1960 Vintage Toys From The Sixties

2.2 HP Gasoline Engine For Your Bicycle Price: $29.99 Description I love this little engine 2.2 HP Gasoline Engine For Your Bicycle, not sure how well it worked or what happened when you went down hill, but seems pretty cool to me, when I was talking about it to my wife she told me her brother had one on his bike and loved it.

Twirling Light Up Baton Price: $1.69 Description Twirling Light Up 28 inch Baton flashes red, white and blue beams, wonder if it put the girls off though when twirling. Transistor Radios Price: $4.99 Description Transistor Radios comes with crystal earphones, fits easily in your pocket to let you listen to all your favorite stations. A good example of the changes that would happen with Toys in the 1960s as the electronic revolution begins with basic transistor replacing earlier valves used for TV's and Radio

Play Ben Hur Set Price: $7.98 Description 132 piece Ben Hur Set includes everything to simulate the chariot race made famous in the movie Ben Hur (The Ben-Hur movie came out the year before starring Charlton Heston in the title role winning eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture). I remember seeing it at the movies and it was a great movie.

Bingo Price: $3.29 Description Popular Game Of Bingo including the bingo cards, wooden markers and globe for turning the balls.

Build A Working Clock Price: $4.49 Description This is another of the toys from 1960 that I like and would loved to have played with as a kid. The Build A 12 inch high Working Clock allows you to take a part and put back together a working clock that keeps accurate time.

Cape Canaveral Set Price: $5.66 Description Build your own Cape Canaveral with launchers, rockets, observation and control tower, satellites, scientists, astronauts and everything else needed to build a space center.

Carroms Game Price: $7.99 Description Play 84 games including Carroms, Checkers, Backgammon, Crokinole plus many others.

Civil War Soldiers Price: $5.99 Description Replay The American Civil War with the Blue and The Grey War Soldiers.

Coke Dispenser Price: $2.49 Description Coca Cola Dispenser allows little ones to dispense Coca Cola from large bottles into small cups for friends and family.

Daisy Guns Price: From $3.79 Description Daisy Target Shooting Cork Ball Guns, choose between the Cork Ball Pistol up to the Cork Ball Shooting Telescopic Rifle.

Dominoes Price: $1.89 Description The good old game of Dominoes with 91 hardwood pieces, I can remember playing Dominoes as a kid with my parents together with Jigsaw Puzzles and Gin Rummy (I think one of the things we have lost over the years from the faster pace of life and the increase in Computer Games etc. is the time children spent with parents -- my own personal view, Steve Webmaster).

Electric Cart Price: $22.88 Description Races along at 5 MPH goggles and Helmet included, just over 1 ft wide and 3 ft long uses 12 volt car battery.

Gunsmoke Cowboy Models Set Price: $5.49 Description Gunsmoke Cowboy Models Set based on the television Western series in and around Dodge City, Kansas starring James Arness as the lead role of Marshal Matt Dillon.

Happi Time Racer Manufacturer: Happi-Time Price: Description Happi Time Wagon Racer 36 inches long by 18 inches wide by 4 inches deep with ball bearings, semi-pneumatic tires, rugged axle braces and 10 inch wheels.

Huckleberry Hound and Friends Soft Toys Price: $7.44 Description Huckleberry Hound and Friends Soft Toys including 28 inches tall Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and BooBoo.

British Made Pelham Disney Puppets Price: $6.49 each Description British Made Pelham Disney Puppets including Pinocchio, Gretel, Hansel, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse, each includes all the necessary controls for lifelike tangle proof animation.

Electric Pinball Machine Price: $18.88 Description Electric Pinball Machine with flashing lights, scoring mechanism that registers when bumpers are hit, ringing bells, hand activated kickers to keep the ball in play just like commercial machines found in arcades.

Pitchback Practice For Baseball Players Price: $7.49 Description Pitchback Practice For Baseball Players sharpens up the pitching eye, great for batting field practice.

Electric Pitching Machine Price: $7.77 Description Electric Pitching Machine, requires batteries.

Gas Powered Remote Control Plane Price: $14.88 Description Giant P-40 30 inch wingspan Flying Tiger Gas Powered Remote Control Plane (detailed replica of the Curtis P-40) comes with glo-plug engine with rotamatic starter, remote control, pull the stick up and the plane soars up.

Popcorn Maker Price: $7.88 Description Electric Popcorn Maker, watch corn pop under heat proofed safety glass top to serve friends and family.

Racing Pedal Car Price: $32.99 Description Racing Pedal Car.

Rifles to Fire Plastic Bullets Manufacturer: Mattel Price: From $5.99 Description Rifles to Fire real Plastic Bullets.

Scooters Price: From $2.99 Description Children's Scooters were popular in the early 60's with kids scooting up and down the walkways or in parks, most often because of the very different times from today parents let children go all over the place without having to worry about weirdos, shame how times have changed and limited kids play.

Surrey With The Fringe On Top Pedal Cart Price: $39.88 Description Surrey With The Fringe On Top Pedal Cart, I included this just because I thought it was pretty cool, the reference "Surrey With The Fringe On Top" is a tune from the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma! the movie Oklahoma which features a "four wheel covered carriage pulled by two horses". The price seems quite high as a children's toys as $39.88 in 1960 is equivalent to $300.00 today.

Old Fashioned Dial Telephone Description Old Fashioned Dial Telephone, I included this not as much as a toy which it is but as a reminder that every telephone was designed like this, you dialed the number by turning the dial.

Remember The Alamo Soldiers Set Price: $5.88 Description Remember The Alamo Soldiers Set includes soldiers, fort allows you to defend the fort against the Mexicans and their cannon.

1960 was a great year at the beginning of the Swinging Sixties, boys toys were soldier sets were popular and I love the 2.2 HP engine you fixed to your bicycle to make it motorized, Pinball and Pitching Machines make a great range of popular gift ideas.