I am 56 years old and still find my old Erector Set very useful for projects now and then. About two years ago I finally got the1/100 scale/ 4-foot-tall Estes Saturn V Rocket Kit. It turned out beautify but my kids are not always careful. To protect it I used the Erector Set (and extra parts from Ebay) to build a nice looking "kids" version of the launch tower. With a heavy base and some protective arms & straps, it now stands safely. Let us not forget Legos too. I got the matching 1/100 scale Lego Saturn V and love it. Yes, I am a Science Nerd.

@congerthomas1812

4 ай бұрын

Right,I made one from window frames. I haven't changed really like making stuff. Mechanic by trade

I wouldn't trade my late 60s-70s childhood for anything kids have today.

@drenek1

4 жыл бұрын

Your loss. Porn and meth are great fun.

@jilpoke

4 жыл бұрын

@@drenek1 And Tide Pods

@davidpodlesny6679

4 жыл бұрын

me too

@22steve5150

4 жыл бұрын

No offense but my late 70's through early 90's childhood kicks your childhood's ass. We had GI Joe and old school Atari, Nintendo and Sega....and the hey day of RC cars and BMX bikes, and the golden age for Legos, Hot Wheels, and Erector sets. We had NERF balls and supersoakers and battery powered noise making machine squirt guns that looked like the real thing. We had the martial arts craze so half of us were taking karate or kickboxing lessons and trying to kick each other's asses for fun anytime a few of us could get together and bust out some sparring gear. We had D&D before religious nuts tried to claim it was witchcraft, we had the emergence of VHS and video game rental stores, we had the greatest era for action movies and movie theaters were still cheap, public pools and roller coaster theme parks were having a resurgence in popularity, we had the last spectacular generation of board games before kids stopped playing with board games, we had saturday morning cartoons and Mr Wizard but not all day every day 500 channel vegetable making TV and no internet and smart phones making us into zombies so we still went outside to play, We had cheap cassette tapes and boomboxes so kids could build up a music collection very cheap and quick and carry their own booming stereo with them instead of listening to music in their room. It was perfect, a great mix of action toys, building toys, electronics, board games, educational toys, cartoons, video games, sports, and militaristic ass kickery......before toys got too gimmicky, board games fell out of fashion, kids stopped going outside, the theater got dominated with comic book movies and animated movies that cost 60 bucks for the family to even see at the theater, and finally before kids wouldn't unplug from the net.

@Ronno4691

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the toys we had back then have been remade over and over like the Gerry Anderson craft and the sheer amount of Marvel & DC super hero toy figures, Scalextric, Hornby railway sets and lord knows what else means we could easily recreate our previous Christmases (minus the authentic atmosphere, B/W TVs, etc..

Man I loved toys back in the 60’s and 70’s. I had slot car sets, Gi Joes, Evil Knevel stunt motorcycle, hot wheels and train sets. Toys were so much fun back then

@John77Doe

Жыл бұрын

GI Joes were dolls for boys. 😖😖😖😖😖😖

@SunshineEntertainment182

Жыл бұрын

@@John77Doe I had at least 30 of them and they aren’t for dolls and boys they are for everyone

@felixmadison5736

10 ай бұрын

All the toy guns we had and no mass killings to speak of.

@MissIvoryB

2 ай бұрын

i wish i was born in the 50s

I really loved my chemistry set. And all the other toys we had. What a great time to be alive

@pschroeter1

Жыл бұрын

I remember there always seemed to be a chemistry set that had many more chemicals and equipment than the one your parents bought you.

@TobyStahler-yp9ll

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking about my brother's chemistry set back in the early 70s. It actually had powdered aluminum and iron oxide. Those were the days! 😂

Toys back then were so much cooler than now. I saw one commercial where they had an awesome fold up case with dozens of army men from different eras, knights, modern, and so much more. Wish we still had those, but people are so concerned that their kids eyes will be poked out from a small dart.

@dr.migalitoloveless1651

4 жыл бұрын

People are such Assholes today.

@50zcarsman

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, where ARE all those one-eyed kids today, presumably since grown to adulthood? Could it be that this and most of the other cautionary tales we heard as kids were COMPLETE B.S., designed to control and manipulate us? Say it ain't so! No wonder the '60s and '70s were an era of rebellion!

@xarv368

Жыл бұрын

@@50zcarsman The madman from the asylum has already begun with the song of the conspiracy.

@Jreb1865

Жыл бұрын

@@xarv368 And I bet you're ready to add a verse or three of your own, and sing right along...

What a great time to be a kid. Probably the last generation of children that were truly free to be a kid, with great moral ethics, and parental guidance too.

