lost & found vintage toys

happy birthday lost & found!

Hi & Welcome to the Lost & Found Vintage Toy Blog!

i'm bren & this is the lost & found's 9th birthday post ~

i'm a collector of vintage toys, books & pop culture items, including holiday, retro or even contemporary toys that i particularly like. i host a website called gumbyland that i've maintained for 20 years, as my biggest collection is of the 50's character gumby! all the items i have up at gumbyland link back here to show off the collection in detail for my fellow gumby fans, but there's much more here to interest vintage kids & collectors.. i've posted a toy, children's book or collectible every day since i started this site ~

my bucket list is to try to find all the toys & books i lost in childhood, & whenever i mention the nickname 'toxic' i am referring to my own inner child (yeah i am a little bit dysfunctional.) i've also been known on the web for years as 'ghost' in part because i like to photograph old cemeteries.. & i also paint & write & create art installations, dollscapes, miniature houses & digital art so i have a ghost gallery of my art up at gumbyland for anyone who's interested.. there are links in the sidebar & footer to all my different sites & pages ~

if you're looking for a particular toy or item please try the search box & the categories list in the sidebar, although i've found it doesn't always work to find all of the items i've posted, so if that doesn't work you might want to peruse through the archives.. each archived month has a page with 3 posts & you can click at the bottom to continue through all that month's posts.. there's even an inventory album in the sidebar with thousands of item thumbnails.. & you can ask a question anywhere using the comments, i am usually able to answer by the following day.. i try to go back & update old posts where appropriate so check back ~

vintage kids & nostalgia buffs please feel free to comment on any of the posts new or old & share your memories here.. from here on i may or may not be posting every day, but don't worry i still have lots of cool stuff to share (lol i said that last year :D) including highlights of fun old posts from the archives that i want to bring back ~

my toy room has changed since i first started posting, so this is an updated look (click on pix for the larger size) ~

my toy room is my happy place.. have fun!! here's your own ghostgallery library card :)

ghostgallery library card	2021
ATT: this official card allows carrier full access to the ghostgallery, gumbyland website & all affiliated blogs, links, albums & archives, including toxic vintage library. do not lose.
gumbyland the lost & found toy blog ghost blog the ghost gallery rows of never opened doors photo albums ___________________________________ your name here		all artwork & photography by ghost are copyright protected 2021 all rights reserved brenda roudebush
Note: gumbyland & the ghost gallery require laptop or pc for essential music, phones & tablets will disable this feature.

bren (ghost) & toxic

p.s. Hey! we were featured :)

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— Brenda Roudebush (@GhostAtTheGate) July 24, 2018

Posted at 08:59 AM in books, dolls, gumby, houses, lost & found, miniatures, novelty, old school, raggedys, scholastic, videogames | Permalink | Comments (0)

05/22/2022

krofftkon

i had a blast yesterday watching a live stream on insta of krofftkon, which is happening all weekend at the orinda theater in northern california ~

click the link to see marty krofft's grandson, griffin, taking the video :) ~

& yeah, that's me there with weird comments & a question for marty ~

i had to ask if he knew art clokey? nope ~

& in comments later with sid krofft who has liked my comments in the past, i was able to satisfy my curiosity about an old rumor from toxic's childhood, that the opening scene with the creepy boat as the hr pufnstuff theme plays was filmed up at a spot she knew & loved, big bear lake, ca? yes! that's true & he said it was a beautiful day :) ~

if you're as big a fan of the old krofft shows as i am you should click the links in this post to a bunch of posts i've done in the past ~

meanwhile enjoy these cool collectibles i've just added to my toyroom including pufnstuff, sigmund & the sea monsters, electra woman & dynagirl, lidsville & toxic's favorite land of the lost pins, magnet & Stickers!! i've always said witchiepoo was my earliest fashion influence! ;) ~

Sleestak! Avoid Eye Contact! i have to say my favorite moment at krofftkon was when will & holly sing the show theme & even remembered to add grumpy the dinosaur at the end! made my day!! :D ~

back to cd sundays next week..

bren

Posted at 07:03 AM in dinosaurs, ephemera, hats, lost & found, novelty, pins & buttons, television | Permalink | Comments (0)

05/21/2022

all who wander are not lost

a very special post today in honor of our favorite author jrr tolkien, as old friends of mr dad's are visiting oxford & graciously placed my painted tolkienstone on his grave in remembrance of his life's works that we have all loved so much.. yeah, for all of us nerds <3 ~

so i have an entire category devoted to tolkien here at the lost & found toy blog ~

as i discovered his books as a child long ago & read them all ~

& of course never missed the animated films that came on every year ~

& naturally passed it on to our son who became a huge fan too ~

there's not a film we've not collected & seen in full commentary form ~

not a game we haven't played to the end ~

all those collector cards ~

we'll never forget all the times going to the theater for the movies over & over ~

i once posted a month of tolkien time posts here at the lost & found ~

featuring all the books, games & collectibles we've collected over a lifetime ~

cool figures ~

& as a taphophile who loves to photo old cemeteries & epitaphs i added the photo to the very end of my extensive cemeteria album too ~

kinda makes me want to venture back into middle earth again ;) ~

& visit with old friends ~

you can check out all the tolkien videogames as well up at our game gallery playlist on youtube here ~

cool old vinyl for your vintage inner kid ~

& be sure to click on tolkien in the category list in the sidebar for much more ~

& thanks so much to robert & jeb :) ~

bren

Posted at 09:46 AM in books, cards, ephemera, fantasy, games, medieval, movies, novelty, tolkien, videogames, vinyl | Permalink | Comments (1)

05/20/2022

flashback friday favorite ~ family nature guide

does anybody else remember hodgepodge lodge?? this flashback friday favorite post is from 2013.. a vintage book i found recently from 1976 ~

what caught my attention was that it's by jean reese worthley, 'miss jean' from hodge podge lodge ~

toxic loved to watch that show on public tv along with sesame street, mr rogers neighborhood, the electric company, inside/out & self incorporated etc ~