That Blaze horse - I saw that in a store for $25.00 !!! Way too expensive then, I stood there looking at it, no, even if we were rich I'm sure I would never like it.
I can guarantee you with total certainty that it was too elaborate for its own good and they promptly broke. Too many moving parts and maintenance needed on the toy. The MSRP was also $48.00 in 1961. That is well over $500 in today's money. That's half as much as a TV set of the period. They are very rare today and will set you back at least $250-$400 for a good one. Most survived well and sport little to no rare, as if they were barely played with.
Boy, these bring back memories. Most of the time, though, we didn't have the fancy toys. We had to use our imaginations. Old Christmas trees propped against a picnic table became rocket ships, a clothes pin and playing card strategically placed on a bike frame "motorized" our bikes. A stick became a gun and a colander became a helmet. We had skinned knees and elbows and knew we had to be in the house by the time the street lights came on. Nobody had to protect us. We learned how to protect ourselves. I remember chemistry sets and pogo sticks and any number of "dangerous" toys. Somehow we survived. Thanx for the trip down memory lane.
dont worry president Trump aka the god emperor is soon to be inaugurated..we will get back to American freedom as it was meant to be.and yes toy guns are and always will be COOL!
At age 6 I had a real .22 !!! I wanted a BB gun but my mother would not have it but allowed me to have the single shot bolt .22 I still have it ! Mom felt I would be more careful with a real rifle She was right my friends got in trouble with there BB guns I never did with the .22 !!
Fred Clarke ....Yeah! In fact, it was a cheeze plastic "bone" with a simple magnet. GAYLORD had a magnet on/in his mouth. He'd saunter up to the bone and...Presto! His mouth really picked it up! wow.
There was a game many years ago called "ball buster". According to the announcer, the object of the game was to bust your opponent's balls! You'll see the commercial if you do a YT search. I laughed so hard my sides were aching.
I have to say, toys back in the day look absolutely fun to play with. The toys definitely makes up the no social media and no internet. Also, there were a lot of toy gun commercials.
I brought my child a toy gun back in 2010, parents flipped out on me ,I couldn't get over it, When I was a kid we all had cap guns spud guns bbs and air rifles, bow and arrows, The Helicopter Parents have a lot to Answer for.
I'm sorry, I never saw a commercial for them in the 1960s, but we went to the Torrance Drive-In quite alot in the 1960s, when anybody could get in for 75 cents if you were 12 or younger ( after 12 it was $1.19). I remember we saw "The Time Machine " when it was new ...
Great memories. I had many of these toys. By age 1 yr., I had my first pair of six shooters and every type of gun made during the sixties. Most of our toys were very interactive and fun. Good times.
I loved these toys! I had a Chrissy Doll that her hair that grew and shortened. My cousin had the Dr. Kit and we had the guns all over my block and we had fun from sun up until the street lights came on. Such a shame kids today don't have that much fun! Thanks for the memories!
I was born in 1951, We played cowboys and Indians on our bikes in the street sometimes till after dark. we all had cap guns and holsters hats lol . we played street games , Mother may I? and red light , green light . and everything wasn't golden but we felt safe where I grew up. But it wasn't perfect , nothing ever is but I have some good memories.
I did some work with an online inflation calculator. Some toys that were $12.98 in about 1965 would be a HUNDRED BUCKS today. Barbie's outfits "from 80 cents to a dollar twenty five" in 1966 would be $7 to $10 each today. This shit was not cheap. Now I know why my parents wouldn't buy us all this crap.
KurtB they weren't cheap then. I remember probably in 69 or 70 saving up for this Spirograph? At that time it was about $3. It took me 2 months to save up that money.
ConstantCompanion Spirograph was a great toy! We had one. But it always hurt when you were 98% done, then slipped with the pen! Frustrating. I wish I still had my spirograph today, as well as my large-sized GI Joe with a foot locker that my Mom threw away.
I didn't remember Patty Duke and Kurt Russell and Billy Mumy making commercials back then, but on the other hand, I didn't know who any of them were then, we were all just kids!
I had so many of the Remco Toys. My oldest sisters boyfriend and later husband worked for Remco in NJ and would get me almost every toy they had! Reb Cannon, Frogman, helicopter , battleship, you name it ! Early mid 60’s great time to be a kid especially a boy! Boys toys were great!!
Toys from the 1950's to 1970's were well made very sophisticated and hours of fun!! Later toys were simpler and more electronic and got boring real fast.
I had so many of these awesome toys including BLAZE, Beautiful Crissy, Creepy Crawlers, Mr. Potato Head and GI JOE. Yes - I was a girl but my parents allowed me to play with boys toys too (and frankly, I liked boys toys better anyway :) This is a time when kids had imagination and knew how to interact with other kids.
My parents were pretty forward-thinking as well. We had Chatty Cathy as well as Girder and Panel, Bridge and Turnpike. For my sister and I, there weren't "boys" toys or "girls" toys, just "our" toys.
Look! It's Patty Duke as a child! Cool. She turned out to be a staple on TV. Really good actress. She's an old familiar face.....almost like one of the family.
Fun fact: that Zero M air cannon thing was recalled because firing it close to your head like that caused severe inner ear damage. Many kids were sent to the hospital with ruptured eardrums. In fact, I see several toys in this video that were recalled for health and safety reasons.
