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This site is dedicated to showcasing retro pop culture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. This includes cartoons, toys, commercials, TV shows, books, records and much more!
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Play-Doh
Play-Doh was invented in the 50's and is a nontoxic, easy-to-use, easy-to-clean up modeling compound packaged in a variety of colors used principally by children for arts and crafts projects at home and in school.Besides being hand-molded into animal...
Sit \'n Spin
Sit 'n Spin is a famous toy of the 1970s and 1980s. It came in a multitude of visual designs however all were multicolored (using some or all of the primary colors red, green, yellow, blue). It features a large circular two-part plastic base. One par...
Romper Stompers
Does anyone else remember Romper Stompers from the 70s? They were first introduced on the children’s show, Romper Room and generated such demand among the toddlers of America that the Romper Room production company decided to market the toys.They w...
See \'n Say Toy
Here is another childhood favorite from 1966! It's a Mattel The Farmer Says See 'N Say toy.Instead of the common standard pull string action to start the "Arf Arf" or "Moo Moo", these earlier toys required you to turn the farmer in the middle of the ...
Mad Libs
Mad Libs was a phrasal template word game where one player prompted another for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story; these word substitutions had a humorous effect when the resulting story was then read aloud. It was invented in 1953 ...
Magical Musical Thing
Mattel's Magical Musical Thing was released in 1978. A cross between a keyboard and an electric guitar, it had a soft plastic keypad where the "neck" of the "guitar" was. It came with a songbook to teach you how to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star b...
Waterfuls
Waterfuls were plastic handheld water filled toys by Tomy. They came in various shapes and sizes, typically smaller cylinders and larger rectangles. The basic was a ball catch, but themes ranged from sports - basketball, soccer, ring toss, fishing an...
UNO Wild Tiles
UNO Wild Tiles was made by International Games in 1986. It was an entirely new UNO experience, with the fun and excitement of UNO and the strategy of a board game. The object was to be the first player to get rid of all of your UNO wild tiles in you...
Rock-A-Stack
This well-known, long lived Rock-A-Stack, was made by Fisher-Price from 1960-1989. It had rainbow colored plastic rings that fit over the center pole of the base. The rings graduate in size teaching children basic color and shape perception....
Lizzie Lies a Lot
Lizzie Lies a Lot was written by Elizabeth Levy in 1976.It deals with the issue of honesty as a young girl realizes that her lies threaten a friendship. Lizzie lies to her parents to make them think she is a go...
Headache Game
Headache is a board game similar to Trouble in which the object is to land on top of all your opponent's pieces (known as "cones"). The game is distinct from Trouble in that there is no finish the player must reach. Play moves in circles, until only ...
Bugs Bunny Party Pest Book
"Bugs Bunny Party Pest" was a Tell-A-Tale book written by William Johnston in 1976.This was a great children's book with colorful illustrations....
Concentration Game
Concentration was made by Milton Bradley in 1959. This game is played just like the game on TV. Each player tries to uncover pairs of valuable prizes or gift cards which are removed from the board. As the cards are taken away, parts of a hidden wor...
View-Master
View-Master, since 1939, has been a device for viewing seven 3-D images (also called stereo images) on a paper disk. Although the View-Master is now considered a children's toy, it was originally marketed as a way for viewers to enjoy stereograms of ...
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Monster
Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Monster was written by Jean Lewis in 1981.Oh Oh---Scooby-doo is into trouble again. This is a tale of his camping trip with his friends -- Shaggy, Fred, Wilma and Daphne -- just outside a Stone Age Park. ...
Fisher-Price Corn Popper
The Fisher-Price Corn Popper was a great success and has stayed in production, in one form or another, from 1957 to the present day. A push toy with a clear plastic dome, the multi-colored wooden balls inside popped up as the toy was pushed. Great fu...
Sorry! Board Game
The earliest variation of today's Sorry! can be traced back to England, shortly before its arrival in the United States. Sorry! was adopted by Parker Brothers in 1934, and has remained in their possession since. It is an American hallmark board game,...
Fisher-Price Toot Toot Engine
The Fisher-Price Toot Toot Engine is the fourth and final engine in a series of small wooden train engines that were made from 1959 to 1987. The engine had movable pistons and it makes a "chug-chug" sound when pulled....
Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 was a video game console released in October 1977. It was typically bundled with two joystick controllers, a conjoined pair of paddle controllers, and a cartridge game—initially, Combat, and subsequently, Pac-Man.My favorite games we...
Henry Huggins
Henry Huggins was written by Beverly Cleary in 1950. Nothing ever happens to Henry Huggins. Nothing, that is, until a stray dog named Ribsy comes into his life. Pretty soon, Henry and Ribsy are wreaking havoc on the city bus, getting a ride in a poli...
Fisher-Price Creative Block Wagon
The Creative Blocks Wagon was made by Fisher-Price from 1961-1964. It was a white wooden wagon that held 18 plastic blocks and 6 wooden dowels that a child could stack and play with. All blocks and dowels fit nicely in the wagon for storage and porta...
Uno Card Game
Uno is a card game played with a specially printed deck -- it consists of cards of 4 colors: red, green, blue, and yellow. The ranks in each color are 0-9. There are 3 "action" cards in each color, labeled "skip", "draw two", and "reverse". There are...
My Little Book of Boats
My Little Book of Boats is a Tell-A-Tale book written by Mariellen Hanrahan in 1974....
Fisher-Price Music Box Record Player
Music Box Record Player was released in 1971 by Fisher-Price. It came with 5 records with 10 tunes and had an amplified speaker, on-off switch and carrying handle....
Perfection Game
Perfection was released by the Milton Bradley company in the 70s. The object is to put all the pieces into matching holes on the board (pushed down) before a time limit runs out. When time runs out, the board springs up, causing all or at least many ...
Fisher-Price Chatter Phone
The Fisher-Price Chatter Phone is long-lived telephone had been a child's favorite for over 3 decades! The Chatter Telephone was designed with a rotary dial to teach children how to dial a telephone. When the dial is turned and released, it rewards c...
Rubik's Snake
A Rubik's Snake was a toy with twenty-four wedges shaped like right isosceles triangular prisms. The wedges were connected such that they can be twisted, but not separated. Through this twisting, the Rubik's Snake could attain positions including a s...
Yogi Bear's Secret
Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear's Secret was published by Whitman in 1963 and was written by Mary Voell Jones.It's time for school in Jellystone National Park. Boo Boo, Jinks, Pixie, Dixie and Hokey all excelled at something. But poor Yogi was not really b...
Fisher-Price Pull-A-Tune Xylophone
The Pull-A-Tune Xylophone is a well-known long-lived Fisher-Price toy that appeals to children of all ages. When pulled the xylophone plays a beautiful tune. The pull string has an attached mallot for children to play their own song on the xylophone....
Fisher-Price Little Snoopy
Little Snoopy was released in 1966 by Fisher-Price and is a long-lived, well-known dog. He had an unbreakable wooden body, plastic balloon wheels for wobbling, a springtail with a green wooden ball on top, and a wooden shoe attached to his pull strin...
