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This thread got me to thinking...what is the most memorable christmas gift you received in times past?
For me,it was one of those console electric piano/organs for kids. I must have played that thing for years.
Mine was probably a small refractor telescope when I was about 12 or so. Loved that thing!
A collection of classic Science Fiction stories. It was a boxed set of three large paperback volumes. Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlien, Frederik Pohl, Harlan Ellison- all the greats. I read and re-read all of the stories. I still have those books. It's been a long time, I think I'll take them out again.
As I kid I was wild about GI Joe - and when I got an old school set (the original kind about 12" high) I was ecstatic. My 'Charlie McCarthy' ventriloquist doll is a close second.