Floppy_D
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Golden Hound said:
You're right, there's not going to be anything left!
What Boys got for Christmas in the 1950's & 60's
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You're right, there's not going to be anything left!
shotgunjoel
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I got a couple airsoft guns a while back for Christmas. Just last saturday my little cousin got like 6 airsoft guns.
JohnBT
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I ran across this one last night while putting together some pics for my father. Sorry about the quality, but it's an old glossy print and that's the best I could manage right this minute with a cheap camera using the flash.
1954
Is that popcorn strung on my grandparents' tree?
Merry Christmas.
John
P.S. - I think this was the Christmas my father showed my grandmother (his mother-in-law) how his State Trooper-issued handcuffs worked - BUT - the keys were 2 miles away at my aunt and uncle's house.
1954
Is that popcorn strung on my grandparents' tree?
Merry Christmas.
John
P.S. - I think this was the Christmas my father showed my grandmother (his mother-in-law) how his State Trooper-issued handcuffs worked - BUT - the keys were 2 miles away at my aunt and uncle's house.
Regular Joe
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Lookit here Andy; I think we got one! A couple posts back, I spotted some lunatic conspiring to support straw purchases for family members under the guise of "gift giving".....
22-rimfire
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Rembrandt, I wish they still made flannel line blue jeans. Those were the days. Guns were a prime Christmas item for us. You can't hardly buy plastic army soldiers any more.
Darthbauer
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Back in the day there was plastic army men and that was ok for kids back then. Kids today want more detail, that's where the Todd McFarlane military figures come in. See the link below.
http://www.spawn.com/toys/categorytype.aspx?categoryid=28
http://www.spawn.com/toys/categorytype.aspx?categoryid=28
MD_Willington
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Best guns toys I remember were a Daisy 45 BB gun that also shot .17 pellets and a James Bond (think, maybe Man From Uncle) gun that folded up into a walkie-talkie or something (unfolded it looked like a Luger).
The Daisy 45 really wasn't very powerful and a couple of kids in my neighborhood had the same gun. We learned if you had on heavy clothes, hats, etc the pellet wouldn't go thru the clothing. All the neighborhood kids would come over to my basement with heavy clothes and some kind of eye protection. We'd stalk and shoot each other. I spent the better part of one session successfully convincing my little brother not to tell my mom that I'd shot him in the hand with a pellet. Once he agreed not to tell, I had to use the tools in my Dad's shop to get the pellet out of his hand. Somehow my parents never discovered this, brother didn't narc me out (should have..). He still has the scar on his left hand. That ended "Shootout" in the basement.
The Daisy 45 really wasn't very powerful and a couple of kids in my neighborhood had the same gun. We learned if you had on heavy clothes, hats, etc the pellet wouldn't go thru the clothing. All the neighborhood kids would come over to my basement with heavy clothes and some kind of eye protection. We'd stalk and shoot each other. I spent the better part of one session successfully convincing my little brother not to tell my mom that I'd shot him in the hand with a pellet. Once he agreed not to tell, I had to use the tools in my Dad's shop to get the pellet out of his hand. Somehow my parents never discovered this, brother didn't narc me out (should have..). He still has the scar on his left hand. That ended "Shootout" in the basement.
This is the best thread I have read in a while. The memories are coming back of my cap gun and water gun arsenal. The best were the Lone Ranger sets my brother and I got in 1981. Hats, masks, bandana, belt, holster and guns. It was the start of something beautiful. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa. I will remember it with Grandpa tomorrow, though I am sure I remember it better.
Mr Kablammo
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Small Arms Review magazine, yes the full-auto dudes, recently published articles on Daisy BB guns and Whamo toy guns. Interesting stuff and a good distraction from the usual fare. Whamo has now 'forgotten' ever making and selling the toy guns.
First projectile shooting approximation of a gun that I got as a kid was one that had a rubber knob on the muzzle and it shot round cork balls. IIRC, it was a lever action. Did anyone else have one of those?
First projectile shooting approximation of a gun that I got as a kid was one that had a rubber knob on the muzzle and it shot round cork balls. IIRC, it was a lever action. Did anyone else have one of those?
MD_Willington
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My kids just gave me that Red Rider tonight.. LOL
My 6 year old was sad that Walmart did not sell Kalashnikov rifles, and my 3 year old daughter was sad that Walmart did not have any pink crickets in stock.. LOL
My 6 year old was sad that Walmart did not sell Kalashnikov rifles, and my 3 year old daughter was sad that Walmart did not have any pink crickets in stock.. LOL
copdills
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Thanks , that does bring back the best of times and memories
feedthehogs
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I hear society is supposed to evolve for the better............not hardly.
Those were the days and I'm glad to have been a part of them.
Those were the days and I'm glad to have been a part of them.
Steve N
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The Fanner 50 cap revolver. Boy, did seeing that box bring back memories. We used to ride our bikes a whole MILE and A HALF, alone, unmolested, to the Ben Franklin store to buy caps. Shooting them off one at a time got boring, so we started smashing the whole roll with a hammer. Much louder!
I'll never forget the day I found a $1 bill while on a 4th grade science walk behind our school. I rode right up to Ben Franklin's after school and spent two hours looking at what toy I wanted. I finally settled on a pump-action shotgun. Had a ton of fun with that one!
