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Most Popular Christmas Toys By Year – 1960s
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The Chatter Telephone was painted wood but by the time my sister got one, it was plastic.
“You got my funny bone”
I had quite a few of those. I’m surprised that HO slot cars didn’t make the list. Erector Sets and Spirograph were also very popular.
Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle better make the 70’s list. Still wish I had mine.
Us poor kids got Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toy’s.
…..and some of us learned 3 dimensional thinking because of it.
Lite Brite was possibly my all time favorite toy ever. I always took my Etch A Sketch with me on long car rides-yesteryear’s iPad.
We had almost all of those!
We we’re so poor that our Dad just cut holes in our pockets…
I’m stuck back around ’52 with Lincoln Logs.
How about Rock Em Sock Sock em robots?
My Uncle would send gifts just to piss off his sister, my Mother….One Christmas he sent a wood turing lathe that only turned balsa wood. It made amazing amounts of dust……I never saw it again after December 26th 1963…..
I usta go down to the park and show the l’il girls my finger puppet ……….
I put a hat on him and tried to get them to kiss him…….. man, that was crissmess ………..
I’m feeling old and young at the same time. Thanks, I think.
I had every single one of em except the Easy Bake oven.
Creepy Crawlers….I still have the burns….
Between me and my cousins we had all of these.
I fondly remember many rainy days chasing Hot Wheels across the room to send them down the track again. Also remember having quite a few Johnny Lightning cars as they were cheaper to buy and helped stretch my allowance.
Good fricken times.
My Dad, My Dad, let me tell you about my Dad….(grabs tie and tuns neck around)…He gave me a pair of scissors and told me to run with them….
You forgot about Creepy Crawlers
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Willy beat me to it.
Bring Back The LAWN DART.
Too many people occupying space & breathing.
Tonka trucks, back when they were still made out of metal. Easily the most indestructible toy I ever had.
I was around all those toys growing up, although it was the 70’s.@ Kcir : lawn darts never killed me or any of my friends regardless of how irresponsible we were with them, lots of bruises and lumps on the head, and more than a few bandaids needed. We would also play killem in the woods, basically paintball with 10 pump bb guns before paintball was invented. we miraculously didn’t lose any eyes. Worst injuries were go carts and bikes.
Bought my first BB Gun at 9, in the 60’s. Crosman 760 with a “Quart” of BBs for $21.
Killed grasshoppers, sparrows, rabbits, pigeons. All the neighbors with old barns were happy to have their pigeons eliminated. It took an eyeball shot to kill a rabbit.
Still have it, it’s been rebuilt several times.
Electric football and table hockey….I still have a table hockey set…Nobody would play me because I would kick their ever loving ass! Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadians….I drank a lot of free beer in college because of my perfection of that game….I gave it to a friend of mine who was moving to Wyoming and it burned up with his truck too as he threw his joint out the window and wasn’t paying attention because he would have spilled his beer….burned up the bong I made with Dick Nixons face on it that I made in ceramics class….
HOT WHEELS!!! During the war in Iraq our local veteran’s group used to send care packages to specific units usually picked by drawing a unit name out of a hat. One Marine Corps unit got one of our packages and they would usually contain items the Company Gunny said they most needed…like flavor stuff to put in the water, smokeless tobacco, various canned items other than MRE’s. In one shippment we included a bunch of Hot Wheels cars for them to pass out to the local children…Well when we heard back from the Gunny he said the guys thanked us and the really loved the Hot Wheels, when coming back from a patrol they would play with their cars…He didn’t have the heart to tell them they were meant for the kids! That’s my Semper Fi story for today.
Don’t know whether our family owned every one of those, but 10/10 having played with them, and owned most.
LMAO @ Kcir
Incredible Edibles. They were like creepy crawlers you could eat. The goop was pricey as was creepy crawler goop.
Barbie, Ken & Barbie’s friend, Midge!
My older sister got the first Barbie in the house (the one with the blue eyeshadow, ponytail and black/white stripped swimsuit (in heels, no less). The same Christmas I got her friend, Midge. She had a bubble hair do and was never pretty enough to upstage Barbie. My cousin stole her head, but it was soon returned.
