Remembering the 70s – Page 7

Gogo Boots from 1970

Boots galore from the Wards 1970 catalog.

(I don’t know if they really are Gogo boots but that is what I have always called this style of boot.)

Fisher Price Small Mall and Rough N Ready Rescuers

One of my wife’s favorite toys in the 70s was the Fisher Price Little People line.

Riviton Sets from 1978

Riviton was a construction set that had plastic panels that could be connected to each other using rubber rivets.

Paint by Number Sets from 1973

I can remember getting these as a kid but I don’t recall which one I had. My brother had the horse 2 panel set. I think mine may have been cats but I just don’t remember. I CAN recollect that my paint by number work looked nothing like the picture on the box.

Paint by Number Set - Eatons 1973 — Paint by Number Set – Eatons 1973

Sears Wishbook 1976 Cover

Musical Animated Playmates from Sears 1972

An assortment of windup musical animated plush toys from the Sears 1972 Wishbook.

Musical Animated Playmates - Sears 1972 — Musical Animated Playmates – Sears 1972

Wonder Bread Ad from the 70s

To this day Wonder Bread is still one of my favorites to eat.

The Lone Rider Cap Gun Set

Here is a cap gun set which appears to be based off of The Lone Ranger series

Sweet Sounds Baby Tender Love from 1974

I have posted a different version of this doll in the past. This one is Sweet Sounds Baby Tender Love. When you feed her, her eyes will tear up and when you pat her she begins to cry.

Sweet Sounds Baby Tender Love from JCPenny 1974

There is also a Talking Tender Love and a Rosie Tender Love pictured as well.

The Magic Answer Machine

Sometimes I just pick a page at random out of the Wish Books and post something from that page. I have been amazed how some of these items have gotten so many responses, when it was something I would not have normally posted. That taught me that I don’t always know what the readers want to see. Here is another one of those random picks.

The Magic Answer Machine was an electronic gizmo from 1977 that helped teaching kids how to spell. You put a picture into the machine and hit buttons to get the device to spell one letter at a time.

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