Stuff you still have from childhood

[David70FJ40]

I realize this isn't as interesting as Transformers, Star Wars stuff and other neat toys, but.....

My mother was somewhat of a pack rat and save a lot of stuff. The photo is my baby booties, socks, first shoes and a pair from I guess about 1 year old. This makes the booties 69 years old.

 

[RedHeadedStepChild]

No toys or anything like that. My brothers and I were hard on things and there were regular ruthless purges by my mother, but here are some things I saved from moldering away in my mothers basement.

"The Land of Make Believe" by Jaro Hess. I stared at this print for hours and hours.
This had actually hung on my mothers wall when she was a little girl in Brazil.

The compass from the wheelhouse on my dad's lobster boat, and the chart he used when he took my mother on their honeymoon the The Vineyard.
He died when I was four, so the compass was on a desk in the house. This actually was a favorite "toy" of mine. I guess I was an odd kid.

If you look closely, you can see the course he charted.

This is the sign for the business he was running when he passed.
This was literally rotting away in a garden shed when I dig it out.

The knife he used to carry and that I now carry. Buck 112

 

[pawwright]

No toys or anything like that. My brothers and I were hard on this and there were regular ruthless purges by my mother, but here are some things I saved from moldering away in my mothers basement.

"The Land of Make Believe" by Jaro Hess. I stared at this print for hours and hours.
This had actually hung on my mothers wall when she was a little girl in Brazil.
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Now that is super cool. The pic - not the purges. My mother would go into my room with a black trash bag and throw everything away.

 

[fj40z]

No toys or anything like that. My brothers and I were hard on this and there were regular ruthless purges by my mother, but here are some things I saved from moldering away in my mothers basement.

"The Land of Make Believe" by Jaro Hess. I stared at this print for hours and hours.
This had actually hung on my mothers wall when she was a little girl in Brazil.
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The compass from the wheelhouse on my dad's lobster boat, and the chart he used when he took my mother on their honeymoon the The Vineyard.
He died when I was four, so the compass was on a desk in the house. This actually was a favorite "toy" of mine. I guess I was an odd kid.
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If you look closely, you can see the course he charted.
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This is the sign for the business he was running when he passed.
This was literally rotting away in a garden shed when I dig it out.
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The knife he used to carry and that I now carry. Buck 112
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Very cool stuff!!

 

[RedHeadedStepChild]

Now that is super cool. The pic - not the purges. My mother would go into my room with a black trash bag and throw everything away.

That pic is pretty old, My grandparents hung it up for my mom around '46-'47. Its kind of amazing that it has survived multiple move (both domestic and intercontinental), 2 generations of children, and a house fire. Except the knife and the sign, everything pictured above had been stuffed away in the corner of a damp basement (along with two other things I'll post up as soon as I get pictures). I can't remember what I was looking for but I came across the Hess print first. That got me digging deeper and find the compass, the chart, a cool technical print of the Cutty Sark, and a small rifle that my grandfather bought as a boy. I just told my mom I was taking everything and that was that. I poked around more and found the sign in that garden shed and added it to the pile.

 

[JohnVee]

Metal Band Aid can. Full of old coins pre-1964. Mostly nickels and quarters.

One magazine file box full of MAD Magazines and a couple Cracked. Most from 1983-1986. For you youngsters out there, in 1984, Michael Jackson was really only well known because of a string of successful hit songs and a funny backwards dance step he did. His family had a group when Michael was a child but not a single other one of them had gone on to achieve any actual success after "The Jacksons" disbanded (sister Janet became a star but I don't think she was in the group; but she WAS on the tv show Good Times with Jimmie "Dy-No-Mite!" Walker). Anyhoo...in 1984, a guy with amazing hair, boxing promoter Don King, along with the guy who owned the New England Patriots football franchise, decided that they could make a FORTUNE by getting megastar Michael back with the family to tour the globe. They put out an album. Nobody has a copy anymore because it sucked. They toured, fell out, and then MJ moonwalked out of extending the tour. The Patriots guy lost his ass, a few people learned who "Tito" and "Jermaine" were, and nothing was ever heard from "The Jacksons" again.

Short version: The cover characters are all named Jackson, but they're not the "Jacksons". Figure them out for yourselves. (hint: Jesse Jackson has always been a joke. That's why they made him the bass player.) Thank you for reading this far. Sorry for wasting those 60 seconds.

