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Remember Slime? Came in a little green plastic trash can. I took some off to college with me (shortly after the 70s, granted), and would lie on my dorm bed and put it over my eye until it stuck good, then stand up so it would look like green sleaze oozing out my eye socket. Then go knock on the women's door. Obviously, admittance to a prestigious university did not automatically mean one was an adult.
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Silly Putty
Mouse Trap
Tinker Toys
G.I. Joe
Army Men
Batmobile car
Hot Wheels
Magna Doodle
Pet Rocks
Pong-our first video game
Twister
Strech Armstrong-pulled him apart and that red gel was everywhere
I just remembered one from the 50s that probably carried over into the 60s.
Steelies were ball-bearings used as marbles. Because they were several times the weight of glass marbles, they made great Shooters. They were highly sought after, because a ball bearing is diabolically hard to liberate from its race (even in a well-equipped machine shop), so a nice big shooter-sized Steelie could be traded for practically anything. Baseball glove, pack of cigarettes, little sister's panties, anything.
Etchosketch. The metal slinkies. Amazing one could have so much fun with a piece of metal that went down steps.
Slinkies. Had one. But grew up in an Orange County, CA where everything was one story. The only stairs we saw were those that lead to the basement at the Sears in Buena Park. How sad were we sitting at the curb in front of our ranch-style house trying to get the thing to "walk down the steps"?
We still laugh about that today as grown-ups.
Thankfully somebody invented banana seats on bicycles so we could spend hours of fun pulling wheelies and smashing our heads against the street. Helmets? Nobody had even THOUGHT of stinkin' helmets!
Real GI Joe's with a helicopter, Jeep, Sled dogs, just tons of stuff worth a fortune today, too bad it got left in the backyard on the day the backhoe started digging the pool. ARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!
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