I was a child of the 60's.... remember creepie crawlers? Had the goop and the hot plate with molds that you could make plastic insects... A wonder I didn't burn the house down with that thing LOL! Finally ended when I decided I wanted to be a chef like Graham Kerr and tried to make an omelet on the hot plate which resulted in a small smoky mess, best I remember :) I was a sucker for everything that was offered for mail order form comic books and Boy's Life magazine. I think the biggest disappointment were the x-ray glasses which I thought for sure was going to enlighten me on the female anatomy but instead was more of a feather layered between two pieces of plastic that you looked through :) Wish I would of saved all that old stuff!
@creepmag62
14 жыл бұрын
when I saw that Play Doh I could smell it!
@sallygomez8799
3 жыл бұрын
You never forget that smell!🙂
@virginiaconnor8350
2 жыл бұрын
But where is it made now?
@janstanglx
4 жыл бұрын
I WAS BORN IN 1953, THEY'RE ALL MY AGE, AS I WAS THEIR AGE BACK IN 1962, LOTS OF GREAT TIME THEN.
@joannehack7588
Жыл бұрын
😳😊💥🙏
@joannehack7588
Жыл бұрын
This was indeed educational😬
@joannehack7588
Жыл бұрын
Love it
@debishaw9355
Жыл бұрын
Now the 2 to 5 year olds are helping their grandparents learn how the computer works😆. I remember fascination and a couple others. I was around 9 so I still loved dolls.
@alanolson6913
2 жыл бұрын
My brother and I had Tinker Toys. He was a bit too old in ‘62 for a number of these toys. I was in the 4th grade so some of these were pretty cool and some not so much. I mostly had Tonka trucks and Matchbox cars. We also had an HO scale Lionel train set with a town. It was on a huge plywood board in our garage.
@jimmyb1559
4 жыл бұрын
Great memories. I had the airplane and runway toy shown at 0:44. I seemed to be much larger in the catalogue picture and I was disappointed by how small it was when I actually got it. But I got over it and ended up loving it!
@markdraper3469
Жыл бұрын
I had the Steve Canyon cockpit @0:41 but got mine in '59. By '62, just a memory.
@spy4863
10 жыл бұрын
Love that 50's-60's background music! I have one of the original Fisher-Price Tick-Tock clocks! I bought it at an antique store about 10 or 15 years ago. A few years ago, when I saw they were being reissued I was a little afraid that what I had was a reproduction. So I took it to a local clock repair man (to see if he could fix the music box), and not only did he reassure me that it was an original, NOT a reproduction, he was overjoyed to see this toy because it reminded him of his childhood! While he could not fix the music box (it was too overwound) he showed me how I could manually make it play! He said I really made his day, and truthfully, he really made mine!
@lindathrall5133
5 жыл бұрын
spy4863 THERE ARE MANY OF THOSE TOYS ARE STILL OUT THERE AND ARE COMING BACK IN STYLE
@melvynn11
5 жыл бұрын
spy4863 I have one too ! The music still plays perfectly. 😀
@patientlee9770
4 жыл бұрын
My daughter purchased the Fischer Price clock for her 2 year old son. It's his favourite toy.
@virginiaconnor8350
2 жыл бұрын
We had one too. It still worked when my nephew was born in '69. My younger brother had a toy train that spewed smoke and backed up if it confronted an obstacle, and blew a horn. My Das bought it at a store at Lenox Sq.-when it was still an open mall in the early-mid '60s. I bought one just like it at a thrift store in Cobb Co. for my friend's young son. The batteries were written in German, but it take long to find the 2 AA batteries that worked and he enjoyed it. I had a Chatty Cathy doll and my father got me and my sister a bagpipe, but he had no idea how to play it. I also had a metal playhouse from Sears (aside from the PX at Ft. MacPherson, Sears was our place to get our toys, etc. then-no Target or Walmart yet). when I was 7.
