I found “the all-time most fun toy” bar none!

[Blackfoot58]

In my early childhood I heard my elders cite their favorite toys. With dreamy eyes they’d expound about the joys found in rolling an iron hoop with a stick. Nothing was a better toy. The junk I played with couldn’t hold the proverbial candle to the hoop.
Today I found one! No, seriously! It had a large tree root growing through it. This did not daunt my efforts. After all, this is the Hope Diamond 💎of toy land. I also found a broken square nail, harmonica reed plate piece, misc iron and copper.
I only have one question: how much should I insure this for, in case of theft? I consider it up there with unicorn poop; never thought I’d see it.
Thanks for playing along.😎

 

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[robertk]

They don’t believe I grew up in a house with no running water for years.

I suspect the current generation of kids has no idea that's even possible. They can't imagine life without a phone in their hand, much less without indoor plumbing (or worse, electricity).

 

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[ArfieBoy]

Congratulations on the great find! Sure enjoyed (and remembered) the memories! Thanks for posting that.

 

[Nathan W]

Nah, the best toy I ever had was a BB gun!

Those were fun too

 

[sibbley]

Those were fun too

Those are still fun. They have some now that work like the real deal. Working slides, blow back action, and magazines. I even have a working lever gun. You load the pellets or bb's in cartridges, load them as you would the real thing and every time you work the lever the empty cartridge is ejected. My son demonstrating loading and shooting.

Even have an AR-15 and AK-47 that fire full auto.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Cool find and a fun post!

 

[unclemac]

any one else had a 22 at the age of... what... 13 or so? There A LOT of bottles that owe there demise to me... hell yes I'm a sharp shooter!

 

[unclemac]

I just played bubble bobble again today!

 

[newnan man]

any one else had a 22 at the age of... what... 13 or so? There A LOT of bottles that owe there demise to me... hell yes I'm a sharp shooter!

Remington single shot, 10 years old. My older brother was my mentor. I was a sharp shooter!

 

[ModernMiner]

"I only have one question: how much should I insure this for, in case of theft? I consider it up there with unicorn poop; never thought I’d see it."

Classic!!! Thanks for the laugh.

 

[johnnycat]

I'll probably get pooped on for this. I had one of those for a couple of years around 1953 until it was stolen! I don't remember it being that wide and heavy-looking. Sorry, just what I remember.

 

[bartholomewroberts]

I'll tell you what... when Nintendo came out with that 8 bit "legend of Zelda" back in... what "85, "86?... i bought one and played it for 17 hours straight! 17-SEVENTEEN- hours straight!!!! (it is still the best game ever IMO).... I totally understand the lure of video games... but dam.... we had some fun didn't we back in the day?!

I have never played a video game [shows how old I am].. But like many [most?] here,

I figure my youth was the best!!.. Kick the can, hide and seek, making tree forts on the farm,

swimming in the river in summer and snow forts and snowball fights in the winter.. Even went to

the old coal mines just a short distance from us and explored them [I do not know why we did not kill ourselves]

We did some pretty stupid things in my youth

Micheal

 

[unclemac]

in my dads day the kids in town used to get old flat pieces of metal and climb up this bridge over the Snake River in Idaho, and slide down the cables....

 

[Almy]

Cable sliding - and none ended up in the river?
Had .22 when I was about 10. Very careful teaching by Dad, used it with him a bit, and then I was on my own. Always very careful and no accidents. "Don't point gun at anything you don't want to shoot. And never at a person." Too bad this wasn't the world's ethic now.

 

[Blackfoot58]

I'll probably get pooped on for this. I had one of those for a couple of years around 1953 until it was stolen! I don't remember it being that wide and heavy-looking. Sorry, just what I remember.

I think mine is safe from theft, unless iron scrappers see it. Thanks for posting!

 

[IHC656]

I suspect the current generation of kids has no idea that's even possible. They can't imagine life without a phone in their hand, much less without indoor plumbing (or worse, electricity).

The majority of kids can not.
But I had my kid experience it first hand when we visited his mothers country.
I turned to him while there and said be glad you where born in the USA. He silently nodded.

 

[Gare]

Nice going Back in 86 or 87 I loved playing Carrier force Anyone else remember this ?

 

[Nathan W]

Nice going Back in 86 or 87 I loved playing Carrier force Anyone else remember this ?

Was it for Atari or early computer? I played one on a floppy disc called Seafox , submarine warfare

 

[Blackfoot58]

Friends of mine were all about Leisure Suit Larry on the earlier PCs.
I didn’t have a computer yet, at that time.

 

[Tony in SC]

Over the years I have made all my kids, grandkids, and great grandkids, a wheel-on-a-stick. A radio flyer type wheel screwed to an old broom handle. Despite all the bikes, trikes, scooters etc the old wheel on a stick still gets used! It's the only toy they have that makes them sweat!!

 

[Blackfoot58]

Over the years I have made all my kids, grandkids, and great grandkids, a wheel-on-a-stick. A radio flyer type wheel screwed to an old broom handle. Despite all the bikes, trikes, scooters etc the old wheel on a stick still gets used! It's the only toy they have that makes them sweat!!

Remember the days when a new appliance was purchased (by the neighbor) and you got the box?
I loved an empty freeze box. The best fort for a 6 year old.