Just remember, you can’t take your smart phone with you back in time. No google, no internet, to Netflix or hulu or video games. I’m in. When are we leaving??
What a awesome trip back! I'm a 1972 model. 👧🏼 I had Merlin, the cap bomb and gun, old monopoly (waayyyy better hardware). Oh the smell of my old tinker toys...Yes! ❤️ Thank you for sharing your cool treasures.👍🏻
Remember " Smash up derby"? How is that not the greatest toy ever? You got to smash cars together, and parts would go flying! My parents hated that toy, and right as one set was wearing out, good old grandma would show up with a brand new set. I sure miss you grandma, you were the best!
We used to smash a whole box with a big rock. Scared the crap out of the old people in the neighborhood. Of course, they yelled at us. Great time to be a kid.
As a kid I had half those toys, and played with the other ones at friends houses. I’d add Silly Putty, 10 cent balsa glider kits, an inherited American Flyer train set, Clackers, and a vinyl & straw cowboy hat. These were ubiquitous toys, and I wish my kids had had a whole lot less TV and toy marketing crap, and more hands on the best: the original Lego sets, where everything was up to your imagination! Thanks for the nice memories.
I was born in 1969 and I absolutely loved being a boy in the '70's ! My 3 favorites were Lincoln Logs, Legos and cap guns. Thanks for bringing back such great memories. 👍 Oh, and Matchbox cars, Hotwheels, and Tonka trucks ! And my pocket knives, slingshot, and Daisy BB gun ( air rifle ). We collected beer bottle caps for some reason.
Man, I had that baseball game, and I also had football, hockey, basketball, and the head to head football. My friend had the soccer and some of the others too.
Wow do I feel old. I remember all of them the tinkertoy building set was my favorit followed by the cap gun. Thanks for the good memories we sure had fun back then, oh yeah I still have my first comic books to.
Christmas memories for me as a young boy in the 1950's was heading into the chilly old living room alone before everyone got up and pausing to look at the big christmas tree with all our gifts of mine and my sister's. then later all excited opening one of mine a bright red Hubley kiddie toy fire truck with all the removable parts I still have that toy 67 years later. An innocent time back then. Unfortunately never took any photos.😟🎄
Geez, you were lucky. I didn’t dare leave my room before it was ok’d. Plus we had to go to church Christmas morning before opening presents. It was like torture.
I enjoyed this very much. I completely forgot about Tinker Toys which I played with all the time. Also the bank with the hand collecting the coins. Very good.
I had Tinker Toys and Erector Set as well as American Flyer trains. Later in life, I built my home myself and a live steamer. I think there is a connection between those toys and my later endeavors.
Ah, good point my friend. And if there were no toys around, we could take a rock, a pine cone, and a piece of string and figure out some way to play with them.
Man, I still remember the smells of Erector Set and Tinker Toys. One was woodsy and the other metallic. I kept the electric motor from my Erector Set and used it for projects later in life. Ok, so I'm a pack rat.
As an Aussie kid in the 60s, from among these toys I had a Whizzer (just the top, without the maze thingy), a Tinker Toys set, and a Meccano set (which was the British equivalent of an Erector set, very similar). I also had a cap rifle and a couple of other toy guns. I had plenty of other things to play with. My parents spoiled me a bit in the toy department, but they didn't take any malarkey from me, so I didn't grow up entitled 😁The Merlin had yet to come along - that was future technology, man. One of my young cousins had one, but my interest in toys had long since shifted to girls by that time 😁 I've never heard of the "Spill and Spell". Isn't that basically what Boggle is now?
...had Tinkertoys also......the cap rocket too......had a bunch of cap guns also...good ones (Fanner 50s/Mattel Winchester 92...it was the golden age of the toy gun...with westerns & cop shows on TV every night
I loved the erector set, lincoln logs, and tinker toys. I played with every toy that used caps. The toys I remembered most were the little green plastic army men.
Great stuff. The Wizzer rocked and an Erector Set, like the Tinker Toy was the best way for children to develop fine-motor skills. I remember 'Merlin' was the Cabbage Patch doll of its day one Christmas. Fantastic video, keep them coming.
Earlier tonight I was talking to my wife about my favorite toys. I named Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs, Gilbert? Microscope, and the one (with the wooden wheels with all the holes in them) not remembering the name) and here it is, Tinker Toys.
Thanks for a great video! It certainly DID bring back many memories. Some were toys my mom & dad had, but some were toys we had during the 70s. The best part of childhood during all those decades is that we used our imaginations! Of course, you too said many times as we did, "We're going outside to play!" How many children do you think EVER utter those words today? Sadly, not many. They are truly missing out. I feel blessed to have grown up when there was still "magic" to being a child. And remember, "It's time to go home for supper when the streetlights went on..." 🏡🎈🌠😊
In the late 1960s, I was about 12, stayed outside on my bike ALL ALONE, for hours and hours, I sensed it was 8:P.M. and came in, and no one noticed or cared... did you play on your bike, sometimes going over to the school playground AFTER 10 P.M. , swinging on the swings? Ha! Try going to school playgrounds today in the after hours - barred fences all around Alta Vista elementary school today (what a shame).
They were fun. I’d take a roofing slat and put a short log under as a fulcrum, put another short log on one end and launch it by slamming down on the other end with a fist. Like a catapult.