@ediwijanarko6460
5 жыл бұрын
that kids in 60s are the grandpa and grandma today haha
@sheiladavis6523
4 жыл бұрын
Edi you are right I am 65 years old & I am a grandmother & a great grandmother also ☺Praise the Lord December 5, 2019
@57Banjoman
4 жыл бұрын
I got the "Big T" as a gift one year-it has been lost to the ages, but seeing it reminds me how I have been blessed-and a few tears-thank you for the video!
@michellerjackson5776
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I had a very blessed childhood. 🙏
@oliviajohnjohnolivia8142
2 жыл бұрын
My girlfriend loves Big T.
@patrickmccarthy7877
2 жыл бұрын
I was born August 18th, 1962, I'm going on 60.
@RCALivingStereo
2 жыл бұрын
Ira, just wanted to say thank you for uploading all these little videos of history I enjoy your videos everyday 🙏
@rachelwickart275
Жыл бұрын
LOL The "play ordeal"!
@bridgettebailey4697
Жыл бұрын
Amen ❤need this more on tv.
@nick2theside
10 жыл бұрын
6:00- My sister had one of those phonographs. It lasted forever.
@Jeff98177
11 жыл бұрын
7:50 Dang, I had that same wind-up clock the girl is playing with. I wore that thing out.
@ginaf2103
4 жыл бұрын
I was 7 in 1962 loved my toys
@StanTheObserver-lo8rx
4 жыл бұрын
I had that big Model T. I remember the glue and spray paint it took to build it. I don't think I've recovered to this day....
@geeman693
10 жыл бұрын
Narrated by Peter Roberts, John Gambling's side kick on WOR New York 710 in the 1960's.
@ETericET
14 жыл бұрын
It is of great importance that the materials can't be use to blow up the house.
@wooderdsaunders6801
4 жыл бұрын
Today they may not pass the safety test, play doh press would crush fingers. Glue and paint a no no. Chemical set and perfume, etc.
@jimbear62
Жыл бұрын
I had the Flintstone Dino when I was little. And I just saw one at a vintage toy store
@fcontitwo
2 жыл бұрын
‘Kids’ will find a-way around ‘Safety’ measures!!! ⚡️🎭🤣
@alvinjones670
4 жыл бұрын
AWESOMENESS I LOVE THAT RETRO VINTAGE S
@Bill23799
2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the children selected to test " Lawn Darts " did not survive.
@debishaw9355
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@Bill23799
2 жыл бұрын
They should have tested that horse trailer with the little boy sitting on it and trying to ride it down a hill. That's what I would have done if i was his age.
@joannehack7588
Жыл бұрын
Gone gonna rise again
@joannehack7588
Жыл бұрын
😊
@user-hq4zu6wd9p
4 жыл бұрын
Нашим детям такое даже не снилось....вместо игрушек были только палки и рогатки....
@kingforaday8725
Жыл бұрын
The Big T was on my Christmas and birthday wish list for two years!!! Never did get one! 😥 Dont know why. Maybe it was to expensive or my parents couldn't find it in the stores.
@rzu7120
3 жыл бұрын
That plant and vegetable toy had to be at the top of every child’s wish list.
@MaryScavariello
Жыл бұрын
Wow. I'm italian and I can guarantee that americand and British kids were a lot luckier than my grandparents living in italy... they didn't have any toys, the most fortunate played with rag dolls and footballs
@christinagiagni3578
Жыл бұрын
maybe bocci balls too
@MaryScavariello
Жыл бұрын
@christinagiagni3578 maybe yes, I only saw elderly people play with them though
@Jeff98177
11 жыл бұрын
And also that you put on a shirt and tie before playing with said materials.
@SSN515
4 жыл бұрын
collared button up or polos were required. also, had a dress code for school and you dressed for travel and shopping.
@AnnaLVajda
4 жыл бұрын
Kids grow out of clothes so fast why not let them play in nice ones.
@deeguenveur9987
4 жыл бұрын
These are the kind of toys kids need today. Maybe they could grow a brain rather than play video games and twitter their days away on cell phones.....