@charliebritger4622

4 жыл бұрын

@citizen-x We said !

@johnmcdonald9304

4 жыл бұрын

Odee Dillion. I grew up in this era. It was truly a great time to be a kid.

@OdeeOz

4 жыл бұрын

@daAnder71 Lead does not evaporate into the air. You have to eat the lead chips silly. Did you forget about Sodom & Gomorrah? God destroyed an entire city. 💯👏🤣

@Cugastratos

4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to introduce you to the 80s... When Megatron could transform into a realistic looking handgun...

@buckwheat9932

Жыл бұрын

Those were a Lib Tards nightmare.

What a magnificent time to be a kid. I was there… and it was GLORIOUS 👍🏻🇺🇸

I grew up in the early 200s, but I found some of my oldest brother's older toys. one of my favorites was a buildable, reusable, chemistry powered rocket. You mixed the powder with the liquid in the given in the box, then poured it into the rocket. Waited 10 seconds and it would fly in the air. Another one was a metal building kit. You could make anything you wanted with the little metal pices and screws with nuts. And he had the newest pice at the time. The electric motor. I made a tank destroyer, a helicopter and a car, all of witch moved. why fun. I also saw a really cool old tractor set that had a toy baler, and the thing worked!! I put some cut grass in front of it and moved it forward, and out the other side was a miniature hay bale. Toys back then worked. They were durable, made of the finest plastic or even metal if you know which kind to get.

Plus this was pre-computer era. Kids spent some time outdoors playing ball games, hanging out with other kids in the neighborhood. Now that kids have smartphones, computer games, Xbox etc. I can’t help but think this generation is missing out.

The toy commercials back in the 60s were so much fun and would inspire us to ask mom and dad to get us the latest thing. But mostly, the answer was no. But we still dreamed and played with other toys we had.

Of all the toys I got during the sixties; I would say my Erector Set was my favorite. You could practically build anything you could imagine.

@joejones5653

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that was the best toy to have. You could fashion anything

@jamesrogers47

4 жыл бұрын

I liked the Super City construction set I received for Christmas in 1967 (I was five.) I had a small Erector set, but by then I transitioned to microscopes and chemistry sets

@JOECANDELA22

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesrogers47 I had a Super City set, they were great!

@donlarocque5157

Жыл бұрын

I had a farm set. Also made a bridge.

I have the Ideal Baby Jesus doll! I found him at a garage sale with no box and no markings, and although it was obvious it was Baby Jesus I couldn't figure out who made him or if he came with a set or not until I saw him in a book of Ideal dolls and said, "That's MY Baby Jesus! So he was made by Ideal! Cool!" Then I had an apartment fire back in 2005-don't worry-it was a relatively minor kitchen fire and nobody got hurt-but everything on my apartment had to be packed up and stored and I had to live at my parents' house all that summer while my apartment was being repaired. When I was able to move back in all my stuff was returned in boxes and I had to unaccounted and organize everything myself. Unfortunately, many of my things, including some of my most prized stuffed animals that I had had since my childhood had been lost by the cleaners. I was very upset! I cried and cried about it. I was almost sure that they had lost my beloved Baby Jesus doll too until March of 2016 as I was cleaning out one of my closets I came upon a box I had forgotten about since the fire, so I opened it and there with his arms outstretched in a living embrace was my Baby Jesus doll and the brown paper straw filled box that I had always used as his "manger"! You can imagine how happy I was! Now Baby Jesus in his manger has a prominent place on my shelf where I can always see him all year around, not just during Christmas! It was delightful to see the actual commercial he was featured in! Thanks for posting this great video!

@OdeeOz

4 жыл бұрын

Won't see anything like that in stores, or on TV for kids today, and that is a darn shame too.

@dr.migalitoloveless1651

4 жыл бұрын

The commercial would diffinately be politically incorrect today.

@OdeeOz

4 жыл бұрын

@@dr.migalitoloveless1651 sad to say that is very true.

@darkwood777

Жыл бұрын

Most kids back then enjoyed setting up the Nativity as they prepared for Christmas. Those kind of went out of style in the 70s I guess. What a shame.

@coloradostrong

11 ай бұрын

You realize that Mary was about 14-16 when she had Jesus right? She wasn't 35-45 years old like they always show. She was a _Bogeret,_ an adult at 12 years 6 months and a day old. Females are adults at that age in jew world.

Missile Base, Atomic Cannon, they had some kickass toys back then.

Boy, do I remember!! LOL!! This is pretty close to the picture quality we got in our 1960s t.v. We had no cell phones, no video games like Play Station and the like, but we had fun and used our imaginations. Lots of talk and interaction with each other instead of sitting there staring at your phone and not paying attention to anything else.

