Remember the good old days?
When I was growing up in the 50's and 60's, building toys were popular. These photos were taken Saturday at the Tioga County Historical Society annual Oh Tannenbaum event. Some of these predate me, coming from the 30's and 40's.
Erector sets and Tinker Toys. The Erector Junior set above was from World War II, when metal to make toys couldn't be spared. The war effort needed metal more, so they were made from wood.
More erector sets and sets for steel workers.
Saturday, a mystery was solved for me. Do you see, in the center, a tube calling itself "Block City" and the white blocks (not quite like Legos) underneath? I owned one of those sets.
I just couldn't remember what this was called but I loved building with those white lego like bricks.
You'll see something else in these photos, too, or, actually, you won't see something.
Pictures of girls.
Because these were meant for boys. Toys for boys.
I guess I was fortunate. I got to play with Tinker Toys, Block City, and Lincoln Logs (not pictured) back in the 50's.
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I like a lot wooden toys, even I did not have many. The old ones are more interesting for kids, from my perspective. Especially those for building with 'bricks'.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing these set of toys. Around them is a special 'air'.
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I used to love building things when I was a kid although I don't go back that far heheh! nice post :-)
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...I had an Erector set and Tinker Toys!
ReplyDeleteYeah, we were supposed to play with dolls and Easy Bake ovens, right?
ReplyDeleteI remember all the tinker toys back in the day. We played with them.
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I don't recall having building sets, maybe blocks. I didn't much care for dolls at all, and my parents wasted too much time and money building a playhouse with toy kitchen that only my friends cared about. One even liked to mop! I played with horses, played cowboy, and even had a cap gun!
ReplyDeleteI grew up with 4 brothers and while would buy me dolls and such I would be playing with these kind of toys. Lincoln logs and legos were my favorite.
ReplyDeleteBack when I worked at the evil toy store (now defunct), we had the girl side and the boy side. Not that we really called it that. And not that we enforced. But if it was traditionally girly, it was on the right side of the store, and if it was traditionally boyish, it was on the left.
ReplyDeleteI had tinker toys and legos, too. But this was less revolutionary in the '70s.
Hah! My parents weren't so sexist and I was older, so I scorned square blocks as "just for boys" and happily built doll houses and horse barns with Lincoln Logs, Lego Blocks, and Tinker Toys, which I just loved informing my brother took more coordination and built fancier projects and were therefore only for girls. (That was the define-separate-identities stage before the best-buddies stage. I was a bit like Lucy Van Pelt at that stage, yes.)
ReplyDeleteThese building toys are having more finesse than the modern toys!
ReplyDeleteSuch sweet memories ~ my brother had some of those ~ being a girl I had dolls ~ Xo
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I know at least two little girls who would greatly enjoy playing with all those "boy's" toys.
ReplyDeleteMy sister and I had a set of Tinker Toys that we loved. I wonder if they still make these.
ReplyDeleteMy sons were huge fans of Legos. They also loved playing with wooden blocks. I loved to sit with them and build and build and build.
Gramma still has a very old erector set from grandpa. Tinker toys were fun and legos are still so popular. Lots of good memories in those photos. It does make one feel old seeing things that were common as a kid in a museum now.
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