backhoeboogie said:MoGal said:My father was born in 1929 and he remembers when they didn't have enough food, they only got one pair of shoes in the fall and by spring they didn't fit anymore so they had to go barefoot all summer. He remembers Christmas as a bag of candy with an apple or orange in it and that was all.
In '65 I got a Tonka truck and still have it. That was the first big store bought thing I remember getting. I know it was '65 because of the grade I was in. Couldn't wait to tell everyone when school started back.
Dad made me some blocks one year out of scrap wood. That was probably about '62 or so. He must have spent hours on those. They had dado grooves and slots for stacking. They were all sanded and finished. My grandson plays with them - and that Tonka truck I still have.
My birthday is 2 days after Christmas. My wife gave me my first birthday party. We always got a cake on our birthday growing up but we never had a party. Too many kids I guess.
I big yellow Tonka Dump truck, was the first birthday present I can remember getting I think mine was in 1970 though. I remembers being so excited about that truck, my mom took me and my cousin to see a movie and after the movie we stopped at a park that had a wishing well, I wished for that truck I been wanting, my cousin wished for a Million Dollars. After he saw me open my truck, he told everyone he was going to get a Million dollars. :lol: