I remember Friday nights was pizza night growing up in Brooklyn. My earliest memories are before there were pizzerias or pizza stores you had to get your pies from an Italian restaurant or make them yourself. There were no pizza boxes the pie were on piece of cut up cardboard box, they put toothpics in it, and covered it with paper. First pizza store in my area opened in the early fifties, you could get a slice and a Coke for a quarter. I remember in the early 60s we'd Munch pie on Friday night and watch The law and Mr Jones starring James Whitmore.
This is one of those toys where you buy it for your child But you really want it. It's from 1981, It was from Santa to my youngest daughter for christmas, I just found it in one of the tubs I was going through.
@Tony Page = wow would kids today even know what to do with such a toy? Playing of any kind in our days required thinking - and creativity and imagination .. remember the yellow pages book? Ours always had things to seek and find on the front cover. It was neat trying to find the bird, a lagoon, a plane and ect. fun times.
Fort Apache I spent about 2 hours cleaning all the pieces, I also cleaned the box. I wanted it to look inviting because I was giving it to my Grandkids to play with. They are ages 7,9, and 10. They showed very little interest if any, had it been me I couldn't wait to play with it. They'd rather play games on their tablet, it's a much different world today. I'm hoping sometime in the near future they'll take an interest in playing with it. The 9 year old I thought would like it because he likes building things, he's also the one who just had his tonsils out, maybe still under the weather.
At an early age, I was always interested in Psychics, People who claimed to be able to see the future or read minds. Then I saw this while shopping with my parents. In time I knew the yearly question would be asked " What would you like for your birthday" I couldn't wait for the Magic Eight Ball. I'd asked it a question, if I didn't get the answered I wanted I'd asked the question again but I would change the verbage, I'd do this until I got the answer I wanted. It was a fun item especially when played in a group.
Their was not as many variety of cereals when I was a kid, I mainly ate Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies. If there was a surprise in the box I remember opening the box upside down thinking the prize was at the bottom, occasionally they fool you and put the prize at the top.