Category Archives: Toys
If anyone wants a knock hokey…
I am looking for the knock…
I had a Baby Soft Sounds…
It’s that crazy hula hooping…
It’s that crazy hula hooping hippie from Oklahoma (gulp! Will I ever graduate and move?) I went over to Online sports and found that they, like all other hula hoop importers, discriminate against tall (er) people. HHHippie is not a tall adult. So how do the over 4 footers hoop? With black PVC hose. This stuff is used for inground sprinkler systems and is available at most D-I-Y type stores. A roll of 100 feet costs about $10-15 here. I get 10 hoops out of a roll, factoring in goof-ups. I use the 1 inch diameter hose, although huskier folks have been known to use 1 and 1/2 inch. Get connectors, too. the internal types are all that will work. The kind with “fish gill” threading rather than regular pipe threading are harder to assemble, but stay together better. ACE hardware sells a pvc cutter which makes nice clean cuts very easily. It’s an $8 tool. Purple primer, PVC cement and gaffers or duct tape round out your supplies. Cut the pipe to your preferred length, prime and cement the hose insert the connectors and PUSH! Seal the gap with tape. I hold the hose in a circle and stand it on its end. A hoop that comes to my chin is almost perfect. It is a bit on the heavy side, and therefore spins at a slower rate than the lightweight toys, but you can walk and even dance while hooping. Robyn, the Hula Hooping Hippie
We got nasty when we made…
We got nasty when we made a slingshot just from a heavy rubber band and cut pieces of wire and bent them into a U shape and shot them at different things. Sometimes they would stick like a staple. I quit this when I hit a kid in the forehead and it stuck. It scared me when I figured out I could have taken his eye out. That wouldn’t even pass by saying kids will be kids…Jim
How about potatoe guns….
How about potatoe guns. This was a metal gun in which you stuck the end of the gun into a hard potatoe which loaded a little potatoe plug into the gun (About the size of a tic tac). Pull the trigger and pow. That thing really hurt when you got hit. I believe they finally outlawed that gun. Too dangerous for little kids.
How about those little celluloid…
How about those little celluloid dolls that we bought for a nickle at the corner candy store(Berky’s,in my neighborhood ). This was before plastics, can you imagine? they had moveable arms and legs attached by a bit of elastic.We sat on the stoop and sewed clothing for them for hours on end, This was in the N.Bx.in the thirties . Are you out there somewhere Ruth Fox? Your father owned a lingerie factory and you had lovely scraps of silk and satin for doll dresses.
Does anyone remember how…
I can remember my yellow…
I can remember my yellow hula hoop when I was growing up in Amityville Long Island in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s. My 3 year old, 6 year old and 17 year old nieces were playing “skip it” when I went back to LI this past June. I can still remember my first bike, too. How I wish my little boys had a childhood like mine.