Those were the days when all we had to worry about was getting in the front door before the sun went down. My cousins had Merlin and the football game. They were the "rich" cousins who got all the new toys. We went to their house 2 Saturday's a month.
These are wonderful toys, many memories from time well spent with family and friends. Made you smile, think and be creative without all the gadgets of now. We still have some
I used to have most all these toys from the 60s through the 70s. I also had an Astrolite by Hasbro. I played by the hrs with my Lincoln Logs set, my Legos set, my Erector set, my chemistry sets. Life was good back then.
I was lucky my Mother didn’t throw it away she said it was up to me when I was older Whoa She was a Cool Mother way ahead of her time doubt they think her way even today like I said ahead of her time!😳🤠😉🤩🇺🇸😇🙏
In the early '80s my brother, who was only 18 or 19 yrs old was a electronics whiz kid and he worked for his girlfriend's father producing prototype and exotic and small run production circuit boards. The original Mattell and Atari hand held football, racecars, baseball, Pacman and Ms Pacman with the red LED lights all had circuit boards that my brother managed the whole manufacturing process of. Needless to say he and I were some of the very first people on the planet to have those games before they ever hit the stores. There may be one in a box in storage somewhere still.
I just really like old toys and seeing what kids did before technology. I was born in 2000 and have very little memory of life without tech. Seeing how kids played and entertained themselves before the turn of the century always amazes me. Thanks for posting this!
I like what you said. Having been born in 1963 I grew up with many of toys shown here, some were hand me downs from my brothers. My favorites were the ones where things were constructed, especially Tinker Toys, Lincoln logs and Erector sets. I really believe they fostered mechanical inclination, especially if there was someone around for guidance.
Loved my Merlin toy! Pretty hi-tech for the 70s. And Tinker Toys... I can still smell those wood pieces and making tall constructions! Thanks for the memories!!! 🪀
Thank you for tour nostalgic video, As I' m from Italy I didn' t know all these amazing toys, apart from monopoly, which was one of my favourite family games! We still Play with it during Christmas holidays!
@@AlleyPicked thank you for tour kind answer I see! Well , I know Sicily, it' s amazing, but I live far a away in a small village in northern Italy, on Iseo lake, not far from Milan. We have played monopoly today, a new version from the LOL dolls, bit still challenging As always I wish you a happy new year!
70s kid here. I was given a "super ball" that was very dense rubber and if thrown down hard, it would bounce up so high it would interfere with high-altitude air-traffic...or get stuck in the house's gutter and be permanently lost. Frisbees, lawn darts, GI Joe, Viewmasters, silly putty, legos, pet rocks, pick-up-sticks, lincoln logs, monkeys in a barrel, and mood-rings.
I spent many hours in the 50s with my Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs. Unlike the toys today you had to use your imagination back then It was a magical time growing up back then . Thanks for the video it brings back wonderful memories
That's fantastic that you still have these toys! My mom would throw out anything I didn't play with 😢 I loved the tops, mecanno and tinker toys. These toys, unlike today, relied on a child's imagination. Thanks for sharing!
The wizzer reminds me of the wooden tops we had. We would wind a piece of string around them and toss it on the floor. You had to get it just right! Great memories of a simpler time. Thanks.
A long time ago I was doodling, remembered some toys I had. Made a list of toys I had that I could remember. A few years ago I added to that list. Recently I'm using that list for art projects. It's a complete list ... every toy I ever had! But then I see this video. Tinkertoys, check. Erector, check. But... that shiny silver gun - that seems _so_ familiar! Not on my list. Had no clue! But watching, wow, the shapes, the weight of it, the moving parts and how they feel, seems to real, sensory-vivid in memory. I don't know if I had one of those cap guns. Maybe our elderly neighbors had one in the ancient toybox from when they had kids, or one of my cousins had one. So familiar! And I know I've given that item exactly zero thought since I was, who knows, eight years old. Now I'm (mumble) decades old! Amazing. BTW, what's a "cap"? I never knew you could put something into that gun to shoot at anything. Duh!
the Wizzer thing really got me. I'd pretty much forgotten about that. Didn't have the boards for it, just the top I remember revving it up and letting it go with the metal tip and rubber around it. We did have a board game called Battle(ing?) tops, you wound a string around tops and pulled out it off with a key like holder, they would smash into each other in a ring, sometimes knocking the other top out of the ring. Had a couple of smaller erector sets as well, and yes the nuts and bolts always worked loose.
I had both Tinker Toys and Lincoln logs the Lincoln logs were my favorite i got two huge boxes of them one from parents and one from my Uncle one Christmas. I would build huge forts for all my Plastic Army , Cowboys and Indians and Knights figures. Those were great times to be a child.
Thanks for sharing. Around 1975 I got a GIANT Tinkertoy set for Christmas. The largest plastic “sticks” were probably 3 feet high. You could build pretend houses, planes, etc. and sit inside them. I absolutely loved it.
