Playing Marbles In The 1950s

American manufacturers dominated the marble market until the introduction of japanese cat s eye marbles in the 1950s.

Playing marbles in the 1950s.

Woodbine iowa 35mm nitrate negative by john vachon for the farm security administration. Then kneel outside the ring and use your thumb and forefinger to flick a marble into the marbles in the circle. The game has been around for hundreds of years and continues in popularity today. Well you re in luck because here they come.

Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles. I use to kick butt take names. When you would win you would take the other guys or girls marble and add it to you hoard. He was born in 1932 and lived in woodbine until he shipped out with the marines in 1950.

This is my boyhood stash of marbles. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about 1950s marbles. To play marbles begin by drawing a chalk circle on the ground that s 3 feet wide placing 15 marbles inside. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that.

Billions of machine made marbles have been produced during this century. The most common 1950s marbles material is plastic. There are 117 1950s marbles for sale on etsy and they cost 30 86 on average. Playing marbles 1950s and present day posted on april 12 2013 mention playing marbles and most people can recall stories of their childhood.

Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Everyone feared the kid. Try to knock as many marbles outside of the circle as you can and grab any marbles that wind up outside the chalk line.

Machine made marbles reached the peak of their popularity in the late 1920s and 1930s when competition between manufacturers made marbles plentiful and cheap. Also i was king of the block. Marbles are not just a childhood plaything. The most popular color.

I really liked the big ones. Many of the american marble manufacturers were put out of business in the 1950s which means the marbles they produced are now considered rare. That means marbles made before 1950 may be worth a considerable sum to serious collectors.