What do you still have in your possession from your childhood?

[2jakes]

Christmas tree topper when I was three.
Sears BB gun when I was nine and the Western Flyer bike when I was ten.

 

[HanauMan]

I still have my old baseball and mitt, mid 70s vintage. Need to give it a clean one day.

 

[2jakes]

I still have my old baseball and mitt, mid 70s vintage. Need to give it a clean one day.

I have one I bought at estate sale ten years ago.
What will you use to clean it?
My glove is the Bob Feller model made
in USA.
It's still has the soft leather.

This is an image from the web, but this is
what I have in the same leather condition.
Thanks!

 

[HanauMan]

Not sure, probably a gentle clean with warm water and soap, once dry maybe some leather conditioner. I haven't used the glove since the early 1980s and can't see me ever using it properly again.

This old 1970s Dinky toy Stuka sits in my den. It has a working 'bomb' into which you stick a cap from a cap gun. When the bomb hits the floor it goes off with a bang! I got this plane as a Christmas present in '76 or '77.

 

[2jakes]

Not sure, probably a gentle clean with warm water and soap, once dry maybe some leather conditioner. I haven't used the glove since the early 1980s and can't see me ever using it properly again.

This old 1970s Dinky toy Stuka sits in my den. It has a working 'bomb' into which you stick a cap from a cap gun. When the bomb hits the floor it goes off with a bang! I got this plane as a Christmas present in '76 or '77.

Cool!
All I have is the metal bomb which takes
one cap which is inserted at the head and
will go off when it hits the cement.
Somewhere is a box of firing caps which I mostly used on my Roy Rogers western cap pistol with the chamber that would open to insert six plastic bullets.
I don't have the gun anymore.

I just remembered I still have in my possession one firecracker and
several marbles from my youth!
I repeat, youth.... not head!

 

[Frunobulax]

Not sure, probably a gentle clean with warm water and soap, once dry maybe some leather conditioner. I haven't used the glove since the early 1980s and can't see me ever using it properly again.

I would suggest saddle soap.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[scottyrocks]

I have a box of Matchbox/Hot wheels/Johnny Lightning/Tootsietoy cars from when I was a kid. I also have a 'board game' called 'Basket' which was a 'live-action' basketball game consisting of, well, it's kind of hard to explain. Let's just say it came with a ping pong ball that was shootable from the board. You had to get into a standup basketball hoop at each end of the board.

In doing a google search, I see that there are newer versions of it, but here is a picture of one that is my vintage - late '60s:

Many of the games that my brother and had are still at our parents' house. Some of them belonged to our parents as kids before he and I played with them.

 

[Edward]

Still have quite a few bits, either with me or at my parents' place. Star Wars bits, couple of Action Man things (you knew him as GI Joe in the US), and a few soft toys, including my favourite teddy bear, given to me by my great uncle for my first Christmas (1974, three months old).

 

[2jakes]

These belonged to my uncles when they were young.
Depression era toys:

For depression times...these toys were pretty cool!

 

[HanauMan]

I really like these vintage pull along toys. The pilot and photographer figures are cool. The Zeppelin airship is awesome and in such nice condition. The 'plane looks like the Spirit of St. Louis that Lindbergh flew to France with. Your uncles must have been careful kids with these two wonderful toys, considering how good they look.

I still have two tinplate / plastic Alpine cable cars and plastic figures which my father bought for me in Bavaria back in the mid 1970s. The figures came with the cable cars. Once upon a time there were also two plastic 'stations' which enabled you to move the cars back and forth, alas they're now long gone. They are just like the cable cars we rode on in the Alps back then.

 

[2jakes]

I really like these vintage pull along toys. The pilot and photographer figures are cool. The Zeppelin airship is awesome and in such nice condition. The 'plane looks like the Spirit of St. Louis that Lindbergh flew to France with. Your uncles must have been careful kids with these two wonderful toys, considering how good they look.

I still have two tinplate / plastic Alpine cable cars and plastic figures which my father bought for me in Bavaria back in the mid 1970s. The figures came with the cable cars. Once upon a time there were also two plastic 'stations' which enabled you to move the cars back and forth, alas they're now long gone. They are just like the cable cars we rode on in the Alps back then.

