 1962 loved my toys
I had the Flintstone Dino when I was little.
And I just saw one at a vintage toy store
6:00- My sister had one of those phonographs. It lasted forever.
Amen ❤need this more on tv.
Narrated by Peter Roberts, John Gambling's side kick on WOR New York 710 in the 1960's.
7:50 Dang, I had that same wind-up clock the girl is playing with. I wore that thing out.
That plant and vegetable toy had to be at the top of every child’s wish list.
It is of great importance that the materials can't be use to blow up the house.
‘Kids’ will find a-way around ‘Safety’ measures!!! ⚡️🎭🤣
The Big T was on my Christmas and birthday wish list for two years!!! Never did get one! 😥
Dont know why. Maybe it was to expensive or my parents couldn't find it in the stores.
AWESOMENESS I LOVE THAT RETRO VINTAGE S
8:28
"The Stuffy Bagpipe"!
What an ideal gift this would make for my snooty sister in-law. Her precious darling (Denis the menace type) that can do no wrong, and gives in to her child's every whim🤣😂!
This toy would frazzle her nerves to no end 🤣😄!
I think it was meant for children of Celtic backgrounds who had a relative in the family that played bagpipes and wanted to intoduce their children to it. My dad was used to the Irish pipes-like the late Chieftans Paddy Maloney played rather than these Highland Scottish pipes his friends later in the Shriner's Oriental Pipes Band played. It was too bad I didn't think to ask a member back then how to play the latter. Instead, I chose oboe. My dad learnt to play a Muzzette-an oboe-a double Reed instrument like an oboe in the band. Like father, like daughter, my sister played violin, which my he and my grandpop played.
You might also consider buying the child a xylophone or a drum set. Then show him how to play certain notes repetitively for hours. I’m certain they’ll see just what a marvel and child musical prodigy they have….
The toy every parent instantly regretted buying, ha ha.
These are the kind of toys kids need today. Maybe they could grow a brain rather than play video games and twitter their days away on cell phones.....
@Chang Noi excellent observation!!! Merry Christmas....
SO WELL SAID! It is SO SAD little girls at the age of 7 say they are 'too old; to play with dolls, SAD SAD image these yuppy lib parents are feeding their little girls and boys.... I have no children, but my husband and I see this all the time, the mindless children are on YT making videos instead of being OUTSIDE making forts, treehouses, race tracks for TONKA trucks!
Yep, use your brain, get off their butts and exercise, stop eating junk....wow how revolutionary ! And stop buying junk made by Chinese Communist SLAVES, bring jobs back to the USA !!! Corporations also need to learn they're about more than just profits, unions too (what's left of them) politicians, time to learn we're all in this together ! United we stand - divided we fall....one of the (very)few wise things Barack Obama said or did was this "There are no blue states; there are no red states; there's only the UNITED STATES !!!
Most of these would never be allowed today. A live electrical box in which you pour water? A press you jam down to make play- doh animal figures. Why it would take one kid to stick his fingers under the press and ham it down. Instant lawsuit.
Sadly, today’s kids don’t have the common sense to operate these toys.
Today they may not pass the safety test, play doh press would crush fingers. Glue and paint a no no. Chemical set and perfume, etc.
Bagpipes and megaphones for all kids today!!! Then parents would make them GO OUTSIDE to play!!
@John Brentford Put in garbage by the parents!!
The big T cannot be sold today as the kids would end up sniffing the glue!
"Paint and materials non-injurious."
Lead: Am I a joke to you?
I was thinking more the fumes from the chemicals and glues. They wouldn't be sold to anyone under 18 now in the USA! My 19 year old son was carded for canned air to clean my computer a couple months ago, and he works for a computer repair shop, go figure! Anyway, you are right about the lead, I just forgot about that. Maybe because I once played with mercury from a broken thermometer as a child. To be fair, my mom, brother, and sister also played with it for a few minutes before my mom took it away. Not sure what she did with it after that, but it probably wasn't safe for the environment! That was around 1986, laws were much more lenient then!
@@shadodragonette I thought about that too.
@@shadodragonette I remember my mom telling me that her and her friends used to play with silvery blobs of mercury. That was probably back in the 40s.
