I had a whole plastic baggy full of these vintage / retro plastic toy puppets from NSP Northern States power Co. One side has Reddy Kilowatt, the other Reddy Flame. I’m not sure gas and electricity are things you want to encourage your kids to play with but… Or small plastic bags either. But you can catch the remaining ones at Listia and eBay.
Best band name ever. But also the title of Howard R. Garis’ book, published by Platt & Munk in 1939 (illustrated by George Carlson). Sleds with wheels? Coasters, perhaps…
Found at Full Body Transplant.
A mugger wants your wallet, but you’re packing a vintage Dukes Of Hazzard wallet, so what do you do? You know the Duke boys wouldn’t just hand it over…
Vintage Wiggle Waggle Alps wind-up toy dog — you wind him up and his head wiggles (bobbles) and his tail wag-gles!
This vintage toy is plastic, measures roughly 6 inches tall — and, yes, he works!
There’s a blue paper / cardboard label on the bottom with Alps and Made In Japan printed on it. If you love the Wiggle Waggle, don’t dilly dally — he’s going away for free at Listia right now! (If you don’t know what Listia is, (here’s my review.)
Someone else is into the dames and dogs; we found this photo (Vogue, June 1943) via this post on Dogs in Vogue: A Century of Canine Chic
I’m usually a sucker for these vintage stuffed toys with rubber heads, but this time I made eye contact, cooed, but only succumbed to taking a photo. Goodbye, bear.
Hard to imagine that this plastic floor-standing pinball machine survived at all, let alone in working condition — but there it was, in an antique shop in Fergus Falls, MN. The price on the tag was $75; but it was half-off this holiday weekend (at least).
I spotted the Pretzel Jetzel, the “Jet-Age Pretzel Making Toy,” at Antiques On Second in Milwaukee.
This food making toy from Transogram combines the appeal of the Easy Bake Oven with some of the mold-making fun of Creepy Crawlers.
Additional images: Transogram ad from a comic book, via kenyatabks. Box and toy, via Time Warp Toys.
I love hippos. Perhaps a bit obsessively so. Which is why I am so sad to discover the old Fisher-Price Happy Hippo pull toy (circa 1962) so late in my life. Via. …Ah, well, that’s what collecting is for, right? Right.
