Jonathan Bailey
Well-Known Member
It doesn't look or feel like Christmas at all in Lawton, Oklahoma. 66 outside now and sunny. Not a flake of snow anywhere. Does Christmas now look white in your town and state in the lower 48? Back in 1990 I was stationed at Fort Sill in the army. It had a wind chill factor of minus 35 that winter! Windy. Snowfall and ice all over the roads. It's a sure sign of global climate change.
What kind of presents does Santa Claus now usually bring good boys and girls these days?
I am age 55 now and going back to 1969, 50 years ago. The things young boys, ages 5 to 8, as myself got were:
-steel Tonka trucks and tractors, not the cheesy plastic ones or today
-battery-operated toys as robots, helicopters, space capsules, cars, etc.
-clothes
-winter boots
-a battery-operated telephone that sang "Happy Birthday to you" in a woman's sweet voice when the receiver was lifted even though it wasn't my birthday Christmas morning
-Lionel electric trains
-Hot Wheels cars
-bicycles
-pedal toys as a yellow Western Flyer farm tractor
-stuffed animals as a giraffe, a teddy bear and Tony the Tiger
-the Best of the West collection with Johnny West, cowboys and horses and such
-SST toy vehicles
-little red wagons
-farm animal play sets with barns
-Mickey Mouse watches
-a toy cash register
-games
-candy
-playing cards
-books
-puzzles
-Etch a Sketch
Nothing electronic or computerized for Christmas except maybe a transistor radio, a clock radio, a cassette recorder, a Panasonic Dynamite 8 portable 8-track player, a Unisonic hand-held calculator and a small portable 12" black and white Zenith television when I got older.
Certainly not arcade games, computers or smartphones. Children of the baby-boom era enjoyed a youthful and innocent childhood.
What kind of presents does Santa Claus now usually bring good boys and girls these days?
I am age 55 now and going back to 1969, 50 years ago. The things young boys, ages 5 to 8, as myself got were:
-steel Tonka trucks and tractors, not the cheesy plastic ones or today
-battery-operated toys as robots, helicopters, space capsules, cars, etc.
-clothes
-winter boots
-a battery-operated telephone that sang "Happy Birthday to you" in a woman's sweet voice when the receiver was lifted even though it wasn't my birthday Christmas morning
-Lionel electric trains
-Hot Wheels cars
-bicycles
-pedal toys as a yellow Western Flyer farm tractor
-stuffed animals as a giraffe, a teddy bear and Tony the Tiger
-the Best of the West collection with Johnny West, cowboys and horses and such
-SST toy vehicles
-little red wagons
-farm animal play sets with barns
-Mickey Mouse watches
-a toy cash register
-games
-candy
-playing cards
-books
-puzzles
-Etch a Sketch
Nothing electronic or computerized for Christmas except maybe a transistor radio, a clock radio, a cassette recorder, a Panasonic Dynamite 8 portable 8-track player, a Unisonic hand-held calculator and a small portable 12" black and white Zenith television when I got older.
Certainly not arcade games, computers or smartphones. Children of the baby-boom era enjoyed a youthful and innocent childhood.