Nostalgic Christmas Toys

I was thinking of Christmas as a child, remembering all the toys we had when we were little and how different things are today. Technology is the new toy today. I have such good childhood memories of how excited I was for Santa to get there and I could barely go to sleep! I decided to look up some of these old toys we used to have when we were children and I remembered one in particular that was my absolute favorite, Showboat Theatre. Love, love, loved that! My favorite Wizard of Oz characters came with it and I used to sit for hours playing with it. Well, I came across this website that has a huge list of old time toys and as I scrolled down, I found my Showboat!! Oh my gosh! I was so excited when I saw they had pictures of all  the toys! There it was! So I thought I would post some of these pictures of the ones I had or my brothers and cousins had that we all used to play with when we were kids. Here goes:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9z1aAr8lPIyn89pKhdwL9f2-FMaCUkHTw6RkyIjL6OsKu6MESFOVykvg1-eRA2QNZrWB1Elg9V5sgIWjZBdU5cEpDoNMoGh_Qtqy4onyvK1vmoWXWXUCs7YdCPKrMj1avxZYz1vBZ4Wa/s1600/showboat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="308" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9z1aAr8lPIyn89pKhdwL9f2-FMaCUkHTw6RkyIjL6OsKu6MESFOVykvg1-eRA2QNZrWB1Elg9V5sgIWjZBdU5cEpDoNMoGh_Qtqy4onyvK1vmoWXWXUCs7YdCPKrMj1avxZYz1vBZ4Wa/s320/showboat.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlj1FX2_KtW6tz7xJ49LqyRcCIFc-AjuITIpLtzqELJ-pXLxQLvjm0xVGHy3ZHzLyu4FN-dd6r9NUrK9HHr0BEizlI3l3_T-RTWmrn9sx3Lq_w098fNvxD9PUIt27zUn1jvJtxiVf9G4-/s1600/60sputty1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="227" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlj1FX2_KtW6tz7xJ49LqyRcCIFc-AjuITIpLtzqELJ-pXLxQLvjm0xVGHy3ZHzLyu4FN-dd6r9NUrK9HHr0BEizlI3l3_T-RTWmrn9sx3Lq_w098fNvxD9PUIt27zUn1jvJtxiVf9G4-/s320/60sputty1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I lost this outside playing on the porch and found it melted the next day in the middle of the road!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEnc6pOnN_fVsoLQ_K6rLKECVSxnNH2a-ur_1FJD10_mnI9APh0XmThWp1r7q2cwc06GZs2Ymgorz-ckIKtBVG24owvJ-VowSv8kXtrEjpwqgmE-ky-Ye9iRCQcFw_FywsSviWEkqG5Vw/s1600/candyland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEnc6pOnN_fVsoLQ_K6rLKECVSxnNH2a-ur_1FJD10_mnI9APh0XmThWp1r7q2cwc06GZs2Ymgorz-ckIKtBVG24owvJ-VowSv8kXtrEjpwqgmE-ky-Ye9iRCQcFw_FywsSviWEkqG5Vw/s320/candyland.jpg" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cousin and  i played this all the time!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRPpXe1wFOPnSO1zY4QN19lWI8EUQ72P3AQ43OFNSuYcYqiaGzhsf2b8VNOmZSFLjLT1qFt-fAGSGq8lABl-l5dbCbLEFCvkHk_ce-D-Lfc0u9toK3LjhVnsGy403bVUHfvMyR8ymNKsLP/s1600/barrel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRPpXe1wFOPnSO1zY4QN19lWI8EUQ72P3AQ43OFNSuYcYqiaGzhsf2b8VNOmZSFLjLT1qFt-fAGSGq8lABl-l5dbCbLEFCvkHk_ce-D-Lfc0u9toK3LjhVnsGy403bVUHfvMyR8ymNKsLP/s320/barrel.