Friday - TOYS - get off my lawn edition

craniac wrote: We had the standard range of toys that kids played with in 1975 in Sunnyvale, California.

I wish these forums had a markdown plugin. I would make so many bulleted lists.

- green plastic army men, that we would melt with magnifying glasses. When I look to the side I can see a burn caused by staring into that white dot of death.
- we would dip grasshoppers into melted candle wax
- My dad brought home these red cedar 2 x 4s and cut them into giant blocks with his radial arm saw, then made a giant pre-jenga tower
- In kindergarten we would fight over the big,hollow play blocks that could be used to build forts
- We would take our GI Joes and stick them on the cross beam of our delta kites. Then they would fall off and hit the asphalt, and the internal rubber band would break, turning them into quadraplegics
- We'd dig these dirt pits and put ledges and bridges made of sticks, and put army men all over, then huck D batteries at them
- Yoyos were big for a while. The Duncan yoyo expert would come to 7-11 and do tricks. He was our god.

As I look back at what I remember of my childhood forty years ago, it seems like we spent so much time just trying to not be bored to death.