What items/things remind you of your childhood days?

[Taz_Zoee]

Oh wow, Easy Bake Oven. Talking slide projector (we always watched Bambi on it). The show Dukes of Hazard. The smell of tobacco from wrapped cigs (my grandpa smoked these). Barbies!!!
I'll probably think of more during the day.

[happylabs]

My #1 would be my Beagle Tippy. I spent many hours outside with him. My parents got him when I was just a toddler and he lived to be 15+ years old. Also Barbies, paper dolls, and coloring. Oh and Nestle's Quik! I still drink it.

[Catherinedana]

Colorforms (anyone remember those!?!), pixie stix, bazooka bubble gum and BB Bats (taffy-sort of stuff on a stick). The smell of warm wet sidewalk after a summer rain (I grew up in Brooklyn) and the way it sometimes let off steam after getting wet. The Good Humor man on a bicycle/freezer contraption. Pink rubber Spaulding balls (we called them Spauldeens). Going to the beach and buying Sunny Dew orange drink and knishes from the guy walking around selling them and eating everything with sand all over it!!

[Freedom]

I was thinking of Colorforms just yesterday! It occurred to me that many of the games I play now on Facebook are the basic idea of Colorforms. LOVED those, had quite a few!

Other happy memories: my first dog, Lassie (guess who she looked like?) we got her when I was 5 years old, after me pestering my folks for a year for a "Lassie dog." Standing in the midst of tomato plants at my grandparents home, in August, picking one, rubbing it on my shirt and biting in. FRESH, warmed by the sun, and delicious! The smell of the corn boiling in a pot on the open fire at their place (NEVER find corn like that today!).

Toys: I love my plastic red wagon, Mom would fold laundry in the living room, load up my wagon, and I would deliver it to the proper bedroom. Of course, Mom had to follow; if I took them out and put them on the bed, they were all unfolded again! My flying saucer and sled for winter sledding. They were the "old" type. The saucer was metal, round, and when you hit bumps it dented. The sled also was metal runners, with wood slats.

[happylabs]

Colorforms (anyone remember those!?!), pixie stix, bazooka bubble gum and BB Bats (taffy-sort of stuff on a stick). The smell of warm wet sidewalk after a summer rain (I grew up in Brooklyn) and the way it sometimes let off steam after getting wet. The Good Humor man on a bicycle/freezer contraption. Pink rubber Spaulding balls (we called them Spauldeens). Going to the beach and buying Sunny Dew orange drink and knishes from the guy walking around selling them and eating everything with sand all over it!!

Oh my goodnes...I forgot about Colorforms. Yes! I loved them. Wow...major deja vu.

[lizbud]

, bazooka bubble gum and BB Bats (taffy-sort of stuff on a stick)

You remember BB bats? I loved those things. Strawberry, Chocolate
or Vanilla, I liked them all.


The things that remind me of when I was a kid are mostly the intangibles.
The first smell of Spring in the air or the train whistle I used to hear as I
went to sleep at night. Makes me feel sooo safe & happy.

[Catherinedana]

You remember BB bats? I loved those things. Strawberry, Chocolate
or Vanilla, I liked them all.

And Banana!!!