Trigger & Roy and Tonka Toys

Posted Sunday, November 21, 2010, at 10:35 AM
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    I sure hope you do a few of these blogs down Memory Lane. I do love it

    Jessie

    -- Posted by jessiemiller on Sun, Nov 21, 2010, at 6:24 PM
  • I had a Tonka dump truck that I used to ride around on. It was yellow and one of my favorite toys. Bet it (at that time) was not made in China and contained no toxic paint. Those were the days.

    How about the Lone Ranger. I loved that on Sunday morning over lox and bagels. Those were the days.

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Sun, Nov 21, 2010, at 9:06 PM
  • Thanks, Bazooka, I enjoyed reading this. My hubby, Ken has a Tonka Truck. I'm not sure of the date but it is the real steel ones.

    -- Posted by kimkovac on Mon, Nov 22, 2010, at 6:12 AM
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    My English Springer Spaniel's name is Scout...cuz he has the liver and white marks..... ... yep named after the horse too....

    Jessie

    -- Posted by jessiemiller on Mon, Nov 22, 2010, at 9:30 AM
  • These blogs have been so fun to read. Makes me really wish I'd been born a few decades earlier.

    -- Posted by lilmissmelmo on Mon, Nov 22, 2010, at 2:47 PM
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    lilmiss....they were some incredible times. We did so much outdoors..... with little to no money. It made us more imaginative. I wish you were there too, but you could create it now!

    -- Posted by jessiemiller on Mon, Nov 22, 2010, at 3:07 PM
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    Yea growing up in the 50's was sure alot different than it is today. We didn't set around complaining we didn't have anything to do we always found something to do. I lived in the country so ya played in the neighborhood whatever games you could come up with. Then I got my first bike and wasn't long after that I was touring the country side on the 2 lane roads and our parents just told me to be home in time for supper, didn't worry that I was out getting in trouble or even knew where I went.

    Remember the time all the boys got together and build some kind of wheeled toy to coast down the hill with. We went up the hill and used a trail that the oil used to walk the oil wells and banked up the turns and down thru the trees we would race. Mothers tryed it one day while we were in school and decided that was not for them, just let the kids play. I took a couple of old worn out wagons and set the rear axle with duel wheels for better cornering.

    Don't have much of childhood days of toys left they pretty much got worn out. I still have my Lionel Train Set just the way it came except most of the boxes are gone. You guys remember when you could buy a bag of Planters peanuts and if I remember right send in 2 bags and 50 cents and get a Mr Peanut bank. I still have mine but it has a small piece broke out of the base. Don't see those around anymore.

    -- Posted by Eagle_eye on Mon, Nov 22, 2010, at 4:01 PM
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