Do you remember...

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those wooden paddles that looked like ping pong paddles that had rubber bands stapled to them and at the end of the rubber band it had a small soft red ball stapled to it and the object of the game was to see how many times you could hit the ball with the paddle when it bounced back from the rubber band before you missed? Of course who ever could do it the most amount of times won. I don't know about you but I hated that game because I could never hit the ball and when it bounced back it always hit me in the eyeball and gave me a black eye for a couple of weeks. All of the kids at school thought I was really cool because they thought I had gotten into yet another fight and got a black eye because of it, (of course I never told them any different because I didn't want them to know the truth!). But Stupid Me Never learned! Just as soon as my eye looked half way normal I would go and find that stupid paddle with ball and try it again only to get yet another shiner!! Anyway I was thinking fondly, (?), about that today and reminiscing about a lot of older toys that were around in my childhood, (now I am really aging myself!), and I was amazed at how many I could remember. I don't have a small child to buy toys for now days so I don't really know too much that is on offer in a toy store but I would like to think that some of these have survived the test of time! Please let me know if you remember any of these and if you don't, that is OK too, let me know if there are some toys that were out in your childhood that you think were real winners in your eyes. And by all means if you can come up with some oldies but goodies that I have forgotten please respond also! My short list of what I remember fondly: Suzy Walker doll, old metal roller skates with a leather strap that went around your ankle to hold them on and a skate key to tighten them up around the toe area of your foot, Metal Jack in the Box, Metal top, Tiny Tears doll, Betty Crocker Easy Bake Oven, original hot cooking oven to melt strange liquid in molds to make bugs like spiders etc., Mammy Yokum Doll, (my absolute favorite because Mammy Yokum had a corn cob pipe to smoke attached to her mouth!), Sea Monkeys, (you had to send away for these little animals, they came in a package like sugar and you put them in a fish bowl with water and in a couple of weeks you were suppose to havd an entire family of living sea monkeys in your bowl!!), ant farms, magic eight ball, tin toys, (cars trucks, Tonka Trucks etc.), one of the first race tracks in the form of an 8 with little cars and newly invented remote controls to guide your car to win the Indy 500 race, real honest to goodness Wooden blocks and my list could go on and on! So!!! Is there any toy in your childhood that you can remember? I would love to hear from you! ;)