I just wish this modern generation would appreciate hobbies like slot cars, trains, and model planes and cars. They teach so much more than the button pushing of this era.
By all accounts, those of us born before the 1960s should be either blind, dead, or permanently scarred, maimed, and disfigured. From the time we were 5 or 6 years old, we played outside with our siblings and friends in the neighborhood unsupervised, there were no such things as bike helmets, or elbow and knee pads for when we roller skated or skate boarded (remember metal wheels?). Many toys shot hard projectiles, heated up red hot, had sharp edges, were painted with lead paint or required the use of real scissors or cutting tools like a knife. The best toys didn't need batteries but required imagination, thought, or reasoning. Despite all the unsupervised outdoor play, often with these "killer toys", we not only survived into adulthood, but we learned responsibility, teamwork, creativity, reasoning, and self sufficiency, the constant physical play and activity kept us physically fit and heathy, with obese children being a rarity. Some things the era did not prepare us for was how to play video games, how to have a belief and attitude of self entitlement, and how to be ignorantly rude on social media.
After falling down 30 times learning to skate I took my sisters advice. I tied a pillow around my skinny butt and used a broom for balance. It worked. There were lots of laughs.
jackthayer ... Uh oh, Frank Milton, ya picked up a "proud" LibDemProg...just like Proud GAYLORD picked up a bone-r. Ironic, isn't it, JackoffThayer??😃 Some your head. Must be freaking still from Tuesday's TRUMP VICTORY over Hilarious Felonious Clintonious! Garbage Bitch from Arkansas.....😉
Patty Duke is also in the commercial that begins at the 13:23 mark. Both commercials were for remco toys. She played Helen Keller in the Miracle Worker probably just a couple of years later. And, who could forget the Patty Duke show, a few years after that? I enjoyed these old toy commercials, it sure brings back memories. Thanks.
+Jeffrey Slott Yes, prices were strange. My guess is that was the list price, and you could get it WAY less in a store, as a manufacturer could not dictate prices. I remember in 1972, which is more than a decade later, the GI Joe Mobile Support Vehicle was $17.95, and that was considered a big present at Christmastime. I doubt very much that actually sold for $12.98. Cost was probably $5 and sold for $7.5 for a 33% margin. Those "beautiful cars" look like they were pressed tin, the whole thing was cardboard with a plastic movie screen. That said, I am a major Remco fan!!!!!
Some of those toys were not cheap! That last one was $19.95 in 1965. That's $152 in 2016 dollars! No wonder I never had any of these unless my mom found them at a garage sale.
I grew up in my grandparent's home, we had few toys, played outside. One of my cousins had all of these Barbie toys and accessories. I remember playing at her house with them. My sister got a Barbie bride doll one Christmas and I got Midge. I never got over that lol. I wanted the Barbie bride doll lol. I had an uncle that had a collection of toys and games his boys had played with (they were quite well off) and he stored them at our house for a few months. We had a blast playing with them. He eventually came and got them and donated them to an organization for disadvantaged youth. I thought that was what we were. I grew up and bought my kids too many expensive toys in the 80's and 90's though.
The days when commercials used to explain in full details how stuffs works they are advertising. "Giggle!" I am not born in this era, I am just saying "Vee!" ❤️
Those Remco toys actually seemed kind of cool. The shrunken head one was fucked up, but in a "cool" way. But a lot of these toys seemed to be very expensive for those days. Particularly the Remco toys. And I couldn't help but laugh at there slogan. "Every boy wants a Remco toy...and so do girls". Lol they were way ahead of there time with that slogan whether they knew it or not. The toy that I found most hilarious was that Mystery Date one. It seems kind of like a game for like, drunk adults at a party or something.
A big part of the fun was waiting for the toy to be delivered and getting something in the mail with your name one it. Some of the toys were pretty nice. I remember getting "walking dolls" by saving box top. This was a 6" hard plastic doll with rayon hair. I still have a couple. I also have a couple of the Mr. Clean dolls (one still in the box). I still have my yellow frogman, too. Later, I got my son a mini electronic language translator from Kellogs. Some of those toys weren't so crappy.
yeah that was badass. rob zombie would most likely market it but the remaining libtards would probably flip out over it cause none of them had afros lol
I got a rocking horse from Santa in 1964. I wanted to get one for my daughter in the early 80’s. Found one. She wasn’t as excited about it as I was. I had a Barbie doll in the mid 60’s with a carry case. I spoiled my daughter and got her the annual Barbie holiday dolls. She had lots of clothes and an elderly lady made knitted and sewed clothes for her Barbie. I saved all the clothes and packed them in special tissue in a computer box. I got a divorce from my ex and I forgot I had the boxes stored in the attic. When the house was sold my ex threw all the boxes out without my knowledge. I remember many of these toys but not the drive in toy.
70 toy commercials, Ah, a one of a kind experience to enjoy such happiness and creativity! But wait, What about the children born in 2007? They consider this a pathetic video game, and nothing else. and a drop of the "XD" Emote aswell.
I grew up in the 80's and I believe that it was the last of the glory years of American Toy Makers. When they still had toy factories here home made in the U.S.A. It is so sad to see on all toys today Made in China. But hand's down I believe the coolest toy's were made from 50's-80's.
