60's kids Christmas

Splottboy

TV Adverts: "Hamlet, the mild cigar".
"Evenings and mornings, I drinks Warnincks Advocaar."
All in lack and white of course.

No sleep Christmas eve, shaking with excitement at dawn.
Pillow case filled to the brim. Beano and Dandy annuals, Smarties tube, Action Man stuff...
Stocking with tangerines, nuts, gold chocolate coins, Cadbury's selection box...

All the family round for dinner, 12 - 16 including Aunts, Uncles, cousins.
Real tree, lights that didn't work, paper decorations and balloons.
The Queen's speech, grandad snoring!

1969, my First bike!

iainment

Splottboy wrote:

TV Adverts: "Hamlet, the mild cigar".
"Evenings and mornings, I drinks Warnincks Advocaar."
All in lack and white of course.

No sleep Christmas eve, shaking with excitement at dawn.
Pillow case filled to the brim. Beano and Dandy annuals, Smarties tube, Action Man stuff...
Stocking with tangerines, nuts, gold chocolate coins, Cadbury's selection box...

All the family round for dinner, 12 - 16 including Aunts, Uncles, cousins.
Real tree, lights that didn't work, paper decorations and balloons.
The Queen's speech, grandad snoring!

1969, my First bike!

Yes, I remember hours spent making paperchains for decorations, and of course the whole country watched the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show.
I always looked forward to the home made Xmas pud my mum made, lovely.

1963 my first bike - a green second hand Hercules with cow horn handle bars.

sampras38

Bit early for me as I was born in 70, but my memories are similar..certainly the Action Man stuff.

Also, there was Eviel Kenevil, Matchbox Race n Chase, Six Million Dollar Man, Big Track, Reebound, Crossfire, TCR, Scalextric. I loved my boys toys.

I also loved that butterfly feeling you had in your stomach when you went to bed on xmas eve and couldn't sleep. And how did we manage with only 3 TV channels (Channel 4 came later). Tbh, I'm 39 and still get the butterfly feeling to a certain extent. My kids are too young to get Xmas at the moment but I have all that fun to look forward to.

skyd0g

There was also the inevitable Tweed by Lenthric, for the laydees...
...and a choice of Old Spice or Brut for the fellas.

sampras38

skyd0g wrote:

There was also the inevitable Tweed by Lenthric, for the laydees...
...and a choice of Old Spice or Brut for the fellas.

My dad loved both of those smells, and what about High Karate..?

hopper1

sampras38 wrote:

skyd0g wrote:

There was also the inevitable Tweed by Lenthric, for the laydees...
...and a choice of Old Spice or Brut for the fellas.

My dad loved both of those smells, and what about High Karate..?

My Dad, and I preferred the advert, with Kate O'Hara, I believe... :twisted:

First bike was 1969 (I think), a Raleigh Concorde, blue and gold.
My brother rode off on it (without permission), after a few days, that was the first time my Mother heard me swear as I shouted after him, " Get back here, you little b*stard" :oops:

That bl00dy Crossfire game... I crazed my parents for it, then cursed the bl00dy thing... the blisters I got on my trigger finger... :evil:
I loved my Action Men (not like that... :oops: ), the 'Original', followed by all the yearly updates...
Bukaroo was pretty cool...

pottssteve

I got a cycling game one year - a circular track with little plastic cyclists. Each bike had a magnet on the front wheel and under the track other magnets would move around in a random(ish) way, so you never knew which bike would cross the line first. Hours of simple pleasures.....(goes misty!)

sampras38

hopper1 wrote:

sampras38 wrote:

skyd0g wrote:

There was also the inevitable Tweed by Lenthric, for the laydees...
...and a choice of Old Spice or Brut for the fellas.

My dad loved both of those smells, and what about High Karate..?

My Dad, and I preferred the advert, with Kate O'Hara, I believe... :twisted:

First bike was 1969 (I think), a Raleigh Concorde, blue and gold.
My brother rode off on it (without permission), after a few days, that was the first time my Mother heard me swear as I shouted after him, " Get back here, you little b*stard" :oops:

That bl00dy Crossfire game... I crazed my parents for it, then cursed the bl00dy thing... the blisters I got on my trigger finger... :evil:
I loved my Action Men (not like that... :oops: ), the 'Original', followed by all the yearly updates...
Bukaroo was pretty cool...

My first bike was a Budgie. Basically a little purple thing with big fat tyres and a little like a baby chopper. I then had a Raliegh Grifter and first racer was a Raleigh Arena.

Those were the days..;-)

geoff_ss

I'm tempted to say "You were lucky. When I was a lad ..."

So I will. My childhood Christmases in the 40s were rather different as you may imagine

Geoff

sampras38

Geoff_SS wrote:

I'm tempted to say "You were lucky. When I was a lad ..."

So I will. My childhood Christmases in the 40s were rather different as you may imagine

Geoff

My dad used to always say he felt lucky if he got an orange as a kid..;-)

finchy

sampras38 wrote:

Geoff_SS wrote:

I'm tempted to say "You were lucky. When I was a lad ..."

So I will. My childhood Christmases in the 40s were rather different as you may imagine

Geoff

My dad used to always say he felt lucky if he got an orange as a kid..;-)

Your dad got an orange? He doesn't know he was born.

My Dad felt lucky if he got a smack round the head for Christmas.

holmeboy

I remember getting a "Fort Laramie" and a toy Winchester, never got the real Action Man just a cheap non bending plastic soldier imitation, and it always snowed every Christmas. (got various bikes over the years but counld'nt tell you the make/model, but that was a part of it, getting out on the new bike!)

Chip \'oyler

Geoff_SS wrote:

I'm tempted to say "You were lucky. When I was a lad ..."

So I will. My childhood Christmases in the 40s were rather different as you may imagine

Geoff

yes. It was all black and white

jc4lab

"All I got for Xmas in the forties when I was your age was an apple and an Orange.!"...
"A Computer and a Mobile..?.Ace!!!..

Cressers

Further on in time, who remembers Flight Deck? Did anyone actually get one to work without getting tangled? And there was always that chemical smel of newly unwrapped plastic that you don't smell any more, probably because it was toxic!

MichaelW

In 1967 I got an original mkI Action Man with non-realistic hair and non-gripping hands. The one modelled on President Kennedy rather than The Hulk. I still have my brother's dark-haired one but my original blonde one dissapeared a long time ago.

timb64

Cressers wrote:

Further on in time, who remembers Flight Deck? Did anyone actually get one to work without getting tangled? And there was always that chemical smel of newly unwrapped plastic that you don't smell any more, probably because it was toxic!

See this post about the crappiest toys ever!
http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... highlight=

Aggieboy

We used to have real candles on the tree, held in clip-on candle stick holders. One year I got 'Scalextrics', took a corner too fast and took a couple out. You can stick your 'Health and Safety' up yer arse!!

daviesee

When I was young with my 3 siblings only one got a "big" pressie, a bike or similar.
The rest had to do with board games, books, clothes etc.

Try doing that today :evil:

Spoiled brats!

There, I just came over all grumpy old man. Funny thing is, we were happier in those days :shock: