Owing to the positive response to the first vintage toy posting I did, I decided to put together another one. I know a little something about boys’ toys (I played with them). Girls’ toys, not so much. Then I remembered some years ago I bought a stack of board games at an estate auction for a few dollars. One of the games was the 1965 Milton Bradley game Mystery Date. I remembered seeing the commercials for it, but by 1965 I was 15 and starting to notice girls smelled… different. I even thought I was in love once, but it turned out to be an allergy.
I checked and all 4 playing pieces and all 53 cards were there (any board game is almost worthless if not complete) so I put it on eBay with an opening bid of like 9.99. When the auction ended it had sold for almost $125.00.
Fast forward to Monday, August 17, 2015. The delightful Dianny, with a PhD in snarkery,posted this at Patriot Retort:
Who here remembers the board game Mystery Date?
If ever there was a board game that would make Leftists’ heads explode it’s Mystery Date.
After all, the girls have to dress up and hope the boy at the door is the date of their dreams.
There is no transgendered “man.” And, no lesbian date.
I mean, talk about hate.
Any old how.
The thing I remember most is the commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDVtih6Bw-U
Will your date be a dream? Or a dud?”
Whelp. It looks like the Republican Establishment has been playing Mystery Date. They got themselves all dolled up for the ideal shoo-in candidate, flung the door open only to find Jeb Bush standing there.
READ THE REST HERE:
http://patriotretort.com/mystery-date/
SAY IT WITH ME:
WEEBLES WOBBLE BUT….
This is the Dick Tracy snub-nosed .38 made by Mattel from 1959-1962. It is the same size as the real thing. So real, in fact, that people were robbing stores with them because at that time, you could not be charged with armed robbery if the weapon was a toy. A sheriff’s deputy working security at a toy show I did took a long, hard look at some of the toy pistols I had and told me that the way the law now reads you don’t even have to show a weapon, just indicate you have one and it’s armed robbery.
(The orange plug is there to be advertised on ebay.They were not permanently affixed to guns until the 70’s.
CELEBRITY CHEF BOBBY FLAY WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN KENNER MAKING THE EASY-BAKE OVEN IN NEUTRAL COLORS SO BOYS COULD FEEL BETTER ABOUT USING THEM.THAT’S NO JOKE.
THESE WERE SO DAMN COOL…YOU ATTATCHED THESE TO YOUR BIKE.IT WAS BATTERY OPERATED AND WHEN YOU TURNED IT ON IT MADE A VROOM SOUND LIKE A MOTORCYCLE.I LOVED MINE.
THERE WERE BUBBLE BATH CONTAINERS CALLED ‘SOAKYS’ IN THE FORM OF ALL SORTS OF CARTOON CHARACTERS. ALVIN, MIGHTY MOUSE, ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE, ETC. FOR SOME REASON THE UNIVERSAL MONSTER TOYS WERE ALWAYS THE MOST HIGHLY PRIZED. THE ONLY ONES I CAN THINK OF MORE VALUABLE WERE THE BEATLES SOAKYS, WHICH ARE HARDLY EVER SEEN.
TELL THE TRUTH… IF YOU GOT ONE OF THESE FOR CHRISTMAS DID THE SYRUP AND PAPER CONES THAT CAME WITH IT LAST MORE THAN A DAY?
I HAD ONE OF THESE. IT WAS LIKE PLAYING HOT POTATO. YOU WOUND UP THE TOP AND IT UNWOUND AS YOU TOSSED IT BACK AND FORTH UNTIL IT WENT ‘BANG’. THEY USUALLY LASTED A WEEK OR TWO UNTIL THEY GOT OVERWOUND AND DIDN’T WORK ANYMORE
I KNEW ONE KID WHO COULD MAKE CIRCLES WITH AN ETCH-A-SKETCH…I HATED HIM
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“circles … hated him” BWAHAHAHA!! Of all these toys and games, the only one I remember and still would get all wide eyed to see is the Etch A Sketch. I don’t remember owning one though.
In elementary school, I was really into jacks and jump rope, both of which I excelled at. The boys were always trying to beat the girls at them, but they never did. I also loved my Ginny doll and my troll dolls. I had a business in 5th grade; I designed, made and sold troll clothes. I even had a catalog. I don’t remember if I sold anything though. LOL
A neighbor had Go to the Head of the Class board game that I pined after. I think I got to play it once at her house. Another family had Life, which I loved to play when we visited them. My mother was utterly immune to whining, so I never got either one for my own. Life was still around when I became a mom, so I exercised my right to delayed gratification and got it. 🙂
Thanks for this one, Pete!
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Chrissy, it’s scary how alike you and I are. I also had a business designing and making troll outfits and accessories, and I had a catalog, too. I think I probably spent more time on the catalog than I did on the clothes, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t make any money. But it was fun, and better than watching TV.
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Fun to remember, most of them anyway. I really liked the vacuform (sp?) and making cars and boats from the colored plastic sheets. I didn’t burn myself too often.
Chrissy, and BoB, I made clothes for troll dolls, too, but I was not enough of an entrepreneur at the time to think of trying to sell them.
The first troll troll that I got was a Christmas gift from my uncle when I was 4. I think he had brought it from Germany. Anyway, I had never seen one before and I started crying because it was too ugly and scary. “Take it away!” Then a few years later I couldn’t get enough of them. It amused me when my own daughter started playing with them and collecting them. Things really run in cycles, so I hope this Obama cycle will end soon.
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