Can't believe all the wonderful toys & games we had growing up. Tinker Toys, man those were a riot. Always enough for friends to play with you. Loved Merlin & the baseball game. With the baseball game the pitcher would throw a pitch and you had to press a button to swing. You would get a strike, ball or a hit. Loved getting those home runs. Bought the game for someone once & just had to try it out beforehand. Played it so much had to replace the batteries before giving it away. Loved letting my sister play with the bank. Would coax her into putting her money in then watching her cry because her money would disappear. I would secretly take the money out & get her to go again. Pretty cruel but funny as hell. Can't wait to see if you have a Barbie that didn't bend. Frustrating trying to make the thing walk only on her stupid tiptoes. You could only make them hop. Can't forget Barbie's little sisters Tootie & Skipper. Then there was the rubbery blue trolls with the long stretchy arms & legs. They had a big head with a huge suction cup on the back of it. Those suckers stuck to anything. They left great blue circles on the walls. Had to be careful sticking them on skin especially the face as they left huge hickies! Thanx for bringing back fond childhood memories.
Merlin was the bomb! I had one of those things when I was a kid. I had a Simon, too - remember those? Similar kind of deal, but round, and more colorful. Those Mattel LED games were everywhere, back then. I think I had a Star Wars game they put out. Anyway, thanks for sharing - truly a blast from the past!
I remember every item except the beer can looking item. I was able to play everything else. I was never into comic books. I had a lot of " oh yeah! I remeber that! " moments.
I really enjoyed watching your video. I collect toys too and love to look back on the days when I was a kid. I loved my farm set, marbles and Match Box cars, my robots and games. I also had many dolls and teddy bears. I also loved skating and bikes. I had a wonderful time as a kid. I'm not so sure if kids have as much fun today.Thanks again for your great video.
Thanks! We were a lot more creative as kids. We had to be. We didn't have all these distracting electronic devices. I have a few other toy videos on my channel you might be interested in. th-cam.com/video/XmBtmADAFMA/w-d-xo.html Here's a cool one on dangerous toys we played with: th-cam.com/video/d07Pvt-uhNQ/w-d-xo.html Thanks for watching. Tom
The Wizzer! I owned or played with all of those toys, except for the Erector set. For some reason I never came across one of those. Also I never had beer cans. My mom would have blown a gasket. I did have the Mattel Baseball, and I think the Football. My best friend had Merlin. Good times.
Shit you guys didnt have the real shit to play with. My dumb ass or the son himself stole some .357 magnum bullets from a father of one of the kids. Yeah, I wouldnt have stole but I would ave received. And I stacked that standing vertical on the sidewalk and hit it with the rear of a hatchet. That cartridge blew up and exploded shell cartridge, nickle blasted into my leg. It hit extremely hard, lots and lots of pain but the wrangler jeans were like bullet proof for the shrapnel cartridge. Last time I tried that stupid shit. Then there was throwing bullets in a fire and people say that's not really dangerous but it is. There are deadly projectiles, just two at half the speed of one.
Great video. Really brings back memories but my favorite toy you showed was the Tinker Toys and one you didn't show was the Kenner Construction with the plastic girders and beans with plastic windows. Then I loved Mr. Machine, spent hours taking apart and putting it back together...Also just think of all the baseball cards we threw away just for the gum!
I loved Merlin, my friend had it. I still have my brother's "Head to Head Football", it still works, lost the battery cover, but that's okay, I have the 9-volt wall plug. I still have a few of my childhood toys, two of them in my profile picture. Thanks for sharing.
Toy shops kept boxes full of replacement cap rolls because guns were so popular. Later came a circular plastic cap cassette which was much louder, but only held around 12 shots. You could double or triple up the old paper rolls by folding them over in the bomb.
Hey, great job. I'm 60 years old and remember many of those toys. One I would love to have is my vintage 1965 or so Voyage to the bottom of the Sea "Seaview Sub". All I remember is it was yellow but would be worth a lot in mint condition today.
I remember all these toys. I passed my toys on to neighbors kids or my cousins. They never took care of them. I wish I could have saved them. I would have a freaking "Mint" literally !
I remember when I was young (I am 63 years old), playing some board game like Parker Brothers Billionaire, the great masters (the game with famous masterpieces paintings) Carrières (in French Canadian) or Careers(?), Pay Day, Stock Ticker, Bingo, some Waddington Games like Ratrace and Land Grab. I like your video a lot.😊
I had two of those erector sets and they were my absolute favorite. I had the tinker toys too, but not quite as fun. My other favorites were Lincoln Logs and O scale Lionel train set. All started with my older brother but I’m positive I used them more.
I was about ten years ahead so the electronic games weren't around yet. I had the same Erector set and the huge Lincoln logs set. I had Fort Apache with 100+ soldiers and another 100+ Indians. My total army men numbered over 500. Civil War Centennial was going strong so we all had the flags, hats and muskets with rubber bayonets. We also had those all metal pop guns which were like BB guns without the magazine. You could stick the barrel into the ground and shoot all the dirt and small rocks at someone. We collected the same comic books and baseball cards. I wish I still had those Micky Mantle and others cards now.
Yeah, those good ol' toys us Boomers had helped us develop manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination. They were also actual three dimensional objects, not just images on a screen. We also played card games with a standard deck, which helped us develop basic practical math skills. And does anybody remember Kerplunk, Mouse Trap, Operation, or Green Ghost? Those were such great games!
Thank you for bringing out the Whizzer!!! God, I LOVED mine so much!!! My stupid landlord threw mine away because he thought it made a mark on his asphalt driveway. What a jerk!
Do you remember stacking them? There was a plastic piece you could insert on top to stack whizzers. You could flip it around and then it could balance on a string.
