Comments on: Board Games in the 1950s

By: Bernie

Bernie — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:08:08 +0000

I don’t know the name of this game i believe it’s in the mid 50s or late 50s. This game has a little figure in the middle of the board game i think it stood on a small mirror standing straight up a small person it has a pointer in his hands pointig down not straight down but away, I think the little figure moved by a magnet under the mirror it stood on. I was only around 6-8 then, would love to know the name also a picture of this game, that’t all i can remember of it

By: michael lipton

michael lipton — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:15:00 +0000

hi there…
desperately (well.. kind of..) trying to find the name of a board game i played as a kid… late ’50s or earl ’60s…
it featured early tv stars… like red buttons… fred allen….
i’ve looked and looked and can’t find it….
if anyone remembers… i’d be (almost) forever indebted!

By: Reader

Reader — Fri, 31 May 2019 23:52:44 +0000

Climbing trees, collecting rocks, riding bikes, building things with Tinkertoys and Lincoln Logs, shooting marbles, doing drawings with my Etch-a-Sketch, and reading. That’s what I remember.

By: Jade Carolann Vestergaard

Jade Carolann Vestergaard — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:11:34 +0000

A boar game called The Mountie Chase also Ludo, we didn’t have a TV listened to radio shows and enjoyed every minute of it. Read books and let our minds wander into many different lands and places. No one ran away from home, we played games outside of hopscotch, skipping, allies ( marbles) including steeles. Hide and seek to name a few games we played outside. We walked everywhere.

By: Tony D'Elia

Tony D'Elia — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 01:30:09 +0000

What about Cootie. Every family had a Cootie game.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:08:32 +0000

Hi,
What about, sling shots, Yo Yo’s, rubber guns, skate boards, hop scotch, and the game MONOPOLY !!!
Art