@dr.migalitoloveless1651

4 жыл бұрын

Who you callin boy???

There is a model of the Atomic Cannon at West Point Museum, which also has models of the trucks that moved it. I wasn't sure which side each was. It would have been neat to have that cannon for a toy when it was available. Probably worth a fortune on a collectors market.

MANN those toys are soo much better than now days.

A a German kid i had black M 16 with a Granade Launcher. I was so ❤ proud

@rascalme9754

Жыл бұрын

An MG -34 or 42 would have been cooler.

I'd love to have most of these today! The canon was $7.98. Just so you got an idea. $8 in 1965 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $65.32 in 2020

During the season I say Merry Christmas in the stores and the Local stores never had a problem .

The "Atomic Cannon" was amazing! That, and the "Launch Control" would have been quite a Christmas.

I remember early 60s toys starting out being western themed, turning to space, then a little later spy toys started. I still think about my James Bond Attache kit that I took to Thunderball or other movie.

Great commercials and great toys for kids . We had such fun back then . Now it's every kid by themselves on "iPad " on internet not speaking or playing with other kids no social skills and no fun either

Thank you so very much for sharing such wonderful memories from a great childhood !🌲🌲

Back in the late 1950s, my father trained to command an Atomic Annie cannon group. Wow, never knew a toy was made of it. A few years ago, I managed to buy two Atomic Annie cannon model kits.

I recall getting a giant cannon mounted on a truck trailer bed. It was powerful enough to fire solid projectiles that would shatter our old fashioned Lego building blocks, literally crack the rugged plastic blocks. We would spend all day building Lego bunkers, filling them with plastic army men and then blowing it all apart. When we discovered a die cast field artillery piece that would shoot lit wooden matches, we had to take the show outside. We would build the bunkers with earth, sticks and moss. The bunkers would catch fire. The plastic army guys' numbers dwindled. It was good fun and taught us to not fall too far in love with our hard work and creations. Nobody got their eye shot out, but they could have.

That’s me in that rocket commercial at 2:23! I remember the toy used in the commercial was hand made and very expensive (not the one they actually sold,) and I wasn’t allowed to touch it when the cameras were not rolling!

I remember reading about A.C. Gilbert! He was an Olympic athlete and Physician. The Erector set was one of my favorite toys that his company made.

These bring back so many, many memories

I lived all of this.. a time when being a kid meant being a kid..

I want this stuff!!!!! Atomic bombs and Jesus!!! All the bases covered!!!!!

@emcllns

4 жыл бұрын

Sums up America in every decade.

@amngs6111

3 жыл бұрын

Dude are you an adventis or not

I remember my chemistry set Came with acid, Mercury, aluminum and other chemicals that today would be off limits Yes I caught the picnic bench on fire a few times showing off But then we learned by trying snd owned up to it They say we’re stupid But today’s group don’t have the common sense to learn from mistakes

@clearcreek69

4 жыл бұрын

I know my dad had a Gilbert chemistry set & I think his brother also had one. I never had a set myself, but I totally agree with you about "off limit" chemicals.

@tygrkhat4087

4 жыл бұрын

@@clearcreek69 My chemistry set was a Skilcraft, My dad worked in the cereal lab at General MIlls and got me labware, I still have my graduated cylinder.

@donaldbartram6315

4 жыл бұрын

AC Gilbert was in my city of New Haven CT.. Made some great toys especially the chemical set.. LOL

@donaldbartram6315

4 жыл бұрын

The Erector set was from them also, based on the girders of the cantanery on the New Haven RR tracks to NY that he saw on his commute to the city

@garymckee8857

4 жыл бұрын

@terry waller outstanding

Got to love little jimmy playing with Nuclear weapons. Classic 60's...

THE YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY HAVE NO IDEAR HOW MUCH FUN WE HAD AS KIDS IN THE 50S AND 60S.TODAY THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE KIDS.WE HAD SO MUCH FREEDOM.

I miss toys like this..

OH YEA , THE GOOD OLD DAYS ! Hope our country gets back to them.

@coloradostrong

11 ай бұрын

You are witness to the downfall of this country, and it will never come back. It happens to every country that legalized sodomy.

Just One thing on a serious sidenote all these toys that are in this video were made in the United States not like toys nowadays that are made in China and other places like that

I was born in 84, but my father always took me to flea markets looking for these old toys that aren't made anymore.

Cool toys back then.

Atomic ‘Annie’ Cannon, always wanted one 😂

I had the Marx Pocket Tools. They were great because they actually worked.

We had the greatest toys then.