@AlleyPicked Yes, I remember the ability to stack them. However, I only had one. My cousin was about to come over with his so we could battle and stack them. But mine was thrown away. The creepy landlord worked for the city. He had come home for lunch & took it back to work with him & threw it in the incinerator. Yes! I remember the whizzer and LOVED the 2 days I spent indoors with mine! Good times!
@@AlleyPicked It's really weird how watching you rev up the Whizzer brought back those memories in such detail! Brought a smile to my face to remember my cousin and my Whizzer! It was pink & white with a little line of yellow underneath.
Nostalgia. I remember in the late 1970s, or thereabouts, we would amass a big amount of soda cans. They would be stacked very high. Those toys and games do seem familiar.
For all the sophistication of today's gadgetry, I'd go back to these times in a heart-beat!
Anthony Behrends meh not really give me TH-cam over a shitty old toy any day.
@@Noticccashonly oh Sausage Dread I’m so sorry for you !
Just remember, you can’t take your smart phone with you back in time. No google, no internet, to Netflix or hulu or video games. I’m in. When are we leaving??
Same here. It was a wonderful time of innocents, wonder & joy. Can't say the same about being a kid, today.
@Sister Mary Clements It may not be fair to call that poster an "idiot." He/she may be young and not know any better.
Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s I swear we had the best toys and games ever!!!!!
Oh man! When you emptied that Tinkertoy can onto the table, the memory of what it smelled like came rushing back! What a weird sensation.
the set I had must of come a couple yrs later, included plastic 'fins' so you could build a windmill or such.
Yep - wood and cardboard 😁
I still have my old Spirograph I got for Christmas in the late 60's. All there but the pens have long since dried up.
I loved to play with that game also.
The pens dried up after 40 years? I’ll be darned.
That is awesome!!
❤I SERIOUSLY miss my brother's Tinker Toys and Lincoln Log Cabin sets!
Oh my goodness, the times we had hours on end!!❤
I had Lincoln Logs, too!
WOW,"My brother had Lincoln Logs!!
Lincoln Logs!
What a awesome trip back! I'm a 1972 model. 👧🏼 I had Merlin, the cap bomb and gun, old monopoly (waayyyy better hardware). Oh the smell of my old tinker toys...Yes! ❤️ Thank you for sharing your cool treasures.👍🏻
Remember " Smash up derby"? How is that not the greatest toy ever? You got to smash cars together, and parts would go flying! My parents hated that toy, and right as one set was wearing out, good old grandma would show up with a brand new set. I sure miss you grandma, you were the best!
I would give anything to go back to sitting at the dinning room table with my Mom and Dad and my Grandparents playing Monopoly after Sunday dinner
I hear that Back in the 60's as a kid growing up. A different and better times for sure. Today is just a bunch of non-sense BULLSHIT
Did you play after you were done "dinning," or after DINING?
I would give anything to just HAVE a memory like that.
@@kawasakirule3707 Oh man, I hear that. 👍🏻😣
Me too and cluedo
You brought back some great memories. The simplest toys brought hours of fun and imagination.
I’ve always said I am glad I was a kid when I was during the 60’s and 70s. When I watch these videos it takes me back. We had it great as a kid.
I loved the smell from the cap guns. I used to just get big rocks and hit them until they exploded.
And sometimes get burnt fingertips.
omg I did exactly the same thing with the rocks. loved the smell.
We used to smash a whole box with a big rock. Scared the crap out of the old people in the neighborhood. Of course, they yelled at us. Great time to be a kid.
LOL I did the same thing! My brothers would get mad, "SO WHAT!!" I'd yell and use them ALL UP!! LOL
I would pop them using my thumb nail (turns your nail black for a few days LOL)
As a kid I had half those toys, and played with the other ones at friends houses. I’d add Silly Putty, 10 cent balsa glider kits, an inherited American Flyer train set, Clackers, and a vinyl & straw cowboy hat. These were ubiquitous toys, and I wish my kids had had a whole lot less TV and toy marketing crap, and more hands on the best: the original Lego sets, where everything was up to your imagination! Thanks for the nice memories.
I have a 2nd toy video and I do mention the clackers :-) th-cam.com/video/XmBtmADAFMA/w-d-xo.html
I was born in 1969 and I absolutely loved being a boy in the '70's ! My 3 favorites were Lincoln Logs, Legos and cap guns. Thanks for bringing back such great memories. 👍 Oh, and Matchbox cars, Hotwheels, and Tonka trucks ! And my pocket knives, slingshot, and Daisy BB gun ( air rifle ). We collected beer bottle caps for some reason.
Watching this is going down memory lane and all the good toys back then great era baby boomer years
Man, I had that baseball game, and I also had football, hockey, basketball, and the head to head football. My friend had the soccer and some of the others too.
Wow do I feel old. I remember all of them the tinkertoy building set was my favorit followed by the cap gun. Thanks for the good memories we sure had fun back then, oh yeah I still have my first comic books to.
I just sold my comic book. Seems like the market for them is heating up.
@@AlleyPicked oh wow hope you made good on it.God bless you and your family.
