I’m one of the reasons you’re not gonna find sharp Jarts anymore. I was injured by one and almost overnight a lawyer contacted my parents wanting to know if we wanted to enjoin the huge class action lawsuit that had been filed a few months earlier. I think my mom and dad received a check for $20 or something.
Gawd, the 70’s. HR Puffenstuff. REAL cartoons, not the Pokemon or Baby Smurf crap. Velvet coloring posters (which LilMiss is now hooked on). Speaking of hooked- hooked latch rugs/pillows. My first was the Pink Panter in about 1976. The Barbie styling head (with a pony tail that really grows!). The Charlies Angels treehouse. The McDonald playset. Spirograph rocked! Dari Kenevil motorcycle doll. Mousetrap (hated that game). Spending my whole 50C allowance at the (now gone) corner store and getting a candy bar, Bottle Pops, Lik-M-Stix, and those sweet/sour lollipops (what were they called?). Trading 45’s.
I had one called Tressy. You’d push a button in her belly and pull the hair out. To rewind it, there was a knob on her back. She was just a little bit larger than a Barbie, IIRC. I remember being fairly bored fairly quickly.
Little People, the nice chokable ones. Oh yeah. I actually do like the newer ones better, the ones that actually somewhat resemble people. But I’ll never forget the day we were looking through a box of the older style ones… and saw, among others… an Indian. A policeman. A sailor… Papazappa and I looked at each other and exclaimed “It’s the Little Village People!!”.
You might be happy to know that you can actually still get Marathon bars, but you have to find a place that specializes in British candy. They’re from Cadbury, and they’re called Curly Wurly.
I can vouch for the fact that these are about as close to a Marathon as you’re likely to find anymore–they’re smaller, but they taste the same. I ordered a box a few years ago and they were just as I remembered Marathons.
My Little Ponies are back (I bought 2 for my lil princess for x-mas) and Hungry Hungry Hippos is still around, too.
My brother used to have a Family Fued game and then “the family” got Wheel of Fortune as a x-mas gift one year. He used to have this crazy race game using small plastic balls (like the ones in Hungry Hungry Hippos) called Madcap Marathon.
I used to make my Grandma play Husker Du with me for hours as a little kid. I still love that game, lol. If only Princess would get into it!!
I had the “Velvet” doll, my sister had the “Chrissy” doll. My aunt made around 10 sets of dolls clothes for each of our dolls. We played with those for hours at a time. (I miss being a kid…)
I had the “Velvet” doll, my sister had the “Chrissy” doll. My aunt made around 10 sets of dolls clothes for each of our dolls. We played with those for hours at a time. (I miss being a kid…)
I had the “Velvet” doll, my sister had the “Chrissy” doll. My aunt made around 10 sets of dolls clothes for each of our dolls. We played with those for hours at a time. (I miss being a kid…)
I loved the Vertibird.
The airblaster with the gorilla, ahh, the memories. I lost my hearing in my right ear for two weeks to that damn thing. I hate to admit, but actually was a loss of hearing for about a week, on two seperate occasions.
We’ve discussed Space Food Sticks on these boards previously, but that’s another thing missing from the 70s.
Wacky Wafers
The big flat Jolly Rancher sticks (can you still get those?)
Pepsi Twist (lemon-flavored pepsi)
Shrinky Dinks
Baby Tender Love
and I still miss the Bay City Rollers
BTW- I was an adult before I realized that Mousetrap was a GAME. We used to just put it together and let the ball go…
My grandfather taught me how to make 5-strand braids, and I used to practice on my Cinnamon doll for hours.
Other things, now that I think of them:
-Life, the board game
-Sole Survivor - remember the kid on the tropical island? “I’m the sole survivor!”
-Saturday morning cartoons & shows with little or no marketing tie-ins - remember the Godzilla Power Hour (later the Godzilla Super 90)? Space Sentinels? Land of the Lost? Star Trek, the cartoon? Jonny Quest?
Colorforms were in the '60s, weren’t they. I believe I’m in the wrong decade. I was in high school in the 70s. My toys looked more like hash pipes than little pieces of vinyl.
What about electronic toys like Mr. Merlin… or was it “Simon”? When was that made? 70s or 80s?
I have lotsa toys from the 70s still. I have a few viewmaster movies (the kind that came in yellow cartidges and you’d have to turn the crank to watch. I really want a Lite-Brite. And I miss Weebles.
Those Lollipops were called Charms. I miss Turkish Taffy, but it might be an end of the 60’s early 70’s thing.
What was the toy that was like a hoola hoop for your foot, it fit over your ankle and had a weighted ball attached with rope, the idea was to get it to rotate around your ankle whilst jumping the weight with your other foot. Another WHAMO creation I believe,
And I still have a doll from the late 60s or early 70s that grows a tooth, but I don’t know her name or how to get that dang tooth to come down, anyone know this doll? She has short reddish brown hair and I think she came with a blue and white striped onesie.
I was injured by one and almost overnight a lawyer contacted my parents wanting to know if we wanted to enjoin the huge class action lawsuit that had been filed a few months earlier. I think my mom and dad received a check for $20 or something.
