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When did plastic toys
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♫ Penny € | Report | 17 Jun 2007 20:35 |
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Perhaps I just lived in an old fashioned house then!!! Just looked on ebay & someone is selling metal jacks!! |
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Huia | Report | 17 Jun 2007 20:31 |
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The original 'jacks' aka knucklebones were real bones. I can remember my younger sister having some plastic pick-up sticks about 1952. And a hula hoop. Sorry, although I am older than most of you (71) I cant remember when plastic toys came in. I was probably getting too old for toys by then! |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 17 Jun 2007 19:52 |
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i had plasic toya in the 1950s |
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♫ Penny € | Report | 17 Jun 2007 19:42 |
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I was ''only'' born in '68! I'm sure I must have been about 7/8 playing with my metal/wooden toys! |
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Sally Moonchild | Report | 17 Jun 2007 19:31 |
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I remember the first plastic being Bakelite, which was brittle, and I remember buying mine plastic toys and telephones and bricks from Mothercare from 1972 on.....and the plastic was good and in many colours......My jacks were metal too, and that would have been 1956... ...I should imagine it would be late 50's or early 60's that plastics as we know them came into being......but perhaps someone is more knowledgable than me..... |
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♫ Penny € | Report | 17 Jun 2007 19:27 |
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We bought some ''pick up sticks'' & ''jacks'' today & they were plastic/rubber!! My jacks were metal & my sticks were wooden with coloured stripes! When did it all change? Penny *feeling old* |
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♫ Penny € | Report | 17 Jun 2007 19:26 |
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come into being? |
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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** | Report | 17 Jun 2007 19:25 |
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my dad had a post office van whose shell was made out of plastic. That was in the 50s. |
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