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Happy Childhood Redux
Mar. 22nd, 2004 02:50 pmSo , ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wyomingknott's comment about being restricted to girls' toys when she was a kid got me thinking.
I had plenty of girls' toys, Barbies and baby dolls and an elaborate dollhouse and all that sort of thing. Plus a gorgeous box full of vintage 50s costume jewelry that had belonged to a great-aunt, and that I REALLY wish I'd kept into adulthood instead of passing along to a younger cousin.
But I also had Matchbox cars and Legos and riding toys and a microscope and my very own baseball glove.
And then there were toys that blurred the line, like Derry Daring.
Do any of you remember Derry Daring? She was perhaps a little smaller than a Barbie doll. And she had red hair, and wore a fuschia jumpsuit, and rode a motorcycle.
Her helmet had a panther on it.
She was sort of a girl Evel Knievel, and I loved her.
This site says I can buy one, loose rather than in the box, for $65.00.
God help me, I'm tempted.
wyomingknott's comment about being restricted to girls' toys when she was a kid got me thinking.I had plenty of girls' toys, Barbies and baby dolls and an elaborate dollhouse and all that sort of thing. Plus a gorgeous box full of vintage 50s costume jewelry that had belonged to a great-aunt, and that I REALLY wish I'd kept into adulthood instead of passing along to a younger cousin.
But I also had Matchbox cars and Legos and riding toys and a microscope and my very own baseball glove.
And then there were toys that blurred the line, like Derry Daring.
Do any of you remember Derry Daring? She was perhaps a little smaller than a Barbie doll. And she had red hair, and wore a fuschia jumpsuit, and rode a motorcycle.
Her helmet had a panther on it.
She was sort of a girl Evel Knievel, and I loved her.
This site says I can buy one, loose rather than in the box, for $65.00.
God help me, I'm tempted.
