Remember these?

[STINGYBRIMSandBOURBON]

I saw this in a novelty store similar to the five and dime stores of my childhood in Brooklyn. I bought 2 doz and gave them to all of my nieces and nephews and little cousins. They dropped their nintendo's and PSP's for 5 minutes and enjoyed it..... Ah The good ol' days. What did you play with it when you were 8?

[Mike H]

Ah yes, the good old days...

[oc_in_fw]

I saw this in a novelty store similar to the five and dime stores of my childhood in Brooklyn. I bought 2 doz and gave them to all of my nieces and nephews and little cousins. They dropped their nintendo's and PSP's for 5 minutes and enjoyed it..... Ah The good ol' days. What did you play with it when you were 8?

Yes, I must get one for me, I mean grandson. A water rocket, too

http://www.amazon.com/American-Scien...s=Water+rocket

[JoshuaNY]

Best game ever, I still have mine from when I was a kid. I havent played with my nephew yet as I am afraid he will stab himself. Gotta wait until he is at least 6.


I used to love these too.

[oc_in_fw]

Ah yes, the good old days...

Now a certain Chuck Berry song will be going through my head all day

[maxman]

I still have mine.
I have no caps though.
I remember stink bombs too.
Nasty things they were.

[mmack66]

I loved the days when toys were basically weapons.

I had many a bruised forearm from the clackers going awry.

[cromio]

I saw this in a novelty store similar to the five and dime stores of my childhood in Brooklyn. I bought 2 doz and gave them to all of my nieces and nephews and little cousins. They dropped their nintendo's and PSP's for 5 minutes and enjoyed it..... Ah The good ol' days. What did you play with it when you were 8?

Have no idea what that is but it reminds of something nasty

[turtle]

Have no idea what that is but it reminds of something nasty

It's a cap dart... Loads of fun....

Not promoting this site... just the first one that googled up.....

http://www.mortartubes.net/Consumer-...duct_info.html

[smalltank]

I remember the fun snaps..visiting my grandparents in Brooklyn every year while on summer break from school..I used to throw em on the side walk and at cars..lol..fire dept or cops would get annoyed and tell me and my friends to stop or else!..

[STINGYBRIMSandBOURBON]

Now a certain Chuck Berry song will be going through my head all day

Do You Mean Jerry Lee Lewis?

[AverageJoe]

SSP cars (with the zip thing that spun one central weighted wheel), I had a couple 'cap bomb' things like you picture, also water rockets (before guys started making them out of 2 L bottles, which I've also done), squirt guns, my trusty Schwinn Sting Ray. We didn't watch TV when we were kids-------we actually did things!

[Argonaut]

I miss lawn darts. A fun outdoor activity and a lesson in Darwinism all at the same time.

[du52]

Do You Mean Jerry Lee Lewis?

I think he meant this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWMJLUbk10

[STINGYBRIMSandBOURBON]

I think he meant this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWMJLUbk10

Or this.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjgZGhHrYY

[Deltaboy]

My aunt threw away the Lawn darts after we pinned the neighbors dog to the ground. It was a nasty accident and the poor dog had to be put down. It ran loose and ran into where we were playing.

We moded the Clappers so we could use them like chucks. They hurt if you got hit in the head with one. Oh the 1970's how did we all live to be this old.

[jrak2]

I saw this in a novelty store similar to the five and dime stores of my childhood in Brooklyn. I bought 2 doz and gave them to all of my nieces and nephews and little cousins. They dropped their nintendo's and PSP's for 5 minutes and enjoyed it..... Ah The good ol' days. What did you play with it when you were 8?

Yes, I remember those. When I was eight, I use to play scully using bottle caps filled with melt Crayola crayon wax. I have not seen any kids in Brooklyn playing that game in years. For those of you outside of NYC, there's a good description of the game here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skully_(game). We used to play it for hours on end.

[Legion]

Slip and Slide! Now those things were a recipe for disaster!

[Andy]

I saw this in a novelty store similar to the five and dime stores of my childhood in Brooklyn. I bought 2 doz and gave them to all of my nieces and nephews and little cousins. They dropped their nintendo's and PSP's for 5 minutes and enjoyed it..... Ah The good ol' days. What did you play with it when you were 8?

I remembers those, some fun times

[Andy]

Slip and Slide! Now those things were a recipe for disaster!

Not that bad, just don't put them anywhere near a fence like I did