A little more political incorrectness. but somehow it's hard to get away from cowboys ans Indians in the 1950's.  I loved my tepe...

Remember Wagon Train ? I never missed it - the covered wagons, the wagon master, the scout, the Indians?  The wild wild west! I'd pu...

Every weekend when I was in elementary school we'd watch T he Shirley Temple Story Hour. It was akways a little disconcerting to se...

My doll house!  I was 7 almost 8 the Christmas I found this in the Sears wish book and then under the tree.  This was a little before the...

Two of my all time favourites, my glove and  my Louisville Slugger bat.  Both of which I still have.  I would spend hours ever...

Every Christmas I could look forward to a new package of Silly Putty (or Nutty Putty, as it was originally known) in my stocking.  It r...

So this ones's interesting - because as I've gotten older (and older) I find ventriloquist dummies rather scary - there do seem t...

A few weeks ago a library patron gifted me with this wonderful vintage invention.  I had seen them before, but never handled one or lo...

 Not near as scary as Teddy Ruxpin - My Pet Monster!  My younger daughter Jenny wanted this and her Uncle Paul came through and gave it t...

A bit of a departure - not a beloved toy from my childhood,  but one that ended up being rather scary from my daughters' generati...

I loved baseball when I was a kid. Listened to all the Dodger games on the radio with Vin Scully announcing. Played at school and in an a...

Here's what my Civil War set looked like on  Christmas Day when I set it up on the dining table.   The colour of the table...

 When I was in grade school my big sister Becky Anne, who was 6 1/2 years older than me, made me these wonderful Raggedy Ann and Andy doll...

I know that in this day and age, toy guns are politically incorrect,  but back in the '50s and early '60's it seemed like alm...

I wonder how many of us mixed media types out there  can trace our love of toy theatres to this classic toy  from the early '60...

Writing about my red and yellow buckboard  in the last post, made me think of this. My dream toy when I was 10.  The Marx Civi...

 I was playing around on eBay the other day and just for fun I entered some clues into the search box to see if I could bring up one of m...