'And we'll all feel gay when Jonnie comes marching home'..oh what different times. Most of these toys look like disasters waiting to happen -lots of small parts, 'firing' parts to take ur eye out.I love that 'Boys will love these toys....and girls too' :-).Brilliant insightful upload,thank you!
I wish the kid's 2day could just experience the fun we had back then.everybody got along the whole block play baseball.hide and seek.man those we're the day's.sure miss those day's at times.😌.
"My name is Chatty Cathy and I'm going to kill you." LOL I always heard June Foray did both Chatty Cathy and Talky Tina but this is the first time I actually heard it.
Looking at all the army war toys boys played with-I couldn't help but think in ten years those same boys would be fighting a real war in Vietnam.How innocent we were!
got some of those when i was a kid. at Christmas time we could pick out $50 worth we wanted. on birth days we would get $10 worth of toys. wish i had them all today
+Jhon Siders: I had a Johnny Reb Cannon as a kid (I'm sixty now, btw). I can't quite remember what became of it, but I recently found another one on Ebay. It was in sad shape, but I managed to get it working again. Yee-haw!!!
I am an avid collector of Die-Cast cars and trucks. I've also gotten really into some diorama pieces. I have an older Tomica Limited Vintage Car dealership that has a small office and, a garage, as well as maybe 10+ parking spots. I'd love to find a⛽Gas⛽⛽Station⛽as well, but a Drive-in theater would be absolutely perfect for a scenario! I have the Super 6-lane Raceway that Mattel made. I have created a ¼-mile dragstrip and it's a sweet set-up! Imagine as your Hot Wheels flies down the hill, flying across the straight track towards the finish line! Past the ⛽Gas⛽⛽Station⛽, the Car Dealership, then the Drive-in a t the end? Wow! Especially if your "filming" at night. Epic is an understatement!
Parents- they buy for us all the toys we want and cry for, as a child.They love us and provide for us, wanting us to just be happy But when we grow up, we get mad at them and don't care much about them. Wish every grown up would speak a few kind words of thanks for taking care of us all this time.Instead, we argue and even leave our parents, when they need us the most. Just sad.
u r right ..i had Jimmy Jet...just gotit for Christmas , played with it a couple of times ,,that day ,then it broke...dad said hed fix it but he for got AND I never played with it again . even then that thing was cheep junk!
Could you imagine the cost of a lot of these toys if they built them to the level of reliability of today's electronics? The price would have been unbelievable!
32:27 "Alright now, how does a train go?" (whistle blowing) "Now an ocean liner?" (horn blowing, short toot) "Now then, how does your tricycle sound?" (metallic squeaking) "I see. But how would you like your tricycle to sound?" (engine roaring)
I got a Patty play pal doll when I was somewhere between two and three years old. She was exactly my size. I thought she was fun until she fell on me and nailed me to the floor. I didn't like her very much after that.
I'd like to get one of those Remco "build-it-yourself" transistor radios, although I'd probably put it together wrong and end up receiving alien transmissions or something...
My cousin had Barbie Dolls the clothes were made really well and were very pretty, when I bought one for my little niece I noticed the clothes were not as well made and looked pretty shitty by comparison.
52:48- My cousin had one and I envied him for it. I never gave him a hard time about it, we just had fun and enjoyed it together. This is the one commercial that stands out foremost in my mind. To this day, I am still mesmerized by airplanes.
Sure I've been to the drive-in lots of times back in the 60's. My earliest memory was going in our Station wagon and we would take blankets and pillows and Dad would fold the back seat down so we could lay back there and play or sleep if the movie got slow for the little kids. I saw Old Yeller and so many others. I believe the last show I saw at the drive-in was Grease when I was 17 with my girlfriend. We went to make out but loved the movie so much we watched the whole thing!
The Average Joe, I still have my cap gun from 1955, don’t know what to do with it too dangerous in this era, afraid the police would shoot my young grandson if he played with it outside.
i make my own dolls with cardboard and the doll house with shoe box. i learned how to make cardboard furniture too. my cardboard dolls have lots of clothes. i just drew/color/cut them. they were made of paper. and my brother and i carves a highway at the garden and play with our own "match box" cars, made from real match boxes. i often do an F1 race with all of our shoes and slippers, and discovered uncharted lands riding my sleeping mat as my sea ship. imagination is fun! XD
"Looks just like super man himself!" 😂 ok. Kinda looked more like the batman logo. You just have to listen to these commercials to know they're old. (Not just the sound quality) but how they talk. Same as sitcoms from the 50s/60s. I like how they have the prices in the commercial. Me/mrs potato head is my favorite where you use an actual potato. 🥔. 👍🏻😆
That toy drive-in theater was kinda cool.
Yeah, but no concession stand...
+PlasmaCoolantLeak Gotta go to the kitchen or raid a siblings halloween candy
cue mom's big purse.
2degucitas True those, LOL
hell i miss real drive in theaters..we should petition president Trump to bring them back showing classic movies and psa's
That "real galloping horse" makes me wonder why all rocking horses afterwards didn't have the same ability. It's really cool.
I had a similar toy as a kid, but his legs didn't move. He was on springs, so it felt like a real horse.
That Blaze horse - I saw that in a store for $25.00 !!! Way too expensive then, I stood there looking at it, no, even if we were rich I'm sure I would never like it.
I wish I had been born in the early fifties! Then I would tell my mother "The only dolls I wan't are GI Joes!"
