Old childhood toys

[Dan in MI]

I good eye caught my GI Joes in a pic on a different thread. I expect the request for pic may be coming so here it is. And a little more to the story. I was BIG GI Joe fan as kid. It may be partly because my big brother was a Marine at the time. (14 year spread) Any gift occasssion I asked for GI Joe Stuff and I had a bunch. The Jeep, the Space Capsule and more clothes and guns than you could count. I had a friend a year or two behind me that I played with. I can tell you these Joe's saw real combat. Firecrackers, bb guns you name it they saw action. Somewhere around 11-13 I'd had enough and gave EVERY piece I had to him. Time moved on, we lost touch around junior high. I had not seen Steve in 20+ years when one day he shows up at my church. we talk about all we did back then and the fun we had. The next week he shows up and gave me what is in the picture. All of it was mine except the one with "hair." I never had one of those. And I haven't seen him since. It's been another 20 now....

 

[contender]

It's funny you showed the GI Joe. When I saw the title of this thread,, I immediately thought of my own GI Joe stuff, and the full cowboy outfit I had.

 

[hittman]

Put me in please as first to ask if you have anything for sale! Thanks for posting the picture.

On a related note, my daughters are now age 40 and 38. At some point they asked our neighbor if they could sell all their Barbie stuff in her yard sale. They priced each piece at 5 cents. I visited the yard sale the night before and paid for everything they had. I boxed them up, hid them in a basement closet and gave them back to my daughters after each of them gave birth to a daughter.

 

[Watchman]

My brothers and I had the Joes too, the jeep with the trailer and searchlight, footlocker and even the deep sea diver stuff. Also the "Best of The West" cowboy figures along with the horses, buckboards saddles, etc..

All the Joe stuff is gone, but I still have some of the cowboy stuff.

 

[eveled]

I have most of the Evel Knievel hand crank toys the big RV and all 4 explorer sets.

I recently found my bottle cap gun. Its a piece of wood with a clothes pin and a rubber band.

 

[RC44Mag]

My nephew is a West Point grad and he and his wife recently had a baby boy. Thought this would be a nice gift for little Jack. Found a West Pt/ Annapolis set on Amazon and it’s $230! No thanks.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Older cousins had the big figure and the Jeep. I had the Evil Knievel crank/ramp bike. Then I later got the GIANT metal Jeep made by Tonka.

I have all my Star Wars stuff somewhere.

 

[Shotgungibbs]

I had GI Joe's and many other things. I loved Johnny West figures. I had the whole family, Captain Maddox, Geronimo, many horses, etc. My mother was not sentimental at all. She threw them all away, without asking me.

 

[bobski]

id post up all my things, but it would take 2 pages in the ads section! its easier to tell people pm me! lol.

 

[blume357]

My favorite was the Mat Mason astronaut stuff... I had the entire space station as well as the moon buggy.
major mat mason doll

 

[Snake45]

Never had a GI Joe, but I had two Stonys, Marx's knockoff. If you really worked at it, you could get real GI Joe clothes on a Stony, and I did.

Stony's guns were more accurate/realistic than GI Joe's--M1 Garand, M1 carbine, BAR, and 1911. And Stony's hands could hold them better. Stony had an M3 Grease Gun too, which I don't believe Joe ever did.

 

[Chief 101]

Never go ice fishing without your toy soldiers!

 

[Danny]

You had the good ones. I came from the era of that bearded criminal looking GI Joe. The first thing we'd do when we got one of those was to get a razor blade out and shave that nasty, cheesy beard off in an attempt to turn him into a nice, clean cut , trustworthy "regular guy".

Danny

 

[Bob Wright]

Back in my day........................................

We WERE GI Joe, though not by that name. And my toys didn't survive.

I once told Nita about making a frontier cabin out of a wood cigar box. Gravel was used for the fireplace, tables etc. made from scrap wood. A piece of cloth for a rug.

Nita asked me what happened to that.

"It burned down. Indians." I told her.

"I figured as much," was her response.

Bob Wright

 

[Heliman]

Never had a GI Joe. My interest was toy trucks and 1/25 scale model cars. I had my cap guns and BB guns as well.

 

[bobski]

i just tossed out my matt mason stuff.

 

[eveled]

I also had the Six Million Dollar man, The Lone Ranger Tonto Silver and Scout.

 

[Highstandardguy]

I hate going to museums and see my childhood toys on display.

 

[bobski]

my house IS a museum!
heck i am older than the toys!

 

[Armybrat]

Still have a couple….
The train set Dad gave me in 1947 or ‘48, and a cap gun I bought about 1952.