@deeguenveur9987
4 жыл бұрын
@Chang Noi excellent observation!!! Merry Christmas....
@larrywakeman4371
4 жыл бұрын
SO WELL SAID! It is SO SAD little girls at the age of 7 say they are 'too old; to play with dolls, SAD SAD image these yuppy lib parents are feeding their little girls and boys.... I have no children, but my husband and I see this all the time, the mindless children are on YT making videos instead of being OUTSIDE making forts, treehouses, race tracks for TONKA trucks!
@ITILII
4 жыл бұрын
Yep, use your brain, get off their butts and exercise, stop eating junk....wow how revolutionary ! And stop buying junk made by Chinese Communist SLAVES, bring jobs back to the USA !!! Corporations also need to learn they're about more than just profits, unions too (what's left of them) politicians, time to learn we're all in this together ! United we stand - divided we fall....one of the (very)few wise things Barack Obama said or did was this "There are no blue states; there are no red states; there's only the UNITED STATES !!!
@01chippe
Жыл бұрын
Most of these would never be allowed today. A live electrical box in which you pour water? A press you jam down to make play- doh animal figures. Why it would take one kid to stick his fingers under the press and ham it down. Instant lawsuit. Sadly, today’s kids don’t have the common sense to operate these toys.
@Wa3ypx
Жыл бұрын
Does anyone think that kids today would get into playing with those toys? I got a Radio Shack 10 in 1 kit for Christmas one year. I built all the projects before going back to school. Took 4 years of electronics in high school and got an amateur radio license.
@davenone7312
2 жыл бұрын
The big T cannot be sold today as the kids would end up sniffing the glue!
@darkwood777
Жыл бұрын
The Big T kit is still being reissued every few years. I think mostly adults buy them for themselves. Glue sniffing went out in the 70s.
@mgmartin51
4 жыл бұрын
I can imagine taking a long car ride with that bagpipe
@jbbeatle7669
8 жыл бұрын
Bagpipes and megaphones for all kids today!!! Then parents would make them GO OUTSIDE to play!!
@Lockbar
4 жыл бұрын
@John Brentford Put in garbage by the parents!!
@ToyKingWonder
7 жыл бұрын
Strange. When you research the Popular Mechanics November 1962 issue, you get this cover, but there is no box on the front cover with the "Best Toys of the Year" written on it. It's the same picture, the home made shooting gallery, but where this film shows a cover that states "Best Toys of the Year", all the copies I find state "Crisis How Can We Store Scientific Knowledge" in the same place. Odd.
@ToyKingWonder
7 жыл бұрын
Update, found a picture with the table of contents for this issue. Evidently there is an article in this issue. My guess for this film they added that box to the cover.
@fromthesidelines
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, the cover was different by the time the article was published: i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZZgAAOSwyYFaRpEu/s-l1600.jpg
@fromthesidelines
5 жыл бұрын
And THIS was the article: www.battlegrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/011.png www.battlegrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/02.png www.battlegrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/03.png
@astrodrift102_7
6 жыл бұрын
Kids had toys in America in the 1962, and my grandfathers house (actually I think my whole village) saw electricity in their house for the first time in 1962. **wow**
@jctoad
4 жыл бұрын
"Paint and materials non-injurious." Lead: Am I a joke to you?
@shadodragonette
4 жыл бұрын
I was thinking more the fumes from the chemicals and glues. They wouldn't be sold to anyone under 18 now in the USA! My 19 year old son was carded for canned air to clean my computer a couple months ago, and he works for a computer repair shop, go figure! Anyway, you are right about the lead, I just forgot about that. Maybe because I once played with mercury from a broken thermometer as a child. To be fair, my mom, brother, and sister also played with it for a few minutes before my mom took it away. Not sure what she did with it after that, but it probably wasn't safe for the environment! That was around 1986, laws were much more lenient then!
@jctoad
4 жыл бұрын
@@shadodragonette I thought about that too.
