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dvel56
08-02-2011, 02:14 PM
Made this for my Granddaughter. I remember beating on this when I was a kid 50 years ago
Can't find them around anymore so WaLa

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atauer
08-02-2011, 02:43 PM
Yeah! I remember those! I actually have seen a few around, but they are cheaply made using plastic. In fact, the one that I seen was only about a month old, and the mallet handle was already bent and jacked up.

I believe I had one when I was little, (about 23 years ago). Not sure what it was made of though.

I like the design. Simple and bear-y beautiful.
rcdages
08-02-2011, 03:55 PM
The toy take me back to a long long time ago when I once was a child.
chebytrk
08-02-2011, 04:59 PM
Kinda reminds me of my childhood, but my kids would say that I probably hammered Saber Tooth tiger teeth in to a rock or something.
jaroot
08-02-2011, 05:15 PM
Well I remember playing with one of these but it was a long time ago.... let's just say that most of my grandkids are too old for one! <-Smiley
gregsolano
08-02-2011, 05:44 PM
What a great gift from grandpa!
dbfletcher
08-02-2011, 06:17 PM
Very nice! I love the idea... but now I'm thinking round pegs for the nieces and nephews I like... and square ones for the ones who annoy me. (Did i say that outloud???) Of course I like them all the same.......
Kenm810
08-02-2011, 07:14 PM
I never had toys like that when I was a little kid, But I do remember My Dad handing me a 16 oz claw hammer, a bag of nails,
and telling me to build a fence around my mothers garden to keep the rabbits out --- if I wanted vegetables on the table come dinner time.


Yep That's Me -- Summer of 1948
b.sumner47
08-02-2011, 08:53 PM
First, the Radio Clock , then the old toys. What next ,Wooden Diapers ? Good times for Sure . Capt Barry
eelamb
08-02-2011, 09:56 PM
No lets go back further, wooden teeth
liquidguitars
08-03-2011, 05:08 AM
Cool Ken! Start them young I say...
henry1
08-03-2011, 06:09 AM
I never had toys like that when I was a little kid, But I do remember My Dad handing me a 16 oz claw hammer, a bag of nails,
and telling me to build a fence around my mothers garden to keep the rabbits out --- if I wanted vegetables on the table come dinner time.


Yep That's Me -- Summer of 1948
Your still a good looking guy, and you look good then , and toys I wasn't so lucky , and yes that would be a good project
Henry
brouv
08-03-2011, 07:06 AM
Ikea has something like that but not this nice.
Good job
rcdages
08-03-2011, 08:29 AM
Ken,

Great looking photo from 1948.
oldjoe
08-03-2011, 11:24 AM
So is the fence done yet?
Kenm810
08-03-2011, 01:08 PM
Sorry to say, but the fence, garden, house, and most of the neighborhood is long gone,
all vacant lots now including the Detroit Public School I first attended down the street.
All just memories and a few photos now ---- as time goes by.
rcdages
08-03-2011, 01:19 PM
So Correct Ken,

As time goes by.
cestout
08-03-2011, 07:08 PM
I found my old house and elementary school still there on Goggle Earth. But they removed my front porch and a wearhouse of something is behind the house where the apple trees and chicken coop where. I started the second grade there in about 1946. That was in Warwick RI. I don't remember if I had one of those toys, buy my kids did in the 1960s - and it was made of wood.
Clint
lawrence
08-04-2011, 08:08 AM
I didn't have that in the 1970s, but it is sure cool in 2011.

Excellent idea and a reminder of the quality of times past

Lawrence