70's toys and stuff we had! (pic heavy)

[Archae]

The early 70's were great when I was a kid.

(I was 12 in 1972.)

































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[libodem]

1. Very cool

I love old toys and dolls. I've collected quite a bit of stuff. None of it is in great shape or too fancy. Just more dust collectors.

[denbot]

2. We're the same age.

Klackers, LOL, I may still have a bruse or two from them.

[Archae]

3. When those broke...

They were anti-personnel weapons.

[Arugula Latte]

5. I still have mine.

Why they survived toy purges over four decades, I have no idea...

Mine are blue:

I wonder what I could get for them on Ebay ...

[MadrasT]

27. My god I hurt myself playing with those things.

Can you imagine them even being on the market today?

OWWWEEEEEEE!!!!

[cyberswede]

4. Is that game "Mousetrap?"

we had that in my 2nd grade classroom for rainy day recess - loved it!

I stall have my etch-a-sketch, clackers, and barbies.

[Archae]

7. Yes it is "Mousetrap."

Nowadays there is a videogame of that old board game!

I played it, it is fun.
Ah...memories!

[eShirl]

6. a few of the things from the late 60s, early-to-late 70s catalogs at this link:

http://www.wishbookweb.com/

this is a real blast from the past!

[jakeXT]

8. Erector/Meccano is really old

[Yavin4]

9. Childhood was sooo much different back then

Our toys were nice, not great like they are today, which I think is a good thing. If your toys are great, why grow up?

[OhioChick]

10. My Slinky after about an hour

[benld74]

21. I HATED when that happened! Never could get it back to normal after that,,,,

[RebelOne]

11. I am sure that crayons and Yo-Yos have been around long before the '70s

because I am 74 years old and remember them from my childhood.

[okieinpain]

12. im tripping off the alien's playing mousetrap, no way a human

could sit like that.

[bluesbassman]

13. Good times. These things were a blast...

[hibbing]

14. SSP Racers

Hey,
Anyone remember those things? Gosh they could take a lot of abuse and still worked great, of course there wasn't much to them. Plastic cord dealio you pull to get the wheels going and set it down?

Peace

[Rob H.]

15. Yes! We had those when I was a kid

We even had the "Smash-Up Derby" version that had spring-loaded doors, hoods and trunks that would pop off when you ran them into things (or each other). All you had to do to get them ready to do it again was snap the pieces back on. Ah, good times....






Edit: added another photo and misremembered the name initially.

[hibbing]

16. hehe

Hey,
I forgot about those ones, I just had the strait up rather phallic shaped ones. I think the ones I am thinking of were called SSP anyways, that is what the almighty google machine told me.

Peace

[Iggo]

23. Sing it with me: "Smash! Bang! Crack 'em up! Put 'em back again"

[warrprayer]

17. lots of these

[pintobean]

18. Don't forget

[Brigid]

22. Spirograph!!

[Archae]

24. We had it too.

Don't forget these also!

[Art_from_Ark]

26. I got a Spirograph for Christmas 1969

I spent New Year's Eve 1969 making as many designs as I could, while watching "Farewell to the '60s" programs and innocently thinking that the '70s were going to be better than the '60s.

[Xipe Totec]

19. Love the Heidelberg scar on that G.I. Joe. nt

[trof]

20. "I jest had a ol' syrup can to play with."

I asked my good friend Bubba what toys he got for Christmas when he was a kid.
Bubba grew up in the Alabama boonies during the back end of The Great Depression.
He is a self proclaimed redneck.


"Hell? Toys? We didn't have no toys. I had a ol' syrup can to play with.
It was a truck or a fire engine or a tractor. Whatever I wanted it to be, I guess.
Daddy was too busy tryin' to earn his keep and ours for no damn toys.
I don't guess I ever actually had a 'toy'."

[rurallib]

25. the Mitt Romney Memorial Etch-a-sketch

edit -typo

[MadrasT]

28. Great walk down memory lane.

I had many of those, also my prized Mr Peanut Peanut Butter Maker... you put the peanuts in his hat and cranked it and peanut butter came out.

And a kick ass EZ Bake oven that wasn't *pink*.

And a Light-N-Go Puppy... with a flashlight shaped like a bone that you shined on a sensor on his collar and he moved around.

[Bigleaf]

29. Some toys I had as a kid in the 70's

Evil Knievel Stunt Bike



Big Jim Sports Camper