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The downtown Bay store in Winnipeg just closed its doors

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Lots of good stuff there! I had the Jeepster with the snowmobile, the more tradtional looking dump truck and the scrambler dragster. My spoiled friend Darryl had all the big ones as well as a huge pickup truck with a 5th wheel camper. I think it was almost 4 feet long. He was one of those kids who's toys were in mint condition while mine were a mess. He'd have to ask his mom to play with the Tonkas.

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Top picture, bottom right, I had the crawler with the loader and backhoe and the dump truck right above it looks like the one I had. Also had a long box pickup which I don't see pictured here.

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My mom, worked at Tonka.
I had everything.
To this day though, i have none of those toys. Brother pitched them all in the 80's.

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What a coincidence, just dug these 2 from a box in the crawl space a couple months ago. Guess my Mom wouldnt let me play with them either haha. 

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That truck looks exactly like the truck I had except it had no wrecker.

And that is exactly the crawler I had, wow that brings back memories. Man did I put hours on the Tonka toys...



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My dump truck had the same cab as that wrecker. Those back hoe's had great play value!

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His crawler is sure in a lot nicer shape than mine was when I was done with it!

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They sure brought back some memories when I opened the box, I might have even made some engine noises when I played with the trencher biggrin



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What   kind of hoarders are you guys? Still have mine from almost 50 years ago!Picked them up from dads a few weeks ago. Think I built 120 miles of road with these guys! Not mint...but they still do the job......

 

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That ad brings back memories. I think my first Tonka was the Jeep wrecker with plow, loved that one. Had the mini Jeep,trailer and dune buggy, dump truck but with a plow, crawler loader backhoe, and assorted other pick ups dump trucks and such over the years. The prize piece was a Mighty Tonka tow truck! We found one a few years back so added it to my sons fleet.

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Can't beat those metal Tonka's. They age exactly like the real thing would left out in the weather.

Wish I still had all my old Tonka's and Matchbox's. You guys that still have your boyhood toys are so lucky in my books.

These are just my old inherited units. Missing stuff, but nice patina. I figure early 60's?

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I sold all mine. They were in nice shape.



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