Remembering Those Great Toys Of The Baby Boomer Era

Metal Halloween noise makers---shakers, rattlers, and clickers

 

I had those

 

Me too.

 

I wasn't really big on toys, even as a little kid I preferred books and records.
Two toys I liked a lot, though, were Colorforms ( a vinyl alternative to paper dolls) and a Troll house like this and Trolls.

 

One of my kids also liked trolls and had a few of them.. so they weren't only for our generation

 

Mostly tricycles and bikes,we lived in the country with lakes,woods so built tree houses swam most of the time. Or plyed with animals like equine.And we loved to jump rope.

Not quite like this but we did jump rope often,

 

Roller skates,

 

Have you seen what seems to be a rather new invention- shoes that have wheels on the bottom?
I wonder if they're available for adults!!

 

We had coloring books and although I'd liked to of had dolls in a family of boys that wasn't posible.So I was a tom boy.

 

LOL,I never thought of it like that.They were fun.I taught my kids and the first 7 grandkids to skate.

 

Propeller Beanies

 

They must have been from a long time ago- the ads don't even have zipcodes!!

 

Joanna, those ads are from 1948. Yes, some of us Boomers predate zip codes. And a lot of other things.