I'm so old I Remember when:

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Be honest, please.
How many of us took off Ken and Barbie's clothes to see if there was anything under the clothes?

Mom said her best pal & neighbor admitted she peeked under Ken's swim trunks in the store before buying one for her daughter, to be sure he wasn't "anatomically correct"! This was in the early 60s...

 

[Cynthia12]

Mom said her best pal & neighbor admitted she peeked under Ken's swim trunks in the store before buying one for her daughter, to be sure he wasn't "anatomically correct"! This was in the early 60s...

She probably wouldn't want to peek today.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Marlboro Man commercials, licking green stamps, no seat belts in cars, cap guns( with those red tapes so you could rapid fire). I'm really old!

LOTS of cigarette and cigar commercials! "Cigar, cigarette, Tiparillo?" White Owl cigars...

We LOVED those cap guns! I can smell the gunpowder tapes in my mind right now. A lot of kids just pounded the tapes with rocks to make them go off.

How things have changed...one of our neighbors carried a cap pistol in a toy holster at the grocery store so she'd be ready when her kindergartener son (in his beloved cowboy outfit) would sneak around a display and yell, "Draw!" so they could have a "shoot-out". People laughed and thought it was cute. Alas, no way could that be acceptable now. Too many real bad guys with guns in public places...

 

[chrissynemetz]

Marlboro Man commercials, licking green stamps, no seat belts in cars, cap guns( with those red tapes so you could rapid fire). I'm really old!

I bought my grandkids real genuine cap guns from Murdoch's. But I can't find those red rolls of caps for them anywhere. What good is a cap gun with no caps...

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Not me. I didn't play with dolls.

My brother had G.I. Joes...but those weren't dolls! He was adamant about that - those were ARMY GUYS. I tried to make my (stiff-legged) Barbie ride my beloved plastic horses -- not too successful. Brother John and I made "Tarzan and Jane" outfits for Joe & Barbie out of leaves and string, etc. and played like they were the movie characters, swinging from tree branches on "vines", making tree houses for them, acting out some of the movie scenes. The classic black & white Johnny Wiessmuller Tarzan movies, of course, that played on Saturday mornings with all the cartoons...

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

How Much is that Doggy in the Window

The one with the waggily tail
How much is that doggy in the window?
I do hope that doggy's for sale!

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I didn’t have a Barbie or a Ken.
Was there anything under the clothes? Inquiring minds want to know!

They were smooth and "blank" underneath, like store mannequins. The dolls ended up lying around naked a lot -- easy to take the outfits off, not so easy or fun to dress them again.

When our two girls played with their multiple Barbies and Kens in the tub, they'd leave a tangle of naked dolls at the drain when they got out. My husband once commented, "It looks like the Jonestown Flood!"

 

[R2elk]

I bought my grandkids real genuine cap guns from Murdoch's. But I can't find those red rolls of caps for them anywhere. What good is a cap gun with no caps...

Cap rolls

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

And harnesses - we stil have my sister’s fro 50+yrs ago

They still sell those..for kids like my little brother the escape artist. He could disappear in a store like a ghost! I remember Mom and I looking and calling for him frantically for nearly half an hour in a crowded Sears store when he was about 4, only to eventually realize he was posing with the mannequins in a "Back to School" display! After that she got a leash & harness so he wouldn't get lost in big shopping areas...

 

[BDutch]

I wanted to take IA (Industrial Arts, aka Shop) instead of Home Ec. I was told no, girls took Home Ec. And had to wear skirts, though that was changing.

I wanted to play with the building bricks at the Kindergarten when I was 4 or 5 yo. But I couldn’t. They were for the boys. The nun told me I should play in the dolls corner.