I'll never forget the day I found a $1 bill while on a 4th grade science walk behind our school. I rode right up to Ben Franklin's after school and spent two hours looking at what toy I wanted. I finally settled on a pump-action shotgun. Had a ton of fun with that one!
Encoreman
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Thanks for reminding me of some of my old toys. I was born in '52 so I remeber lots of them. At 9 I got a
410 double barrel, first gun I bought at about 16 was a High Standard .22 revolver with a 9" buntline barrel. I still have it. I have bought 3 guns for my grandkids who are 5 and 2. A ruger 10-22, Ithica 37 16 ga. and a nice Win. model 62 pump. Merry Christmas to all. Mac
410 double barrel, first gun I bought at about 16 was a High Standard .22 revolver with a 9" buntline barrel. I still have it. I have bought 3 guns for my grandkids who are 5 and 2. A ruger 10-22, Ithica 37 16 ga. and a nice Win. model 62 pump. Merry Christmas to all. Mac
All I wanted for Christmas when I was ten was a scope for my Savage 22. Everyone said I was nuts, and that I wouldn't get many chances to use it. But that is all I wanted. The old man got me one, and guess what, I still have it 53 years later. Best Christmas ever. If I had a penny for every bb I put through my Red Rider, I'd be pretty rich now.
statelineblues
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I guess I was about 9 or 10 - and almost like the scene in "A Christmas Story", my last present was hiding behind Dad's chair. It was a Daisy lever-action BB rifle (looked like a Winchester '94). I think I kept it for 10 - 15 years, til it finally fell apart.
Definately one of the best Christmases...
Definately one of the best Christmases...
Rembrand - Thank you for posting that. I still have a couple of parts of my Johnny-7 One Man Army. Up until a few years ago, I had the whole thing, box and all. But when my in-laws moved to retire a few years ago, it was trashed.
Very happy memories indeed...
The only part I have left now is the pistol part that fits underneath. I wonder if I go around the neighborhood waiving it around and making bang-bang noices how long it will take for the padded wagon to show up? More likely the sheriff will show up and if he don't shoot me like a dog, will get some much needed baton practice!
Thanks you for making my day!
Very happy memories indeed...
The only part I have left now is the pistol part that fits underneath. I wonder if I go around the neighborhood waiving it around and making bang-bang noices how long it will take for the padded wagon to show up? More likely the sheriff will show up and if he don't shoot me like a dog, will get some much needed baton practice!
Thanks you for making my day!
nitetrane98
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All I ever wanted for several Christmases was a Fanner 50. Alas, more socks, underwear and scratchy sweaters.
krs
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My first bike was a Davy Crockett special that had brown paint with a flintlock rifle painted on the 'tank' and came with fake squirrel tail streamers from the handlebar ends Davy Crocket (Fess Parker) was hot that year, and there were buckskins and a coonskin hat to go with.
I also got the Palladin setup, probably the next year. There's a photo somewhere of me and my little brother, now long dead, that looks much like the OP photo. Amazingly simiilar really. Sheeesh.
I know that I was seven the year I got the bike, so it must have been Christmas, 1955.
I also got the Palladin setup, probably the next year. There's a photo somewhere of me and my little brother, now long dead, that looks much like the OP photo. Amazingly simiilar really. Sheeesh.
I know that I was seven the year I got the bike, so it must have been Christmas, 1955.
Didn't the Bat Masterson bowler hat have a retracted derringer that popped up and fired?
I seem to remember it didn't really sit down on my head too well.
Marx made the Tommy Gun, I had the Secret Sam outfit, too, and used the camera hidden in the side. It worked! Then there was the Man From Uncle set - all that's left is the badge now.
I saved everything back, waited 12 years into our marriage to have kids, and let the two oldest boys play with it all in the '80's and '90's. Best armed kids on the block.
Did I mention the bolt action Springfrield and working lever action .94 that shot plastic bullets? A friend had the larger one that fed from the tube magazine.
Looking at what I have today, I'd say toy guns had a lot of influence on my current choices . . .
I seem to remember it didn't really sit down on my head too well.
Marx made the Tommy Gun, I had the Secret Sam outfit, too, and used the camera hidden in the side. It worked! Then there was the Man From Uncle set - all that's left is the badge now.
I saved everything back, waited 12 years into our marriage to have kids, and let the two oldest boys play with it all in the '80's and '90's. Best armed kids on the block.
Did I mention the bolt action Springfrield and working lever action .94 that shot plastic bullets? A friend had the larger one that fed from the tube magazine.
Looking at what I have today, I'd say toy guns had a lot of influence on my current choices . . .
THe Dove
BOOMER SOONER!!!
I was born in 1968. After looking at these pics I wish I was born a little earlier.
So this is why my dad (who was born in 41) got me into shooting and hunting. God bless the boomers!
The Dove
So this is why my dad (who was born in 41) got me into shooting and hunting. God bless the boomers!
The Dove
aka108
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In the 40's I had cap guns and BB guns. At the end of that decade I was firmly into a 22rf and a K-22 Rifle at age 12 handgun at age 14. They were mine and I kept them in my room. No panic from the folks.
rdrancher
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Saturday morning spent watching The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers and Sky King. Then out to the backyard to act them all out. That was living!
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JohnBT
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One of my cousins in 1959. And one her dad's bears. She still shoots regularly and still won't let me have the .35 Rem lever action he used to bag the bear. We both have a good laugh every year when I ask about it.
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