The following Christmas came Barbie’s Dream House for we girls to share. Our youngest brother went on a SWAT mission inside, using a Lincoln Log to batter through the thin plastic sliding door.
I loved Barbie dolls! All those miniature outfits and tiny shoes to try on!
Late ’50s or early ’60s — A set of WWII small plastic soldiers, jeeps, tanks, artillery and pup tents.
Enough for two opposing Companies.
We would toss marbles as artillery shells.
When war was hours of good fun.
A decade later I found out it was no fun at all.
I got a mini bike. Ha. keep your easy bake oven.
Sorry, Wild Bill. But I’ll put ERTL trucks and tractors up against any Tonka truck ever made. I’ve fractured a toe dropping an ERTL tractor on it.
Where’s this gonna go with 1970’s toys? I’ll be more irrelevant then I already am……In the 70’s I was wanting to play with Cyndi, Maureen, Londa, Laurie, Terri, Susie etc…..Susie was a Revson, a member of the Revlon family. Boy howdy, I missed that fork in the road….aw well, bad decisions and failed gravity experiments have gotten me to where I am….Throw in high speed and constant vibration…yeppers….
After declassification it can now be reported . . .
Not all the GI Joes were unscathed during the combat insertion parachuting without a chute special team ops of nam era.
One poor GI Joe suffered an amputated arm after free-fall.
He had to do half-duty the rest of that day.
Erector sets and slot cars. The arrival of the Montgomery Wards Christmas Catalog was a major high point of the Christmas Season. I just looked on Ebay for erector sets and old pre-owned ones are high priced.
Deplorable Second Class: Be carful when looking for erector sets on line. Trust me on that one.
Even though I was a 70s kid, The Lite Brite and Etch a Sketch were both given to me as Christmas presents. Loved them both.
Consider that a the not-too-distant future the most popular toy will be ……. (drumroll) …..
…. an anal plug for the kiddies.
Etch a sketch was the only one on the list we got. Best Christmas ever, 1966, 13 years old. M-1 carbine under the tree (real, not Mattel). I wonder what ever happened to that gun….
I”m pretty sue every one of those toys could be found in our house, that decade! Most specifically, I hadn’t that very same GI Joe. Would’nt that be amazing, to possess one today in the collectors market.
“Had” not hadn’t.
I know at least 6 of those were on my lists
Easy Bake Oven image is um, quite the find
Ebay would decline to list it…
Next do muscle cars year by year…
In 1960, I got a red, 24 inch Schwinn Deluxe Tornado bicycle for Christmas. That thing was built like a tank. My dad paid $49.95 at Fred Miller’s Hardware Store. That was a bundle back then, but my dad believed that you got what you paid for. It was the only bicycle I ever had because you could repair it. They were built in Chicago to automotive standards. I’d walk to McCloud’s Bike Shop and buy Schwinn bearings to replace the worn-out ones. That was back when dad’s taught sons how to work on things. About eight years ago, I came across a photo of me on that bike that my grandfather took on Christmas Day. Good times!
That’s a great story Hambone.
The Red Schwinn Cherry Bomb was my dream bike I never got.
I got a knock-off blue bike instead.
Ever since, every bike I bought myself has been red.
My parents got us the least popular toys – a Think-A- Tron, a geology set of minerals and gemstones to display, a Porter geology lab for testing and identifying rocks, a Porter chemistry set, a US geography board games because other board games ‘rotted your mind’ the same way TV did. Sears and Penny’s got a work out. I may have gotten a Breyer horse or 2 from Penny’s. Oh and the Jingle Jump
My father, with a twinkle in his eye, used to tell us that he grew up so poor that he only had one thing to play with. Before he could finish, my mother would always tell him, “that’s enough”.
I was considerably older before I thought back and realized what it was he had to play with.
For me, it was my 50 shot pump-action Daisy air rifle…
I got it just the way Ralphie got his. “Hey, what is that behind the curtain in the dining room? Better go see…”
Best Christmas gift ever.