I can guarantee you with total certainty that it was too elaborate for its own good and they promptly broke. Too many moving parts and maintenance needed on the toy. The MSRP was also $48.00 in 1961. That is well over $500 in today's money. That's half as much as a TV set of the period. They are very rare today and will set you back at least $250-$400 for a good one. Most survived well and sport little to no rare, as if they were barely played with.
It's a terrifying fact that all the adult actors in these ads are All Dead and The Children Actors are All Old now.
Do you think that happened on account of the career choices they made?
What a drag, eh ? 🙄
Yeah but that dog at 45:45 is still living. Guinness Book of World Records
Wrong! Here I am!
Billy Mumy is only one year older than me. Should I be dead by now ( I had a stroke in 2012 and still going)?
Boy, these bring back memories. Most of the time, though, we didn't have the fancy toys. We had to use our imaginations. Old Christmas trees propped against a picnic table became rocket ships, a clothes pin and playing card strategically placed on a bike frame "motorized" our bikes. A stick became a gun and a colander became a helmet. We had skinned knees and elbows and knew we had to be in the house by the time the street lights came on. Nobody had to protect us. We learned how to protect ourselves. I remember chemistry sets and pogo sticks and any number of "dangerous" toys. Somehow we survived. Thanx for the trip down memory lane.
I love these slogans:
She's a wonderful doll... she's *IDEAL*!
You can tell it's Mattel, it's *swell!*
Every boy wants a *REMCO* Toy! ...andsodogirls.
great twilight zone episode ;P
Tell that to Telly Savalas.
***** yeah, it was!
petemclinc she did, just before he squished her head in the vise!
Simaginary Friend its Mattel its well
Remember the days when you can play with toy guns and no one would freak out?
dont worry president Trump aka the god emperor is soon to be inaugurated..we will get back to American freedom as it was meant to be.and yes toy guns are and always will be COOL!
I bet Tamir Rice's mother wishes for those days.
Rather hard...been awhile.
Alex S Yes! I had two pink plastic guns and I played with them a lot.
At age 6 I had a real .22 !!! I wanted a BB gun but my mother would not have it but allowed me to have the single shot bolt .22 I still have it ! Mom felt I would be more careful with a real rifle She was right my friends got in trouble with there BB guns I never did with the .22 !!
Love how every boy in these commercials are usually named Jimmy.
And looked like a Kid version of JFK.
"Mystery Date" still exists, it's now called "Online dating sites."
lol
LOL ;)
Good one
2degucitas Thank you :)
PlasmaCoolantLeak LOL! I can't stop laughing!
...Gaylord comes with a bone of his own! - I nearly feel off the couch laughing when I heard that.
Gaylord Focker
Fred Clarke ....Yeah! In fact, it was a cheeze plastic "bone" with a simple magnet. GAYLORD had a magnet on/in his mouth. He'd saunter up to the bone and...Presto! His mouth really picked it up! wow.
..nah, Gaylord is always looking for other bones. lol
Fred Clarke I don't think Gaylord had the same meaning then as it does now. But is still hilarious.
There was a game many years ago called "ball buster". According to the announcer, the object of the game was to bust your opponent's balls! You'll see the commercial if you do a YT search. I laughed so hard my sides were aching.
I have to say, toys back in the day look absolutely fun to play with. The toys definitely makes up the no social media and no internet. Also, there were a lot of toy gun commercials.
Kids were not wimps and snowflakes back then.
I brought my child a toy gun back in 2010, parents flipped out on me ,I couldn't get over it, When I was a kid we all had cap guns spud guns bbs and air rifles, bow and arrows, The Helicopter Parents have a lot to Answer for.
33:00 I am sure the neighbours will love it when the kids riding around on their tricycles sound like roaring motor bikes
I actually got a Vrroom engine and a bike for my 9th birthday, drove all the neighbors dogs crazy.
roy skuderin ...Me, too. In PA!
Better than them robbing you for drugs at 13.
90's kid, we used a flattened water bottle.
those were the good old days when toys could put your eye out, and we loved it
I want a mini drive in theater now !
I'm sorry, I never saw a commercial for them in the 1960s, but we went to the Torrance Drive-In quite alot in the 1960s, when anybody could get in for 75 cents if you were 12 or younger ( after 12 it was $1.19). I remember we saw "The Time Machine " when it was new ...
Back when kids could be kids and life was simple and real.
Playing outside will always be better than staring at a cell phone.
Not true
Lol get a grip pal
I'm a 17 year old,and I'm amazed by these toys!Man in the 2000s toys weren't these interesting!
Great memories. I had many of these toys. By age 1 yr., I had my first pair of six shooters and every type of gun made during the sixties. Most of our toys were very interactive and fun. Good times.
Wow, the toys the rich kids got.
guns!
White*
Fortunate sons
I loved these toys! I had a Chrissy Doll that her hair that grew and shortened. My cousin had the Dr. Kit and we had the guns all over my block and we had fun from sun up until the street lights came on. Such a shame kids today don't have that much fun! Thanks for the memories!
the beautiful Chrissy doll makes me sad my mom had 1 when she was a kid she passed away when I was only 19 ii miss her so much please pray for me
How old are you exactly? 🤨
I worked in an Ideal toy factory in Queens NY back in the 70's. I know I'm dating myself. It was fun. From racing car sets to dolls, I made them all.
