I’d like to order a 1 Candyhouse kit and 3 View Masters please. (1962 – were they really around that long ago?)
These images bring back memories – wonderful. Life was so much simpler and easier then, but I suppose it is when you’re seven years old.
I don’t think they reached Britain until the mid-late 60s, but I could be mistaken. Where I live was a rural backwater then. Maybe they just didn’t reach the South-West of England. I never had one, but I bought one for my daughter in about 1982, and they were around for a while after that, so they had a good run – until technology overtook them.
What happened to magic? I was thrilled and impressed by simple things like magic painting books (where you paint water onto the page and you get some sort of an insipid picture with about 3or 4 blurred colours) – now children shrug their shoulders and even take computers for granted.
Bring back the simple toys that don’t talk!
The Happy Wordcrafter 
What huge boxes of chocolate!
Yes, and they didn’t cost much either.
These are brilliant Sandra, just love ’em..
Me too, Gerry.
I’d like to order a 1 Candyhouse kit and 3 View Masters please. (1962 – were they really around that long ago?)
These images bring back memories – wonderful. Life was so much simpler and easier then, but I suppose it is when you’re seven years old.
Yes, life was simpler and easier for sure. And, yes, I remember view masters as far back as the 1950’s.
I don’t think they reached Britain until the mid-late 60s, but I could be mistaken. Where I live was a rural backwater then. Maybe they just didn’t reach the South-West of England. I never had one, but I bought one for my daughter in about 1982, and they were around for a while after that, so they had a good run – until technology overtook them.
What happened to magic? I was thrilled and impressed by simple things like magic painting books (where you paint water onto the page and you get some sort of an insipid picture with about 3or 4 blurred colours) – now children shrug their shoulders and even take computers for granted.
Bring back the simple toys that don’t talk!