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhKrI_xd3x5qbVcTRmLDEZg7NHx9zQYRyUdp5lXqtWw6BzEt44DtLHkiK2rLYeWPh0x5r0Wj4zW9yoXO5rfDAzCZ_qTiJ0tUt-6JYZbWJWBl28yHBEY23SOMsF0D8tnU1e7d7NOWzUBIF/s1600/closenplay1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhKrI_xd3x5qbVcTRmLDEZg7NHx9zQYRyUdp5lXqtWw6BzEt44DtLHkiK2rLYeWPh0x5r0Wj4zW9yoXO5rfDAzCZ_qTiJ0tUt-6JYZbWJWBl28yHBEY23SOMsF0D8tnU1e7d7NOWzUBIF/s320/closenplay1.jpg" width="188" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Record players were a big thing back then!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6SXCg48DNmjTbzOWNkn8Z9YC1LB1N5T8jiQOyTBxQOk49WQywIM8K1i4MWIKbzqetkdF_15ulW80FXPvIUjYPHAOLuXzPZIWjeEKC4TkDbSvCZpGv5o7H9QTXhPopiMLm9T9LZB9QtvW3/s1600/cootie4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6SXCg48DNmjTbzOWNkn8Z9YC1LB1N5T8jiQOyTBxQOk49WQywIM8K1i4MWIKbzqetkdF_15ulW80FXPvIUjYPHAOLuXzPZIWjeEKC4TkDbSvCZpGv5o7H9QTXhPopiMLm9T9LZB9QtvW3/s320/cootie4.jpg" width="215" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had completely forgotten about this one until I saw the picture!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4_xKmyiCg_eGWOtBQnCbKQRkhtMlVNoJBdQvzmVmCJLdIqpdiT7ffFq5HodpWUGo3W9i-QXG5IQe0P19eIqyzRlrnKarePz7kQasJYKgAgHzz-T27zpEvnOBfLdNgDPTrN19lnqiCNto/s1600/etch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="252" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4_xKmyiCg_eGWOtBQnCbKQRkhtMlVNoJBdQvzmVmCJLdIqpdiT7ffFq5HodpWUGo3W9i-QXG5IQe0P19eIqyzRlrnKarePz7kQasJYKgAgHzz-T27zpEvnOBfLdNgDPTrN19lnqiCNto/s320/etch.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This has been around a long time!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnSO5ipOzWC_WvHFt5uatW5P1ue8Bl3GPLxKCiACgQutN7CDwKvaQThAZ6p62d5yhQpkNqUVEbxH8tVWelLeuAcqNvxtujWD_9n7_qEWqNgRUJYpuq50ON3hN95XVkycb7jUDgq7AH95g/s1600/hasko1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="211" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnSO5ipOzWC_WvHFt5uatW5P1ue8Bl3GPLxKCiACgQutN7CDwKvaQThAZ6p62d5yhQpkNqUVEbxH8tVWelLeuAcqNvxtujWD_9n7_qEWqNgRUJYpuq50ON3hN95XVkycb7jUDgq7AH95g/s320/hasko1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had one of these and today you would never see one in my house!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_6cdVs8B_GX5nvJYY3GC0wKHre05T_0RkNrGfYJftgraB82-ORi259ofTkjgLHESKcAM1ctkh8zw1RtbBSYy_V2nZw4Il8wk_hVNfxSmpHhPzeZrs3mIQ9dG08pX5MHB53BwwDurk7X12/s1600/jackballset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="309" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_6cdVs8B_GX5nvJYY3GC0wKHre05T_0RkNrGfYJftgraB82-ORi259ofTkjgLHESKcAM1ctkh8zw1RtbBSYy_V2nZw4Il8wk_hVNfxSmpHhPzeZrs3mIQ9dG08pX5MHB53BwwDurk7X12/s320/jackballset.