I was born in 1951, We played cowboys and Indians on our bikes in the street sometimes till after dark. we all had cap guns and holsters hats lol . we played street games , Mother may I? and red light , green light . and everything wasn't golden but we felt safe where I grew up. But it wasn't perfect , nothing ever is but I have some good memories.
I did some work with an online inflation calculator. Some toys that were $12.98 in about 1965 would be a HUNDRED BUCKS today. Barbie's outfits "from 80 cents to a dollar twenty five" in 1966 would be $7 to $10 each today. This shit was not cheap. Now I know why my parents wouldn't buy us all this crap.
KurtB they weren't cheap then. I remember probably in 69 or 70 saving up for this Spirograph? At that time it was about $3. It took me 2 months to save up that money.
ConstantCompanion
Spirograph was a great toy! We had one. But it always hurt when you were 98% done, then slipped with the pen! Frustrating. I wish I still had my spirograph today, as well as my large-sized GI Joe with a foot locker that my Mom threw away.
KurtB Do you have a Cost Plus where you live? They sell the exact same Spirograph (more than 3.00 though) every year at Christmas.
KurtB Seems kind of pricy for the 50s and 60s, remember toys were a luxury back then. A loaf of Bread might have been 25 cents, but a toy was special.
ConstantCompanion
I'll need to look one up... thanks!
I'm still waiting for my Darkwing duck magnifying glass to come in the mail from the early 90's.
I didn't remember Patty Duke and Kurt Russell and Billy Mumy making commercials back then, but on the other hand, I didn't know who any of them were then, we were all just kids!
I love watching these. it feels right.
😍 I very much agree with u
just looking at all these toys from the 50s to the 70s is like amazing. that toy drive in theater was pretty cool as well.
I had so many of the Remco Toys. My oldest sisters boyfriend and later husband worked for Remco in NJ and would get me almost every toy they had! Reb Cannon, Frogman, helicopter , battleship, you name it ! Early mid 60’s great time to be a kid especially a boy! Boys toys were great!!
Man, sometimes i wish i was born in a different time period
Toys from the 1950's to 1970's were well made very sophisticated and hours of fun!! Later toys were simpler and more electronic and got boring real fast.
Cop says, "Is it real?" as he looks down the barrel! I'm hoping police academy training has improved since the 60's!
Nope.
I had so many of these awesome toys including BLAZE, Beautiful Crissy, Creepy Crawlers, Mr. Potato Head and GI JOE. Yes - I was a girl but my parents allowed me to play with boys toys too (and frankly, I liked boys toys better anyway :) This is a time when kids had imagination and knew how to interact with other kids.
I can still recall the distinct smell of Creepy Crawlers when they baked.
Oh yeah. I loved the smell.
My parents were pretty forward-thinking as well. We had Chatty Cathy as well as Girder and Panel, Bridge and Turnpike. For my sister and I, there weren't "boys" toys or "girls" toys, just "our" toys.
The boys’ toys were always way cooler
I are right sister
Look! It's Patty Duke as a child! Cool.
She turned out to be a staple on TV.
Really good actress.
She's an old familiar face.....almost like one of the family.
Fun fact: that Zero M air cannon thing was recalled because firing it close to your head like that caused severe inner ear damage. Many kids were sent to the hospital with ruptured eardrums. In fact, I see several toys in this video that were recalled for health and safety reasons.
You somehow managed to live through it
When toy shopping, nothing beat the Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogs!
i need that lie detector game asap.
mattel should really remake it.
Yes, we still have it today, somewhere in the attic, and at least 2 edition Concentration games ...
Lionel and Gilbert (American Flyer) train sets were (and still are) the best thing to keep a young boy occupied for hours.
Girls too my niece LOVED to watch the trains move and build the Plasticville kits then she found modern electronics
I just wish this modern generation would appreciate hobbies like slot cars, trains, and model planes and cars. They teach so much more than the button pushing of this era.
These toys are honestly so cool and i want them all
I think beautiful Chrissy is a pretty doll no matter how long u make her hair
i do miss proper toy stores.
me 2 not as much as I miss my mom she passed away when I was only 19
By all accounts, those of us born before the 1960s should be either blind, dead, or permanently scarred, maimed, and disfigured. From the time we were 5 or 6 years old, we played outside with our siblings and friends in the neighborhood unsupervised, there were no such things as bike helmets, or elbow and knee pads for when we roller skated or skate boarded (remember metal wheels?). Many toys shot hard projectiles, heated up red hot, had sharp edges, were painted with lead paint or required the use of real scissors or cutting tools like a knife. The best toys didn't need batteries but required imagination, thought, or reasoning. Despite all the unsupervised outdoor play, often with these "killer toys", we not only survived into adulthood, but we learned responsibility, teamwork, creativity, reasoning, and self sufficiency, the constant physical play and activity kept us physically fit and heathy, with obese children being a rarity. Some things the era did not prepare us for was how to play video games, how to have a belief and attitude of self entitlement, and how to be ignorantly rude on social media.
We still don`t use the bike helmets, elbow and knee pads :-) Greetz from Holland
Thanks for saying what many of us still think,....at least those of us still around.
After falling down 30 times learning to skate I took my sisters advice. I tied a pillow around my skinny butt and used a broom for balance. It worked. There were lots of laughs.
