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I had some of these--Creepy Crawlers, Jarts, Vac-u-Form, Super-Elastic Bubble Plastic (still remember the smell of that stuff), the Mattel Fanner, a chemistry set (mine was Gilbert and I used it to make smoke bombs and stink bombs), Mr. Machine, the belt-buckle Derringer, the Super Ball, and my sister had an E-Z Bake oven (and boy, that puppy got hot).
The video ain't the greatest, the toys themselves weren't banned (other than Jarts), and some of the toys obviously are not from the Sixties but still, one of the reasons why our parents bought Bactine in 55-gallon drums.
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Even as little kids we recognized Jarts shouldn't be played with.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
A neighbor had a creepy crawler cooker and I have a very good memory of its ability to sear flesh.
Essential learning tools withheld from today's youth.
We also started out with yard jarts and then moved onto field archery catch to up our long range game.
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My dad would tell me to blow on it, it'll be fine.
He was right.
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Kids don't whittle like they used to.
Heaven forbid that a kid has a pocket knife.
I got stopped by a smokin' female cop in Beverly Hills when doing a contract near Rodeo Drive. She asked if I had any weapons on me. I said no and then said I have Leatherman on my belt if that constitutes a weapon in her definition.
She asked, why do you have it? I responded, why not, it is a legal tool, this is America.
Then 4 other BH backup squads rolled up.
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That stuff picked up in the 70's and has gotten progressively worse.Up until then, a doctor could botch a surgery and, possibly, not get sued. A certain amount of risk was thought to be unavoidable. People were slightly more forgiving of accidentals, back then.
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2 balls of hard acrylic plastic at the ends of a cord. The idea was to hold the cord in the middle and swing the balls so they would clack together. Trouble was, they sometimes shattered into shrapnel and caused numerous injuries including blindness. The manufacturer had to pull them off the marked, but later unloaded the inventory of plastic balls as decorative fence post tops.
They doubled as bolas.
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Not just dangerous but also annoying.
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They were very popular when I was in Jr.High. The school banned them when one ball flew off one and went through a teachers 1969 Pontiac Bonneville's windshield.
Not sure why.
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I love his impression of George MacCready.
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They were great at ruining new shoes.
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Ash-Cans and Cherry Bombs. I'm surprised I still have all my fingers. Although grown-up pursuits like climbing ladders and power saws are equally dangerous.Nowadays, guns appear to be the most dangerous item for child or adult.
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My dad always got Roman candles and firecrackers for the 4th. Then one year he handed my brother and I boxes of caps. You know, the stuff came on rolls, you put them in cap guns.
But after a while, people, uh, adapted, the cops looked the other way and if you knew a guy who knew a guy, you could get the fun stuff again.
My brother and I figured out how to make a firecracker from a roll of caps, BTW. Every once it a while, the homemade firecracker would explode in my face.
Which explains a great deal.
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I had jarts, Creepy Crawler (and Creeple People), Vacuform, Wood Burning Set, Strange Change machine, Gilbert Chem Lab, Rapco lead casting set and many others. Too bad I never got the Atomic Energy lab, i'd probably still be glowing.
One of our relatives got me this thing, looked like a band saw but instead of blade, it had a wire that got hot enough to melt plastic. The blade was too dangerous but the wire wasn't? OK, whatever.
Anyway, you got preformed closed cell styrofoam and you were supposed to cut the styrofoam with the wire, then glue it together and make things.
I started building the fire engine that came with the set but screwed up and cut off the tops of the front fenders. Which left no way to glue the fenders in place.
Ah, well.
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Some kids became sort of addicted to them, If I recall correctly....
Not because they liked to box, but because a dab of K-Jelly could turn them into adorable, lovable "sex dolls" !
NO affiliations.
Eyes drawn on with a Sharpie.
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I mean, Cookie Crisp? My mom fed me an entire bowl of chocolate chip cookies for breakfast!
Couldn't open the link, BTW.
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Back in the MAGA days when real men had trophy wives.
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Gsquared
Appetizing. No, not really.
Actually for us, Cookie Crisp or any other sweetened cereal was a rare treat. My parents usually bought Cheerios because they were cheapest.
Dad got paid at the end of the month and we'd do a month's worth of shopping. Three carts full. Something like that today would probably get you beaten up by some rage meister in line behind you.
There were always Cheerios left over at the end of the month because we kids were sick of them and never liked them much in the first place.
When I asked my mom why she didn't just buy cereal we liked, her answer was "You'll just eat it all."
Isn't that the idea?
Gotta wonder what Freud would say about all this.
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Gsquared
At least it looks like we're doing a much better job these days. At least circa 2011.
Hopefully RFK Jr won't screw this all up.
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The folks at the CPSC do a great job. They are federal government employees. Who'd thunk it was possible.
Gsquared
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