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cherylpf
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 Posted: 02/18/04 - 16:35 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: | | kobyj wrote: | | omega lambda wrote: | | Runner X wrote: | | Lawn darts, throwing stars and razor wire. |
heh
You're older than you look.  I had those before they were outlawed. |
We still have a set.  |
Didn't the Lawn Dart Gestapo come knocking on your door during the Great Lawn Dart Purge? |
apparently not, I would swear there is a set in my parents' garage, which means they not only survived the gestapo, but a cross country move... 
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TimRuns
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Posted: 02/18/04 - 16:35 Post subject:
firecrackers for Chinese New Year...
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ShannonG
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Posted: 02/18/04 - 16:38 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: |
apparently not, I would swear there is a set in my parents' garage, which means they not only survived the gestapo, but a cross country move... |
Aha! Your family is on the run with the contraband Lawn Darts! Where too next, Alaska?
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cherylpf
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Posted: 02/18/04 - 16:39 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: |
apparently not, I would swear there is a set in my parents' garage, which means they not only survived the gestapo, but a cross country move... |
Aha! Your family is on the run with the contraband Lawn Darts! Where too next, Alaska? |
I could tell you but then I would have to use the lawn darts on you...
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akern
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Posted: 02/18/04 - 16:40 Post subject:
Did anyone else have the Bowling for Dollars set of plastic pins and bowling ball?
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camelia bedelia
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Posted: 02/18/04 - 16:46 Post subject:
I had a Velvet doll (my sisters had Chrissy and the other one). I still have her in fact, though her pretty purple dress is long gone and my daughter pulled the long hair right out of her head. My sister cut the hair off hers because she thought it would automatically grow back.
We also had lawn darts and a toss-across.
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kristin31
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Posted: 02/18/04 - 21:51 Post subject:
I had the Chrissy doll too!. We has some pretty neat stuff becuase my dad never really had any toys growing up; his parents had no money. SO he'd buy us (two girls) toys under the pretext that they were for us (like a full size Pachinko machine, a train set, a chemistry set, a mini-race car track with battery operated cars...there was tons of stuff. We even had a mini garage with a battery-operated lift for the cars!
On the girlie side, anyone remember the BArbie townhouse with the lift and the Barbie mall, complete with hair salon?
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elkid
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Posted: 02/18/04 - 21:55 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | | On the girlie side, anyone remember the BArbie townhouse with the lift and the Barbie mall, complete with hair salon? |
I loved the escalator at the salon! I also had the Barbie pool. That is, until mom took it away because I kept flooding my bedroom.
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shelee
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Posted: 02/18/04 - 22:14 Post subject:
hmmm, a sit and spin. i know they have these but they now play music and light up....  let's see one that will really date me..smurf doll! you know, my little girl has my little pony. some of the toys from my childhood are making a come back. they know they can get us with the memories.
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genie
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 09:13 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | I had the Chrissy doll too!. We has some pretty neat stuff becuase my dad never really had any toys growing up; his parents had no money. SO he'd buy us (two girls) toys under the pretext that they were for us (like a full size Pachinko machine, a train set, a chemistry set, a mini-race car track with battery operated cars...there was tons of stuff. We even had a mini garage with a battery-operated lift for the cars!
On the girlie side, anyone remember the BArbie townhouse with the lift and the Barbie mall, complete with hair salon? |
And the camper with the pop out thingie, and the Corvette....geez, that bimbo lived better than I did! 
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msparks
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 09:49 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | Did anyone else have the Bowling for Dollars set of plastic pins and bowling ball? |
Sure, but I don't recall that they were "Bowling for Dollars" pins and balls. The balls had those indentations into which no human fingers could fit. Didn't matter. Usually ended up using a pin as a bat and seeing how far you could hit the "bowling ball."
For all you folks referring to "lawn darts," when they were first introduced, they were known as "Jarts." It was a brand name. The flights had two colors: red and blue. The scoring rings were yellow. And if the game became too lopsided, interest could be revived by allowing the losing side/opponent to prevent the other side's Jart from scoring by catching it in flight. Ah, yes, the great equalizer! Jarts...not a game for the spastically unco-ordinated.
And no one's mentioned a Frisbee...or the very basic sticks, rocks, and dirt.
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roughausen
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 10:12 Post subject:
Ok, if klipity klops were the things that you walked around on, what were Romper Stompers?
My Barbies had full size GI Joe dolls for companionship. Ken was such a wuss. Should have saved those GI Joe dolls, though - saw one in a antique store for $400 in the original box. Man, that just made me feel old 
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RangerG
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 10:26 Post subject:
Wooden blocks
Matchbox cars and trucks...from the 50's
Original GI-Joe. I had the hardhat diver with the brass helmet and canvas suit.
Gilbert Master Builder Erector Set....the biggest one they made.
Wham-O airblaster
And my all time favorite....a Playmobile...I think it was about 1958-59.
All this stuff is considered antique and collectable....just like me 
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msparks
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 10:31 Post subject:
| RangerG wrote: | | Wooden blocks |
What? No Lincoln Logs? No Tinkertoys?
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robp
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 10:31 Post subject:
| msparks wrote: |
And no one's mentioned a Frisbee...or the very basic sticks, rocks, and dirt. |
I have two scars on the back of my head from stitches due to playing with those basic rocks. 
We had an apple orchard behind our house and we used to carve throwing sticks. A nice green stick about 1/2" in dia. and 3-4' long. Pierce an apple with it and then use it as a lever to throw said apple a long long way. Very inaccurate though, lotsa distance but difficult to hit a target.
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