Christmas memories for me as a young boy in the 1950's was heading into the chilly old living room alone before everyone got up and pausing to look at the big christmas tree with all our gifts of mine and my sister's. then later all excited opening one of mine a bright red Hubley kiddie toy fire truck with all the removable parts I still have that toy 67 years later. An innocent time back then. Unfortunately never took any photos.😟🎄
I can relate. I used to be the first one up in that chilly living room curled up by the air vent waiting for the furnace to kick on :-)
Geez, you were lucky. I didn’t dare leave my room before it was ok’d. Plus we had to go to church Christmas morning before opening presents. It was like torture.
I enjoyed this very much. I completely forgot about Tinker Toys which I played with all the time. Also the bank with the hand collecting the coins. Very good.
Love vintage toys! So much character compared to these day's.
I had some of these Merlin was one
I had Tinker Toys and Erector Set as well as American Flyer trains. Later in life, I built my home myself and a live steamer. I think there is a connection between those toys and my later endeavors.
Ah, good point my friend. And if there were no toys around, we could take a rock, a pine cone, and a piece of string and figure out some way to play with them.
That's been proven...and hopefully you still have your American Flyer trains. They're worth more than Lionel.
I never thought I would miss the sound of Tinker Toys being dumped out. I was AWESOME at Merlin & loved it! Thank you for sharing! ❤️👍🎉
The tinker toy can itself became a fun toy by turning it upside down and bashing on it like a drum with a wheel connected to a stick.
Man, I still remember the smells of Erector Set and Tinker Toys. One was woodsy and the other metallic. I kept the electric motor from my Erector Set and used it for projects later in life. Ok, so I'm a pack rat.
I am 67 and still have my erector set (#10)
No. Not a pack rat. That motor looks really solid. Useful for all kinds of things.
@Michael Miller Take a wild guess.
@Michael Miller Tinker Toys
Thanks Remembering back when. Very enjoyable...
As an Aussie kid in the 60s, from among these toys I had a Whizzer (just the top, without the maze thingy), a Tinker Toys set, and a Meccano set (which was the British equivalent of an Erector set, very similar). I also had a cap rifle and a couple of other toy guns. I had plenty of other things to play with. My parents spoiled me a bit in the toy department, but they didn't take any malarkey from me, so I didn't grow up entitled 😁The Merlin had yet to come along - that was future technology, man. One of my young cousins had one, but my interest in toys had long since shifted to girls by that time 😁 I've never heard of the "Spill and Spell". Isn't that basically what Boggle is now?
Great video, well done! Thanks for the memories..
GREAT VIDEO LOVE THOSE TOYS I WAS BORN IN 1961 AND REMEMBER THE TINKER TOYS AND PLAYING WITH THEM WE HAD THE VERY BEST TOYS IN THE 1960S AND 1970S.
I have a few schlitz glasses...one of my Uncles drove a truck for the company in Wisconsin a long time ago.
...had Tinkertoys also......the cap rocket too......had a bunch of cap guns also...good ones (Fanner 50s/Mattel Winchester 92...it was the golden age of the toy gun...with westerns & cop shows on TV every night
I loved the erector set, lincoln logs, and tinker toys. I played with every toy that used caps. The toys I remembered most were the little green plastic army men.
Great stuff. The Wizzer rocked and an Erector Set, like the Tinker Toy was the best way for children to develop fine-motor skills. I remember 'Merlin' was the Cabbage Patch doll of its day one Christmas. Fantastic video, keep them coming.
That cap gun brought back the memories. I used to have one of those. The memory also brought back the fascinating smell when it was opened.
Earlier tonight I was talking to my wife about my favorite toys. I named Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs, Gilbert? Microscope, and the one (with the wooden wheels with all the holes in them) not remembering the name) and here it is, Tinker Toys.
It's been a long time since I played with Tinker Toys but oh Lord do I remember
Thanks for a great video! It certainly DID bring back many memories. Some were toys my mom & dad had, but some were toys we had during the 70s. The best part of childhood during all those decades is that we used our imaginations! Of course, you too said many times as we did, "We're going outside to play!" How many children do you think EVER utter those words today? Sadly, not many. They are truly missing out. I feel blessed to have grown up when there was still "magic" to being a child. And remember, "It's time to go home for supper when the streetlights went on..." 🏡🎈🌠😊
In the late 1960s, I was about 12, stayed outside on my bike ALL ALONE, for hours and hours, I sensed it was 8:P.M. and came in, and no one noticed or cared... did you play on your bike, sometimes going over to the school playground AFTER 10 P.M. , swinging on the swings? Ha! Try going to school playgrounds today in the after hours - barred fences all around Alta Vista elementary school today (what a shame).
Lincoln logs were one of my favorite pastimes.
They were fun. I’d take a roofing slat and put a short log under as a fulcrum, put another short log on one end and launch it by slamming down on the other end with a fist. Like a catapult.
Those chemistry sets growing up in the 60s were pretty awesome you can make some really cool stuff.
For sure! Product liability lawsuits probably put an end to those.
@@chasbodaniels1744 yes they did growing up in the 60s you didn't have none of this BS that they have today and toys were bad ass back then
ever see the nuclear set with real radioactive materials ? Uranium refills were available
We had a chemistry set. Mostly made stinky messes My older brother did make mustard gas Phew.
@@harrybriscoe7948 cyanide uranium and ammonium nitrate. 🤓
Those were the days when all we had to worry about was getting in the front door before the sun went down. My cousins had Merlin and the football game. They were the "rich" cousins who got all the new toys. We went to their house 2 Saturday's a month.
