Didn't we have creative fun though?

(03-30-2015 01:05 PM)Donna McCreary Wrote:  I had a cowboy set, complete with a fort, cannons, horses -- it was awesome! My parents had a ping-pong table, and whenever it was not being used for ping-pong, my fort was set up. They never threw anything away. The fort is probably in their attic.

Sounds like you had Fort Apache- but that set didn't have cowboys- it had cavalry. Are you sure they were cowboys?

I had a beautiful dollhouse, but never played with it. I just wasn't into dolls. My mother would buy those beautiful "designer" dolls of the 1940s and 50s, and they would just sit in the room and look at me. My friends and I loved to play cowboys and Indians. Today, we'd be arrested for pointing our fingers as a pretend gun! We had the toy pistols of course, and the hats.

My favorite toy (despite the dollhouse) was a toy garage made of metal and about the same size as the dollhouse. It had a showroom on one side for new car displays as well as the mechanics' side, a gas pump, but best of all - it had a functioning elevator to move the cars to its roof when the mechanics (us) were finished working on them. Of course, I had a fleet of cars and trucks that constantly needed repairs.

(03-30-2015 06:41 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  

(03-30-2015 01:05 PM)Donna McCreary Wrote:  I had a cowboy set, complete with a fort, cannons, horses -- it was awesome! My parents had a ping-pong table, and whenever it was not being used for ping-pong, my fort was set up. They never threw anything away. The fort is probably in their attic.

Sounds like you had Fort Apache- but that set didn't have cowboys- it had cavalry. Are you sure they were cowboys?

It may have been Fort Apache -- but there were cowboys. Maybe my parents bought plastic cowboys and we added them to the set. There were also "soldiers" - they were a different color than the cowboys.

(03-30-2015 07:35 PM)L Verge Wrote:  My favorite toy (despite the dollhouse) was a toy garage made of metal and about the same size as the dollhouse. It had a showroom on one side for new car displays as well as the mechanics' side, a gas pump, but best of all - it had a functioning elevator to move the cars to its roof when the mechanics (us) were finished working on them. Of course, I had a fleet of cars and trucks that constantly needed repairs.

Laurie, one of my friends had that toy metal garage with the elevator and I still remember thinking how lucky he was to have such an amazing toy. Another friend had a small model train layout, on a board about two feet by three feet, as I recall. It was a tiny city and the little train was in a clear tube about half-an-inch in diameter. You would blow on one end of the tube to make the little train go through the city. It was perhaps homemade, as this kid's dad was very handy at making things.

--Jim

I had a cowboy set also.Train sets were fun to play with[American-Flyer].My uncle had a huge set of trains[Lionel] in his basement.I would love to visit uncle George and his train collection.