Nostalgia: Things You Had Growing Up

afterburnt

Now these were pretty cool

Clipdat

My dad had this model! So cool.

Tony M wrote: »

Just a few I built growing up.
I built a few of the classic Monster models too. Those were really fun. What happened to them only MOM knows.

BlueMDPicker

mhardy6647

nooshinjohn wrote: »

There's an unbuilt 1/8 scale Corvette kit in the basement Found it at the good ol' Harvard (MA) town dump one fine day.

mhardy6647

afterburnt wrote: »

Now these were pretty cool

Those are a great teachable moment to illustrate the noncompressibility of water, which is a fundamental property of water due to the extensive network of hydrogen
bonding between water molecules. Water molecules are extremely polar, which is also why it's arguably the single most powerful solvent extant (with the exception, of course, of mother's saliva ). The hydrogen bonding is also responsible for the remarkable property that water has of being less dense as a solid than as a liquid. This is why ice floats, and bodies of water don't freeze from the bottom up.

If bodies of water didn't freeze from the top, life as we know it likely never could have developed.

Water is amazing stuff.

Y'all knew all of that already, though, of course.

Jimbo18

Anyone remember Whistle Warblers? We just called them bird whistles. Made of plastic, a metal half circle and leather. You put them in your mouth, up against the roof, and did kind of a sucking motion with your tongue in order to make a "chirping sound". I can't imaging how this would get past the product safety commission today.

These don't look exactly like what we had, but they are pretty close.

oldrocker

afterburnt wrote: »

Now these were pretty cool

Cool thread.

Did find a few of these that still worked for the nieces/nephews.
Was lots of fun last year until one of them discovered he could shoot it at his sister.

They been put up ever since..

nooshinjohn

steveinaz

Cool thread....seeing a lot of stuff I remember.

dkfreebird

How many built these ?

Hermitism

mhardy6647 wrote: »

afterburnt wrote: »

Now these were pretty cool

Those are a great teachable moment to illustrate the noncompressibility of water, which is a fundamental property of water due to the extensive network of hydrogen
bonding between water molecules. Water molecules are extremely polar, which is also why it's arguably the single most powerful solvent extant (with the exception, of course, of mother's saliva ). The hydrogen bonding is also responsible for the remarkable property that water has of being less dense as a solid than as a liquid. This is why ice floats, and bodies of water don't freeze from the bottom up.

If bodies of water didn't freeze from the top, life as we know it likely never could have developed.

Water is amazing stuff.

Y'all knew all of that already, though, of course.

You realize you just completely sucked the fun out of that toy!

gudnoyez

Wrist Rockets and Taconite Pellets. Good times.

Nightfall

gudnoyez wrote: »

Wrist Rockets and Taconite Pellets. Good times.

You didn't ever kill a mama song bird by accident there by having to raise the baby birds on your own did you?

nooshinjohn

gudnoyez wrote: »

Wrist Rockets and Taconite Pellets. Good times.

Good thing it doesn’t have a pistol grip and a detachable magazine. Sad that we can’t post pictures of the Pearl handled Lone Ranger cap guns we had

dkfreebird

Can’t forget walking the dog.

Hermitism

nooshinjohn wrote: »

Sad that we can’t post pictures of the Pearl handled Lone Ranger cap guns we had

My Granddad gave me one of those. I think I had a hat and holster, too. I remember having a few cap guns. Some used single round plastic caps, and some used paper caps, that came on a roll and you would rear off a single cap for your gun.

gudnoyez

https://youtu.be/RkK21V5hN2s
Walkin The Dog

I always walked the Dog with a Duncan Butterfly.

Those Click Clacks a couple of pages back came and went fast they were banned at school kids were getting glass pieces in their eyes.

nooshinjohn

mhardy6647 wrote: »

There's an unbuilt 1/8 scale Corvette kit in the basement Found it at the good ol' Harvard (MA) town dump one fine day.

Looking for the 78 and the 82... also the turbo Trans Am kit. Which one do you have?

afterburnt

Before graduating to Hot Wheels

dkfreebird

Think about how many whistles you could make from this roll.

gudnoyez

The attire of my youth and a board, 70s in San Diego hanging out at Balboa park ( when it used to be safe) or mission beach, nostalgic 70s growing up for sure.pretty cool thread.

afterburnt

I am not sure how I feel about this toy

afterburnt

gudnoyez

afterburnt wrote: »

I am not sure how I feel about this toy

Oh I'm sure mommy & daddy used that saddle more once junior went to bed

nooshinjohn

F1nut

afterburnt wrote: »

Before graduating to Hot Wheels

I've still got a boat load of those around here somewhere.

Tony M

I think the only toys from our youth that's still on the shelves are our classic board games, Gi Joe and Barbie, frisbee, Battleship, Hot Wheels and matchbox-( I think), and some others. Slot car and train sets are still being produced too.

Do they still make cap guns for kids?

Didn't Gas monkey garage make a car to help celebrate the 100 millionth hot wheels car production milestone?

pitdogg2

gudnoyez wrote: »

afterburnt wrote: »

I am not sure how I feel about this toy

Oh I'm sure mommy & daddy used that saddle more once junior went to bed

Except mom rode the saddle horn

Hermitism

Tony M

I started collecting Mercury head dimes when I was 10 yers old I think. Then I progressed to have a Very Nice Coin collection but cashed it in to help put a down payment on my house. My specialty became Indian Head Cents. I still have quite a few coin collection remnants that are cool. I have always wanted to start back up but, RECCESSIONS have told me it would be better to have Cash at Cash value on hand if the time came.

When my Mother said look what I got from the grocery store, Tony, some old dimes. Check em out. Can I have them? Sure you can, what, you want to start collecting old coins? YEA, these are cool! Thanks, Mom!