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Photographs and brief descriptions profile popular toys and collectibles from the 1950s and 1960s, with information on current prices for each item.
Boomers will be digging through their closets in search of their childhood after paging through this colourful nostalgic photo reference of the toys and playthings from the baby boomer generation. All ages will want to pick up this book and see what's inside -- from the common to the obscure -- brining back memories like the sound of tinker toys being dumped from a can. Each of the 100 chapters includes photographs and text discussing the origins and history of the popular toys, as well we other toys of the same type. For collectors, values listings are included for many more than the 100 featured toys. As a nostalgic picture book, it should become one of the primary gift books of the year.
A nostalgic celebration of some of the most popular toys of the baby-boom generation features illustrations of such treasures as Crayolas, Silly Putty, G.I. Joe, Barbie, Hula Hoops, and more
The book features the latest secondary-market prices for over 500 dolls and includes 400+ colour photographs. The author provides background information on all of the important companies of the baby-boomer era, from well-known films like Mattel, Ideal and Madame Alexander to smaller, lesser-known producers. The cast of characters includes legendary dolls such as Barbie, Ginny, Tammy and Miss Revlon as well as film and television-based favourites like Shirley Temple, Patty Duke, The Flying Nun and Pebbles and Bam-Bam.
The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the proclamation goes, just big kids at heart. And, accordingly, we delight in prolonging and inflating the childhood experiences of our offspring. In images of the naughty but nice Buster Brown and the coquettish but sweet Shirley Temple, Americans at mid-century offered up a fantastic world of treats, toys, and stories, creating a new image of the child as "cute." Holidays such as Christmas and Halloween became blockbuster affairs, vehicles to fuel the bedazzled and wondrous innocence of the adorable child. All this, Gary Cross illustrates, reflected the preoccupations of a more gentle and affluent culture, but it also served to liberate adults from their rational and often tedious worlds of work and responsibility. But trouble soon entered paradise. The "cute" turned into "cool" as children, following their parental example, embraced the gift of fantasy and unrestrained desire to rebel against the saccharine excesses of wondrous innocence in deliberate pursuit of the anti-cute. Movies, comic books, and video games beckoned to children with the allures of an often violent, sexualized, and increasingly harsh worldview. Unwitting and resistant accomplices to this commercial transformation of childhood, adults sought-over and over again, in repeated and predictable cycles-to rein in these threats in a largely futile jeremiad to preserve the old order. Thus, the cute child-deliberately manufactured and cultivated--has ironically fostered a profoundly troubled ambivalence toward youth and child rearing today. Expertly weaving his way through the cultural artifacts, commercial currents, and parenting anxieties of the previous century, Gary Cross offers a vibrant and entirely fresh portrait of the forces that have defined American childhood.
The kids of the 1960s are the collectors of today, and their toys are among the hottest items in the collecting world. &break;&break;Warmans's 101 Greatest Baby Boomer Toys brings the past alive with historic details surrounding the creation and evolution of timeless childhood favorites of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. More than 300+ detailed color photos accompany production history and background about the toy industry the year each toy appeared on store shelves. &break;&break;From Barbie, Mr. Potato Head and Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots to The Beatles Flip Your Wig game, Twister and Hot Wheels, this book offers unparalleled insight to the Best Baby Boomers toys.
If you're like most of us, the mailman's annual delivery of Sears, Roebuck and Company's Christmas Catalog was a holiday event in years past. Most American children watched the mailbox carefully for those wondrous old catalogs. They were chock full of childhood fantasies... enough toys, dolls, trains and bikes to make any kid start writing his or her letter to Santa Claus. That's probably why the nickname "Wishbook" stuck. And if you grew up during the Baby Boomer years of the Fifties and Sixties, there's big news. Those lost Wishbook pages full of wonderful toys targeted to boys have been reproduced in Boys' Toys, an exciting new book containing authorized reproductions of the very best boy-toy pages from 1950 through 1969. Boys' Toys and its companion book Girls' Toys are two in a series of Sears catalog re-issues covering the spectrum of toys, dolls and other popular collectibles of the Fifties and Sixties. This 8 fi x 11 softcover book's 192 pages illustrate hundreds of now-collectible toys. All the best are represented: Lionel trains, Marx playsets, Remco's "Toys for Boys" G.I. Joe, Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks... all the way to Sixties space-age robots, rockets, and flying saucers! Included too, is a year-by-year commentary on the toys, their manufacturers and historical relevance. So put on your Davy Crockett coonskin cap and settle in for hours of fond childhood memories. Boys' Toys is fun reading for anyone... male or female... toy fan or not. It's an invaluable reference source for serious collectors and history buffs, too. -- Jam-packed with warm and happy childhood memories. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations with accompanying commentary -- A "must have"reference volume for all toy, antique and memorabilia enthusiasts
Over 1000 vintage toys of the sixties are pictured & described (date, manufacturer, size, markings, checklists, etc.) Categories include: TV Adventure, Western & Comedy, Saturday morning TV & Cartoon friends, Superheroes, Space, Spies, Monsters, Military, Rat Finks & Weird-Ohs, & more! Send $14.95 plus $3.50 Shipping to: Cap'n Penny Productions, Inc. 330 Merriman Rd., Akron, OH 44303-1552. Outside USA - $25.00 Post Paid. Wholesale information available.
The author shows ways to foster a child's curiosity and creativity with activities ranging from rocket science to rock climbing, stamp collecting to sculpture.