Thank you for a blast from the past took me back to a simpler time
I played that football game for hours every day. Loved it.
These are wonderful toys, many memories from time well spent with family and friends. Made you smile, think and be creative without all the gadgets of now. We still have some
I used to have most all these toys from the 60s through the 70s. I also had an Astrolite by Hasbro. I played by the hrs with my Lincoln Logs set, my Legos set, my Erector set, my chemistry sets. Life was good back then.
My brother and I played with cap guns alot....lol!
I loved my wizzer! never had all those fancy trays...just ran mine on the back porch. Tinker toys were a big favorite too!
Thanks. I miss the 60's and 70's
I think most if not all of our moms threw away our childhood. I remember the unique smell of tinker toys. Probably from the wood.
Jason Matty they did smell good. So did play doh
Ya my mom through all are child hood toys away to.LOL i told her some of the stuff was worth alot of money she did not care.
I was lucky my Mother didn’t throw it away she said it was up to me when I was older Whoa She was a Cool Mother way ahead of her time doubt they think her way even today like I said ahead of her time!😳🤠😉🤩🇺🇸😇🙏
@J M:❤yes. the smell of the wood. brings me WAY, WAY Back. yes.❤
@@alissunwolf8249 And both were good snacks.
“You can build anything your imagination dreams”
Builds a rectangular prism
Cool video, I remember those toys well! My Sister, Brother,& I had some of them! The Erector Set was a major gift for me one Christmas!! Good times!!
In the early '80s my brother, who was only 18 or 19 yrs old was a electronics whiz kid and he worked for his girlfriend's father producing prototype and exotic and small run production circuit boards. The original Mattell and Atari hand held football, racecars, baseball, Pacman and Ms Pacman with the red LED lights all had circuit boards that my brother managed the whole manufacturing process of. Needless to say he and I were some of the very first people on the planet to have those games before they ever hit the stores. There may be one in a box in storage somewhere still.
I just really like old toys and seeing what kids did before technology.
I was born in 2000 and have very little memory of life without tech. Seeing how kids played and entertained themselves before the turn of the century always amazes me. Thanks for posting this!
I like what you said. Having been born in 1963 I grew up with many of toys shown here, some were hand me downs from my brothers.
My favorites were the ones where things were constructed, especially Tinker Toys, Lincoln logs and Erector sets. I really believe they fostered mechanical inclination, especially if there was someone around for guidance.
Loved my Merlin toy! Pretty hi-tech for the 70s. And Tinker Toys...
I can still smell those wood pieces and making tall constructions!
Thanks for the memories!!! 🪀
Ill like to see our kids today try to play with our old toys, lol
Tinkertoy - I can still remember the smell of that container. It sounds weird but it was comforting for some reason.
I also just made a comment about the smell of Tinkertoy...and then I go to the comments section and...wow...everyone remembers that smell :D
@@mokopa There was something about that wood and cardboard smell.
Thank you for tour nostalgic video, As I' m from Italy I didn' t know all these amazing toys, apart from monopoly, which was one of my favourite family games!
We still Play with it during Christmas holidays!
Thanks for watching. My grandfather was born in Sicily in a little town called Caltabellota.
@@AlleyPicked thank you for tour kind answer
I see! Well , I know Sicily, it' s amazing, but I live far a away in a small village in northern Italy, on Iseo lake, not far from Milan.
We have played monopoly today, a new version from the LOL dolls, bit still challenging As always
I wish you a happy new year!
70s kid here. I was given a "super ball" that was very dense rubber and if thrown down hard, it would bounce up so high it would interfere with high-altitude air-traffic...or get stuck in the house's gutter and be permanently lost. Frisbees, lawn darts, GI Joe, Viewmasters, silly putty, legos, pet rocks, pick-up-sticks, lincoln logs, monkeys in a barrel, and mood-rings.
I spent many hours in the 50s with my Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs. Unlike the toys today you had to use your imagination back then It was a magical time growing up back then . Thanks for the video it brings back wonderful memories
Very true! Thanks for watching :-)
That's fantastic that you still have these toys! My mom would throw out anything I didn't play with 😢 I loved the tops, mecanno and tinker toys. These toys, unlike today, relied on a child's imagination. Thanks for sharing!
I still have my #7 Mecanno set i talked my Dad into buying for me at a flea market Nice companion for my Erector set
I still have 2 1960’s Barbies a Ken doll & one Little Kiddles ! Remember those?
Thanks for the Flash Back Memorize !!!
The wizzer reminds me of the wooden tops we had. We would wind a piece of string around them and toss it on the floor. You had to get it just right! Great memories of a simpler time. Thanks.
Does anyone remember spinning jacks on the kitchen table?
I can smell the Tinker toys and the cap gun.
A long time ago I was doodling, remembered some toys I had. Made a list of toys I had that I could remember. A few years ago I added to that list. Recently I'm using that list for art projects. It's a complete list ... every toy I ever had! But then I see this video. Tinkertoys, check. Erector, check. But... that shiny silver gun - that seems _so_ familiar! Not on my list. Had no clue!
But watching, wow, the shapes, the weight of it, the moving parts and how they feel, seems to real, sensory-vivid in memory. I don't know if I had one of those cap guns. Maybe our elderly neighbors had one in the ancient toybox from when they had kids, or one of my cousins had one. So familiar! And I know I've given that item exactly zero thought since I was, who knows, eight years old. Now I'm (mumble) decades old! Amazing.