Frank Kolton yup, too much processed food since the 1980s too. before that it was home made, I remember.
jackthayer ... Uh oh, Frank Milton, ya picked up a "proud" LibDemProg...just like Proud GAYLORD picked up a bone-r. Ironic, isn't it, JackoffThayer??😃 Some your head. Must be freaking still from Tuesday's TRUMP VICTORY over Hilarious Felonious Clintonious! Garbage Bitch from Arkansas.....😉
This was somewhat comforting. I found myself smiling throughout the whole video.
Born in 1953~ Me too !
Patty Duke is also in the commercial that begins at the 13:23 mark. Both commercials were for remco toys. She played Helen Keller in the Miracle Worker probably just a couple of years later. And, who could forget the Patty Duke show, a few years after that? I enjoyed these old toy commercials, it sure brings back memories. Thanks.
+Rebecca Munn "Only $12.98 at your favorite toy store !" Only $12.98?
That would equal $105.86 today.
+Jeffrey Slott Yes, prices were strange. My guess is that was the list price, and you could get it WAY less in a store, as a manufacturer could not dictate prices. I remember in 1972, which is more than a decade later, the GI Joe Mobile Support Vehicle was $17.95, and that was considered a big present at Christmastime. I doubt very much that actually sold for $12.98. Cost was probably $5 and sold for $7.5 for a 33% margin. Those "beautiful cars" look like they were pressed tin, the whole thing was cardboard with a plastic movie screen. That said, I am a major Remco fan!!!!!
Jeffrey Slott Middle-class of the 50s-70s could afford that too.
Didn't see her but did see Billy Mumy and Kurt Russell
Is there a Trany Barbie.
Some of those toys were not cheap! That last one was $19.95 in 1965. That's $152 in 2016 dollars! No wonder I never had any of these unless my mom found them at a garage sale.
MisterLumpkin I would have given anything for that Barbie doll dream house. Only the really well off kids had stuff like that.
mine came from thrift stores. I made their clothes. Mostly out of old socks. We weren't poor! It's just that the toys were very expensive.
ConstantCompanion I learned how to sew making Barbie cloths from leftover scrapes. My mother thought it would be a good way to get use to the machine.
Stevo Reno awe
I grew up in my grandparent's home, we had few toys, played outside. One of my cousins had all of these Barbie toys and accessories. I remember playing at her house with them. My sister got a Barbie bride doll one Christmas and I got Midge. I never got over that lol. I wanted the Barbie bride doll lol. I had an uncle that had a collection of toys and games his boys had played with (they were quite well off) and he stored them at our house for a few months. We had a blast playing with them. He eventually came and got them and donated them to an organization for disadvantaged youth. I thought that was what we were. I grew up and bought my kids too many expensive toys in the 80's and 90's though.
6:49 hahahahaha "not a flying toy"
Exactly like the label on Buzz Lightyear's box in "Toy Story"!
Lol i like how you can tell which toy is from the 50s and 70s
Panic! At The Sims4 creepy crawlers, early 70s
The days when commercials used to explain in full details how stuffs works they are advertising.
"Giggle!" I am not born in this era, I am just saying "Vee!" ❤️
I’m 69, born in 1953, we grew up in the coolest times ! Non-stop fun !! 😁
That guy said “ it’s so safe, you just can’t tip him over!” I guarantee more than one kid got broken bones from tipping that horse over..🤦♂️
Possibly not. I had something similar as a kid and it never fell over, even though I was kinda rough on it.
Those Remco toys actually seemed kind of cool. The shrunken head one was fucked up, but in a "cool" way. But a lot of these toys seemed to be very expensive for those days. Particularly the Remco toys. And I couldn't help but laugh at there slogan. "Every boy wants a Remco toy...and so do girls". Lol they were way ahead of there time with that slogan whether they knew it or not. The toy that I found most hilarious was that Mystery Date one. It seems kind of like a game for like, drunk adults at a party or something.
Good old Battle Creek, MI, home of Kelloggs. I remember entering contests, mailing away for cups, toys, glasses, etc. on the gawk of cereal boxes.
1:25 Jimmy's been into dad's medicine cabinet again
Wow I miss those crappy toys that came in cereal boxes
remember the baking soda submarines? lol
tasteegold7772 I have two still xD and they work good
Jo Orca Whisperer : those crappy toys in cereal boxes were the only toys i got outside of birthday and christmas, lol.
A big part of the fun was waiting for the toy to be delivered and getting something in the mail with your name one it. Some of the toys were pretty nice. I remember getting "walking dolls" by saving box top. This was a 6" hard plastic doll with rayon hair. I still have a couple. I also have a couple of the Mr. Clean dolls (one still in the box). I still have my yellow frogman, too. Later, I got my son a mini electronic language translator from Kellogs. Some of those toys weren't so crappy.
Jo Orca Whisperer ok
dude! I want the shrunken head kit!
Rob Mcmuffin
Who wouldn't? :)
yeah that was badass. rob zombie would most likely market it but the remaining libtards would probably flip out over it cause none of them had afros lol
tasteegold7772 im surprised there aren't any triggered libtard comments about "Gaylord the walking dog toy" lol
Here is a comment for you.....only a deplorable would want a shrunken head or laugh at the name "Gaylord".
jami1545
why are you loser libtards still here in potus Trumps new America?..didnt you smelly worthless hippies say you were gonna move out?