@jctoad
4 жыл бұрын
@@shadodragonette I remember my mom telling me that her and her friends used to play with silvery blobs of mercury. That was probably back in the 40s.
@shadodragonette
4 жыл бұрын
@@jctoad I know my mom knew we shouldn't play with mercury, but she wasn't sure why. I think alcohol thermometers were around, but all of ours had mercury back then. I'd like to have one now because the digital ones die at the worst times!
@jctoad
4 жыл бұрын
@@shadodragonette I was just looking on eBay and found no actual mercury thermometers for sale. But eBay and Amazon both have old school style glass thermometers. Some have alcohol and some gallium. Pretty cheap too.
@FurbyGaming125
2 жыл бұрын
It’s Been 60 Years
@jamesbenedict7206
4 жыл бұрын
Who else had a ant farm?
@jucadvgv3449
4 жыл бұрын
i didn't have an ant farm, but i remember them
@allenatkins2263
4 жыл бұрын
I nad an ant plantation, all the ants were black.
@jamesbenedict7206
4 жыл бұрын
@@allenatkins2263 ☻
@SSN515
4 жыл бұрын
yep. and you had to send away for the tube of ants!
@jamesbenedict7206
4 жыл бұрын
@@SSN515 rember waiting by the mailbox for mine to come!
@thomaslucas6079
2 жыл бұрын
I was 7 years old in 1962. I had great parents but they tried to buy toys intended for a 4 year old.
@darkwood777
Жыл бұрын
Didn't you make wish lists with cross-referenced page numbers in toy catalogs? That's the only sure way for a kid to get what he wants.
@rollandjoeseph
3 жыл бұрын
That's scotty bag pipe probably didn't sell well..lol
@michaelvrooman5681
2 жыл бұрын
This society needs more Erector sets and less video games. They stopped making such toys
@virginiaconnor8350
2 жыл бұрын
I saw some Lincoln Logs-only they weren't called that anymore (go figure out why). I also saw some very large cardboard bricks I used to play with at a Montessori school in Atlanta when I was quite young, only they were in multicolours, not just red.
@briankreezan9500
Жыл бұрын
@@virginiaconnor8350 Yes mine was the LAGOS and ERECTOR SET. You could make toys out of them and would never get bored with them... But then I might catch some hell from mom when she vacuumed...
@marystar6021
4 жыл бұрын
8:28 "The Stuffy Bagpipe"! What an ideal gift this would make for my snooty sister in-law. Her precious darling (Denis the menace type) that can do no wrong, and gives in to her child's every whim🤣😂! This toy would frazzle her nerves to no end 🤣😄!
@virginiaconnor8350
2 жыл бұрын
I think it was meant for children of Celtic backgrounds who had a relative in the family that played bagpipes and wanted to intoduce their children to it. My dad was used to the Irish pipes-like the late Chieftans Paddy Maloney played rather than these Highland Scottish pipes his friends later in the Shriner's Oriental Pipes Band played. It was too bad I didn't think to ask a member back then how to play the latter. Instead, I chose oboe. My dad learnt to play a Muzzette-an oboe-a double Reed instrument like an oboe in the band. Like father, like daughter, my sister played violin, which my he and my grandpop played.
@alanolson6913
2 жыл бұрын
You might also consider buying the child a xylophone or a drum set. Then show him how to play certain notes repetitively for hours. I’m certain they’ll see just what a marvel and child musical prodigy they have….
@tome7016
Жыл бұрын
The toy every parent instantly regretted buying, ha ha.
@bluesburg
4 жыл бұрын
of course the doll survives (6: 24) and 'keeps on singing' ...she goes on to appear in...The Twilight Zone
@pgh1all1
4 жыл бұрын
Yes her name was talking Tina and you better be nice to her,lol.
@johnbelvin5216
Жыл бұрын
Ha-ha 😂 I saw that episode last night!
@friedgreentomatoes4998
5 жыл бұрын
I was 1 in 62. OMG!!!
