Not Numerous, Not Fancy, but Definitely Well-Loved
posted on 2 September 2010 | posted in
Recreation and Hobbies
Us guys never grow out of toys. When we're adults, many of us consider cars as our new toys - driving experience days is a testimony to this playful affair men have with cars. And this spawns back to the childhood need to explore and be creative, and simply have fun.
Growing up in the 1950s, I had quite a few toys, but nothing like the kids have today. My favorite board games were Monopoly, Life, and Clue, and I had Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs to build with. As a little girl, I had dolls, but they didn't do a lot of things like the dolls today do. I had a Betsy Wetsy, a ballerina, a little girl doll that cried “Mama” when you turned her over, and a couple of little hard rubber creatures painted to look like a nurse and a doctor. However, none of these were my favorite toys. The one I liked best was a simple stuffed rubber baby doll in flannel pajamas. These dolls cost $1 in Penney's basement, and I wore out 5 of them before I got too old to play with dolls. Their names were Jane, Kelly, Linda, Toots, and Buddy Ray. They couldn't talk, or walk, or even wet their pants, but I managed to find a million different games to play with them.
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