BTW, what's a "cap"? I never knew you could put something into that gun to shoot at anything. Duh!
The caps came in both green and red the red ones were louder and there was like 30 caps per roll
I love tinker toys, my mom had them and used to play with them all the time
the Wizzer thing really got me. I'd pretty much forgotten about that. Didn't have the boards for it, just the top I remember revving it up and letting it go with the metal tip and rubber around it. We did have a board game called Battle(ing?) tops, you wound a string around tops and pulled out it off with a key like holder, they would smash into each other in a ring, sometimes knocking the other top out of the ring. Had a couple of smaller erector sets as well, and yes the nuts and bolts always worked loose.
I remember Battling Tops!
I remember looking for any toy with the Mattel logo...it meant quality, and lots of fun in my book...😂
"You can tell it's Matell, It's swell!"
There were half-a-dozen quality toys makers.
When I was in kindergarten, and 1st grade I lived a block away from the Tinker Toy/Lincoln Log factory, I passed it every day on my way to school.
I had both Tinker Toys and Lincoln logs the Lincoln logs were my favorite i got two huge boxes of them one from parents and one from my Uncle one Christmas. I would build huge forts for all my Plastic Army , Cowboys and Indians and Knights figures. Those were great times to be a child.
I lived for Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, and Webulwables. I also had Merlin and Speak'n'Spell.
Thanks for sharing. Around 1975 I got a GIANT Tinkertoy set for Christmas. The largest plastic “sticks” were probably 3 feet high. You could build pretend houses, planes, etc. and sit inside them. I absolutely loved it.
Awesome video, made me remember all the toys we had as kids.
I have so much nostalgia"When,i saw the Tinkertoys"My childhood in New York!!
Enjoyed the video. Brought back great memories. Thanks.
One you didn't show from the 60s was silly putty. I had hours of fun lifting images from comic book pages.
There were dozens and dozens of toys he didn't show from that era.
Can't believe all the wonderful toys & games we had growing up. Tinker Toys, man those were a riot. Always enough for friends to play with you. Loved Merlin & the baseball game. With the baseball game the pitcher would throw a pitch and you had to press a button to swing. You would get a strike, ball or a hit. Loved getting those home runs. Bought the game for someone once & just had to try it out beforehand. Played it so much had to replace the batteries before giving it away. Loved letting my sister play with the bank. Would coax her into putting her money in then watching her cry because her money would disappear. I would secretly take the money out & get her to go again. Pretty cruel but funny as hell. Can't wait to see if you have a Barbie that didn't bend. Frustrating trying to make the thing walk only on her stupid tiptoes. You could only make them hop. Can't forget Barbie's little sisters Tootie & Skipper. Then there was the rubbery blue trolls with the long stretchy arms & legs. They had a big head with a huge suction cup on the back of it. Those suckers stuck to anything. They left great blue circles on the walls. Had to be careful sticking them on skin especially the face as they left huge hickies!
Thanx for bringing back fond childhood memories.
Good memories. I have another toy video coming out tomorrow morning. Check it out :-)
Thank you for sharing.memories
Merlin was the bomb! I had one of those things when I was a kid. I had a Simon, too - remember those? Similar kind of deal, but round, and more colorful. Those Mattel LED games were everywhere, back then. I think I had a Star Wars game they put out. Anyway, thanks for sharing - truly a blast from the past!
I had Merlin and Simon too. 👍🏻😊 Spent so many hours playing those at my dad's house.
It was eerily prophetic that the houses and hotels changed from wood to plastic!
A long time ago,but I remember!good times!
I remember every item except the beer can looking item. I was able to play everything else. I was never into comic books. I had a lot of " oh yeah! I remeber that! " moments.
I really enjoyed watching your video. I collect toys too and love to look back on the days when I was a kid. I loved my farm set, marbles and Match Box cars, my robots and games. I also had many dolls and teddy bears. I also loved skating and bikes. I had a wonderful time as a kid. I'm not so sure if kids have as much fun today.Thanks again for your great video.
Thanks! We were a lot more creative as kids. We had to be. We didn't have all these distracting electronic devices. I have a few other toy videos on my channel you might be interested in. th-cam.com/video/XmBtmADAFMA/w-d-xo.html
Here's a cool one on dangerous toys we played with: th-cam.com/video/d07Pvt-uhNQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for watching. Tom
I LOVED MY WIZZER! Thank you for the trip down memory lane. Tinker Toys was a gift my Brother got from Santa.
Wizzer OMG! My mom got so pissed at me when I really got that thing spinning and put it in my brothers hair.
Nice presentation. I had Tinker Toys but they were colors. Played Merlin in grade school. Still have the Mattel Electronic Football.
The Wizzer! I owned or played with all of those toys, except for the Erector set. For some reason I never came across one of those. Also I never had beer cans. My mom would have blown a gasket. I did have the Mattel Baseball, and I think the Football. My best friend had Merlin. Good times.
Remember taking a 5 pound sledge to a roll of caps...? The ringing!
Or a brick! Ah, the good old days.
I loved the smell of smashed caps.
We used the thick end of a wooden baseball bat plunged down vertically onto a roll of caps in the alley...quite loud!
