Can the adults please smoke?- Page 70

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:04pm

I've been checking out "vintage" furniture and toy sites for a couple of days - since I've been addicted to this thread!

It's amazing what I've been able to find.

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Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:05pm

Nina - if you found those paintings, you might be able to completely re-create your youth. I want another rock-tumbler, if you find one of those

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:06pm

DGrant - I firmly believe just about anything can be found these days!

question - WHAT is/was a rock tumbler??

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:09pm

Yeah, what is that?
I want a Green Ghost game with all the original pieces.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:12pm

You should check out that Sam's toybox site I posted a few pages back. The toys aren't for sale, but it's the most amazing walk down memory lane!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:13pm

Remember the game Operation?
You had to use little metal 'tweezers' to remove pieces of plastic shaped like bones, but if you touched the sides a buzzer would go off and you'd lose. I loved that game...

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:13pm

Nina!

Green Ghost!

Omigosh, I'd forgotten that one.

Does anyone remember the game "Masterpiece" where you sold and traded paintings but values were changed so some were real and some were fake...It included large cards which paintings by The Masters.

And, what was the one with the bubble in the middle that you pressed down on to roll the dice that were contained inside?

And, what country did you absolutely want to conquer in Risk?
(I always wanted to take both Western and Eastern Europe.

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[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:17pm

Barrel of Monkeys

Time Bomb (you passed it around and tried not to be the person holding it when it went off)

Tiddly Winks

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:17pm

I think the game with the bouble was Trouble.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:17pm

beacon - I loved Masterpiece!

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:19pm

Did someone mention Life, the game yet?

I had a friend who had every, I mean every, game manufactured.

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:21pm

Definitely remember Masterpiece - I used to just get the cards out to look at the paintings - the beginning of my museum fetish

A rock tumbler was this electic tumbler that had a canister that turned like a little cement mixer. You'ld put rocks in it with some gritty sand-like stuff and a liquid mixture, and then leave the 'tumbler' going for days. Eventually, when you took the rocks out, they were all smooth and shiny - then you glued them to pins or barrets, or just made art out of them. What you made was up to the artist inside of you

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:22pm

yes, Jose', we talked about Life - and I admitted that i would sneak two blue pegs into the cars together

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:23pm

barrel of monkeys. Omigosh. What a memory.
Time Bomb!
Tiddly Winks! (who thought of THAT name?)

And, yes, that bubble game was "Trouble". Thanks for the reminder.

Jose, I would have loved to visit that friends house!

Besides Monopoly...wasn't there a game called "Easy Money", too?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:24pm

DGrant - I remember those now! Thanks.

How many of you had Ant Farms??
Watch them dig tunnels!
See them build rooms!
Marvel as they erect bridges and move mountains before your very eyes!

And Magic Rocks - that you put in a fish bowl (no fish) - and they 'grew' into castle-like structures.

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:25pm

Sea Monkeys!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:26pm

beacon - isn't it funny how these memories just come spilling out?!

Here's a vague one - some sort of pellet that you either put a match to or somehow lit...and it turned into a kind of ash 'worm'. I didn't have them, because I wasn't allowed to play with matches (duh!), but some of the kids on my street did... They were oddly fascinating.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:27pm

Sea Monkeys - they looked so great on the pages in the comic books. Especially the ones wearing the crowns!


Speaking of matches - Sparklers!! I loved them!!

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Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:31pm

Don't remember the 'lit worms', but do remember the little sponges you dropped water on and they turned into animals, and such.

Loved sparklers!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:31pm

ohmigosh - I remember those sponges!!

I think I may have to check out a comic book sometime soon to see if any of these treasures are still for sale!!

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:33pm

I know you can still get sea monkeys and magic rocks.

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:34pm

This thread is such great therapy. It is so nice to know that I wasn't alone in those days...

And having Marc Shaiman pop in and confess his love for spirograph is just priceless. :o)

I had green shag carpeting in my first apartment. I felt totally groovy, man. Now all I can think of what an icky mess it was to keep clean.

Now here's a wierd question. The topic of Foghorn Leghorn came up at work today (Long story) and we couldn't remember if the little Chicken Hawk who was always trying to capture him had a name? Did he? This discussion ate up a good portion of our late afternoon today... :o)

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:36pm

...I think I might just have to go buy some of those (Sea Monkeys and magic rocks)...

...I can just picture in a few weeks when my friends come looking for me, and they find me in my apartment re-creating my childhood!! Trying desperately to get the perfect "marigold" on my spirograph... eating scooter pies and drinking bosco! LOL!!

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 11:36 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:38pm

beacon - this thread is wonderful...a celebration, really!

Chicken hawk?? no help here...

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:40pm

Foghorn's sidekick was 'Henery,' according to the official Foghorn web site!