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#65464 - 09/21/05 02:15 PM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Bookie Member Registered: 09/18/05 Posts: 99 Loc: Arizona	When playing hopscotch what did you all use for markers? We used a hoppy taw. I don't know if it was a Utah thing or what but most people I ask have never heard of hoppy taws. A hoppy taw was a round rubber multi-colored disc about 3 inches around and 1/4 inch thick with grooves on one side and the other side was smooth. The other thing we used for markers were old rubber shoeheels. I think we called them "laggers". I have no idea where that name came from. Guess I'll have to do some research.
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#65465 - 09/22/05 03:01 AM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Eagle Heart Member Registered: 03/22/05 Posts: 4876 Loc: Canada	I've never heard of a "hoppy taw", but I like the name. I don't think we can find a disc like that, but maybe we can find something comparable and I'll introduce it as a "hoppy taw" to my 4-1/2 year-old granddaughter who's just starting to learn hopscotch. She'll like that name too. When I played hopscotch, we just used different shaped stones. Or bean bags.
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#65466 - 09/22/05 01:31 AM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Sadie Member Registered: 10/08/04 Posts: 1274 Loc: MD	Dotsie, and Eagle, I remember hopscotch and ny friends would go up the road to the local shoe maker and get rubber heels that he would replace on mens shoes . Sometimes we would pay about 25 cents are get one free . Or get used mens heels . I love hopscotch and if I see one today I will jump on it and play and get a few laughs Dotsie : I went into Kresgress's uptown . How about Ben Franklin's store uptown. Remember !We walked everwhere in to the movie house . [ September 21, 2005, 10:38 PM: Message edited by: Nancy50 ]
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#65467 - 09/22/05 04:57 PM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Bookie Member Registered: 09/18/05 Posts: 99 Loc: Arizona	quote: Originally posted by Eagle Heart: I've never heard of a "hoppy taw", but I like the name. I don't think we can find a disc like that, but maybe we can find something comparable and I'll introduce it as a "hoppy taw" to my 4-1/2 year-old granddaughter who's just starting to learn hopscotch. She'll like that name too. When I played hopscotch, we just used different shaped stones. Or bean bags. Eagle Heart Go to this site to purchase a hoppy taw - they still make them. The original company is still in Utah http://www.niftycool.com/hotawhoma.html Bet you were a hopscotch champion too!
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#65468 - 09/22/05 05:14 PM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Eagle Heart Member Registered: 03/22/05 Posts: 4876 Loc: Canada	Thanks Bookie, I want one! But they don't ship to Canada. But we're hoping to go do some cross-border shopping between now and Christmas, so I'm going to put that on my shopping list.
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#65469 - 09/23/05 02:43 AM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	We used rubber heels to play hop-scotch. We used jar lids if we didn't have any heels. They didn't work nearly as well because they always rolled all over the place.
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#65470 - 10/16/05 04:00 AM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Alana Member Registered: 10/15/05 Posts: 6 Loc: New York	The Revlon doll! Gosh, I remember my aunt having her on her perfectly crisp bedspread! Does anyone remember the "Patty Playpal" doll? She was as big as me when I was six years old! She had long blonde hair, a red dress, white pinafore and black Mary-Jane shoes! What a hoot!
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#65471 - 10/16/05 02:05 PM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Pattyann Member Registered: 07/08/05 Posts: 245 Loc: Ocala Florida	Alana I had Patty play pal- supposed to be a real little girl- I cut her hair and painted her face- I was a tomboy and my mom tried to turn me into a girly girl as i had 4 brothers and was the only girl
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#65472 - 10/16/05 02:09 PM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Pattyann Member Registered: 07/08/05 Posts: 245 Loc: Ocala Florida	Nancy50 It's a miracle your Betsey wetsey didn't rot! I know mine was sooo full of stuff I shoved down her that I could have invented chemical and biological warfare!!!
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#65473 - 10/17/05 12:11 AM Re: Nostalgic Toys
Eagle Heart Member Registered: 03/22/05 Posts: 4876 Loc: Canada	Pattyann, that Betsy Wetsy comment sounds like the beginning of what could be developed into a really good horror story...it was a dark and stormy night and BW had just been fed cold leftovers - again. Lightening sizzled across the sky as BW's eyes suddenly wept misty green tears...
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