Peachy

We had 2 of these small peach plaques on the kitchen wall above the cupboards. I guess they were made of plaster.

Doctor Dolittle

Another one of my favourite books, I guess I ordered this one from Tab books in elementary school too. Look at the price.....60¢!

Robin

This was my brother's. Can you believe he had a Robin doll that could bend his knees, ankles, elbows and wrists and I never had a Barbie doll that could do that, just the cheap imitation ones with stiff legs and arms. No, I'm not bitter.

Disney Trash Can

This was my younger brothers, Goofy was on one side and Mickey & Donald Duck were on the other. I never had a cool looking trash can in my bedroom.

The Make-Believe Parade

This was my sister's book. I still remember sentences from it (hay foot, straw foot, left foot, right foot).

Monopoly

This was the version we had, with wooden playing pieces. We always wanted to use the one shaped like the milk jug.

Telephone

This was the phone in our hallway. We only had 2 phones in the house, the other one was in my parent's bedroom and was a huge black table top version of this. It wasn't until I was a teenager that my sister and I got small phones for our bedroom, but this phone stayed on the wall.

Ballerina Candle Holders

I remember having these birthday candle holders on my birthday cake several years.

Chinese Fans

My sister and I each had one of these, a pretty similar design too.

Little House on the Prairie

These were among my favourite books when I was in elementary school. So much so that I wanted to live back then in a drafty sod hut on the cold prairie!

Body on Tap Shampoo

Another shampoo I loved as a teenager (this and "Gee Your Hair Smells Teriffic").

Lightbulb Salt & Pepper

Another salt and pepper set that mom had. These were never used but they were among the coolest set she had (in my opinion anyway).

Dick Nolan

This was one of the few records we owned (my parents were not into music). Dick Nolan was a Newfoundland singer and this record included the songs "Aunt Martha's Sheep" and "CN Bus".

Billy Goat Game

Did anyone else have this game? I think ours was all green, not white. First you had to pull the billy goat back and attach a rubber band underneath. Then you started to stack the bricks one by one until the weight was too much and the goat would crash through the bricks. It was fun!

Snoopy Bank

My sister and I each had a Snoopy bank like this. It didn't have an opening in the bottom, though, and mine broke as I was trying to shake coins out of it.

Young Folks Shelf of Books

This set of 10 books came with our enyclopedia set. I didn't read everything in all of the books but some books I read over and over, especially book #6 called "Harvest of Holidays". It told about holidays all over the world. Book #1 was "ABC Go" and had nursery rhymes and other poems.

Spirograph

This was my older sister's and I loved playing with it. We would sit for hours at the kitchen table and make design after design in different colours.

Old Spice

My father always wore Old Spice aftershave. For Christmas a popular gift to give him would be aftershave in a decorative bottle. He saved all the bottles, this was one of them.

Classic Novels

In the early 70's my parents bought a set of encyclopedias from a door-to-door salesman. We were thrilled, we would read the articles and look at the pictures, it was like having our own library. Along with the encyclopedias there were children's books, 2 medical dictionaries and a set of classic novels. They were quite classy looking, gilt edges and leather-look covers. Some of the titles were "Gone With the Wind", "Rebecca", "Lord Jim" and "The Robe". I read some of them when I got older.

Randy Rider

This was my younger sister's doll (she always had the dolls that did stuff, my dolls didn't do anything). Randy Rider came with a bike and she could actually ride the bike. This was amazing for us back in the 70's. My sister blamed me for breaking it, apparently I sat on it and broke the wheel off the bike. But it was under a pile of clothes so it wasn't really my fault!