 

[jfz80]

Tracker trucks, street saw wheels, so 80s

With matching bones/bats grip tape of course

Look at all that armor! No wonder i could never Ollie well

 

[JohnVee]

Rector was a pad company, right?

And that table is from your parents' childhood era! I was checking that thing out last weekend. Too cool.

 

[jfz80]

Yup. Rector pads. Moms rules at least till out of sight.
Table came with the house here but they dint build emmlike theynused to!
Few cool items amongst mtns of junk

 

[stevezero]

Ive still got my Santa Cruz R/S 10 skate board. I think its got indy trucks, and variflex wheels (the kryptonics wore out). Homemade checkerboard grip tape. The tail is pretty much worn off it, the nose is chipped and chunked, and it moves furniture these days. Once in a blue moon, I'll cruise down the driveway and street on it. Totally freaked out some of the neighborhood kids about 10 years ago. They had a rail set up on the street, and i went down there, ollied up on to it, railslid down it, then came back and axle grinded the other direction. HOLY COW> THATS JAMIES DAD> HE CAN SKATE!!! I didnt know old people could skate (i was still in my early 30s)

 

[forrest5000]

Metal Band Aid can. Full of old coins pre-1964. Mostly nickels and quarters.
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Damn , you just made me feel old ,because I know who they all are with out thinking about it.

 

[coinoperated40]

Starting to go through the mom-in-law house. Darts are from around 1950 and the logs are my wife's brothers. He was born in 1945. Not my stuff, but this house is like a time vault.

Table Marble?
@JohnVee Took me longer than 60 seconds to read that crap I grew up with and even watched on TV. Another waste of my childhood.

 

[JohnVee]

I've got plenty more. My desk is a time capsule (like a kid needs a rolltop desk for anything other than keeping his crap hidden?), and I just opened a box that's been sealed since I moved outta the 'hood in 1991. I didn't like to throw anything away. My father didn't care because his mom threw out all of his stuff throughout the 40's and 50's whenever she got the whim. My mom, however, grew up poor in an immigrant household that said 'the church says the poor kids need that stuff more than you do'. Catholic guilt.

 

[erymer]

Man this is a cool thread. Next time I visit mom I have a bunch of pics to take. Sadly most of my GI Joe's didn't survive the M80/smoke bombs and pellet rifle trials....Disabled vet Joe was all that remained. Do have a lot of original Stars wars stuff still in the boxes. Boba Fett's Slave I is probably my fav.

 

[angerhater]

well I can find my old 1975 erector set in the metal box. a earlier matchbox race track that had a spring coiled through the track got tossed a few years ago.. still have all the skate stuff... 2 caballeros, a g&s billy ruff autographed, a sims Jeff Phillips And a Madrid Per welinder freestyle

 

[izzyandsue]

Everything I have from my childhood is black and white. Color didn't exists back then....

 

[CharlestonG8R]

Tracker trucks, street saw wheels, so 80sView attachment 1348800 With matching bones/bats grip tape of course
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Look at all that armor! No wonder i could never Ollie well

I still have my old Vision Gator in like perfect condition. I sucked at skateboarding, so the wheels still have all the paint. The grip tape is bright pink and yellow.

 

[coinoperated40]

Everything I have from my childhood is black and white. Color didn't exists back then....

I feel your pain. Some on here must be a little younger than others. I remember having to get up and change the channel on the black/white TV. I still have a land line phone. Does that count as an old toy?

 

[roadstr6]

well I can find my old 1975 erector set in the metal box. a earlier matchbox race track that had a spring coiled through the track got tossed a few years ago.. still have all the skate stuff... 2 caballeros, a g&s billy ruff autographed, a sims Jeff Phillips And a Madrid Per welinder freestyle

I saw Per (Peg Leg) Welinder at an exhibition in the Winston Salem area back in '83-84. The pro guys hardly ever came to NC. I was a skate punk from way back into the late 70's. Tony Alva was my first skater hero... years before anyone had ever heard of Tony Hawk. I still have some '80's skate stuff including my nasty ripped and stinking Rector pads. I use the knee pads for doing floor tile now.

 

[jfz80]

Two more from the archives of the attic

Matchbox organizer/collection

Smurf collection