@@jctoad I know my mom knew we shouldn't play with mercury, but she wasn't sure why. I think alcohol thermometers were around, but all of ours had mercury back then. I'd like to have one now because the digital ones die at the worst times!
@@shadodragonette I was just looking on eBay and found no actual mercury thermometers for sale. But eBay and Amazon both have old school style glass thermometers. Some have alcohol and some gallium. Pretty cheap too.
Kids had toys in America in the 1962, and my grandfathers house (actually I think my whole village) saw electricity in their house for the first time in 1962. **wow**
This was a time when children were being prepared to go to work unlike the children today who are being taught to be victims.
They should have tested that horse trailer with the little boy sitting on it and trying to ride it down a hill. That's what I would have done if i was his age.
Нашим детям такое даже не снилось....вместо игрушек были только палки и рогатки....
Strange. When you research the Popular Mechanics November 1962 issue, you get this cover, but there is no box on the front cover with the "Best Toys of the Year" written on it. It's the same picture, the home made shooting gallery, but where this film shows a cover that states "Best Toys of the Year", all the copies I find state "Crisis How Can We Store Scientific Knowledge" in the same place. Odd.
Update, found a picture with the table of contents for this issue. Evidently there is an article in this issue. My guess for this film they added that box to the cover.
Yes, the cover was different by the time the article was published:
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And THIS was the article:
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And also that you put on a shirt and tie before playing with said materials.
collared button up or polos were required. also, had a dress code for school and you dressed for travel and shopping.
Kids grow out of clothes so fast why not let them play in nice ones.
I was 7 years old in 1962. I had great parents but they tried to buy toys intended for a 4 year old.
I can imagine taking a long car ride with that bagpipe
Gone gonna rise again
😊
Unfortunately the children selected to test " Lawn Darts " did not survive.
Lol
Does anyone think that kids today would get into playing with those toys? I got a Radio Shack 10 in 1 kit for Christmas one year. I built all the projects before going back to school. Took 4 years of electronics in high school and got an amateur radio license.
It’s Been 60 Years
I was 1 in 62. OMG!!!
John Brentford I'm OLD 😊 HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY 🦃 GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE 🦃
Me too. What day is your birthday? 😀
@@melvynn11 5-8-61
Fried Green Tomatoes 😀 Cool. I’m an Aug. baby. 61 was a great year. ❤️
@@melvynn11 These old video's sure do bring back good memories 😉
Wow. I'm italian and I can guarantee that americand and British kids were a lot luckier than my grandparents living in italy... they didn't have any toys, the most fortunate played with rag dolls and footballs
maybe bocci balls too
@christinagiagni3578 maybe yes, I only saw elderly people play with them though
i remember having several of those items. just a note, though: look at these small childrens' "play clothes" lol.
We dressed up in those days. Even for (yech!) School.
@@Curtiz2008 oh, yes, i remember. i even wore gloves to church sometimes. i turn 65 next wk, so if this was christmas stuff, i was 8 when it was made. if it was made in, say, summertime, i was 7.
This society needs more Erector sets and less video games. They stopped making such toys
I saw some Lincoln Logs-only they weren't called that anymore (go figure out why). I also saw some very large cardboard bricks I used to play with at a Montessori school in Atlanta when I was quite young, only they were in multicolours, not just red.
@@virginiaconnor8350 Yes mine was the LAGOS and ERECTOR SET.
You could make toys out of them and would never get bored with them...
But then I might catch some hell from mom when she vacuumed...
of course the doll survives (6: 24) and 'keeps on singing' ...she goes on to appear in...The Twilight Zone
Yes her name was talking Tina and you better be nice to her,lol.
Ha-ha 😂 I saw that episode last night!
At least we know how PM determined how those buildings fell. I had the bowl a matic. It broke right out of the box
7:58 My grandfather's clock FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS
The puppet
Lawn Jarts best toy ever.
On my headstone.
That's scotty bag pipe probably didn't sell well..lol
Who else had a ant farm?
i didn't have an ant farm, but i remember them
I nad an ant plantation, all the ants were black.
@@allenatkins2263 ☻
yep. and you had to send away for the tube of ants!
@@SSN515 rember waiting by the mailbox for mine to come!