A toy horse that any dead beat dad can put together.
true.
Why the insistence on calling fathers "dead beat dads"?
@@robertromero8692they weren't saying that all dad are that
@@avaa2983 But why use the phrase at all? Why refer to fathers that way?
@@robertromero8692 he probably meant the dads that drink
I got a rocking horse from Santa in 1964. I wanted to get one for my daughter in the early 80’s. Found one. She wasn’t as excited about it as I was. I had a Barbie doll in the mid 60’s with a carry case. I spoiled my daughter and got her the annual Barbie holiday dolls. She had lots of clothes and an elderly lady made knitted and sewed clothes for her Barbie. I saved all the clothes and packed them in special tissue in a computer box. I got a divorce from my ex and I forgot I had the boxes stored in the attic. When the house was sold my ex threw all the boxes out without my knowledge. I remember many of these toys but not the drive in toy.
That Dick Tracy 2-way wrist radio is pretty cool, wouldn't today's kids like it?
Omg! I had that Revco Whirlybird toy. Provided hours and hours of fun.
this makes me have a fallout feeling xD
lol...i was waiting for a "Giddy up Buttercup" commercial
+Rob Mcmuffin "Gaylord the pup"
I died laughing
me too.
70 toy commercials, Ah, a one of a kind experience to enjoy such happiness and creativity! But wait, What about the children born in 2007? They consider this a pathetic video game, and nothing else. and a drop of the "XD" Emote aswell.
Blaze the horse was close enough to it tho
46:32 I can't be the only one to find that song catchy XD
Leo no, but the car wash looks cool
I grew up in the 80's and I believe that it was the last of the glory years of American Toy Makers. When they still had toy factories here home made in the U.S.A. It is so sad to see on all toys today Made in China. But hand's down I believe the coolest toy's were made from 50's-80's.
@Trust nobody Trustsnuthin ah yes. TVs and computers and videogames were better in the 50s to 80s
'And we'll all feel gay when Jonnie comes marching home'..oh what different times. Most of these toys look like disasters waiting to happen -lots of small parts, 'firing' parts to take ur eye out.I love that 'Boys will love these toys....and girls too' :-).Brilliant insightful upload,thank you!
I wish the kid's 2day could just experience the fun we had back then.everybody got along the whole block play baseball.hide and seek.man those we're the day's.sure miss those day's at times.😌.
Kathy Candelaria they can’t technology took them over
So what I learned is that as a kid in the 50s you could either play with guns and rocket ships, or dolls, and that was your lot. Cool.
"My name is Chatty Cathy and I'm going to kill you." LOL I always heard June Foray did both Chatty Cathy and Talky Tina but this is the first time I actually heard it.
You’ve got a be kidding me!
Yes, I still have the Lie Detector game and my 1970 Crissy doll TODAY.
Looking at all the army war toys boys played with-I couldn't help but think in ten years those same boys would be fighting a real war in Vietnam.How innocent we were!
got some of those when i was a kid. at Christmas time we could pick out $50 worth we wanted. on birth days we would get $10 worth of toys. wish i had them all today
Today's Libs would freak with the rocking horse commercial. Playing with a gun! Aaahhh!
lol yeah fuck the demtards they're yesterdays used toilet paper
What about the Johnny Reb Cannon and a confederate flag !!!! BLM and the rest of them would have a FIT !!!
+Jhon Siders: I had a Johnny Reb Cannon as a kid (I'm sixty now, btw). I can't quite remember what became of it, but I recently found another one on Ebay. It was in sad shape, but I managed to get it working again. Yee-haw!!!
Perhaps if you weren't so fucking nuts with your guns, people wouldn't feel paranoid about whether it was real or not.
I am an avid collector of Die-Cast cars and trucks. I've also gotten really into some diorama pieces. I have an older Tomica Limited Vintage Car dealership that has a small office and, a garage, as well as maybe 10+ parking spots. I'd love to find a⛽Gas⛽⛽Station⛽as well, but a Drive-in theater would be absolutely perfect for a scenario! I have the Super 6-lane Raceway that Mattel made. I have created a ¼-mile dragstrip and it's a sweet set-up! Imagine as your Hot Wheels flies down the hill, flying across the straight track towards the finish line! Past the ⛽Gas⛽⛽Station⛽, the Car Dealership, then the Drive-in a t the end? Wow! Especially if your "filming" at night. Epic is an understatement!
Parents- they buy for us all the toys we want and cry for, as a child.They love us and provide for us, wanting us to just be happy But when we grow up, we get mad at them and don't care much about them. Wish every grown up would speak a few kind words of thanks for taking care of us all this time.Instead, we argue and even leave our parents, when they need us the most. Just sad.
Ab Cd not me. I took care of my parents.
That so true tell it
Lol my parents where abusive my entire life if gladly watch them suffer
I spent 28 years caring for my parents when they were down and old. I repaid my raising.
All the sweet people who's entire day was consumed by designing and developing toys to delight children. Their noble efforts humble me.
These toys sure looked better on TV. Am I right?
u r right ..i had Jimmy Jet...just gotit for Christmas , played with it a couple of times ,,that day ,then it broke...dad said hed fix it but he for got AND I never played with it again . even then that thing was cheep junk!