@friedgreentomatoes4998
5 жыл бұрын
John Brentford I'm OLD 😊 HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY 🦃 GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE 🦃
@melvynn11
5 жыл бұрын
Me too. What day is your birthday? 😀
@friedgreentomatoes4998
5 жыл бұрын
@@melvynn11 5-8-61
@melvynn11
5 жыл бұрын
Fried Green Tomatoes 😀 Cool. I’m an Aug. baby. 61 was a great year. ❤️
@friedgreentomatoes4998
5 жыл бұрын
@@melvynn11 These old video's sure do bring back good memories 😉
@jucadvgv3449
4 жыл бұрын
i remember having several of those items. just a note, though: look at these small childrens' "play clothes" lol.
@Curtiz2008
4 жыл бұрын
We dressed up in those days. Even for (yech!) School.
@jucadvgv3449
4 жыл бұрын
@@Curtiz2008 oh, yes, i remember. i even wore gloves to church sometimes. i turn 65 next wk, so if this was christmas stuff, i was 8 when it was made. if it was made in, say, summertime, i was 7.
@tertommy
4 жыл бұрын
Lawn Jarts best toy ever.
@mgmartin51
4 жыл бұрын
On my headstone.
@kleenk8
Жыл бұрын
I had The Mystery Spaceship.
@saranisaac
2 жыл бұрын
Play-dough in a can!
@billp4
2 жыл бұрын
At least we know how PM determined how those buildings fell. I had the bowl a matic. It broke right out of the box
@plozikou
Жыл бұрын
In this times, no made in China, but made in Japan!
@bill-nd8sr
11 ай бұрын
Mr machine was cool
@davidharris2519
Жыл бұрын
who said some of these toys were popular some i never heard of
@makeminefreedom
6 жыл бұрын
This was a time when children were being prepared to go to work unlike the children today who are being taught to be victims.
@larry1824
Жыл бұрын
Remco tanks
@Hertage
8 жыл бұрын
7:58 My grandfather's clock FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS
@theboysdolls
6 жыл бұрын
The puppet
@cjdavis2684
Жыл бұрын
Lord as over priced as model kits are today. Can you imagine how much they would charge for that car model kit today!
@rickylmoe4018
Жыл бұрын
I guess I'm a grumpy old man because I was a kid when all these great toys came out, I was poor and didn't get any of them. But now I have Lionel trains😄
@moboutmen
5 жыл бұрын
8:12 .........Mystery Space Ship!
@paulazemeckis7835
4 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1959. I had girl toys but also hung with the boys and their toys. Got bored with the girl toys as they turn little girls' brains into mush. I always found boy toys much more interesting. Never developed analytical skills till I started writing code in my later years. What a waste and a shame when little girls were treated as though they will be housewives.
@radiorob7543
4 жыл бұрын
All these children are eligible for retirement now. A few of them have probably already died.
@bobbyfrancis8957
4 жыл бұрын
I'm 64 now and STILL HERE, 10 years old in 1965.
@radiorob7543
4 жыл бұрын
@@bobbyfrancis8957 Both of my parents were born in 44, and still here. BTW this video was from 1962.
@katiemart7
4 жыл бұрын
Radio Rob I’m 68 and retired about 3 years ago. Sadly, I’m sure many of the testers have died by now. I hope they had good lives. I always dressed nicely! My Mother made sure of that!
@bobbyfrancis8957
4 жыл бұрын
@@katiemart7 Do you remember, in the later 1960s, on TV, KHJ CHANNEL 9 they repeated that commercial MANY times "take your tubes out of your television or radio,mark them with stickers, put your tubes in a brown paper bag and take them to your grocery or drug store and get your tubes tested" and yes, my dad did just that, and so many other grown men,standing in long lines holding brown paper bags; I remember a couple of them had picture tubes! I wanted to see him test them. Line was too long around at 7:30 P.M. We checked again, at 10:30 P.M., and STILL a long line!
