Erector Sets seemed more up-to-date to me, Lincoln Logs were out of the past. So I vote for The Erector Set...

I saw some Lincoln Logs in a store recently... but they weren't made of wood.

Everyone enjoyed one of these......

Does anyone here remember The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show?

And........

Yeah, real man-boys preferred tools, sharp edges and corners, and tiny screws and nuts that made Mom's vacuum cleaner sound like a hail storm on a tin roof.

Besides, lincoln logs were all gravity-based construction, there really wasn't any way to build impossibly cantilevered or unsupported structures that would stand a few minutes until stressed, leaving a pile of twisted steel and wreckage to be salvaged after the crash.

Ah, yes, I can hear my Father now; finding a loose screw on the linoleum floor in his bare feet. Those were the days...

Just imagine having an Erector set AND an electric screwdriver........

Yeeeeaaaaah, I could *really* do some damage to the coffee table if I'd had POWER TOOLS!

The Cushman Eagle was the "Must Have" for any junior high schooler aspiring to "2 wheeled" transport

Krazy Ikes

Boyfriend and I used to scoot all over the county on his Lambretta

TRANSISTOR Radios!!!

I haven't read every single page of this perpetual motion thread. Has someone bragged about their Slinky's yet? And had their Maypo? Did anyone ever really taste Maypo? My family wouldn't let me touch the stuff.

"Had to Have" Princess phone...... introduced in 1959.

What is Maypo???

Does anybody remember going down to the grocery store (Brannons?) with all the tubes out of the TV set and using their tube checker to figure out which vacuum tube was bad so you could get a new one and get the TV going again?

YES!!! Only we went to local Western Auto store.......extremely annoying when all the tubes tested "good" and the TV still wouldn't work....tube testing was the first/easiest diognostic step. I think I still have a RCA tube conversion book somewhere. Still have a few vacuum tubes.

I'm not exactly sure.

I'm 54. When I was a kid they had a black and white commercial for Maypo, some sort of breakfast stuff that was vaguely related to oatmeal I think. They had a bunch of little kids in the commercial who would start screaming "I want my Maypo!". Everybody hated that commercial. I'd love to know if anyone out there ever actually ate the stuff.

How bout Kodak Brownies and Instamatics..

Maypo is still available in your cereal aisle. Maple flavored oatmeal. I liked it!

I just asked my wife......she said Maypo was a Cream of Wheat type stuff with chocolate and "regular" flavors.....she said she tried it only ONCE ...."even her little brother didn't like it."
I should have asked her first......

I *do* remember the day I learned to trip flashcubes manually....

Yes operator I would like to call Amhurst or Frontier or other prefix + xxxx in X city...... Switchboards.... prior to DDD (Direct Distance Dialing).
Swithboard operators were the good looking WAFs pursued by us young comm geeks.

Good ole reliable Teletype machines .........