Could you imagine the cost of a lot of these toys if they built them to the level of reliability of today's electronics? The price would have been unbelievable!
yes I luv watching these videos I think ist cool u can see what my uncle played with when he was a kid
32:27
"Alright now, how does a train go?"
(whistle blowing)
"Now an ocean liner?"
(horn blowing, short toot)
"Now then, how does your tricycle sound?"
(metallic squeaking)
"I see. But how would you like your tricycle to sound?"
(engine roaring)
I got a Patty play pal doll when I was somewhere between two and three years old. She was exactly my size. I thought she was fun until she fell on me and nailed me to the floor. I didn't like her very much after that.
ConstantCompanion "My name is Talky Tina, and I'm going to kill you".......
Madeleine Baier different doll. we weren't allowed to watch Twilight Zone back then exactly for reasons like this. My parents are very smart.
ConstantCompanion Patty play doll is the stuff of nightmares 😱
Bonnie Cat lol..yes! I still don't like that doll!
+Bonnie Cat really?
Being a kid in the 1950 seems really fun... Except for all the polio and stuff
and it was probably best if you were white. any other color and you were heckled, beaten and mobbed.
these toys look more fun than the ones I had when I was a child
I agree with u I luv watching the board games from the 50s and 60s playing board games is my favorite hobbies💞 great comment u made
The Dick Tracy power gun has bill tumy from lost in space tv show in the commercial!
Did you know Barbie did not smile until the late 2000s??
Nah, 1976 Angel Face Barbie was the first to smile. Used that face mold on Supersize Barbie.
I like the ad for shrunken heads…..”Now, shrunken heads for all occasions!” 😆
always wanted a Creepy Crawler...Dad said we would get burnt
12:23 Beautiful Crissy,
26:09 and Velvet are both of my favorites.
Did any of you notice Patty Duke in some of the Remco commercials?
Thanks, for the skate backwards,....lots of good Saturday morning memories.
I'd like to get one of those Remco "build-it-yourself" transistor radios, although I'd probably put it together wrong and end up receiving alien transmissions or something...
That is funny I like that
I had one of those Man In Space sets, great fun.
My cousin had Barbie Dolls the clothes were made really well and were very pretty, when I bought one for my little niece I noticed the clothes were not as well made and looked pretty shitty by comparison.
52:48- My cousin had one and I envied him for it. I never gave him a hard time about it, we just had fun and enjoyed it together. This is the one commercial that stands out foremost in my mind. To this day, I am still mesmerized by airplanes.
Flying superman was the prelude to lawn darts.
Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, using real potatoes. Did I even see a Mr. Carrot Head? Potatoes sold separately, of course.
I had the creepy crawler maker, open hot plate, loved it. My sister had a Chatty Cathy, boring.
Did you have a vacuuform??
No, rats.
2degucitas Yes. Vacu-form, creepy-crawlies, others. Was my thing....that plastic smell!!!😃
I had some of these toys when i was a kid, i remember having Major Matt Mason and a couple of others
Would've LOVED to have that Drive-In Toy - Has ANYONE here been to a Drive - In Theatre? (P.S. - That girl looks like a very young Patty Duke)
I have been to a drive in theatre a few times before! I thought it was cool!
That WAS Patty Duke.
I think she looks more like Patty Cake or that other girl from the 60's, Patty Stacker. hehehehehhhh :P
Sure I've been to the drive-in lots of times back in the 60's. My earliest memory was going in our Station wagon and we would take blankets and pillows and Dad would fold the back seat down so we could lay back there and play or sleep if the movie got slow for the little kids. I saw Old Yeller and so many others. I believe the last show I saw at the drive-in was Grease when I was 17 with my girlfriend. We went to make out but loved the movie so much we watched the whole thing!
We still have a drive in theatre near where I live
I had and loved my creepy crawlers, along with my Barbie Dream House, chatty Cathy, too!
I would LOVE to own one of the retro Barbie dolls
You and I both. I have my aunt's Barbie and Midge from '62. They have seen better days, LOL!!
Holy cow...a kid with a toy gun...call out the SWAT team
The Average Joe, I still have my cap gun from 1955, don’t know what to do with it too dangerous in this era, afraid the police would shoot my young grandson if he played with it outside.
Sometimes the toys made back then are bettwr than the ones made now!
OMG!!! that Patty Playpal doll is just creepy as hell!!! Those are the kind of dolls they make horror movies out of!
Kellogg's was a sponsor of the "Superman' TV series in the 50s.
superman looks like a plane
i make my own dolls with cardboard and the doll house with shoe box. i learned how to make cardboard furniture too. my cardboard dolls have lots of clothes. i just drew/color/cut them. they were made of paper. and my brother and i carves a highway at the garden and play with our own "match box" cars, made from real match boxes. i often do an F1 race with all of our shoes and slippers, and discovered uncharted lands riding my sleeping mat as my sea ship. imagination is fun! XD
Poor Gaylord. 😂
"Looks just like super man himself!" 😂 ok. Kinda looked more like the batman logo. You just have to listen to these commercials to know they're old. (Not just the sound quality) but how they talk. Same as sitcoms from the 50s/60s. I like how they have the prices in the commercial. Me/mrs potato head is my favorite where you use an actual potato. 🥔. 👍🏻😆
3:11 Are Wild West TV series or movies really popular during the 50s?