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Toys in the 50s
A B C D E F H J K L M P R S T V W Y // ]]> For boys and their toys in the 50s as a decade, it is the age of cowboys and spacemen: Davy Crockett and Roy Rogers lead the pack of...
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John Bull printing outfit
Did you ever have the John Bull printing outfit ? If you did there were several various versions. They were separated by number, so the John Bull printing outfit no 18 was different to the #30....
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Drainpipe Trousers : Fashion
Back in the 50′s fashion and early 60′s the beatles trousers were the thing to imitate. Every lad had a pair of drainpipe trousers. It all started back in England where the “Teddy boys” addopted it as...
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Teddy Bears
Loveable teddies came in all shapes and sizes. For me the greatest teddy i owned looked about 10 feet tall as a 3 year old. As i grew up he seemed to shrink until i realised how small my “big teddy”...
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Fashion in the 50s
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T W // ]]> The teenage lifestyle is born, and with it come bobby socks and boppers, poodle skirts and pompadours. But if all that rock and...
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Ipod Celebrates over 50 Year Anniversary – 1958 Proof!
Ipod Celebrated over 50 Year Anniversary a few years back – Proof! Ok we know that back in 1958 the ipod wasn’t top on you’re grannies shopping list, but you have to admit this is a superb photoshop...
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Crackerjack
Can you say Crackerjack without saying Crack-er-Jack? “It’s Friday, it’s five to five… it’s Crackerjack” “CRACKERJACK!” As the time and place suggested, it was going to be 45 minutes of games, comedy...
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Magic Robot Quiz Game
Made by Jumbo and Merit Magic Robot Quiz Game was Published in 1950 and While marketed as a board game, the Magic Robot Quiz game is probably more accurately a “curiosity” game. The “game” consists of...
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Totopoly
Your forgiven if you think we have mispelt monopoly only if you have never heard of the Totopoly board game. Apart from the name sounding similar the likeness ends there. Totopoly Totopoly is a great...
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Escalado
The game Escalado : Now i only know about this as i picked up at a car boot sale as a teenager and i have to say i haven’t seen it around much over the years, but i can imagine that this was a great...
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Toy Story – Most Retro Top 5
Continued from yesterdays Toy Story – Most Retro Top 10 we now reveal the top 5 With Toy Story 3 out we’ve gone Toy Story crazy at Skooldays we now enter the top 5 Are there more deserved candidates...
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Sand castles
Back to your childhood and the day the family took you to the beach. Sand castles, buckets and spades and a packet of 5 or 6 flags. Sand castles from any decade All you needed were two basic building...
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Bagatelle
Back in the seventies, if you couldn’t afford an Electric Pinball table then the next best thing was a stash of ball bearings and a Bagatelle table. This was always enhanced by the addition of any...
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Magnetic Fish Pond Game
Back in the 1920s this old family favourite started to make its way into the local toy shops namely Spears Magnetic Fish Pond Game. The game was made up of four fishing rods with magnets attached. The...
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Spinning tops
Spinning tops Most kids before computers would remember getting dizzy watching a spinning top. A top, or spinning top, is a toy that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point. This motion is...
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The Shirley Temple Show
“The Shirley Temple Theater” / “The Shirley Temple Storybook” / “The Shirley Temple Show” ABC/NBC TV Networks January 12,1958 to 1961. Host/Performer/Narrator: Mrs.Shirley Temple Black. Mrs.Black...
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Vintage Holiday Posters
I just love the old vintage posters that used to encourage holiday makers to visit undiscovered areas of the country. Many were transport releted like the railway posters and various seaside resorts...
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100 Greatest Toys
UK viewers we were recently treated to 100 Greatest Toys. Maybe a few suprises in their from some of the votes but no suprise Lego was number 1 Certainly few will argue that Monopoly in at number 2 as...
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Kelloggs Frosties
Kelloggs Frosties, They’re greeeeaaaatttttt They’re simply corn flakes with sugar They guaranteed to rot your teeth – well thats what mum told me! The cereal was first introduced in 1952 as Sugar...
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I-SPY
These badges were available with their corresponding book. The I-SPY books are spotter’s guides written for British children, and particularly successful in the 1950s and 1960s. Big in the 1950s and...
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