If you were a kid in the late 70's

OceanCityGirl · Post by **OceanCityGirl** » June 1, 2005 7:14 pm

check out this on ebay. Real clackers I think. Do you remember bruising your knuckles with these? Did you ever have one break? Do you remember your parents or grands taking them away and then them getting banned. Suddenly all the parents had a valid reason to take them away from us. I sure missed my clackers. http://search.ebay.com/clackers_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » June 1, 2005 7:16 pm

Actually I had them in the mid 70s...and I remember them hurtin' like hell! And I remember tham being "banned"! I had pink ones and blues one. I was very cool! LOL

pbans · Post by **pbans** » June 1, 2005 7:19 pm

When we moved my Mom out of her house, I found my KLACKERS in the basement....beautiful blue with GLITTER. I sucked at clackering......

sy · Post by sy » June 1, 2005 7:28 pm

I don't have mine anyone, but I do distinctly remember having a lot of bruises and breaking a lot of glassware with them. They were so much fun.

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » June 1, 2005 7:36 pm

But even better... JARTS!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » June 1, 2005 7:38 pm

land_shark3 wrote:But even better... JARTS!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

Oh damn!!!! I loved Jarts!!! Here Jimmy, stand behind this hoop while your brother throws this giant dart across the yard toward you!!!

WHAT A GREAT GAME!!!!

pbans · Post by **pbans** » June 1, 2005 7:40 pm

JARTS were cool....any game with an element of danger is fun.....sort of like playing GI Joe with my Dad's butane torch. That was fun until we caught the field on fire.....

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » June 1, 2005 7:41 pm

land_shark3 wrote:But even better... JARTS!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

EM Sure Is fun!!!!

Really we had a set and just a LITTLE Care taken They were safe

Brown Eyed Girl · Post by **Brown Eyed Girl** » June 1, 2005 8:00 pm

pbans wrote:When we moved my Mom out of her house, I found my KLACKERS in the basement....beautiful blue with GLITTER. I sucked at clackering......

I'm pretty sure the original Klackers were the ones with glitter..mine were lime green. I think the ones they are calling "vintage" on ebay are the ones that came out much later. The originals had bigger balls.

I had mine in the early to mid 70's.

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » June 1, 2005 8:03 pm

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:The originals had bigger balls. I had mine in the early to mid 70's.

correct... the originals had glitter and were a bit bigger than a golf ball!

BilltheLizard · Post by **BilltheLizard** » June 1, 2005 8:04 pm

I soon as I read what this post was about I could hear that clacking noise in my head. Takes me back to my grandparents farm in South Dakota.

You can still get a variation of them now, but they are rubber and you know it just isn't the same. As someone else said, no element of physical danger. What fun is that?!

pbans · Post by **pbans** » June 1, 2005 8:06 pm

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:
pbans wrote:When we moved my Mom out of her house, I found my KLACKERS in the basement....beautiful blue with GLITTER. I sucked at clackering......
I'm pretty sure the original Klackers were the ones with glitter..mine were lime green. I think the ones they are calling "vintage" on ebay are the ones that came out much later. The originals had bigger balls. I had mine in the early to mid 70's.

That's about when I would have gotten mine....probably 71-73 somewhere. I know I was still in grade school. I was such a packrat...still have a lot of my toys....have a big box of cool stuff I like to look at every one in a while!

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » June 1, 2005 8:07 pm

Anyone ever have those wrestling figures that were made completely of soft rubber?

One day when I was 10 years old or so, two of them were having a match where the loser got his head shaved... Well, the most effective way to shave the head of a rubber figurine is to use a razor blade and cut away the hair... Needless to say, I slipped... 8 stitches and a whole lot of bleeding later, I was all patched up!! Still got a sweet scar across the back of my index finger to prove it!

Brown Eyed Girl · Post by **Brown Eyed Girl** » June 1, 2005 8:14 pm

pbans wrote:
Brown Eyed Girl wrote:
pbans wrote:When we moved my Mom out of her house, I found my KLACKERS in the basement....beautiful blue with GLITTER. I sucked at clackering......
I'm pretty sure the original Klackers were the ones with glitter..mine were lime green. I think the ones they are calling "vintage" on ebay are the ones that came out much later. The originals had bigger balls. I had mine in the early to mid 70's.
That's about when I would have gotten mine....probably 71-73 somewhere. I know I was still in grade school. I was such a packrat...still have a lot of my toys....have a big box of cool stuff I like to look at every one in a while!

Just think, Paige..we could have been klacking together!

My cousins and I all had them, both blue and lime green glitter...I got to be quite the pro. Sure wish I had hung on to them but I'm sure they go thrown out in the move...along with my Buffy and Mrs Beasley dolls...

pbans · Post by **pbans** » June 1, 2005 8:17 pm

Brown Eyed Girl wrote: Just think, Paige..we could have been klacking together! My cousins and I all had them, both blue and lime green glitter...I got to be quite the pro. Sure wish I had hung on to them but I'm sure they go thrown out in the move...along with my Buffy and Mrs Beasley dolls...

Awww, I'm sorry.....you can come to my house and play with my Buffy & Mrs. Beasley ANYTIME! We moved a lot, but somehow my toys always survived......

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » June 1, 2005 8:19 pm

pbans wrote:Buffy & Mrs. Beasley......

Awwwwww....I so wanted to be BUFFY...well until she overdosed anyway!!!!

Brown Eyed Girl · Post by **Brown Eyed Girl** » June 1, 2005 8:20 pm

pbans wrote:
Brown Eyed Girl wrote: Just think, Paige..we could have been klacking together! My cousins and I all had them, both blue and lime green glitter...I got to be quite the pro. Sure wish I had hung on to them but I'm sure they go thrown out in the move...along with my Buffy and Mrs Beasley dolls...
Awww, I'm sorry.....you can come to my house and play with my Buffy & Mrs. Beasley ANYTIME! We moved a lot, but somehow my toys always survived......

You DO know how jealous I am, don't you?

If you tell me you had a Baby Tender Love too I just might code.

Ohhhh, and remember the dolls where you pushed their belly button and their hair "grew"? There was Velvet, and Cinnamon and I can't remember the other one. I had Cinnamon, she had red hair.

Brown Eyed Girl · Post by **Brown Eyed Girl** » June 1, 2005 8:21 pm

ToplessRideFL wrote:
pbans wrote:Buffy & Mrs. Beasley......

Awwwwww....I so wanted to be BUFFY...well until she overdosed anyway!!!!

Yeah, that was kind of a bummer. Didn't pay to be a kid on that show...but I sure loved it.

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » June 1, 2005 8:23 pm

Oh me too!!!

Lightning Bolt · Post by **Lightning Bolt** » June 1, 2005 8:57 pm

Clackers rocked!!!

Mine were a green color

Parents hated 'em, and mine were banned in the house
when I clacked myself right under the eye