What were your favorite toys as a child?


When I was about 3yrs old I remember I had a great little train set with an electronic engine. ( I think I loved my train because it always reminded me of my Grandpa Gib he was an engineer on the Union Pacific Railroad ). I always got new baseball gloves and basketballs for my birthdays. (Because I loved to play both baseball basketball). But one of My best remembered toys was a pellet gun and a BB rifle it let me play with my older brothers in war games. We took it very serious and shot each other with pellets and BB’s. (That way you could not say ya Missed me). I still think about my brother Pat getting a new pocket knife ðŸ”ª he got one of our neighbors to stand up in front our shed with arms out and he would throw the knife to try to stick it in the shed not the neighbor he missed. That’s what I mean we played serious ðŸ¤”🤔🤔

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