I was born in 1959. I had girl toys but also hung with the boys and their toys. Got bored with the girl toys as they turn little girls' brains into mush. I always found boy toys much more interesting. Never developed analytical skills till I started writing code in my later years. What a waste and a shame when little girls were treated as though they will be housewives.
At 08:02, the imbecile announcer pronounced Dino's name as “Dyno.” Hard to believe he'd never watched the show even once, and that *nobody on the filming crew corrected him*.
No he didn’t.
Play-dough in a can!
All these children are eligible for retirement now. A few of them have probably already died.
I'm 64 now and STILL HERE, 10 years old in 1965.
@@bobbyfrancis8957 Both of my parents were born in 44, and still here. BTW this video was from 1962.
Radio Rob I’m 68 and retired about 3 years ago. Sadly, I’m sure many of the testers have died by now. I hope they had good lives. I always dressed nicely! My Mother made sure of that!
@@katiemart7 Do you remember, in the later 1960s, on TV, KHJ CHANNEL 9 they repeated that commercial MANY times "take your tubes out of your television or radio,mark them with stickers, put your tubes in a brown paper bag and take them to your grocery or drug store and get your tubes tested" and yes, my dad did just that, and so many other grown men,standing in long lines holding brown paper bags; I remember a couple of them had picture tubes! I wanted to see him test them. Line was too long around at 7:30 P.M. We checked again, at 10:30 P.M., and STILL a long line!
I had The Mystery Spaceship.
In this times, no made in China, but made in Japan!
wimpy toys. i wanna see the tanks, guns, horseys, and flintstone dinosaur excavator from the beginning of the video!
who said some of these toys were popular some i never heard of
Mr machine was cool
We were poor so dad made toys for us. How poor were we ? ? So poor we used both sides of the toilet paper.
We were so poor my mom cut the pockets out of our pants so we would have something to play with!
8:12 .........Mystery Space Ship!
I guess I'm a grumpy old man because I was a kid when all these great toys came out, I was poor and didn't get any of them. But now I have Lionel trains😄
Lord as over priced as model kits are today. Can you imagine how much they would charge for that car model kit today!
Remco tanks
Gosh! This sure explains the teenagers of the 70s.
Grow it. Smoke it. Play silly games. Listen to music and then get fascinated by a clock.
7:09
Well, that was pretty boring. Funny they never showed Mattel's Vacuform that came with a red hot oven.
that came a little later
Sure, we got CUT and BURNED and SHOCKED BY ELECTRICITY, but you know what?
IT BUILT CHARACTER.
Something video games will NEVER do.
no wonder my childhood was so fucked up..
That little girl who kisses the doll looks very depressed.
i think she was told to "kiss the dolly" by the film crew. she looks more or less defiantly peeved. plus stage mommy and daddy probably "volunteered" her for the shoot. she probably would have rather been home playing hopscotch.
It's because she has an ugly doll.
Should dent they let the kids pick the funner toys ?
Toy bagpipes?? Horrors!!!!!
Doodle dashboard
Nowadays toys are tested by drag queens to see if they're LGBT friendly.
Troll.
Why are these kids dressed in suits and ties and party dresses?
Because they were invited to test toys. Back then, if a child did something in public, they dressed for it. Hard to imagine today. I am old enough to remember there were casual restaurants where you wore jeans, and fancy ones where you wore a tie. You dressed for church. You dressed up on he first day of school, and you looked very good on any other day of school. You dressed up to travel by plane, and--although it was the tail end of it--when I was really little ladies still wore fine gloves when out and about. Although this film is about 6 years before my time, if I had been invited to test toys--and there were cameras there!--I would have been dressed in my Sunday best. Totally changed today. I saw a woman in shorts attending a wedding.
I wish I lived in those times....
Even in the 60s you wore suits to go see a baseball or hockey game.
i was 7 or 8 when this was made. i can laugh about it now, but my mama would certainly have had me dressed like this. i would have dressed in a similar manner for school or shopping, and much fancier for church. also, my mother would often have worn gloves and a hat for shopping and such occasions, as well as making me wear gloves and hat for easter. i was really glad to get a bit older (think hippie era) and be able to wear much more comfortable clothes.
@@ToyKingWonder great reply 👏 &👏.December 5,2010
Lavatory tests
lol until the record player starts screwing up and sounds like satan...........