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My girlfriends and I played jacks all the time on the porch! Such fun!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7KSy1LgLTzjotB8SdgzL2m3gMO6S97byvXi_cJQ6bcqrfRQnzCvOcyP-Qx3KU8QbO5eOcOAIak2C5ACSXHrqPXwMyUsQVSf02UpNsQi6h8UTH6EIqNG3EEbQFGxGCr-3QxjEt-q2cTqT/s1600/lego702a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7KSy1LgLTzjotB8SdgzL2m3gMO6S97byvXi_cJQ6bcqrfRQnzCvOcyP-Qx3KU8QbO5eOcOAIak2C5ACSXHrqPXwMyUsQVSf02UpNsQi6h8UTH6EIqNG3EEbQFGxGCr-3QxjEt-q2cTqT/s320/lego702a.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2s7UUYnOlidrmhY8-I3oDL_RfqrZYdl0mnO8E4dxzMj5U_yUX-xJHVaAP4RPNY28rQxZoc16QhI9p5Ib11IkVCQIV61ZO_yriFmFhfCoo6CJjsQTWi4KN1Btq1E1agYHMm8LzdoUpLme5/s1600/liedet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioxuXqyw8eVVrPGQjwtxLX96tLVqQKUELvV9wFSww-riTBHzqYka-r2E6UVYT6nP9MIO2SP2jHduJtm280BMWGlm9cGoqvzuAWAu0SeXCgT3LRgi64rpHb3IBQ6wpOkxfiChhcDlXaNxmp/s1600/lionel1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="232" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioxuXqyw8eVVrPGQjwtxLX96tLVqQKUELvV9wFSww-riTBHzqYka-r2E6UVYT6nP9MIO2SP2jHduJtm280BMWGlm9cGoqvzuAWAu0SeXCgT3LRgi64rpHb3IBQ6wpOkxfiChhcDlXaNxmp/s320/lionel1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My youngest brother loved the train sets!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtIHt66uT2312es7_FOukruL5C-Rdb-EkUaHAGRAvLswUQnuECjx3ZqeKtE9SiUkV_7JeiwFx_O3c1ENcySOkqzYs9Rc0r3z4dp3bKJufwm_3MdihFt0Re2tqRA89vCBkY-lk2dJSq2qxx/s1600/litebrite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxoXX9tzGY7oRo3vGqTLP4GPw0528OoqjQWY4-mbSPVF2fxVkQXkqWRh5eg_5PUKoFPhi1ujSGGi_j3d2z8tl7dWZeUFgMwMJKpvVBQ1c0fC2rmFa1rXT-kVIHUoUIxmd0hkMdwCoerm4q/s1600/mraceway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxoXX9tzGY7oRo3vGqTLP4GPw0528OoqjQWY4-mbSPVF2fxVkQXkqWRh5eg_5PUKoFPhi1ujSGGi_j3d2z8tl7dWZeUFgMwMJKpvVBQ1c0fC2rmFa1rXT-kVIHUoUIxmd0hkMdwCoerm4q/s320/mraceway.jpg" width="279" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was my cousin's game. We enjoyed racing the marbles to the finish!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiycQzkbA92JpQsQGGp0JsTuf-KnFBckAGB-iZl2xe87fZlPd7seuc4Fzv-jG0K6QywajwlSY3pwbhXC0ttD8SnSN_tGoIkeyUdw6ge-SMTz6aAyk88_EnYZbQznQfx6oGgRtwb_a2lH5AZ/s1600/padball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiycQzkbA92JpQsQGGp0JsTuf-KnFBckAGB-iZl2xe87fZlPd7seuc4Fzv-jG0K6QywajwlSY3pwbhXC0ttD8SnSN_tGoIkeyUdw6ge-SMTz6aAyk88_EnYZbQznQfx6oGgRtwb_a2lH5AZ/s320/padball.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvD-k7dPeKwKXiiK24BzKVUDTo5ULBhH2M4KfdKT_HPpAQZKU5ushqvNDLU0WJnZEIa_HeYbLIW819sM1nypvCbw_K3XE7_okrVLAbhNv8_5qmEram7LHD1F3kB8Qaw_ORzRbfXPzXILuO/s1600/rolskates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvD-k7dPeKwKXiiK24BzKVUDTo5ULBhH2M4KfdKT_HPpAQZKU5ushqvNDLU0WJnZEIa_HeYbLIW819sM1nypvCbw_K3XE7_okrVLAbhNv8_5qmEram7LHD1F3kB8Qaw_ORzRbfXPzXILuO/s320/rolskates.jpg" width="229" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These were so much fun!