Shit you guys didnt have the real shit to play with. My dumb ass or the son himself stole some .357 magnum bullets from a father of one of the kids. Yeah, I wouldnt have stole but I would ave received. And I stacked that standing vertical on the sidewalk and hit it with the rear of a hatchet. That cartridge blew up and exploded shell cartridge, nickle blasted into my leg. It hit extremely hard, lots and lots of pain but the wrangler jeans were like bullet proof for the shrapnel cartridge. Last time I tried that stupid shit. Then there was throwing bullets in a fire and people say that's not really dangerous but it is. There are deadly projectiles, just two at half the speed of one.
Yup I remember my brother doin that. I wanted to wring his Neck. I loved my Creepy Crawlers but I hated Capguns!
I had so many of these toys too, man thanks for the ride in the way back machine (:->)
Great video. Really brings back memories but my favorite toy you showed was the Tinker Toys and one you didn't show was the Kenner Construction with the plastic girders and beans with plastic windows. Then I loved Mr. Machine, spent hours taking apart and putting it back together...Also just think of all the baseball cards we threw away just for the gum!
I loved Merlin, my friend had it. I still have my brother's "Head to Head Football", it still works, lost the battery cover, but that's okay, I have the 9-volt wall plug. I still have a few of my childhood toys, two of them in my profile picture.
Thanks for sharing.
Exact same Monopoly game that I played with growing up! Never knew anyone else that had one like that. We played it often as a family.
Life was simpler then, didn't take much to have fun!
Lots of choking hazards......but we never seemed to choke on our toys back then.
Yesss! The cap gun is awesome. I have a few revolver cap guns myself. Also have a tiny cannon that loads the newer red caps.
Not to mention the smell of the burnt caps. Great memories.
Toy shops kept boxes full of replacement cap rolls because guns were so popular. Later came a circular plastic cap cassette which was much louder, but only held around 12 shots. You could double or triple up the old paper rolls by folding them over in the bomb.
There was a brand of caps called "Greenies"...they were the best!
Hey, great job. I'm 60 years old and remember many of those toys. One I would love to have is my vintage 1965 or so Voyage to the bottom of the Sea "Seaview Sub". All I remember is it was yellow but would be worth a lot in mint condition today.
Had most of them 💯
I remember all these toys.
I passed my toys on to neighbors kids or my cousins. They never took care of them. I wish I could have saved them.
I would have a freaking "Mint" literally !
literally?
I remember when I was young (I am 63 years old), playing some board game like Parker Brothers Billionaire, the great masters (the game with famous masterpieces paintings) Carrières (in French Canadian) or Careers(?), Pay Day, Stock Ticker, Bingo, some Waddington Games like Ratrace and Land Grab. I like your video a lot.😊
Thanks. I've got a new Christmas toy video coming out soon. Stay Tuned.
@AlleyPicked Thanks, I will.
I had tinker toys and Lincoln logs
I had two of those erector sets and they were my absolute favorite. I had the tinker toys too, but not quite as fun. My other favorites were Lincoln Logs and O scale Lionel train set. All started with my older brother but I’m positive I used them more.
I was about ten years ahead so the electronic games weren't around yet. I had the same Erector set and the huge Lincoln logs set. I had Fort Apache with 100+ soldiers and another 100+ Indians. My total army men numbered over 500. Civil War Centennial was going strong so we all had the flags, hats and muskets with rubber bayonets. We also had those all metal pop guns which were like BB guns without the magazine. You could stick the barrel into the ground and shoot all the dirt and small rocks at someone. We collected the same comic books and baseball cards. I wish I still had those Micky Mantle and others cards now.
The whizzer at the end was a great touch. Nice collection!
Yeah, those good ol' toys us Boomers had helped us develop manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination. They were also actual three dimensional objects, not just images on a screen.
We also played card games with a standard deck, which helped us develop basic practical math skills.
And does anybody remember Kerplunk, Mouse Trap, Operation, or Green Ghost? Those were such great games!
*sip*
when you're 14 and some dude said this
i remember mouse trap and I'm from gen z! what a fun game it was :)
Operation was great 👍 I remember a lot of squealing goin on!
I remember "Mouse Trap"! It was fun to play!
Thank you for bringing out the Whizzer!!! God, I LOVED mine so much!!! My stupid landlord threw mine away because he thought it made a mark on his asphalt driveway. What a jerk!
Do you remember stacking them? There was a plastic piece you could insert on top to stack whizzers. You could flip it around and then it could balance on a string.
@AlleyPicked Yes, I remember the ability to stack them. However, I only had one.
My cousin was about to come over with his so we could battle and stack them. But mine was thrown away. The creepy landlord worked for the city. He had come home for lunch & took it back to work with him & threw it in the incinerator.
Yes! I remember the whizzer and LOVED the 2 days I spent indoors with mine! Good times!
@@AlleyPicked It's really weird how watching you rev up the Whizzer brought back those memories in such detail! Brought a smile to my face to remember my cousin and my Whizzer! It was pink & white with a little line of yellow underneath.
Fantastic memories,,,,,luv the cat too,,,
The whizzer! had forgotten all about that toy. Did not own one but now I remember somewhere and sometime in my childhood I played with one.
Nostalgia. I remember in the late 1970s, or thereabouts, we would amass a big amount of soda cans. They would be stacked very high. Those toys and games do seem familiar.