Who remembers playing with these things when you were a kid?

[Ohiogal]

You’d get one in your Christmas stocking and it kept you occupied for like 45 seconds.

Bottom right ... “For boys! For girls”!

[Pobeka]

1. Me me me! Lots of entertainment in the backseat of car on road trips! nt

[Ohiogal]

4. I remember my folks

Buying us kids these things at rest stops for long car trips...

[Pobeka]

12. Yesiree, those too. I had one which was a map of the continential USA we got somewhere.

[applegrove]

2. We used to get books with a magic marker. Not that brand though.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. I remember those

Just one of the multitude of cheap toys in every truck stop, Stuckeys and Nickerson Farms back then.

[Ohiogal]

5. I seem to remember

Howard Johnson’s

[FoxNewsSucks]

6. That was one of my favorites.

Clam strips, and pistachio ice cream.

[Ohiogal]

7. I loved the hot dogs

They served you on that rectangular bun

[multigraincracker]

9. 3D burgers. n/t

[Maraya1969]

21. Funny how things change. I wouldn't eat a clam strip now if I could find one somewhere.

[FoxNewsSucks]

24. I think Long John Silver has them

haven't been there in a while. They were nowhere near as good as Howard Johnson's.




I'm afraid to ask why you wouldn't eat one now. There are many things, like deveined shrimp, that never bothered me until I found out what it meant.

[Ocelot II]

8. Oh, yeah. It was fun, though I liked the Etch-a-Sketch even better.

[Ohiogal]

10. These things never entertained me very long for some reason.

Etch a Sketch, yes.
And that tablet with the plastic sheet you drew on with a stylus.

[Ocelot II]

11. I think I was fascinated by the phenomenon of magnetism and iron filings

more than trying to draw hair on the figure.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Remember the smell of caps for your Lone Ranger six gun?

Remember the smell of caps for your Lone Ranger six gun?

[Ohiogal]

14. Being a girl, my parents would never buy me a cap gun in a million years

But I remember the kid down the street had one and how those things smelled.

[ShazzieB]

15. Same here.

All the little boys I knew had those, but not us girls. And boy, did those things stink! (The cap guns, I mean, although come to think of it, some of those boys didn't smell too great, either.)

[Ohiogal]

16. ...

Remember how the vinyl smelled on those old Barbie dolls?

[Laffy Kat]

20. Oh, my sister and I were allowed cap guns and we had a ball with them.

We would dress up in our mother's slinky clothes and play "Honey West" or femme fatales being pursued by Napolean Solo or Illya Kuryakin from U.N.C.L.E. I distinctly remember having a little Saturday Night Special cap gun and sticking it in a garter under my satin pencil skit, LOL. So much fun. I think I was about six or seven.

[hay rick]

25. Remember the smell.

Remember stomping on caps on the sidewalk.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Me.

[BatteriesNotNeeded]

18. yes!

and just sent the grandkids some along with the magic slate with stylus. They were so excited. The 3 yr. old love the wooly willy type one I sent to him. Daughter-in-law appreciated having him entertain himself for quite awhile. The magic slate the kids said, was for use in the car. I was thinking of sending them jacks, but I want to stay on DIL's good side! lol

[Aristus]

19. Anyone remember El Marko scented markers?

I used to love to sniff them. Wonder if there was something addictive in them...

[ironflange]

22. How about these guys?

I don't remember having my skull pierced by Lawn Darts more than two or three times.

[Harker]

23. It's those times that you don't remember... n/t

[gratuitous]

27. The neighbor kids three doors down had Jarts

We may not have been the brightest kids in the world, but nobody ever got hit with one of those things. But I can understand the company pulling them off the market when that started happening.

[taxi]

26. yes, stocking stuffers

I can't remember how many days it rained for the five minutes it was used.