@mapself
Жыл бұрын
At 08:02, the imbecile announcer pronounced Dino's name as “Dyno.” Hard to believe he'd never watched the show even once, and that *nobody on the filming crew corrected him*.
@webstercat
Жыл бұрын
No he didn’t.
@dennismitchell1934
4 жыл бұрын
We were poor so dad made toys for us. How poor were we ? ? So poor we used both sides of the toilet paper.
@jamesbenedict7206
4 жыл бұрын
We were so poor my mom cut the pockets out of our pants so we would have something to play with!
@SSN515
4 жыл бұрын
wimpy toys. i wanna see the tanks, guns, horseys, and flintstone dinosaur excavator from the beginning of the video!
@FurbyGaming125
2 жыл бұрын
7:09
@jonathanharris2090
7 жыл бұрын
Should dent they let the kids pick the funner toys ?
@jenniferdonlin6627
4 жыл бұрын
That little girl who kisses the doll looks very depressed.
@SSN515
4 жыл бұрын
i think she was told to "kiss the dolly" by the film crew. she looks more or less defiantly peeved. plus stage mommy and daddy probably "volunteered" her for the shoot. she probably would have rather been home playing hopscotch.
@bethyeary8995
4 жыл бұрын
It's because she has an ugly doll.
@Funnygalsproductions
4 жыл бұрын
Doodle dashboard
@patbrennan6572
7 жыл бұрын
no wonder my childhood was so fucked up..
@robertlowery5586
Жыл бұрын
Sure, we got CUT and BURNED and SHOCKED BY ELECTRICITY, but you know what? IT BUILT CHARACTER. Something video games will NEVER do.
@Paul-ou1rx
4 жыл бұрын
Gosh! This sure explains the teenagers of the 70s. Grow it. Smoke it. Play silly games. Listen to music and then get fascinated by a clock.
@jenniferdonlin6627
4 жыл бұрын
Well, that was pretty boring. Funny they never showed Mattel's Vacuform that came with a red hot oven.
@SSN515
4 жыл бұрын
that came a little later
@webstercat
Жыл бұрын
Lavatory tests
@Curtiz2008
4 жыл бұрын
Toy bagpipes?? Horrors!!!!!
@paulfeagans9904
8 жыл бұрын
Why are these kids dressed in suits and ties and party dresses?
@ToyKingWonder
7 жыл бұрын
Because they were invited to test toys. Back then, if a child did something in public, they dressed for it. Hard to imagine today. I am old enough to remember there were casual restaurants where you wore jeans, and fancy ones where you wore a tie. You dressed for church. You dressed up on he first day of school, and you looked very good on any other day of school. You dressed up to travel by plane, and--although it was the tail end of it--when I was really little ladies still wore fine gloves when out and about. Although this film is about 6 years before my time, if I had been invited to test toys--and there were cameras there!--I would have been dressed in my Sunday best. Totally changed today. I saw a woman in shorts attending a wedding.
@theboysdolls
6 жыл бұрын
I wish I lived in those times....
@Igaluit
5 жыл бұрын
Even in the 60s you wore suits to go see a baseball or hockey game.
@jucadvgv3449
4 жыл бұрын
i was 7 or 8 when this was made. i can laugh about it now, but my mama would certainly have had me dressed like this. i would have dressed in a similar manner for school or shopping, and much fancier for church. also, my mother would often have worn gloves and a hat for shopping and such occasions, as well as making me wear gloves and hat for easter. i was really glad to get a bit older (think hippie era) and be able to wear much more comfortable clothes.
@sheiladavis6523
4 жыл бұрын
@@ToyKingWonder great reply 👏 &👏.December 5,2010
@DeadAbeVigoda
4 жыл бұрын
Nowadays toys are tested by drag queens to see if they're LGBT friendly.
@suzvalentino1901
4 жыл бұрын
Troll.
@chloedevereaux1801
Жыл бұрын
lol until the record player starts screwing up and sounds like satan...........
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