What did you play with?

My favorite was this one:


Who was the little owl?
I can't remember.

And of course, my absolute favorite was Barbie! Followed closely by:

I look at him now and I don't know why I found him to be so much fun back then... kinda creepy



I think this is one that my parents regretted getting me, because I just let her pee everywhere haha





I remember wanting an easy bake oven sooo badly, and when I got mine, I used it once or twice and then it caught on fire... and went bye bye



I loved that game!

I LOVED Lincoln Logs!!! I built so many cabins that were going to be just like the one I was going to live in when I grew up. (Uh, yeah, that whole cabin idea flew out the window when I realized living without electricity wasn't so great!)

Never played with Barbies.

Built lots of forts in the snow, or made "houses" by putting a blanket over a table. My sister would do the same over another table and then we would be neighbors and come visit each other with our dolls. My favorite doll was a Timey Tell that I got around 1972 or 1973. I swear she was the cutest doll I've ever seen. See her here



Most fun was playing like we were famous singers on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny. He always asked us to sit down AND to please sing another song.

I still have an active imagination.

I still have that book GW-
I got alot of the little black sambo books and puzzles from my dad. He started buying them when i was born and after my mom and him seperated, she gave them to me when i was about 6-7.

Same here with forts!! I'd make forts all winter -- out of snow outside, and out of blankets (over the heating vent -- mine, all mine!!) inside.

All the flurry about Little Black Sambo....He was Indian.

Remember "a pool of melted butter--or ghee as it is called in India"?

I was given many, many dolls--but I preferred to read books instead.

Books.

Computers.



I'm a geek, yes I am....

BB guns and motorcycles at the farm...

this was a craze in the communist bloc -céčka or C's. You collect as many as you can, chain them together, trade... Like glittery one for three regular ones, one with bubbles for 5 regular ones or 2 glittery ones.... I still have them somewhere. I collected well over a thousand...

Remember collecting and trading these? Just some of my favorites from the first and second series. I can't believe my parents let me collect these!

Smoky and I rode like the wind

We would take hair pin turns, kicking up dust and rocks that would trip up our pursuers!

My sister and brother and I had about a dozen of these. We made clothes for them out of scraps, ribbons, feathers, glitter, etc. Played with them for years. In fact, we were all in our 40s when we cleaned out mother's house after she died and found the troll dolls just where we left them. We even remembered all the names we'd given them.

Chia Tea: Smoky does indeed look like an incrdedible horse.
Lincoln logs bored me; and erector sets bored me. But when I was about six I was given a big box of plastic bricks; each one red and about the size of a domino tile and they could be interlocked to build things. And, god, did I build things. Impressive things, in the 6 foot by 6 foot "play room" next to my bedroom. And every Christmas for about five, I would be given another bag of those suckers, until I had, perhaps, a couple of thousand of them. I built towns and towers (I could get up to about two feet before it became unstable, but I learned that with proper construction on the lower levels, I could get them up to three feet). My parents thought I might turn out to be an architect; and I reckon I came close. But, eventually, I put the plastic bricks away, deciding that girls, for example, at 13 were not as "yucky" as they were at 10.

I fondly recall the days of playing with my Barbara Bush doll. It was so lifelike and cuddly. I think I might still have that darn thing around here somewhere.

Let me take a look.

Found it!!.......

barbra bush eh, i thought that was the rush limbaugh action figure

That's the beauty of this doll, djjd, it can be anything you want it to be,

On cold nights I make it my Angeline Jolie doll.

Barbie, of course. But I got bored with Ken and drew a beard on him with a marker.

Barbie didn't like it. Things were never the same between them after that.

Stray Cat, are you Paula, aka turtelette?

Sure seems like it.

ooh, too much infromation

What tipped you off?

Are you trying to be funny, Jane?