What was the best toy or toys Santa gave you? Mine was a metal gas station where the cars could go up a curved slide and

[debm55]

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get washed or the garage part where the car would be up on a chain to check the bottom or taken to the top to get washed and would come down the slide. The other best toy was Barbie's Dream Honeymoon. It came with a Ken doll that I never had before. I had othe great toys. other favorites were color forms and Labyrinth

[wcmagumba]

1. A figure 8 car racetrack with motorized 1950s race cars...a microscope set...

[debm55]

4. Thank you wcmagumba. They are both great.

[wcmagumba]

33. I loved both of these, Santa (aka) dad had mounted the race track on a board so it could slide under the bed...

So much fun...

[Hotler]

2. Slot car track.

[debm55]

5. I loved the slot car track , my brother got from Santa.Thank you for the memories.

[Nittersing]

3. Labyrinth was the maze game. We had that and played it for years!!

My most memorable gift was a jungle gym!!!!!!

We walked to grade school and always went home for lunch. For birthdays, one gift would be left on the porch for the birthday kid to get at lunch time. I was eight years old and was so sad and disappointed when I got home and there was no gift on the porch... until Mom walked me to the dining room windows and I saw a real life jungle gym in the back yard!!!

The next year we moved and poor Dad had to disassemble it and move it from MA to NJ.

[debm55]

6. Thank you Nittersing. That;s the game I was thinking of----Labyringth. Loved it. Wow, what a neat gift a Jungle Gym

Would be. That you sharing.

[Americanme]

7. I got a lot of great toys,

GI Joes, cars, electric football, but I think my favorite was a Johnny West cowboy action figure, with all the accessories. Must have been mid to late 1960's.

[debm55]

9. Thank you very much Americanme. That sounds like a great toy.

[Coolgoober]

8. Me And My Two Brothers

All got shiny gold/orange 3 speed, chopper bicycles with front and back hand breaks and the banana seat. They were beautiful. We got up at 3 o'clock in the mourning and found them in our living room near the tree. We were so excited we couldn't keep our voices down. Our dad came out and yelled at us and made us go back to bed, but we snuck right back down and fell asleep neer our bikes. On a separate but related note our parents are still kicking around in CT living on their own (they are together) at 89 and 87

[debm55]

10. Thank you very much, Coolgoober for sharing. I remember those bikes with the banana seats. I had one.

[kimbutgar]

11. A set of drums. Two drums, foot drum and cymbals.

year lage. I found out my Dad brought the set for me and my mother was furious with him. It was so fun banging on those drums and they were taken from my upstairs bedroom and moved to the family party room downstairs in the back of our home. All my friends loved playing those drums. I had them until I was a teenager and finally one drum was broken and they disappeared in my house. The excuse was they were broken and no longer useable. I think my Dad regretted that purchase and got rid of them himself. But I remember that beautiful blue drum set. I think there’s a super 8 movie of me playing thise drums somewhere when I cleared out my parents home.

[debm55]

16. What a wonderful gift from "Santa" Thank you for sharing, kimbutgar.

[electric_blue68]

12. I got some good stuff that I can't remember! I do remember getting....

the "flying saucer"; the round metal disk with handles for sledding. And Tinker Toys!

Goiing waaaay back this cute little drawer to sit on my bureau. Colorforms!

That car wash sounded like fun. I always wanted the Labrynth. A friend had one. Was it the big version, bc I see on Google tbere are smaller versions.

[debm55]

15. Thank you electric_blue68. I loved colorforms. My version of Labyrinth was the large one. Loved them both.

[electric_blue68]

17. Hahahahaaa! How many people Remember Colorforns!

Oooo, that is sooo cool you had the big one!
I never got through rhe whole thing!

[SeattleVet]

13. An Erector Set.

I had played with my cousin's when we visited, and that was the only thing on my list that year.

My father took me aside and told me that money was tight, and I might not get what I really wanted, and would I be disappointed if I got something like a chemistry set instead?

I was crestfallen, and very disappointed…and then I got up on Christmas morning to find a chemistry set.


And an Erector Set!

Used both of them for several years. The old Erector Set is probably still somewhere in the basement back in NY.

[debm55]

14. Thank you very much, SeattleVet, that is wonderful.

[electric_blue68]

18. What a great surprise!

[electric_blue68]

19. I'm also thinking that possibly I got at both at BD & Xmas bc there was more to have...

I would have been around 7 - 8 yrs old '60, '61.
Wooden train tracks! Long, and short straights, curves, the "W" for switching tracks, bridges. Yay!

Lego some years, later on. 🩷 W0000t!

[debm55]

30. Oh wow. a train set. Thank you very much for sharing with us. electric_blue68

[BootinUp]

20. The Fisher Price toy gas station that some friends had

was a blast to a very young me.

[debm55]

24. Thank you very much BottinUp, I like it. Thank you for sharing my friend.

[OldBaldy1701E]

21. Anything Matchbox.

I still have most of them. I still buy one on occasion if it is one that I find 'cool'.

I will always be a Matchbox fan. Thanks Mr. Odell!

[debm55]

25. Thank you very much, OldBaldy1701E. My son had the matchbox cars too. He loved them when he was small.

[Eugene]

22. a Mighty Tonka dump truck

I got it in the 1960s. Handed down to younger cousins in the 1980s.

[debm55]

23. Thank you , Eugene, The Tonka toys were so well made.

[Polly Hennessey]

26. No question! My first bike and my roller skates.

[debm55]

28. Excellent, Polly Hennessey. Those are great gifts from Santa. Thank you for sharing.

[Ritabert]

27. A big Lincoln Log set. I built a village and then made trees and rocks for landscaping.

Added animals too.

[debm55]

29. Wow, that was great. Thank you very much for sharing with us Thank you for sharing with us. Ritabert. You are very

creative.

[Ritabert]

31. I loved building things but Erector sets were too cold

[nitpicked]

32. Jigsaw puzzles

(Of course, this was back in the day when all the non-edge pieces had two tabs sticking out and two indentations...)

[electric_blue68]

35. Wait... how is it different now?!....

My mom did a lot of puzzles for a while back in the '70s, early '80s I'd sometimes help.

[debm55]

36. Thank you very much for sharing with us, nitpicked. I always liked puzzles.

[malthaussen]

34. I had that gas station! Think it was Texaco.

"Best" present in terms of longtime enjoyment would probably be the game of "Life," which I played the hell out of, sometimes solitaire.

-- Mal

[debm55]

37. Thank you very much, malthaussen. I loved that toy.

[ColoringFool]

38. A BICYCLE!! No Contest! N/T.

[debm55]

39. Great! Thank you for sharing with us. ColoringFool