Monster Bop Bags?

[raycastile]

I love these pics!  But what happened to the first Christmas photo?  I can't see it anymore.

[Gasport]

Glad you enjoyed these , Ray...Sorry, i deleted the original from photobucket and keep forgetting it also deletes it from here! I am re-posting it, plus yet another from the same day that i just unearthed...Deputy Dawg looks like he doesn't enjoy being hugged. I look at these and can almost smell 1961...what a magical time to be a kid!

[Scatter]

Awesome!! Do we have a thread dedicated to old family photos from our childhoods?? If not, we should. If we do, why don't I know about it?? 

[Therin of Andor]

Awesome!! Do we have a thread dedicated to old family photos from our childhoods?

That would be great. In the 60s, home photography was very expensive. Indoor shots by the Christmas tree required the additional cost of a flashcube, and my mother was very selective over what could be taken, since the roll of b/w film only took 12 or sometimes 24 shots. We had to wait till the whole roll was taken (sometimes months), then it went off to the chemist - or by mail to the "Free Film Club" - and the shots would come back weeks later. While we'd sometimes splurge on one or two "three kids posed in front of the decorated Christmas tree" shots, I don't think we ever had an "opened presents on Christmas morning" shot. We did have a family tradition of visiting Santa in a department store for an annual group shot, and again, these prepaid b/w photos took about two weeks to arrive back in the post. Agonizingly slow.

I love my iPhone. 


Xmas 1961 by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

Me (possibly on my third birthday, 14th December), my brother (that's not his own top, just something to stop him screaming about Santa's beard) and my cousin meeting Santa Claus at Bebarfalds department store, Sydney, 1961.

Actually, to stay on topic, I'm sure one of my Mum's old Santa dept. store pics has a bop bag in the background...

[Scatter]

AWESOME!! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!! Great shot!!

[bigbud]

That's a good one Scatter!  I use to count cards down at the gambling boats, but have recently gone back to counting tooth-picks..........Bud

[Scatter]

That's a good one Scatter!  I use to count cards down at the gambling boats, but have recently gone back to counting tooth-picks..........Bud

LOL!! I was just the Village Idiot. The pay wasn't great, but at least no one was competing for my job!

[bigbud]

Scatter, you bring up a great idea......if not already somewhere else on the site......Old photos of us with our toy stuff......that would be great to see. I think Gasport has got us started, but photos deserve their own post to build on......Bud

[bigbud]

Hey guys, the topic on this one is boop bags, but Scatter started an old photo post in the Members Only section......Gasport, you gotta add those photos to the other post too, please.........Bud

[darkmonkeygod]

Great photos! And on the topic of bop bags, there was a Frankenstein from the Monster Squad TV show made in '77 or '78, and Placo produced a series in 1991 (Drac, Frank, Wofie, Mummy) that are rather hard to find.

[werewolfwoman]

i once bid on a wolfman punch bag but i lost out by a mere dollar, it still stings to think about it, i was so close and i haven't seen one since....

[Dr.Terror]

Great photos! And on the topic of bop bags, there was a Frankenstein from the Monster Squad TV show made in '77 or '78, and Placo produced a series in 1991 (Drac, Frank, Wofie, Mummy) that are rather hard to find.

The PLACO bags are awful from what I.  Just early 90s style guide on a white bag. no 3d or nutthin.

[Therin of Andor]

Actually, to stay on topic, I'm sure one of my Mum's old Santa dept. store pics has a bop bag in the background...

OMG, I found that pic at my mother's place yesterday! Two Goofy bop bags - and a Santa bop bag?


Christmas 1964 by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

[Sean]

OMG, I found that pic at my mother's place yesterday!


Christmas 1964 by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

The metrosexual man sandals are off the charts!

[Gasport]

I see your Goofy and raise you one Deputy Dawg!