Best Childhood Christmas Present??

Curley Cole · December 22, 2004, 10:59:56 PM

OK, so what was yer best recollection of a childhood christmas present?

I had one year that we were stuck in town, our ranch (we didn't own it my pop worked on it) was 18 miles away, the canals were floodin and looked like Santa wasn't gonna make it. My mom braved the flood waters to go home and get my new train set....

Second place, the year I got my new Mattel Fanner 50 rig...(wish I still had that, if fact wished I still had the train set too....)

So step up and give us yer best presents......
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The Arapaho Kid · December 23, 2004, 12:08:42 AM

Well....let's see here? I think my bestus Christmas present was also a train set. It was a Lionel and it had one of the first smoking engines. You were supposed to put only one of the little pills down the smoke stack, but I discovered that if you dropped two in there....you got smoke like gang busters! There musta been a half mile of track with that set 'cause we had a train running all over the house! Scared the hell outa the cat frist time around! My brother got a Lincoln Log set that year too. We would take all the straight track and build a very long straightaway. At the end of it we set up a large Lincoln Log house. The...we'd run the engine....full bore....down that track and crash it into the house. Great fun!

Chuckaroo · December 23, 2004, 06:21:07 AM

Just reading the topic of this post I immediately remembered my Mattel Fanner 50's! That was a long time ago and I still think of them whenever I use my 5 1/2' Stainless Vaquero's. They may not have been the best present but they are certainly the one's I remember to this day. Thanks, Grand Pa!

Big George McCoy · December 23, 2004, 07:35:53 AM

Wow, the memories are flooding back.

I would have to say my best childhood Christmas present was a Johnny Reb Cannon. You would place the cannonball, which had a hole in the middle of it, onto a metal rod in the barrel. Use the rammer to push the cannonball and compress the spring in the barrel.

Find a target, preferably outdoors as I found out, and let loose.

My second best gift was a sort of rocket launch station. I don't recall it's name. It came with different styles of plastic rockets. The unit was about two feet in length. Had a bunch of bogus dials and switches on the left of the unit. On the top was a sort of platform on which you would place the rocket. On one side was a crank which moved the platform with rocket from left to right to the launch station. On the right of the unit was where you launched the rocket by means of a dial or lever, I don't recall which. Again this was a spring which you could adjust the compression. Start you countdown and BLASTOFF!!!

This was a fun toy. I would turn it on it's side and fire the rockets at the army soldiers set up across the room.

Ahhh, memories.

Hey, Curley Cole. Thanks for asking this question it brought back some fine times.

Merry Christmas.

Russ T Chambers · December 23, 2004, 10:37:21 AM

Had to be the Christmas I got my first horse.

By the way Rafe, I had me one of those launch pads too. Had almost forgotten it til you brought it up.

CanChaserKate · December 23, 2004, 10:40:12 AM

My Best was a Boom Box. Nothing more before or after since that I can Remember was Ever Really that Good. Most of my Childhood, All I Ever got was Clothes and Hair things, and a few occassional Items that were supposed to be Mine, were actually Housewares, given as a Gag Gift. (Let's just say I was None too Thrilled!)

Forty Rod · December 23, 2004, 10:46:01 AM

My first train set, a Marx. Saw one like it a year or so ago and set me off on a quest to find one for my grandson.

My first "real" gun, a .30-'06 Springfield that had been sporterized.

Joyce (AnnieLee) · December 23, 2004, 11:07:51 AM

My family was really poor. One year, I asked for a stuffed cat I had seen someplace. It was beautiful. I was crushed when I didn't get it. The next year, I don't remember what I asked for, but what I got was a lined, woven basket with not only that cat, but four kittens with her. I was so delighted I cried. She was the softest stuffed animal I have ever felt.

Excellent topic, Curley, thank you,

AnnieLee

Patches McDuff · December 23, 2004, 11:42:18 AM

Well theres nothing like stating the obvious

Best christmas present ever was my seventh year when my daddy bought me my first candle making kit....

then trusted me to make them all by myself

Been doin it ever since!

Calamity Jane · December 23, 2004, 12:05:14 PM

Ya'll got presents?

Four-Eyed Buck · December 23, 2004, 02:04:24 PM

The year I got my Fanner and the Winchester rifle. The worst, the year Mom found me peaking at the presents before they were wrapped. They had me thinking I wasn't going to have Christmas that year.................Buck

Tensleep · December 23, 2004, 02:25:04 PM

It has to be the year that I got the Fort Apache set. followed closly by the Lionel train set that I still have 50 some years later.

Micheal Fortune · December 23, 2004, 03:00:37 PM

Quote from: Calamity Jane on December 23, 2004, 12:05:14 PM
Ya'll got presents?

I'm with you on that!

When I was little I got a Model, car, truck, plane or boat, varied over the years, a pack of under ware and socks, a new pair of pants and a new shirt. Same thing for my birthday, which is in June, worked out ok. (note, make sure you don't rip the new clothes too soon)

By the time I was 14 or so it was the same thing except the model car was replaced by a carton on cigarettes.

I did get a new bicycle when I was 10, my older brother borrowed it for a paper rout and had it ruined in 3 months and for my birthday when I was 11 my grandmother got me a Daisy b-b gun, now she was sweet!

She could hold more rounds than I could afford, you just twisted the barrel and the little hole would open up, pour in the bb's, close up the hole, holder her upright and swing that lever action. Now your loaded up for anything!

Used to spend lots of time on the dessert by my self hunting those big lizards, you hit them in the head, step on them, pull the tail off and you got a trophy to hang in your Fort, mine was made of scrap wood, cardboard and tumbleweeds!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Russ T Chambers · December 23, 2004, 04:15:38 PM

Quote from: Tensleep on December 23, 2004, 02:25:04 PM
It has to be the year that I got the Fort Apache set. followed closly by the Lionel train set that I still have 50 some years later.

I got one of those too.

Don't remember if it was Christmas or birthday? $:-\$ That's what happens when Christmas and birthdays come so close.

Tommy tornado · December 23, 2004, 05:40:33 PM

Tin Can Alley! It was a fence with cans, that sat on it, and it had a light sensor that moved back and forth. You had a lever action gun that was basically a flashlight. When you pulled the trigger and shot the sensor just right the can over it went flying. Loved that thing!

Or

When I turned 13, I got a Ruger 10/22. Believe it was my dad going against my mother's wishes on that one.

Missouri Marshal · December 24, 2004, 11:54:19 AM

A kodak 126 camera, thought it was the greatest thing ever. I've always loved taking pictures......smile, you may be on the Marshal's camera.

Dogwoman · December 24, 2004, 08:08:58 PM

I remember that year like it was yesterday. Everyone got to open their stuff first. I had to wait. I finally opened the first two and they were ok. Then I was handed this envelope. I looked at it and looked at everyone else and wondered why they all had these smiles on their faces.

I opened the envelope and inside it was the registration for a...

QUARTER HORSE!!!!!

She was my love. Sure wish I had her today. She would have been ideal for CMSA. We could fire anything off her back.

Best Childhood Christmas Present??

The Arapaho Kid