Johnny and Jane West
Posted on 09/14/2012 7:06:46 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Visitors to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis' website have picked G.I. Joe as the top toy of the past century followed by Transformers and Lego blocks.
Museum officials picked their top 100 toys of the past 100 years and more than 24,000 votes were cast online to narrow the list down the top 20, which was topped by G.I. Joe, Transformers, Lego blocks, Barbie and the View-Master.
The list also included the bicycle, Cabbage Patch Kids, Crayons, Play-Doh, Monopoly, Raggedy Ann, Spirograph, Etch A Sketch, Little Golden Books, Hot Wheels, Lincoln Logs, Candyland, Roller Skates, Silly Putty and Mr. Potato Head.
"The feedback and support from the public for this initiative has been extraordinary," said Jeffrey Patchen, president and chief executive officer of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. "The stories people have shared about intergenerational learning, family traditions and memories has been heartwarming and life-changing in some cases. Toys are a powerful tool for exploration and imagination as we learn and grow. They foster many shared memories across generations and, as was represented in the voting and story sharing for 100 Toys, across cultures as we read stories submitted from Germany, Canada, Australia and Israel."
Johnny and Jane West
I had one of them too.
An Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
The top girl’s toy is easily Barbie.
The top boy’s toy is a different story.
I never played with GI-Joe. The top toy for me was a ball (baseball, basketball, football, kickball) with frisbee being a close 2nd. Of course, those could be called sporting equipment and not toys.
Hot Wheels, I suppose, was my top “real toy,” but it was way down the list from sporting goods.
Oh, I bought lots of those toys for my other grandsons. Woody and and his buddies. They even had the costumes with inflatable wings.
I had that one. Pull his string and he said stuff like, “I have a tough assignment for you” and a couple other things I can’t recall.
I suppose now days he says, “Don’t shoot, I have no ammo!”.
Dude! I learned to shoot and love guns with one of those when I was a kid. I always wanted one for my own but couldn’t find one. When my Dad passed away he willed it to me. Now I have the Remington Model 12 and I miss my Dad.
With the creeping movement of liberalism into everything we see as a society, GI Joe and similar lines are currently being liberalized or even taken out of the market altogether.
These days, it is extremely politically incorrect to take pride in American exceptionalism. Subsequently, it is also a seemingly terrible thing to buy a toy Sherman tank or a US Marine action figure for a child.
I honestly blame a lot of this on the fact that toy companies and liberal mothers seem to unite together in that they don't like the idea of children playing with "war toys."
Even though a considerable number of GI Joe items are dedicated to professions such as emergency rescue and scientific advancement, the "good stuff" is becoming rarer and rarer to find for kids.
Even the children themselves are being subject to liberal lies and brainwashing in the school systems to wrongly believe that uniformed heroes are corrupt.
It is my dream to someday save up enough money to by my Kids the Henry Pump Action .22
I have always wanted one of those myself.
If you thought obtaining one of those was hard in the States, In Germany (where my father if from) Private ownership of firearms was not allowed until after 1956.
Imagine what it must have been like to get an American Pump Action .22 over in West Germany in the 1960's.
Glad to see Henry is keeping that alive. I learned to shoot on a Winchester 1906 that my father bought as a boy in 1933.
I have since passed it along to my son and then in a moment of nostalgia bought parts and built one.
My Father always told me his Pump Action Remington was bought by His Father in the Post-War '40s and kept it a secret until it was legal.
He never said how my Grandfather obtained it, whether he acquired it when they were hiding in Switzerland during the war, if he bought it off an American G.I. or if somehow managed to order it from a catalog.
I will ask my Father again next time I speak to him, but that all happened before he was born, so I don't think he really even knows. (though it is old enough not to have a government tracking number on it)
I can honest say I never did that, shooting my BB gun indoors next to my mother's nice Lamps and Picture frames.
Shoot, she would have had me Crucified.
Then Crucified my Father for suggesting it!
None of this beats the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab, with radioisotopes.
http://daily-grind.net/most-dangerous-toys-from-the-50s-gilbert-u-238-atomic-energy-lab/
Where can I get one of these?
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