3 - 13 yrs. old I Love the 1960s. Happy Times.

OMG I want those Tiny Tools!

I bet that train set is worth some bucks!!

First time viewer! I am extremely impressed with your vlog, great job! Reminds me of being a kid, when we used our hands, coupled with our imaginations to entertain ourselves. The closest gameboy type toy that I remember playing with, was an etch-a-sketch! I will surely check out some of your other vlogs. Thanks again, and Happy New Year to you!

I'm a millennial, and though I enjoyed growing up with toys like Lego and Nerf guns I wish I had also got to grow up with toys like these, mainly because I loved learning and the space race and the Cold War from my dad.

Loved the toy's we had.

I remember those toys and that time period. GREAT to be a kid then. AND NONE of US ever went to school and shot anyone !!

I like those small tools. It's something I would buy for my grandson in a couple years if they were still around.

@darkwood777

Жыл бұрын

I still have the crescent wrench - about 60 years now. It still works, but is a bit loose due to age. I used it a lot with the erector set.

Man those rocket set toys and that atomic cannon toy were pretty cool.

The toys back then were cool and varied. Some toys could kill you, but it worked to weed out the weak minded kids from producing even dumber kids in the future. Some toys were based on propaganda and created to mold young minds to the military industrial complex's way of thinking. Never in human history had there ever been a mass produced, mass advertised, mass market for children's toys. And they had a bunch of kids, in the correctly named baby boom generation, to sell to. That era of toys was a special time in history that had never happened before and will never happen again. I'm glad I was a kid during those times. Surfing a wave is the best at the beginning, when the wave breaks. The longer you ride the wave, the more it dies out...

@scooter8828

4 жыл бұрын

Man you like to talk and over think minutia there F*****g toys nothing more!!! Video games are a billion times worse! And more mind and soul warping! And they're just toys too!

@seemoretoys5944

4 жыл бұрын

I assume that you had a point, but that escapes me. Pick your poison man...

@scooter8828

4 жыл бұрын

@@seemoretoys5944 of course it escapes you! I imagine most things do!

@scooter8828

4 жыл бұрын

@@seemoretoys5944 no point and that IS the point! Just bask in the warm glow of atomic energy and the love of Jesus! Sorry I said anything! Have a happy!!!!! Conversation concluded! By by!!!!

@seemoretoys5944

4 жыл бұрын

OK Scooter... Jesus Huh? I think you should re-read and follow his works more fully since it seems that you never got the point of his teachings. May the peace of the Most High be with you for all your days.

Thank you. God bless all of us. Love ❤️ it. Merry Christmas to all

I want an atomic cannon for xmas!!!

@SecretPesch

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha this is the wish of that crazy fat north korean🤣🤣🤣

I'm envious,my 70s wasn't so. Cool stuff though,yard darts,pogo sticks,super balls,and model rockets. Wire controlled air planes.

Great toys, great time.

WHICH LANE CHICANE. That's still played everyday I go to work on I45 on Texas.

@clearcreek69

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian & I have driven in snow, so I can just imagine traffic in Texas

@ScooterFXRS

4 жыл бұрын

L0L ... Yes, it plays across the country every morning and evening.

We had the coolest toys that were ever made

After the 60s toys we got the 70s rock!

They later came out with a power tools set that you plugged into a battery workbench to replace the pocket tools.

This is back when kids knew snacks/gum wasn't included and to not shoot themselves in the eye with the projectiles.

At least the reality of these commercials equal my memory of the 60's

When I was a kid in the sixties and early seventies I had chemistry sets and a microscope, Mechano sets and model airplanes with little engines. Today's kids have none of these, because parents are so worried little Johnie might break a fingernail and need psychotherapy as a result. Even worse, little Johnie thinks he's actually a little girl trapped in a boy's body, so he wants a princess costume and makeup. My wife and I are soooooo happy our children are grown up and aren't exposed to this lunacy.

They have an Atomic Cannon at the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas.

Wow if I could find the full set of Marx tiny tools at a flea market that would be cool!

5:35 - 6:15 Tamiya Mini 4 Wheel Drive is the Best back in the year 2000..

I used to have the Ideal Count Down. A toy created during the space race era. We showed those Rooskies!

@Frankie5Angels150

Жыл бұрын

That’s me in that commercial! The toy missile (they called it Atlas but it’s really a depiction of an Honest John,) in the commercial was hand made and very expensive! They wouldn’t let me touch it between takes. Nothing like the one they sold.

@kenttm42

Жыл бұрын

@@Frankie5Angels150 All three of those rockets in the commercial are not even remotely similar to the actual toy. Obviously, they filmed that commercial long before they were in production with the actual toy.

