TBT…

Back in the day…

If you ran this today, it would probably be illegal in more than one state… sigh…

When boys could be boys, and girls could be girls, without worrying about what parents/others would think… And we were ‘free range’ kids! Kicked out of the house and told not to come back ’til dark, and stay out of trouble.  And we did (at least for OUR version of staying out of trouble)…

And it was a whole $4!!! In 2009, one of these sets, used, sold for $152.00!

Now Barbies, on the other hand… An original is worth at LEAST $8000, and one in mint condition with original box supposedly sold for over $27,000!

Comments

TBT… — 17 Comments

  1. Dang, I wonder what that ‘Tommy Gun’ plastic wonder what go for now ? I remember a brown metal snub nose cap pistol, the smell of the powder and paper trail often blocked the sights … but still fun and games !

  2. I was more into the western style guns myself. A Fanner 50 for me!

  3. There was this little rise from one front yard to another on our block. I can’t remember how many times we “hit the beach” on that rise, playing Iwo Jima or Normandy, clicking our toy gun triggers as fast as we could. The lucky ones had the tommy gun that would rurrrrratrurtrrratatrrr…the rest of us toy Springfields that only clicked. Was silly…but we didn’t know any better back then. 🙂

  4. I don’t think that anything we did then, from playing on the monkey bars to playing toy guns would be considered to be politically correct today. Imagine playing Cowboys and Indians these days at recess? The teachers would expel all students involved in such culturally insensitive behavior.

  5. I had one of those when I was a kid. In California no less.

  6. I had one. Played out our own versions of The Untouchables, Combat! and Gunsmoke every chance we could growing up.

  7. I’m older than some of you all — Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Lone Ranger… I had a lovely pair of Colt replica cap guns which sometimes even worked and made a lovely bang. Ivory (plastic!) grips, too, and “real” leather holsters and gun belt.

    Right…

    Rode my bike (a Schwinn, no less) miles and miles. No problem.

    And, somehow, we all survived…

    • Yeah, had a two gun holster rig, stag(also plastic) grips, chaps, hat, boots, the works. No bad guys or injuns were safe in our neighborhood. The posse would be called at a moments notice. The only real problem we had was a hard time finding kids to play the bad guys. Oh and the inevitable “I got ya”, “No ya missed” thing. Ah youth.

  8. My best buddy and I each had one of these, complete with greenie stick’em caps. We’d ambush his older brother and fill him full of lead. Fun!

    We were bloodthirsty little heathens back then. We killed Indians, Japs, and Krauts. Hitler died two or three times every afternoon. So did Mussolini, although we weren’t real clear on just who Mussolini was.

  9. Doesn’t the kid narrating This sound like Jay North of “Dennis the Menace” ?

  10. All- Yep, we DID do those things… sigh… And no, they wouldn’t be legal today… Dammit…

    Posted from my iPhone.

  11. I had the “Fanner Fifty” cowboy rig. My Dad bought it for me when I had my tonsils out. And I think I remember a lever action carbine that also “fired” the Mattel “Shootin’ Shells” with the Greenie Stick ‘Em caps on them.