Toys And Games From The Past

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  1. Marie Mallery

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    I didn't have a chemistry kit but seen them and other things here, nice trip down Memory Lane.
     
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    There was a season for different Street games. There was a period where all we did was play with tops, some of my friends could make them spin seems like forever. I was never really good at spinning them but I enjoyed trying.

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    I had those. Then a company came out with plastic ones with a battery, a light and a centrifugal switch...it was probably Duncan. I believe mine had a white body with a clear orange/amber cap.
     
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    I had the gyro it's an amusing toy.
     
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    In the '50s we had a cap bomb or some called as a cap grenade. Later they came out with a cap rocket.
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    I remember those and the cap guns troo,
     
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    One Cap At A Time
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    An Entire Roll All At Once
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    We take the whole roll and put it on the sidewalk and hit it with a hammer or whatever else we had like a rock.
     
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