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJO9L8cOou9uZKuRxSKefKLXq4yi7pU7_WBheIngJF5ZG5ZC_tjFGgQddCsFMcQkO7ZwH9BLrt7LT8IIiC8VZ5vB99seR-iCrrgOQB6G-pdSItJZJL1faSe0w-x-XY1mZyimgG2TsRO7jP/s1600/rryder1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="83" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJO9L8cOou9uZKuRxSKefKLXq4yi7pU7_WBheIngJF5ZG5ZC_tjFGgQddCsFMcQkO7ZwH9BLrt7LT8IIiC8VZ5vB99seR-iCrrgOQB6G-pdSItJZJL1faSe0w-x-XY1mZyimgG2TsRO7jP/s320/rryder1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Ryder BB Gun.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdfFjNTrODi5OJJw1qy1Ca_uI1MK63nueODf8OzmFOBWKn_3ldV1jnjREQlJBgB5Byg6IL9x6mFqsQMn1rg_V5E8TmCYpKd9iQYDzkuHg3wNtl6LisJ8VcHE5pP0crPG9QdzA5hPDx7oC/s1600/rsrob1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdfFjNTrODi5OJJw1qy1Ca_uI1MK63nueODf8OzmFOBWKn_3ldV1jnjREQlJBgB5Byg6IL9x6mFqsQMn1rg_V5E8TmCYpKd9iQYDzkuHg3wNtl6LisJ8VcHE5pP0crPG9QdzA5hPDx7oC/s320/rsrob1.jpg" width="248" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was something my brothers liked.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcelFNxfT_cITCtUcaPwT-BjKU-HvyODXEckTrI8GsXajopvB0rVTs8GM3SO3Upchb0tnuTUzYtf3PZh9krDytT25lKNRE4_1z7G0fLi_uzelotdAwGa3SOsA3m9XZNhxj7QlqR93MnRmv/s1600/simon1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCT0GO6SfRPdYsf1bJopaXPPvJp-Axn8ieT_vNpxFChjiNwZ147CbT-E28Sg7pAiuhmGb3DX9Qty0vBVSYhW6DDs8nizS69cs3X5BSJEHwWGg2tdYFbGIBcFxfD7Cx6rFVk2jPLO1urTz/s1600/tview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCT0GO6SfRPdYsf1bJopaXPPvJp-Axn8ieT_vNpxFChjiNwZ147CbT-E28Sg7pAiuhmGb3DX9Qty0vBVSYhW6DDs8nizS69cs3X5BSJEHwWGg2tdYFbGIBcFxfD7Cx6rFVk2jPLO1urTz/s320/tview.jpg" width="243" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a cool toy. I enjoyed looking at the pictures.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii2drZZmrquIyQKwX7H7b5Q6tAgXOg0dvY3SNQh66cfaqySEmk5c99zCRON3oU32lsP8fh0XKEwboEDO0fJ96kRd9BQSmAGsRbfhrPsX4twFaPpPmR2JQSIAHnPuixtgAwHF6_LZjq8iwr/s1600/twirlopaint1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii2drZZmrquIyQKwX7H7b5Q6tAgXOg0dvY3SNQh66cfaqySEmk5c99zCRON3oU32lsP8fh0XKEwboEDO0fJ96kRd9BQSmAGsRbfhrPsX4twFaPpPmR2JQSIAHnPuixtgAwHF6_LZjq8iwr/s320/twirlopaint1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Hope you enjoyed looking at the old toys from yesteryear! Do you remember any special toys from your childhood? 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Nostalgic Christmas Toys

I was thinking of Christmas as a child, remembering all the toys we had when we were little and how different things are today. Technology i...

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