My favorite possession!

[collecture]

I thought this would be an interesting topic for everybody to add to.
I, like a lot of you, am attracted to pretty much anything I think is kind of cool. This can be a car, soda machine, clothing or a toy.

My fav is a toy. My parents bought it for me as a young child and kept it for me. It is copyrighted 1960 (the year I was born) and now sits on top of my bar in my gameroom.
Each block has four different designs, so many faces can be constructed - bald, hat, with cigarette, with pipe, black eyes, etc.
What is your favorite possession?

[Fire708]

That is really cool! I played with a similar one way back in elementary school.

[collecture]

That is really cool! I played with a similar one way back in elementary school.

Friends usually makes a face when visiting and the kids love to change it up. I did a little research and the name of it is Changeable Charlie. Ebay has quite a few.

[collecture]

Seriously!
No one has a cool little item to share that they treasure , but has no great monetary value!
OK - another fav!
1958/1966 Snoopy bobble head - repaired head - missing chip. This was my FIL's - his name was George, but he went by Joe (Geo.)!

[scalebowler]

I would have to say one of my favorite possessions are my drive-in speakers. I picked them up on vacation to Kansas City Missouri while visiting the I-70 drive-in and over the next couple of years I went back and got a tour of the projection booth, watched powerlines explode during a thunderstorm (had to go back the next day to see how the movie ended) and bought a junction box from them on the third visit. Cool thing too was each time I was there the guy remembered me. Really glad I was able to visit that theater and have such a great time since this year is most likely going to be their last as they can't afford digital projection.

[Creighton]

Hey Tom,
Just back from camping. I've got two. One is a "Crow Shoot" game that has a spring driven corkgun. You shoot the crows off a wire.
Other is a battleship and submarine. The battleship has a mousetrap assembly in the hull with a button on the outside. Arm the mousetrap, stack the deck and two smoke stacks and two gun turrents. The submarine has a spring driven dowel torpedo that when you hit the button on the battleship, mousetrap trips and deck etc. flys off.

Will get pics at least Tue. and try for vid.

Great thread !
Creighton
  

[kbareit]

I found this glass bowl made for the Pittsburg Pretzel Co. in an old house years ago. I think it's pretty neat and I haven't seen another one like it. Sorry about the pic I had a hard time getting a good shot at it.

[Creighton]

Pics.
Creighton

[Slider-Bob]

One of my favorite toys a a kid was called a "Knicker-Knocker".  It was 2 red plastic/glass balls about the size of pool cue balls, and they were held together by a thin rope.  One red ball banged into the other red ball when you lifted the rope and swung it like a pendulum.  With enough bounces back and forth, the 2 balls would bang into each other at the 6 o'clock position and then at 12 o'clock, making a knocking noise. They got pulled from the market in the 70's as kids got them banging together so fast, that eventually the balls would shatter and plastic/glass would go flying.

Anybody remember this toy?  

http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Hey-Old-People?page=26

scroll down to see the pic.

[Creighton]

Yep, purple set somewhere in a box. We called them "klackers".
Creighton