Ha ha Good toys are sold. The good ol days. When Boys knew they were Boys no bullshit like today.

Stan Sawyer speaks for Lionel Trains. Claude Kirchner is the voice of Marx Toys.

Giocattoli stupendi che lasciavano ampio spazio alla fantasia

Nice video. I love this.

Your videos are Ideal!

@GRFilmFarm1

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

The AtomCanon kills me :DD

Cool toys

Thanks to all the first smartphones for changing our youths way of living for ever and is not for the best let's say.

The atomic cannon looks cool

Man! Those people at LIONEL sure had an imagination, too bad none of it worked like the commercial.. They even had the BEATLES Yellow Submarine on the train

I want that Baby Jesus toy 😂😂😂

USA was a true leader and pioneer on COMMERCIAL!!! 👍👍👍

some of these are more 1950s than 1960s, the atomic cannon for example was mid 50s. The rocket base was 1959. The pocket tools and slot track were 1961. I can't think of any family we knew that would have bought that bizarre Jesus doll.

I miss tinsel on trees

The public: TOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYSSSSS! Louis Marx: ok then. It’s like a toolset, but small

@SecretPesch

4 жыл бұрын

Almost every boy would love to have tools like their fathet. For boys its a toy

Nice when we could use our imagination

Those toys were made in America and employed families

All made in the USA I’m guessing

I agree the Gilbert Autorama was wonderful however I can’t find the commercial with the pick up truck in it has anyone seen that commercial.

That atomic cannon is pretty sweet though...

When toys were actually toys...

@SecretPesch

4 жыл бұрын

What about tge pocket tools ? Small like a toy work like a tool

@Frankie5Angels150

9 ай бұрын

Well… more like weapons!

I visit toy departments today, and all I can think is "You poor kids. No wonder all you do is play video games. What else is there?"

The Ideal Atomic Cannon cost $7.98. Our apartment rent then was $35 a month.

bro they gave kids tiny hacksaws, that time period must’ve been cool lol

@fubarmodelyard1392

Жыл бұрын

It was

3:33 The funniest or creepiest thing about this is that when Manhattan project members including Robert J. Oppenheimer himself launched the bomb, they calculated it before and realised that there is a small, but still chance, that the atomic explosion will go so far up that it will explode the atmosphere and destroy the whole earth. (Sorry for spoilers)

Brinquedos muito legais!

Great toys especially the wood working kit.

@andrewvelonis5940

Жыл бұрын

Wood working kit?

I want them all!!!!! ( except the Nativity set! )

just look at what our children of the past, played and pretended to be. Heroes, Scientists, Handymen, now look what they play today

Santa brought me that tool set. I pretty much knew how to use any tool in any toolbox by the time I was 11. Now, thanks to lawyers and the Nanny State America has become, 20 year old men don't know what a hammer is for. And don't care to know either. ☹

@deeguenveur9987

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, but they know how to make a man bun!!!!

@50zcarsman

4 жыл бұрын

Their helplessness is truly frightening. I'm a landlord and regularly rent to Millennials and the even-younger Gen Whatevers. The vast majority of both groups are UTTERLY CLUELESS about hardware or how to fix simple things. Previously, only urban Jews were like that -- in NYC, most that I knew owned no tools and would have to call the Super for every little thing. I once walked 18 blocks in Manhattan to find a store that even sold a screwdriver! If you don't own and know how to use basic tools and have never owned a home, you're setting yourself up for victimization by contractors -- not least b/c you have no basis of experience upon which to evaluate the scope of the fixes they recommend. Better get ready for Maximum Expenditure.

@joejones5653

4 жыл бұрын

@@50zcarsman Amen!

@MrFishluver

4 жыл бұрын

Can you believe a 30 year old man with a bun who doesn't know how to change a flat tire or own any tools? I'm 60, his girlfriend had to call me to help them with the tire. The look on his face when I pulled out my toolbox, like I was God or something, pathetic if you ask me!

@rarnold4187

4 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

Id still love the atomic cannon. I saw the real thing back when it was still at the Ordinance museum at Aberdeen proving ground in the mid 80s

Back in the day, the toy atomic cannon was cool, but my friend had a nerve gas warfare kit, complete with gas masks and body bags. Tommy always had the best shit.

Nothing is better than sloth cars !

@toddburgess8285

4 жыл бұрын

MOTOR HAWK car n truck enthusiast I bet those are pretty slow.

@Countrysideboy247

4 жыл бұрын

@@toddburgess8285 but faster than a real one at scale speed ! And yes ,there were some slot cars back then as fast as today's but they were only meant for the hobbyists!

Oh, wow!