Cars, Guns and Innovations: The Toys That Made Our Childhood Memorable
In a shopping mall recently, I was lost - for emotions - amidst a huge variety of toys, and wished if I could turn back to being a child once again. Of course only if my parents had enough money, now, to spend on these pretty toys and were generous enough to spoil me with such luxury. Like my friend, who I was with at the shop, who returns home with toys for her nephews almost every time she visits a mall. But the fantasy could hold me for not too long. I cannot go back to my childhood days. And my parents, besides not having an extra penny, considered toys to be useless tools. However, during Durga Puja they could not help but buy us a pair of cars and pistols for both brothers. Upgrades of cars and pistols My early memories of toy cars were the ones you drag backwards and release to make them run. That is what all children in our locality got from Durga Puja Mela. And a cap gun. Our first cap guns came with a body painted in black and an aluminium nozzle. Some had two holed nozzles....