Cable cars by Al Sutherland, on Flickr

That is great detailing on the cable cars.
The figurines remind me of the lead toy soldiers from my uncles.
The ones I got were either rubber or hard plastic.

Speaking of uncles being very careful....
When I was a kid visiting relatives at my grandparents home,
my mom made sure I was dressed real nice.
My cousins were dressed nice too.
But after a while, playing and running around outside, I would get dirty.
My cousins hardly never did.

They must've inherited this from my uncles who were very careful!

 

[Bugguy]

Extracted molars... don't ask me why my teeth never fell out. Worse yet, why I still have a couple in a jar my dentist gave me. I'll save the pictures for the weird stuff thread.

 

[2jakes]

Extracted molars... don't ask me why my teeth never fell out. Worse yet, why I still have a couple in a jar my dentist gave me. I'll save the pictures for the weird stuff thread.

I have a couple of extracted molars which I keep in a small tin 35mm kodak canister.
I have no idea why I've kept them all these years.
Of the ones that fell out...I placed them under the pillow and
the next morning I got a nickle from the tooth fairy.

I wonder if kids do that today and how would they feel if they
got 5¢

 

[green papaya]

I still have a couple of WW2 combat knives Ive had since childhood, they came from WW2 vets

 

[Frunobulax]

I've been a packrat most of my life and have many things from my childhood - trying to think of some things to post. Actually, I've been unloading things on eBay for the past year - selling off my childhood one piece at a time. The Lionel train set went several months ago. Still have some of my coin collection, though I gave some of that - handed down to me by my father - to my grandnephew.

I still have my appendix, so there's that.

Somewhere around here, I've got Dad's bayonet from WWII. I need to find that.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Matchbox, what else??

 

[HanauMan]

When I was about eight or nine years old I had to be admitted to the paediatric ward in our local hospital for about a week. During the day our parents could come to visit but the nights were long and for many of the kids tearful. The nurses were great and they made little toys for the kids; on admission to the ward she / he could pick out a little toy critter from a box. The nurses would then write the child's name on the toy and they got to keep it. I chose this red frog and he was a welcome companion at night. Now, forty-five years later, I still have the frog though I no longer take him to bed! Funny, I just realized that he never had a name, he's always been 'the red frog' to me.

 

[HanauMan]

Like most boys, I suppose, I had many toy soldiers. Most of mine were thrown out years ago but these fellows survived because I still had the box for them. They're from the late 1970s.

 

[2jakes]

Many of my childhood things survived because of my mother.
Coming back from the war, going to
my bedroom where I had an old roll-top
desk.
Going over my comics, 45 rpm records, baseball cards, marbles, tops and other
stuff from youth.
Sitting there....
I had the strange sensation as that of
an old man (even though I was 23) looking at a kids things and trying to
recall what it was that held such joy
and importance from them.
I could not find myself getting rid of them mostly because of my mother
who found solace in them while I was
away.
I've kept them for that reason and for
a period of my life when I was young,
innocent/ignorant about most things in life.

 

[HanauMan]

Many of my childhood things survived because of my mother.
Coming back from the war, going to
my bedroom where I had an old roll-top
desk.
Going over my comics, 45 rpm records, baseball cards, marbles, tops and other
stuff from youth.
Sitting there....
I had the strange sensation as that of
an old man (even though I was 23) looking at a kids things and trying to
recall what it was that held such joy
and importance from them.
I could not find myself getting rid of them mostly because of my mother
who found solace in them while I was
away.
I've kept them for that reason and for
a period of my life when I was young,
innocent/ignorant about most things in life.

I was in my mid teens when dad left the military and all my old things were packed up into boxes when we left Germany, and there in those boxes my childhood things stayed for many years. After I left home my parents began to throw out old things that were just taking up space in the attic. Thus over time much of my childhood stuff disappeared, like my 1970s comic collection and bubble gum baseball card collection while some items went to thrift stores or to neighborhood kids. They thankfully kept the books that I put into a box in Germany years before and some other smaller items, like the red frog above. Every time I would visit home I'd take a couple of things with me, the last of my junk I finally took home after dad died and mom moved into a apartment. My mother did save some of my childhood drawings and school work from grade school and even junior high. Also my report cards. I keep them in a small case, a reminder of long ago.