I was looking at photos of my brother and me, spotting the
various toys in some of them. I hadn’t even realized that we have one of us
from 1971 playing with a Tupperware one; I think that it is called Shape O’ Ball.
We also had the Busy Block set. You could interlock these and they came with
little figures like animals. We might have had the Zoo-It-Yourself plastic
animal set (elephant, dog, and giraffe) too.
The picture of my
brother sleeping with his race car is one of my favorites. I am pretty sure
that we also used to have one of him sleeping in our green laundry basket in
the mid-70s, but that must have been in his album, which he purged most of the
photos from.
Mom had let us each
pick out childhood photos from her album, so we wound up with the best shots. I
wish that he had just given them all back to her. We don’t have negatives from
pre-1976 and some others too.
We used to get some
of our toys from Kiddy Mart on Rt. 1 in Linden. I am almost certain that our
little kiddie pool and swing set came from there.
We had a nice sled.
I remember using it to go down the small hill that was a couple of houses away
from ours. Maybe our parents took us elsewhere to go sledding too. We must have
pulled each other around on it as well.
Mom got me a mini rocking
chair that I hadn’t really remembered until I saw a part of it in one of our
photos. Mom was usually the one who picked out our presents. I can’t recall
anything specific that just Dad gave to me.
We used a plastic
penguin salt and pepper shaker set as a toy. Their names were Willie and
Millie. Did they actually have these names on them or had we made them up? Was
it weird that we played with them?
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